Ten-Year Reunion, 1997

The physical evidence doesn't add up. Not in 1997, and not now. Greg Sowinski, 28, property developer, is found dead in Stannix School's equipment room on June 21, 1997, at 12:45 a.m. His rental Lexus is discovered later at the mill gates. His car keys are gone. A page has been torn from the signed reunion yearbook on the welcome table—missing from that night until 2019, when gym renovations uncover it. The investigation had tools: the DJ's set list provides a minute-by-minute timeline of the evening. The slideshow carousel froze at specific moments. Disposable-camera film captured the night. RSVP cards, a caterer's timeline, town council zoning minutes—all of it creates a forensic grid. Five classmates remain of interest, each with means and proximity. But in 1997, everyone was drinking. Memories fractured. Alibis blurred. The case stalled. Now the missing yearbook page is back. Now the timeline can be rebuilt. The keys are still missing. The evidence is still waiting to be read. What happened in that gym, and why did someone need to erase a page from the record?