8 Years After His Sister Vanished, He Found Her Diary — What It Said Made Him Call Police… In the summer of 2005, twelve-year-old Emma Caldwell vanished from her bedroom three days before her thirteenth birthday party. No broken window. No sign of struggle. Her door was still locked from the inside when her parents found her bed empty at dawn. Eight years later, her brother was cleaning out their late grandmother's attic when he found it wedged behind a loose floorboard, pages yellowed with age and fear. What he read in those faded pages made him call the police immediately, and revealed a secret so dark that it shocked an entire town.