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Honestly, since it's the first day, we were

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told by the detective that was initially on the

0:23

case. She's an adult. She can go missing if

0:26

she wants to and, well, yeah,

0:28

that's true. And this is not

0:30

normal behavior for Dani. There

0:32

are, I want to call it

0:34

a myth. I guess it would be like a rumor that she's done

0:36

this before and she hasn't. She's never

0:38

gone missing before. It's especially

0:40

normal given that the Sunday

0:43

and Monday before her

0:45

disappearance, I mean, she was engaging in

0:47

all her usual activities. If I

0:49

went missing and my clothes were on the road, I

0:51

would hope that somebody wouldn't think that that's normal. And

0:53

that's kind of how they're treating it. And then even

0:56

in the post and stuff I've noticed, a

0:58

lot of them are saying, may not have

1:00

clothes. What do you mean, may not have

1:02

clothes? The clothes that he's saying, she was

1:04

in or on the road. So she's naked.

1:06

She is naked somewhere in my mind. Honestly,

1:08

it gives me those creepy feelings of, I

1:10

can't believe that people can go missing like

1:12

this when you see stories where it's like,

1:14

you won't get away with murder because they'll

1:16

get you. And then you see stuff like

1:18

this and you're like, well, maybe it would

1:20

be easy because they're not doing anything. On

1:24

December 7, 2023, 36-year-old Danielle Croft

1:26

was at the home of a

1:29

man she had recently began seeing.

1:32

He said that Danny left his Bonham, Texas home

1:34

that morning around 3 or 4 a.m. to

1:37

go walk around town and look at Christmas

1:39

lights. No one ever saw or

1:41

heard from Danny Croft after that time. Hours

1:43

later, he left home to walk to a local

1:46

store. Along the way, he said

1:48

that he found the clothing that Danny was wearing

1:50

when she left, and it was strewn across the

1:52

road. He walked to Danny's

1:54

grandmother's home nearby to alert her, and that

1:56

was just the beginning of this strange

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500. For Dani's loved ones the story of her disappearance

3:08

seems to defy logic. Why

3:10

would Dani leave this man's house at 3

3:12

or 4 a.m. to go wander around and

3:14

look at Christmas lights? And how did her

3:16

clothes end up strewn across the roadway? Before

3:20

we dive into the details of Dani's disappearance

3:22

we wanted to learn more about her and

3:24

who Dani is as a person. Dani's

3:26

sister Kendall told us more. So she's

3:29

eight years older than me and so part

3:31

of our childhoods were separate because it was

3:34

just the age difference. But we grew up

3:36

in a small town. We lived

3:38

in Plano first and then we lived in Honey

3:40

Grove the majority of our lives and that's kind

3:42

of where she has lived most of her life and

3:44

where a lot of her and our family

3:47

is from is Honey Grove, Texas. It's a

3:49

very small town. Graduating class would have

3:51

been like eight to twelve people like

3:53

really small. So she graduated

3:55

high school and she went to college in Oklahoma.

3:58

I can't remember it was Oklahoma State

4:00

or University of Oklahoma. I always

4:03

got them confused. She didn't complete

4:05

her school because she got pregnant.

4:08

Kendall explained that while Danny was her big

4:10

sister, she also played that role for many

4:12

people in her life. She's

4:15

my older sister, my oldest sister. I

4:17

have three and that's I think just

4:19

such a great way to frame

4:22

her just understanding like what it means

4:24

to be an older sibling, right? She

4:27

has so much care for all of us as

4:29

her younger siblings and the people in her life

4:31

and all the jobs that she's held. She's

4:33

like everybody's big sister whether it was

4:36

her co-workers, the people she supervised or

4:38

customers who would come into her

4:40

store. She's very sisterly I guess is

4:42

a way to describe her. Very

4:45

creative. She's always been

4:47

expressive and loved art.

4:49

She originally went to college to

4:51

study art and wanted to

4:53

be an art teacher and had been sharing with

4:55

me in the past like decade that if she

4:57

could go back she'd love to go back for

4:59

psychology and to help people because she struggled with

5:02

her mental health and issues in

5:04

that way and she knows more and

5:06

so she would really want to help people. She's just

5:08

a helper to everyone. She's also

5:10

a mom. She has

5:12

three amazing kids. Her oldest

5:14

will be a senior

5:17

in high school next fall which is

5:19

crazy to think about and then

5:21

her youngest is an elementary

5:24

school so she's got kids kind of

5:26

across the spectrum. She is

5:28

also kooky and like crazy

5:31

and vibrant. She's so loud.

