No Footsteps Back: The Disappearance of Branson Perry
No Footsteps Back: The Disappearance of Branson Perry
No one saw him leave. No one saw what happened. And in Skidmore, Missouri, no one is talking.
On April 11, 2001, twenty-year-old Branson Perry stepped out of his family's small white house on West Oak Street to return a pair of jumper cables to the shed. He told a friend he'd be right back.
He was never seen again.
What should have been an ordinary afternoon in a tiny farm town became one of the most chilling disappearances in modern true crime. In a community already infamous for the vigilante killing of bully Ken Rex McElroy and the brutal murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, Branson's vanishing added another ghost to Skidmore's growing list of tragedies-and another secret to a town built on silence.
No Footsteps Back: The Disappearance of Branson Perry follows true-crime author Linda Davidson as she reconstructs Branson's last known hours, the baffling movement of the family van, and the tangled investigation that led to a deeply disturbing figure: Jack Wayne Rogers, a church deacon, nurse, and online predator whose chilling statements hinted at a crime that has never been proven.
With a victim-first, rigorously sourced approach, Davidson examines:
The strange patterns of violence and silence in Skidmore
The failures and limits of rural law enforcement and early-2000s forensics
A mother's relentless fight to keep her son's case alive
The haunting possibility that someone in Missouri still knows the truth
Part cold-case investigation, part portrait of a town living with its ghosts, No Footsteps Back is a quietly devastating exploration of what it means when a person vanishes into thin air-and the love that refuses to let him disappear.
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