Murder Comes to Town

In July 1993, Zilpha Lowery, a waitress, vanished without a trace. Within her North Carolina town, speculation about her fate quickly spread, with locals linking her disappearance to another unresolved case of a missing person from the same region.

"Who's Missing Now" is a television episode that focuses on real‑life investigations of people who have vanished without a trace. The programme presents each case in a straightforward manner, allowing viewers to follow the facts as they emerged. It is structured around individual stories, with this particular instalment centred on a single, unsettling disappearance. The episode recounts the disappearance of Zilpha Lowery, a waitress who went missing in July 1993. After she vanished, speculation about what might have happened to her began to circulate throughout her community. Those rumours quickly linked Lowery’s unexplained absence to another, similarly puzzling disappearance, suggesting a possible connection between the two cases. In the small North Carolina town where Lowery lived, the whispers grew louder as weeks turned into months. Residents exchanged theories about her fate, and the parallel mystery of the second missing person added an extra layer of intrigue. By highlighting how the two disappearances became intertwined in local gossip, the programme paints a picture of how uncertainty and fear can spread when answers remain elusive.