5:33

She's an extrovert and

5:36

people are just drawn to her. She's

5:38

very charismatic would probably be a good

5:41

word to describe her and people

5:44

know who she is and she's in a room because

5:46

she has such a signature laugh. Dani

5:49

is really good at maintaining contact

5:51

with folks. Her and my

5:53

mom would probably talk every day

5:56

if not every couple of days.

5:58

Her and I would probably talk

6:01

every week or so and if we weren't

6:03

talking directly like through text messages or

6:05

things like that, she would send me

6:07

things on Facebook or Instagram. And

6:10

when she was in the Sherman area, she would come

6:12

and visit with us. She stayed with us for about

6:15

a week at one point in the summer as well.

6:17

So we had pretty regular contact with

6:19

her. We also spoke

6:22

to Danny's aunt Victoria who was actually

6:24

younger than Danny. So the two

6:26

grew up very close, almost like

6:28

sisters. So Danny and

6:30

I are about 13 months apart. My

6:32

oldest sister is 21 years to the day

6:34

older than me. And then right under her,

6:37

she's mom. So my sisters are in their 50s.

6:39

When I was growing up, my mom would always

6:42

call my grandma and I had to correct them.

6:44

We kind of grew up more as sisters. She's

6:46

older than me. So it was always funny to

6:48

tell people, she's my niece and she's my aunt.

6:50

And everybody would be like, what? And my freshman

6:52

year in school, she was a senior in high

6:55

school. So we got to go to school together

6:57

at one point and have that year

6:59

together. And we were really close and she

7:03

would listen to you. And she

7:05

was funny, she was sweet. She's

7:08

just a lovable person. A

7:10

number of years ago, there was a period

7:13

of time in Danny's life that she began

7:15

using drugs, but Danny went to rehab and

7:17

turned her life around. Kendall explained this time

7:19

period for us. She

7:22

does have a history with drug

7:24

abuse. I do know she did

7:27

engage in methamphetamine use for

7:29

a little while. Being

7:31

a clinician as well, I had my master's

7:34

degree in counseling. I'm finishing my PhD in

7:36

counseling psychology. So I do believe her addiction

7:38

stems from self-medicating for

7:40

trauma, but also a family

7:42

history of addiction. I do think

7:44

it's a disease. I do think there is a genetic component. And

7:47

she also had a lot of things going on physically

7:49

besides her mental health. And drugs

7:51

can be a lot cheaper and easier to

7:54

access than healthier forms of care. And

7:56

she's been in rehab, my mom

7:58

and her stepmom. That are into

8:01

rehab and twenty nineteen. Is

8:03

when she has said she'd been sober sense

8:05

with the exception of medical marijuana she had

8:08

a a card for that. Until

8:10

nineteen, she was in rehab and discarded as

8:12

one of the best experiences of her life.

8:14

It was the healthiest physically she'd ever been.

8:16

She had put on weight. And. She's

8:19

also getting treatment for her eating disorder

8:21

when in rehab for this. Was. Always

8:23

kind as chapter I like Super

8:25

Pure probably to our own detriment

8:27

else her family. But. My

8:30

grandma and my axe, Vicky who saw her physically

8:32

way more frequently than we did. Little boy say

8:34

no, I really don't think so And so we

8:36

went in. I take their word for it and.

8:39

And in our interactions with Danny,

8:41

nothing actually seemed like she was

8:43

on drugs behavioral wise Know we

8:45

didn't cause any actual suspicions are

8:47

concerns and we we have more

8:49

recent press is alley. She had

8:51

just gone to the doctor, all

8:53

her bloodwork came up clean and

8:55

she was sober. Danny.

8:57

Was very close with Victoria. And.

8:59

Would often confide in her about her struggles.

9:02

Victoria said she always tried to remain

9:04

present in Danny's life. She never wanted

9:06

her to feel judged if she needed

9:08

help or shoulder to cry on. I've

9:11

always had that relationship with her

9:13

where I told her you every

9:16

day if you. Ever want

9:18

to talk? I'm not going to judge

9:20

you. I want you to be happy,

9:22

away, be healthy. We definitely had that

9:24

proper relationship. So I guess that makes this

9:26

even harder for me because it just get

9:28

blindsided all of us for the conversation they.

9:31

Were. Says she was glad that I was

9:34

somebody the she thought she was ill

9:36

judged and I did order to for that

9:38

because you don't want to. I'm a single

9:40

mom a coping out with my daughter's

9:42

to added. And or see where

9:45

she's coming from because if there was a

9:47

time where she needed to borrow money or

9:49

she needed a break or her boys were

9:51

younger she did have them. They would come

9:53

and stay with me and I see kind

9:55

of be myself and her auto bit drizzly

9:57

didn't always have the best. Salted.

