Elisa Claps was a geeky 16-year-old with a warm smile and long, brown hair who disappeared without a trace on September 12, 1993 In Potenza.

She was last seen near the Santissima Trinita church by a young man named Danilo Restivo, who she had arranged to meet behind the altar after morning Mass. Restivo was courting Claps, who, he said, could only stay in the dark apse for 10 minutes because her family was waiting for her to join them on an outing in the Basilicata countryside. Her family waited for nearly an hour before looking for her. By then, she was gone. It would take 20 years to find her body.