The Strange Disappearance of Paige Renkoski
Police believe she was abducted and murdered but have never been able to find her body.
Paige Renkoski left her home in DeWitt Township, Michigan on the morning of Thursday, May 24, 1990 and headed for her mother’s home in nearby Okemos, Michigan. Her mother, Ardis, was flying to Atlanta to spend Memorial Day weekend with one of Paige’s sisters, and Paige had agreed to drop her off at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The drive took about 90 minutes, and Paige spent most of it excitedly telling her mother about plans for her November wedding. It was around 11:30 am when they arrived at the airport and said their goodbyes. As Ardis watched her daughter pull away, she had no idea she would never see her again.
Paige’s fiancé, Steve DeBrabander, was the first to realize that something was wrong. He had expected to see his 30-year-old bride-to-be at his softball game that afternoon but she failed to show up. There was no sign of her at the home the couple shared, and there was no answer at her mother’s house. It was extremely uncharacteristic of Paige to be out of contact with her loved ones, and Steve grew increasingly frantic as time passed with no word from her. Eventually, he decided to drive to her mother’s home to see if she was there.