10:00

We definitely had some childhood traumas that

10:02

a lot of the women in my family have had

10:05

to deal with. And I didn't have

10:07

to struggle as much as she did. But I

10:09

know that she didn't always feel comfortable going to

10:11

other people. I cherish our relationship and it's definitely

10:13

been hard. Due to Dany's

10:15

previous struggles with addiction, she didn't have primary

10:18

custody of her children. But Victoria said she

10:20

always made a point to be present in

10:22

the ways that she could. They've

10:25

grown up primarily with their dad and

10:27

their step-moms. And she's been in recovery.

10:30

She started rekindling her relationship with the

10:32

kids. Because of course, you know, she

10:35

didn't want to be around them when she's under the influence and

10:37

things like that. But the boys have always been

10:39

so forgiving and so kind. And

10:42

I mention them mostly because they're older. Her

10:44

daughter is about to be 10

10:46

in October and she's younger. So she

10:48

didn't understand it as much as the boys have

10:50

understood the struggle that Dany has had with her

10:52

addiction and the things that have happened to her.

10:54

But they had a really good relationship with their

10:56

mom. And she showed up

10:59

when she could and they

11:01

understood when she wasn't there. So I

11:03

definitely think that the step-mom and the

11:05

dad of the boys have been just

11:07

an understanding and kind to Dany. They

11:09

never held a voice from her. They

11:11

never held anything over her when

11:14

she was healthy and they could tell she's healthy.

11:17

They would go and have dinner or lunch or she

11:19

would go to their games or things like that. When

11:22

they were younger, she was very active and again,

11:24

that was when she was with their dad. So

11:26

obviously they were in the same household and she

11:28

was definitely at every game and

11:31

supermom. And I think that's the thing that

11:33

kind of has been the hardest to see

11:35

is just that transition from when we saw

11:37

her at her greatest and then

11:39

watched over the years as things have happened,

11:42

pour her down a little and then she

11:44

had that first where she got back up.

11:47

Dany managed a local store in Bonham,

11:49

Texas. The months before she disappeared,

11:51

she decided to leave her position there

11:54

because she felt that she and her

11:56

staff members were being treated unfairly and

11:58

the working conditions there were poor. Here's

12:00

Kendall again. She

12:03

was working at one

12:05

of the local like dollar stores, Family Dollar.

12:08

She was a manager and she

12:10

actually quit I want to

12:12

say around May or June. She

12:14

was pretty much working full-time for the

12:16

amount of like four people and they

12:18

weren't paying her enough and the district

12:20

managers were causing more problems for

12:23

her staff team and so she quit

12:26

and a bunch of her staff members quit with her

12:28

and she loved her job. She loved

12:30

her customers. People would go into the store just

12:32

to say hi to her even if they weren't

12:34

making a purchase. Victoria

12:36

said that Dani always loved to make the work

12:38

environment fun for her employees and it was a

12:41

tough decision for her to leave that job behind.

12:43

A lot of

12:45

people knew her just from her working

12:47

there because she's a very personal person

12:49

and they had music up and

12:51

they were stalking and because she was a manager

12:53

she wanted her employees to want to stay because

12:55

I know turnover was a big issue so

12:58

she tried to make their work environment

13:00

more enjoyable but they were definitely some

13:02

situations of understaffing and overworking. She's

13:04

a small person. I mean we're

13:07

all small women. She's tiny and

13:09

so having to do all that restalking and

13:11

things like that took a toll on her. Not

13:14

only physically but emotionally and mentally because

13:16

one thing she always mentioned she never

13:18

had time for anything because she was always working.

