What Happened to Nancy Snow? Preview Dateline: Missing in America Season 4

Speaker 1 Hi, I'm Josh Mankowicz with a preview of Dateline Missing in America. In our podcast's fourth season, we share six new unsolved mysteries.

Speaker 1 And we hope someone listening may have a clue that could help crack one of these cases.

Speaker 1 Could that someone be you?

Speaker 1 Here's Dateline Missing in America.

Speaker 1 November 4th, 1980, was an election that changed America. The polls were still open on the West Coast when NBC's John Chancellor called the race.

Speaker 1 Reagan is our projected winner, Ronald Wilson Reagan of California.

Speaker 1 There he is, the president-elect. Across the country, Republicans were toasting their win.

Speaker 1 In Baltimore, Maryland, 44-year-old Nancy Snow was celebrating at a victory party. Occasions like this were her sweet spot.
Kimberly, Justine, and Stacey Snow are her daughters.

Speaker 2 She was just so full of light. She was so amazing.
She always made you feel like you were the most important person in the room.

Speaker 1 Those memories of their mother are vivid. They are also frozen in time.

Speaker 1 because not long after that party ended, Nancy Snow vanished.

Speaker 2 I have been obsessed my entire life with finding my mom. You go down these rabbit holes and you spend years just researching, researching, researching.

Speaker 1 This kind of takes over your life, doesn't it? Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 1 Nancy's missing persons case is one of the oldest and maybe the coldest at the Annapolis Police Department. And her daughters cannot understand why.

Speaker 2 It seemed too obvious that something happened. Why couldn't they solve it?

Speaker 1 They are convinced they know who is responsible for their mother's disappearance. The detective assigned to Nancy's case has his eye on someone too.

Speaker 2 He's still alive.

Speaker 2 So to me, no one's gotten away with anything until they're unavailable for prosecution.

Speaker 1 To tell Nancy's story, we had to reach back into the distant past. And that's where things got unexpectedly personal for me.

Speaker 1 I had a strong sense when I heard her name that I had met your mom. Wow.
People talk a lot about six degrees of separation. It turned out there are fewer than that between Nancy Snow and myself.

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