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True crime has never been more popular, but it often forgets the families left behind

2 February 2019

9:00 AM

2 February 2019

9:00 AM

I’ve talked to Denise Horvath-Allan more than my own mother this year. Denise’s son Charles went missing while backpacking in Canada. I see his face — never ageing, entombed within his early twenties — every day on Facebook. Denise’s posts are more desperate each time I see them.

Charles disappeared in 1989, on the eve of his 21st birthday.

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