13:21

We're human. We need breaks. We need to

13:23

be able to have that family focused time as well

13:25

and so yeah she ended up quitting and she

13:27

had some hernias and some health issues kind of

13:29

made her want to get out of there. After

13:32

leaving her position as a manager of the

13:35

store, Dani decided to focus on some of

13:37

her medical issues that were significant and had

13:39

been troubling her for some time. Kendall

13:42

said that Dani hadn't been able to address

13:44

these issues properly previously due to

13:46

the grueling hours she had been

13:48

working. This was an opportunity to concentrate

13:50

on getting well. So she

13:53

was actually born with cerebral palsy. My

13:55

family is fortunate enough to be able to get her like

13:57

leg braces which helped a little bit with her gait. and

14:00

the way that she walked. I don't know

14:02

how many years ago it was but it

14:04

was an adulthood. She was diagnosed with epilepsy

14:06

for having seizures and then

14:08

she also has mental health concerns,

14:10

primarily an eating disorder which she was has

14:13

really been struggling with the past I want

14:15

to say at least a year and she

14:18

was actually in the process of getting treatment for

14:20

her eating disorder. Again, at the time

14:22

of her disappearance, she was in the

14:24

process of seeing a neurologist to continue

14:26

treatment for her epilepsy and then

14:29

she was having more recent medical issues

14:31

like hernias caused by heavy

14:33

lifting at work. I think she

14:36

wanted to go inpatient but

14:38

it's a manner of money and insurance

14:40

and mental health care is incredibly inaccessible

14:42

for so many folks. So she was

14:45

going to doctor's appointments regularly, doing

14:47

blood work and they were trying to find

14:49

a way to get her

14:51

treatment for her eating disorder. Victoria

14:55

explained that Dani was able to qualify

14:57

for some income-based resources to address

14:59

her health issues now that she

15:01

was unemployed. At the time

15:03

she was living in Bonham with Victoria's mom,

15:05

Dani's grandmother and was encouraged to hold off

15:07

on finding a new job until she could

15:09

get her health problems taken care of. At

15:13

the time she, my mom and her had

15:15

been meeting with someone that was supposed to

15:17

help her get some essentially some

15:19

assistance on getting that hernia situation taken

15:22

care of because again she didn't have a job.

15:24

She didn't really have the money financially to

15:26

get her hernia fix. She had gone to the hospital

15:28

a few times because she was in so much pain

15:30

she was throwing up all the time. We went to

15:32

a football game for her son a few months before

15:35

she went missing. We were on our way and she

15:37

was throwing up on the way there because she was

15:39

just sick to her stomach and not

15:41

feeling well and whether it was her hernia,

15:43

her health issues, stress, whatever it was she

15:45

was not well physically. She was

15:48

a hard worker. She was trying to get another

15:50

job. That program that she was trying to get

15:52

the hernia fixers essentially told her

15:54

she didn't need to work yet because that

15:56

was benefiting her that she was unemployed at

15:58

the time. that she went

16:00

missing, she was supposed to have a meeting with that

16:02

person again. I mean, there were forward

16:05

plans for sure that she had a place

16:07

for herself that her just going with

16:09

him would not make sense. So

16:12

around this time, Dani was living in

16:14

Bonham with her grandmother and she had

16:16

recently started seeing someone new. Though the

16:18

nature and extent of their relationship is

16:20

unclear to her loved ones because Dani

16:22

had said conflicting things to others about

16:24

her relationship with this guy named Sam.

16:28

So I'll be candid in that I

16:30

don't know much about him prior to

16:32

her disappearance. Literally, we had

16:34

heard his name for the first time this

16:37

summer, just once, like in passing. He was

16:39

described as just a friend. Post

16:41

her disappearance is how we got

16:44

introduced to him and Dani's best

16:47

friend and other people in her life had also

16:49

just described him as a friend. Dani had

16:52

told folks that she wasn't attracted to him and

16:54

that she just saw him as a friend. I

16:56

think there may have been reasons why she maybe

16:59

wasn't forthcoming to the extent of

17:01

their relationship, but I don't know

17:03

much about the relationship other than she had

17:05

described him as a friend to other people and

17:07

we didn't know that she was dating him. I

17:10

know they've known each other since at

17:12

least the summer of 2023. So she usually spends most

17:17

of her days at my grandma's

17:20

and would go to his name is Sam,

17:23

goes to Sam's house and I guess would

17:25

spend the day over there hanging out. She

17:28

would never stay the night there. We were told

17:30

that one, she couldn't stay the night because

17:32

the house was supposed to be kind of

17:35

like a halfway house for veterans, male

17:38

veterans. So women weren't allowed to stay there.

17:40

And so she would never stay

17:42

the night. She would just hang out during the day

17:44

and then go back to my grandma's. Victoria

17:47

hadn't met Sam before Dani disappeared, but

17:49

she had heard about him. Something about

17:51

their relationship was weird and Victoria is

17:54

still unclear about the nature of it.

17:57

That's another thing that I thought was weird because I

18:00

I called her a couple times and she was with Sam

18:02

when I called her and I was just like, so what's

18:04

the deal with him? And she's like, oh, we're just friends.

18:06

And then when I spoke with my mom, my mom said

18:08

it was a little bit more than that. So of course,

18:11

after my mom said that, I mentioned it

18:13

to me and was like, okay, so you

18:15

guys are actually like intimate or whatever. And

18:18

she said yes, but she kind of made

18:20

it seem like he wasn't her type. He

18:22

wasn't somebody she would be with. And

18:25

she wasn't like gushing over him or anything. Sam

18:28

still recalls that it was Friday, December 8th, 2023 that she learned

18:30

her sister had disappeared.

