Before the strange man opens the door, before Ruthy stands there startled by his shape, before he drags her into the back seat of the car, and she screams, but there is no one there to hear her. Before he knocks her out, locks the doors, and drives away. Long before a crew of construction workers building the new mall by the Staten Island Ferry finally find Ruthy’s body with her school ID hanging off the lanyard, almost twenty years after she disappeared,
