In Hollywood's golden age, Jean Spangler was just one of countless young starlets dreaming of a fairytale rise to fame.
With her porcelain doll looks and willowy 5ft8 frame, along with a resume of film bit parts, Spangler seemed destined to make some kind of mark in Tinseltown - even if it was not with her name in lights alongside darlings Betty Grable or Olivia De Havilland.
Tragically, the fame Spangler would so desperately seek would not come from her onscreen appearances, but her haunting disappearance in 1949.
All Spangler left behind was a ripped purse, a mysterious note and a young daughter who never knew why her mother failed to come home.
The vanishing of the 26-year-old even saw megastar Kirk Douglas dragged into the fracas.