18:34

So she went missing Thursday. We

18:37

found out that Friday morning,

18:40

my aunt Victoria had texted

18:42

me and my mom to say,

18:44

Danny is missing or instantly

18:46

on the phone with my aunt and my grandma trying to figure

18:48

out what happened. Why are we just not finding out? So

18:51

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Vanished. After

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Dani's family discovered that she was missing, they

21:20

began hearing a frightening story from Dani's

21:22

grandmother about the last time she had

21:24

seen her. My

21:26

grandma had not heard from

21:28

Dani since Tuesday and

21:31

Dani wasn't responding to calls or

21:33

texts on Wednesday and usually Dani

21:35

always comes home. She didn't come

21:37

home Tuesday night. She hadn't come

21:39

home Wednesday night either. So

21:42

my grandma grabbed some clean laundry because

21:44

Dani hadn't been home so she assumed

21:46

that she didn't have clean clothes to

21:48

wear and went to Sam's

21:50

house which is only a street away

21:53

from my grandma. It was a couple blocks away and

21:56

she knew where Sam lived and

21:58

brought Dani a change of clothes. sometime

22:01

between Wednesday night around 10 p.m.

22:04

and 1 a.m. Thursday morning. That's the best

22:06

information my grandma could give me. This has

22:09

been really traumatizing for her to try to

22:11

remember everything but she says she got there

22:13

sometime after 10 p.m. on Wednesday and left

22:16

around 1 a.m. Thursday morning and she saw

22:18

Danny and apparently Danny's phone

22:21

was dead which is why.

22:23

Calls were going through where she wasn't

22:25

texting or answering and Sam told

22:27

my grandma I'm charging her phone right here and

22:29

kind of pointed next to him and like showed

22:32

what looked like Danny's phone to be charging and

22:34

we we now know that that wasn't true. I'll

22:36

just make that very clear we know it wasn't

22:38

true. My grandma described Danny as not

22:40

her words my words would be kind of

22:42

like a zombie out of it. It

22:45

did concern my grandma. I tried Danny

22:47

to come home because Danny was out of

22:49

it but she was also worried that it

22:51

might turn into a fight or

22:53

they wouldn't help bring Danny home.

22:56

So my grandma didn't put up a

22:58

fight and she's old. She's like 70 and has had all

23:00

her medical problems so she wasn't gonna force a grown woman

23:03

to leave who doesn't want to leave but

23:05

Danny was out of it. There was no

23:07

like arguing there wasn't any aggressiveness. I think

23:09

my grandma just didn't want to push it

23:11

just in case I guess. I don't quite

23:13

know why honestly. Danny was not

23:15

dressed when my grandma got there. There

23:17

were multiple men in the house. According

23:20

to my grandma at least Sam his brother

23:22

and someone else I believe was a cousin,

23:24

Danny was saying that she was hot but

23:26

my grandma said it wasn't hot in the

23:28

house. There was a heater but it wasn't

23:30

turned towards Danny. Danny actually had it turned

23:32

towards one of the other men but no

23:35

one else was naked in the house or

23:37

anything like that. When my grandma realized

23:40

that Danny had no clothing on

23:42

she told Sam you need to put clothing

23:45

on her. You need to get up and

23:47

put clothing on Danny and gave I think

23:50

gave Sam the clothes that

23:52

she was last seen in which were

23:54

fuzzy pink pajamas. So when my

23:56

grandma left Danny had those clothes on. We

23:58

know they were like fresh washed clothes.

24:02

Kendall said that her grandmother was scared

24:04

and unsure of what to do. She

24:06

had attempted to get Danny to leave

24:08

but was unsuccessful. She's older and

24:10

was in someone else's home surrounded by men

24:12

she didn't really know. As Kendall

24:15

was hearing the story of that night she

24:17

began to wonder if her sister had been drugged.

24:20

When my grandma described how she

24:22

looked and was behaving or like

24:24

the lack of behavior to me

24:26

it seemed like possible fentanyl. That

24:28

was my very first suspicion which

24:31

Danny doesn't do when

24:33

she had seen Danny on Tuesday

24:35

last. I don't remember how she described

24:37

her but that Wednesday night Thursday morning

24:39

when she went missing was such a

24:42

dramatic shift from how Danny presents. Like

24:44

Danny is never quiet. She

24:46

is never I would say catatonic

24:48

that's what I've used I think in interviews.

