Major Crimes and True Crime

There was something about the staircase that bothered him.' Inside the search for Paislee Shultis "They lied to us for two years, including the father, stating that he had no idea where his daughter was." A six-year-old who vanished with her mother from their upstate New York home in 2019 has just been found — hidden in a secret room underneath a staircase in her grandfather’s house. Paislee Joann Shultis vanished on the day she was to be placed in the care of a legal guardian shortly after her parents lost custody of her. Though Paislee’s father told police that the last time he saw her she was being taken to Philadelphia with her mother, investigators were never able to find evidence of them living there.... Read story   And now, they believe that Paislee’s parents abducted her to prevent them from losing custody. Police had gone up and down the basement stairs several times while searching a home in the Saugerties, New York, area Monday for any trace of 6-y...