By  Seamus McGraw

July 27, 2006

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MADISON, Ind. (Crime Library ) —  It's been more than two years now since she vanished, this fresh-scrubbed young woman who by all accounts excelled at almost everything she tried and who, according to those who knew her, tried her hardest to help others excel as well. And yet, despite all the disappointments, all the false sightings and bum leads, neither the authorities nor her family are willing to give up hope that someday they will find out what became of Molly Datillo.

There is of course, no longer any real hope that Datillo, who was just 23 when she disappeared after leaving her brother's Indianapolis apartment on a warm July night in 2004, will come home alive. Her family knows it. And even though her disappearance officially remains a missing person case, the cops say they know it too.

Nor is there any question in her relatives' minds that the young woman, who just a few months before her death told her mother that she "really didn't think there were evil people in the world," found out that she was wrong. All are convinced that Molly was the victim of foul play.

But there is the hope that, even now, years after she vanished, there will come a day when the family can at least have the cold comfort of knowing how she met her end and with whom.

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