Approved, Then Gone

Some disappearances don’t start with a scream. They start with a checkbox.

In this cold-case true-crime compilation, each story is told in a first-person, conversational voice by the people who didn’t expect to become witnesses, a payroll supervisor who touched the last proof of life, a union steward who knows receipts can be legal records, an HR manager trapped inside “process,” and a floor supervisor who learns how easily time off can become a disguise. Names and locations are changed for privacy, but the spine stays faithful to public case-file structures: timelines, logs, affidavits, payroll entries, access audits, and the quiet contradictions that never stop mattering.

These are stories about what paper can hide, what systems can erase, and what happens when someone finally rereads the record like a confession.