CNN; Published By: Thomas Lake
Naples, Florida — One morning 19 years ago, Marcia Williams woke up praying for her son. Terrance worked two jobs and liked reading about Socrates, and had a scar on his right hand, near the thumb, from one time when he played with matches as a little boy. He was Marcia’s only child. She prayed and prayed, fighting against this inexplicable feeling that something terrible was about to happen.
A few hours later, Terrance crossed paths with a deputy sheriff. He got in the deputy’s patrol car. Then he disappeared.
The deputy said he’d given Terrance a ride to a Circle K convenience store. But there was no proof that Terrance arrived at Circle K. And his mother never saw him again.
Eventually, Marcia learned something astonishing about this deputy sheriff.
Three months earlier, another man had also taken a ride in his patrol car.
Just like Terrance Williams, Felipe Santos had been driving illegally.
Just like Williams, he encountered Cpl. Steven Calkins of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.
And just like Williams, he disappeared right after that.
The deputy said he’d dropped Santos off at a Circle K convenience store. But there was no proof that Santos arrived at Circle K. And his family never saw him again.
Calkins is White. Santos was Latino. Williams was Black. Read more