24:50

My grandma was there for hours so she stayed

24:53

from like 10 p.m. until about 1 a.m. and

24:55

she sat there just waiting trying to get

24:57

Danny to go home. I guess was

24:59

just hanging out just being friendly. Since

25:01

this event yeah my grandma has has

25:04

shared and reflected in her her guilt like wishing

25:06

she had done more and actually had fought to

25:08

get Danny to leave but I think it was

25:11

jarring to see Danny sitting there naked in a

25:13

house full of men who didn't

25:15

seem cared that she was naked

25:17

and not acting like herself. And

25:20

she's also like a really trusting person.

25:22

I think she really even still wants

25:24

to believe the best in what happened

25:26

and then those those men. She didn't

25:29

want to assume the worst but also

25:31

there's only so much in her power.

25:34

When Danny's grandmother left Sam's home in

25:36

the early morning hours of December 7th

25:39

she was distressed over what she had

25:41

just witnessed. So she returned to her

25:43

house which was just a short distance

25:45

away and waited for Danny to come

25:47

back home. My grandma went back to her

25:49

house said she could not sleep. She was

25:51

worried about Danny and was waiting for her

25:53

to come home. My grandmother

25:56

fell asleep sometime later that

25:58

morning. I want to say between

26:01

like 7 and 10 a.m. is when my grandma finally

26:03

fell asleep waiting for Danny to come home. She never

26:05

did. My grandma was

26:07

awoken by Sam knocking

26:09

on the door of my grandma's house.

26:13

This is where like the story diverges because

26:15

we have my grandma's and then we have

26:17

Sam's which has changed multiple times. My

26:20

grandma's hasn't but Sam knocked on the door to

26:22

wake my grandma up. I think around 10 a.m.

26:25

Thursday and he's holding the

26:27

clothes that my grandma last seen Danny

26:29

wearing which were those that pink pajamas

26:32

set. And he pretty much

26:34

was like the Danny come home. I found her clothes

26:36

on the road. I'm paraphrasing. So

26:38

this instantly alerts my

26:40

grandma. They get in her car and

26:43

they drive. They just start driving around the

26:45

neighborhood where he says he saw the clothes.

26:48

My grandma's looking in ditches and from

26:51

my understanding they know they needed

26:53

to call 911 to report my sister missing. They

26:56

both believed that you had to wait 24 hours

26:59

and then they waited 24 hours.

27:02

My grandma called the police Friday at like

27:04

10 on the dot or whatever. She literally

27:06

waited till exactly 24 hours and

27:09

that's when she told my aunt Vicky and my aunt got

27:11

a hold of me. And that's how

27:13

we found out was Friday 10 a.m. After

27:17

hearing this story about Sam showing up

27:19

on Danny's grandmother's doorstep. We

27:21

wondered what his story was about how Danny had left

27:23

his home that night. Kendall explained

27:25

what Sam had told her family had transpired

27:27

that night. According

27:29

to Sam, Danny left his house originally

27:32

he said at 3 a.m. He

27:35

later has said 4 a.m. Because

27:37

she wanted to go look at Christmas lights

27:40

and there are Christmas lights up in the neighborhood.

27:42

We've gone at night just to like verify that

27:45

was even plausible. He said that

27:47

she left at 4 a.m. and that he kept

27:49

calling her and texting

27:51

her and at about 4 30 the

27:53

calls quit going through and they went straight to voicemail. Which

27:55

we know is not true because the phone was dead the

27:57

whole time. They would have been going to voicemail the whole

27:59

time. whole time and he didn't bother

28:01

to go out after her until he left around

28:04

10 a.m. to go

28:06

to the smoke shop and on his way there he saw

28:08

the clothes he picked them up according to

28:10

him he carried them to the smoke shop

28:13

and then to my grandma's. Originally

28:15

we were told different

28:17

locations and at one

28:20

point my mom and my two aunts went and picked

28:22

him up. One of my uncles was there as well

28:24

they put him in their car and they said you're

28:26

gonna show us where you picked these closing items up

28:28

and so that way it was like my whole family

28:30

kind of knew and he said that

28:33

he found one article of clothing

28:35

by the park. There's a park just

28:37

a few blocks down from my grandma's

28:39

and his house. Powder Creek

28:41

Park is what it's called. He said

28:43

he found one article clothing there and

28:45

then another article of clothing on

28:48

the intersection of Center

28:51

or Main Street and Fifth

28:53

Street which would be kind of like you're

28:55

going to the town square you're going into

28:57

town. He noted that the pair of pants

29:00

caught his attention because he saw a truck run

29:02

them over and that's what drew his eyes to

29:04

oh my god those were Danny's clothes. Same

29:07

also said that when Danny left his home to

29:09

go look at Christmas lights she asked him to

29:11

go along with her but he declined. He said

29:13

that she took her phone with her that

29:15

night which is also missing. He

29:18

said she took it with her but we

29:20

know that it was not on when she

29:22

left with it. If she left with it

29:24

I'm saying that if very strongly her

29:27

phone and we know it was paid for so we

29:29

know that it isn't a matter

29:31

of you know the bill not being

29:33

paid. We have proofs that her phone

29:35

was last on Wednesday evening so

29:38

we also know that it wasn't sitting charging next

29:40

to him when he said it was or

29:42

that he tried calling and that only

29:44

after a while it shut off and went to voicemail.

