Who wouldn’t sympathize with a desperate mom searching for her missing child? On Feb. 19 2008 British mom Karen Matthews contacted the police to tell them her 9-year-old daughter Shannon hadn’t returned from school.
With the disappearance of Madeleine McCann just a year earlier still fresh in everyone’s minds, the West Yorkshire Police sprang into action and launched a massive search and rescue operation. Shannon’s mysterious disappearance was instant front-page national news, 3,000 houses were searched, and suspicious motorists stopped up and down the country.
