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MAINE MURDER, 1991: On August 11, 1991, Bill and Pearl stood in their kitchen, each taking verbal jabs at the other in another argument over money. As the shouting got louder, Bill grabbed his keys and slammed the door on his way out of the house. When he got home hours later, the house was quiet. Pearl was gone. \u201cProbably run off with one of her ex-husband\u2019s,\u201d Bill thought. He crawled into bed and didn\u2019t give his wife a second thought.\xa0At least, that\u2019s what he told police on August 14, 1991, two days later, when Pearl Bruns\u2019 daughter Elaine reported her mother missing. This is the story of a missing mother and a daughter's unrelenting search for answers, ending with a gruesome discovery much closer to home than investigators could've imagined.