29:47

We know that it was last on on Wednesday evening.

29:50

When Danny left his home Sam said

29:52

that she left her bag behind but

29:55

had important items including her medications and

29:57

identification which was strange if it's

29:59

true that left to go look at Christmas dates.

30:01

Perhaps she left the bag because she

30:03

was planning to return. Kendall explained what

30:06

the police investigation looked like after her

30:08

grandmother and Sam reported Danny missing on

30:10

Friday morning. It sounds

30:12

like they came pretty quickly once they

30:14

called that Friday and so I think

30:17

both my grandma and Sam filed a

30:19

report and then

30:21

I got the information as the

30:23

original responding officer and I spoke

30:26

with him immediately. He was on

30:28

his way back from getting their

30:30

statements and I spoke with him

30:32

on the phone. He was no

30:34

longer on the case. He got removed from

30:36

it but he had said that he went

30:38

and got statements from both my grandmother and

30:41

Sam. They did the missing person's report. I

30:43

asked him if he looked in the house. I was like, did you

30:45

search the house? And he stated to

30:47

me he stood in the living room and just

30:50

kind of you know leaned side to

30:52

side to kind of look through the doorways but

30:54

he did not like physically walk or search around

30:56

the house because it

30:59

was very busy. It was like he said it's like

31:01

a revolving door. There were multiple men in and out

31:03

of the house more than just the three we had

31:05

been told about and so he wasn't

31:07

able to physically search. Sam's

31:10

house was just a short distance

31:12

away from Danny's grandmother's residence and

31:14

that area backs up to a

31:16

park called Powder Creek Park. So

31:18

naturally this seemed like a good

31:20

place to begin searching. There's a

31:22

church over there that I guess like his

31:24

family actually is connected with and all the

31:27

brothers and him like preach. The park is

31:29

like almost in the backyard and it's bigger

31:31

than it looks and there's a huge creek

31:33

and then the railroad. We weren't told this

31:35

by the police but community members saw drones

31:38

being used to search Powder Creek

31:41

Park. So they did an

31:43

air search. They did not do a ground search and

31:46

the original officer told me that they did

31:49

not have the resources to do

31:51

a search and so that we would need to go

31:53

out as a community and that was before we found

31:55

out that they did use drones but it was before

31:57

they actually had used the drones as well. than

32:00

that first like 48 hours of her being reported

32:02

missing. That we were told they didn't have the

32:04

resources to search, we would need to do it

32:06

as a community. Victoria

32:09

learned that Danny was missing around the

32:11

same time that Kendall had heard the

32:13

news. When she learned the details as

32:15

they were emerging, she feared that the

32:17

outcome may not be a good one.

32:19

I didn't even know until that Friday I actually

32:21

was trying to get a hold of my mom because

32:23

she's supposed to come stay with me and

32:25

she had an answer so I called Danny's phone and

32:28

this was probably I was working, just started working, so

32:30

it's probably about 8 30 9 o'clock

32:33

and I called Danny's phone, it was straight to voicemail and

32:35

I was like well that's kind of weird but whatever so

32:37

because usually if I couldn't get a hold of my mom

32:39

I would call Danny. I finally got a hold of my

32:41

mom and I said I called Danny but her phone went

32:44

straight to voicemail and then that's when my mom kind

32:46

of got somber sounding and she

32:48

was like well I haven't seen Danny

32:50

since late Wednesday night and I'm

32:52

like what do you mean? And

32:55

she's like well she was over at

32:57

Sam's house and she didn't want to

32:59

come home and she walked home that night and

33:01

Sam said that he woke up the next day

33:03

and saw her clothes on the side of the

33:05

road and I'm like why would

33:08

you not report that and apparently my

33:10

mom and him both believed that

33:12

you had to wait 24 hours but regardless

33:15

to me if somebody said my granddaughter's clothes was down

33:17

on the side of the road whether it's true or

33:19

not I would have called. Of course that doesn't help

33:21

now you know my mom already so filthy but as

33:23

soon as my mom said that of course I freaked

33:25

out. I'm like what are you talking about as soon

33:28

as I got off the phone with my mom she

33:30

was calling to report it and I messaged Kendall and

33:32

my sister and just was like oh my goodness and

33:34

instantly from that day it's just kind of been like

33:36

you know on the ground running. When my mom said

33:38

that I just instantly felt like my

33:40

stomach sunk. Victoria

33:42

finds the whole story about the night Danny

33:44

disappeared to be troubling and there are many

33:46

things that aren't adding up for her. My

33:49

mom was at his house till one in the morning

33:51

she had been there for a couple hours she said.

