Michelle Theer was the real "Gone Girl". Caught in a love triangle between her Army Ranger lover and Air Force Captain husband, Theer wanted an out. She also wanted a half-million dollar insurance policy payable on her husband's death. Manipulating her lover to kill her husband, Michelle Theer would go on the run, going so far as altering her appearance with plastic surgery as well as dying her hair. Her plans were to go to a Latin American country until one simple misstep brought her into the hands of the law.