The Princess and the Tower: The Paige Johnson Story

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This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case.

The Princess and the Tower: The Paige Johnson Story

On September 22, 2010, seventeen-year-old Paige Johnson stood in her mother's bedroom doorway, asking permission to visit her sister. It would be the last time her family ever saw her alive. Hours later, she sent a cryptic text about calling from "a 513 number" – then vanished without a trace.What followed was a thirteen-year odyssey of desperate searches, false leads, and unanswered questions that would consume investigators and devastate a family. Cell phone towers told one story, while the last person to see Paige alive told another. When a hiker stumbled upon a human skull in the remote woods of Ohio a decade later, it would finally begin to unlock the mystery – but not all the secrets.This is the complete story of the Paige Johnson case, told chronologically as investigators experienced it in real time. From the frantic first hours of the search to the courtroom drama that followed, discover how modern technology, determined detectives, and a family's relentless pursuit of truth gradually revealed what happened to a young mother who should have had her whole life ahead of her.