The tiny village of Silver Plume, CO only has 200 people, and 2 of them have mysteriously disappeared from the same location. In 1987, Tom Young closed up his bookstore, got his dog Gus and just disappeared. Ten months later, Young and Gus were found with self-inflicted gunshot wounds, a mile away. Fascinated with the story, 48-year-old reporter Keith Reinhard went on a sabbatical in Silver Plume and wanted to write about Tom Young.

He opened an antiques store in the former bookstore and started writing a book about Tom, under a fictional name. Then, one day, he told his friends he was going hiking, closed the antiques store and disappeared without a trace.