List of Vanished Characters - Sara Collins

Sara Collins is the second wife of Senator Jeffrey Collins, and her disappearance spurs the events that drive the plot of the series. She is portrayed by Joanne Kelly.

Sara, before her abduction, was a Kindergarten teacher. She met Jeffrey Collins when he visited the school as part of his senatorial campaign. After the event Jeffrey asked her out on a date. While his campaign often interfered with their schedule, Jeffrey eventually proposed to Sara. She accepted and they got married. Many people then credited with Jeffrey's subsequent win to his marriage to Sara, since more people were able to relate to him.

Later, she became an owner of a charity centered towards helping troubled children. Before she disappeared, she sent her stepson, Max, to a home for troubled teens. Unbeknownst to Jeffery, this was the same place that she was sent to as a teenager. While there she was tortured, but was later able to escape.

Following Sara's abduction, the FBI opened an investigation, with Special Agent Graham Kelton called in to head the case. They soon discover that Sara's abduction is part of a wider conspiracy.

While being held people try to turn her against Jeffrey for unknown reasons. When the FBI discovers where she is being held and storms the place, she escapes into the forest, not knowing that it was the FBI who had come for her. She soon meets a highway patrol cop and tells him who she is. When told the FBI investigation team instructed him not to let her talk with her family, she is stunned, but still lets the police officers to take her to the local police department where she is given a meal and told to rest until the FBI team comes.

However, the kidnappers are able to track her with a device that was implanted into Sara's arm while she was in captivity. They dress up as FBI officers and go to the police department and shoot everyone there. Sara sees this and the FBI uniforms and flees.

At a local gas station, she discovers the tracking device. Using a piece of glass she was able to remove it. Sara then sought refuge in a suburban home, but later discovered that the mother wanted to alert the FBI for the reward money involved. Thinking the FBI wanted to kidnap her again, she escapes once again, this time buying a train ticket heading home. She then goes to her former fiance, Peter Manning, telling him she had "no other place to go." They then embrace. Sara's ultimate fate, due to the ending of the series, is unknown.