In 1992, Dilleen Hempel had just married the love of her life, moved into a new home and started a new job.
But on her way home from her second-shift, the 26-year-old vanished.
On this episode of Crime Beat as Global News senior crime reporter Nancy Hixt shares the panic and confusion her family faced and the painstaking efforts taken to find her.
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