The Missing Home Analysis

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Desperate parents take matters into their own hands as they search for their missing daughter.

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PAUL MICHAELSON (30’s) and his wife, WENDY MICHAELSON, take their daughter TAYLOR (5) on an RV camping trip. Their trip turns into a parents’ nightmare when Taylor goes missing. Frantic, they search for her, but can’t find her. Paul notices JUSTIN KNOWLES (18), the grounds keeper, dumping trash. Sheriff JOHN BAKER leads the investigation and the search for Taylor. The parents blame each other. When Taylor went missing, Paul was speaking with a pretty RV neighbor, MIRANDA HUDSON, while Wendy was at the RV office. Paul grows nervous, especially knowing that two prison inmates have escaped and are in the area.

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They find Miranda’s body and think Eric may have killed her. They search for Eric and eventually find his body. They find hair samples that they plan to analyze. Paul and Wendy are terrified when their dog is killed.

Wendy spies on Justin and discovers he’s drug addict and wonders if he took Taylor. She also becomes suspicious of TOM, the campground manager. She sneaks into his backroom and finds child porn videos. She’s horrified. Tom sneaks up behind her and knocks her out. He ties her up and plans to burn the videos, when Paul shows up looking for Wendy. Tom sends Paul off and returns to the back room where Wendy attacks him, eventually killing him with a hammer. The sheriff now believes that Tom was behind the disappearance of Taylor and they may never know what he did with her.

Paul decides to throw out Taylor’s belongings, claiming she’s never coming back. Wendy is distraught. Justin takes Taylor’s blanket from the trash. Justin does his own research on the family when he discovers something, but before he can process it, Wendy and Paul abduct Justin and demand that he tell them where their daughter is. Justin says she’s dead. Wendy goes ballistic and sets Justin on

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