Not many people visit an unnamed pond in rural Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Located between Hwy T and Butler County Road 572, formerly known as Rombauer Road, is the home to wildlife such as turtles and deer who occasionally stop by to drink or swim in the pond’s brown yellowish water. A common dirty pool of water could be on any gravel country road. At it’s mightiest size of two acres in length and 20 feet deep but when the levee broke the size was reduced to 150 feet long and 75 feet across. For years the area surrounding the pond was used as an illegally dumping ground. This unincorporated part of Butler County had no code enforcement. Both sides of the road were littered with trash bags, car parts, and household or construction waste. Over time more houses were built and the dumping stopped. The pond remained secluded and only a limited few knew of its existence. Until June 29, 2015, three visitors came but only two left.  The nameless pond finally had a name- silent witness.  

Connie Goodwin never knew about this pond. Only two miles from her house she drives by it everyday. Lately, she traveled unknowingly by it in search of her missing adult son Edward. There is no way he would go a day or so without calling her or his children. Then he missed the yearly Fourth of July family barbeque. The mother of seven children Connie is sure something bad has happened to Edward. Her tenacious search puts her at odds with her family, the local sheriff and her own sanity. Too much worry to find some pond in the middle of nowhere. 

One day Connie will find the pond and both of them are changed forever.