Denise Bolser Was Missing For 17 Years.

On January 17th, 1985 Denise Desruisseaux Bolser was a 24-year-old bookkeeper living in Raymond, New Hampshire. She was using her estranged husbands truck because hers was in for repairs. She dropped him off in Manchester and drove back home. That is where her husband found footprints in the snow and a note that said "We've got your wife. Don't call the police or you won't see her again."

Apparently, before she disappeared she had cashed some checks and tried to borrow money from her grandmother.

Several days after her disappearance, police discovered her husband's truck parked at the Logan Airport in Boston. On the front seat officers found Denise's social security and credit cards and her birth certificate.

A couple of months later, the courier service where Denise had worked accused her of embezzling $12,000.

The police thought that Denise left voluntarily, but her parents, whom she was very close to, believed that there was foul play involved. They couldn't imagine that she would just leave and never contact them again.  

After Denise vanished her husband divorced her.

Trooper Roland Lamy had gone to school with Denise's parents and vowed to keep the case alive in order to get closure for his classmates. Lamy persuaded Lieutenant Shawne Coope to help him find out if Denise was dead or alive.

Fast forward to 2002. A private detective Shirley Casey, who specializes in missing persons cases, was looking at the DOE Network website when she came across Denise's case. The website said that Denise would be living in a warm climate, so Casey began looking up the name "Denise" in Florida databases. She found a person with the same first name and same birthday and she passed this information on to the police in Raymond, New Hampshire.

On May 13th, 2002, police officers in Panama City, Florida, knocked on the door of Denise James. Denise broke down crying. She had started a new life with a new husband that had no idea about her past and this new revelation answered a lot of questions he had had about her. 

Denise claimed that her former boss threatened to kill her after she began to talk about funds stolen from the company through manipulation of the books. She said that her boss forced her to skim the $100,000 from the company his wife owned. 

She had a very emotional reunion with her family.