Alissa Escarce

A few years ago, a man who called himself Stephen became a fixture in Manhattan’s Riverside Park. After his body was discovered, a woman who knew him made it her mission to bring his story to light.

Angel Irizarry is a former detective who worked on missing persons cases. In 2021, he set out on a personal investigation: to find his uncle Cesar, who had been estranged from his family for decades.

LaMont Dottin was a freshman at Queens College when he vanished one day in 1995. His mother became a “one-woman search party” whose journey would lead her to a mass grave.