She was waved off at Piccadilly Station, then vanished without a trace

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

It was a routine journey that she'd made countless times before. Ellen Coss Brown set off from Manchester Piccadilly to Holyhead one chilly November afternoon in 1999.

She then planned to catch the ferry to Dublin. But she never made the boat. The journey took a tragic turn. Her sister Bertha, who bid her farewell at the station, could not have known it would be their final goodbye.

Ellen vanished without a trace that day, and for a quarter of a century, her family has tirelessly searched for her. The Dubliner, who had been living on a Greater Manchester council estate, left behind a mystery that crossed borders and decades.

Ellen's sister and son, Peter Coss, even faced the harrowing task of identifying a body in Bournemouth, which ultimately wasn't hers.