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By mid-morning, Yoder’s concern had grown into alarm. He rode to the farm and found the gate standing open—unusual for Jacob Miller, who was meticulous about securing his property. The barn doors were unlatched. Horses remained in their stalls, clearly not yet fed that morning. Chickens scratched aimlessly in the yard, their feeding trough empty.
Yoder approached the house. The door was unlocked. Inside, the scene was deeply unsettling in its ordinariness.
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Breakfast sat on the kitchen table—bread that had been cooling, now hard. Coffee cups, half-full, placed at each adult’s seat. A pot of oatmeal on the still-warm stove, a skin forming on top. Beds upstairs were neatly made. Laundry hung in the wash room, damp but not yet hung on the line. Jacob’s hat and Ruth’s bonnet hung on their pegs by the door.
“It looked like they’d been interrupted mid-morning,” Yoder says. “Like they’d just stood up from breakfast and walked away, planning to come right back. But they never did.”
