5. Secrets

By most accounts, John Ramsey lived an unremarkable life. He grew up in Maryland, fought in the Vietnam War and sold insurance in Washington, D.C. and upstate New York. Through conversations with his first wife, his brother and others who knew him, reporter Phillip Pantuso pieces together a past that doesn’t neatly align with the suspicions now surrounding him. But one piece of evidence raises a disturbing question about Karen’s disappearance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices