Meredith Emerson decides to celebrate the new year by hiking on Georgia's Blood Mountain with her dog, Ella. When Meredith goes missing and Ella is found 60 miles away, an all-out search begins.

After Kacie Woody discovers Internet chat rooms, the popular teen has her pick of high school hunks hoping to connect. The teen is exchanging IMs with her latest love interest, when a silver van creaks to a stop outside her house.

Kenia Monge spends her week days studying and her weekends partying with friends. When she disappears from a downtown Denver nightclub after a night of drinking and dancing, Kenia wanders the streets without purse or phone and encounters a man with a van.

Dawnia Dacosta attends nursing school, while working the late shift. After work, she stops at church for evening services. One night, she runs out of fuel, and walks to the nearest station. Then a man in a van offers a ride back to her car.

When Kathey Horn disappears, some believe she's following the Grateful Dead. Others think she was sacrificed during a Wicca initiation. Her mom wonders if she's run off with an older boyfriend. Where is Kathey Horn? Ask the man with the van.

When Ray and Marie Thornton head out for a drive in the country on Easter Sunday, they are nearly chased off the road by a tailgating van. When the Thornton's spot the van's driver changing license plates and dumping a bloody sheet, they call police.