nearly 26 years after her daughter disappeared, janis mckinney still remembers it like it was yesterdayeard it, and she just never came up the driveway. >> reporter: we first met mrs. mckinney back in 2005, more than two decades after her daughter mysteriously disappeared. she is still holding on to the grief and the guilt. >> i should have been there whether terry got off the school bus and i wasn't. >> reporter: it was one of the few days she didn't meet her daughter at the bus stop. february 22nd, 1985. what is that moment of panic like, that first moment when you realize your child has disappeared? >> it's the most scariest thing. i think my guilt started at that point, because up until that day, i was there. and if i would have been there, she wouldn't -- i wouldn't be going through this. >> reporter: it was a day just like this one, snow on the ground, the sun shining, she got off her school bus here, she had to go about 200 feet, around that bend to get to her driveway. then another 300 feet to her front door. investigators never found any footpri footprints, which means she neve