33:54

When my mom was at the house she had

33:56

walked out into kind of stood at the doorway

33:59

and we Mind you, my mom is

34:01

in the room and dating was unclothed. My

34:03

mom was explaining to me and I was

34:05

uncomfortable. I was like, what? I

34:08

just automatically was like, what do you mean? But

34:10

apparently she was really hot. And my

34:12

mom's kind of freaked out. Told Sam go put some clothes

34:14

on her. So my mom did see her

34:16

in those clothes. It would make sense for

34:19

us to think, okay, yeah, his story makes sense.

34:21

But then I looked at the clothes and I

34:23

mean, where he's saying they were

34:25

dropped. I'm not saying all this because I think

34:27

it came and has to be him. I definitely think that there

34:29

are some things about this story that do not add up. One,

34:32

he's saying the clothes were found way down

34:34

the road from any path that she should

34:36

have taken to get to my mom's

34:38

house because they're pretty much two blocks from each

34:41

other, a straight down a road. But she was

34:43

way on the other side. She would have had

34:45

to go around some blocks and down a street.

34:47

There was no reason. And he said it was

34:49

because she wanted to work at Christmas lights. And

34:51

my mom said she was not in a position

34:53

to walk. That's how out of it my mom

34:56

said she was. His story seems kind of funny

34:58

to me because all we know is what he

35:00

said. He is the timeline. In

35:02

the weeks following Danny's disappearance, a new

35:04

investigator was put on the case.

35:06

Danny's family breathed a collective sigh

35:08

of relief, hoping they would finally

35:10

get some answers. But things didn't

35:12

go as they had anticipated. A

35:16

new detective was put on it. It turns

35:18

out the detective that was originally on the

35:20

case was the interim detective and interim sergeant

35:23

or whatever because the other one was

35:25

out of town. And he came back a

35:27

couple of weeks later and we got the impression

35:30

then that things were being taken seriously. And

35:32

we know that people were more pulled in for

35:34

questioning, that they actually searched the

35:37

house. So two or three weeks

35:39

later, the house was searched, but not like

35:41

forensically searched just to see like, is she

35:43

in here? But to our knowledge, it wasn't

35:45

forensically searched. They didn't even take the clothing

35:47

that she was last seen in. The boyfriend

35:49

had those. There's a lot of

35:51

misinformation. So they never took the clothes she

35:53

was last wearing. They told him and they

35:55

told us, because I asked, why didn't you

35:58

take the clothes? He has her clothes. take

36:00

her clothes. The original officer on

36:02

the case, not the detective, told me,

36:04

well they were contaminated because he picked

36:06

them up and then he carried them.

36:08

I was like, well you should still take them. And

36:10

so we took the clothes. My aunt Vicki and my

36:12

grandma actually went and got the clothes and

36:15

then my mom kept them in a bag in her

36:17

trunk because the police didn't want to

36:19

take them. We looked at the clothes ourselves.

36:22

They're almost like sherpa material, you know, kind

36:24

of like snags and takes everything. They weren't

36:26

covered in grass or dirt or leaves or

36:28

nothing. And yet they were found on the

36:30

side of the road and they were apparently

36:32

ran over by a vehicle. There was no

36:34

evidence that they were worn outside. We do

36:36

know that they weren't washed after being worn

36:38

by Danny. My grandma did see her wearing

36:41

them. They weren't washed after they were worn.

36:43

There was a little bit

36:45

of blood possibly spotting in like the

36:47

crotch of the pants. So

36:49

we know that she wore them. Somebody was

36:51

trying to say they were washed. It was

36:54

obvious they weren't washed. They reeked of cigarette

36:56

smoke, but everything in that house did. So

36:58

once this new detective or the main detective

37:00

came back and got put on the case,

37:03

my mom got a meeting with him. She got

37:05

him to take the clothes. He did try

37:07

to say, well, y'all should have sent a brown paper bag

37:10

because it's evidence. And we were like, well, you should have

37:12

taken it to begin with. So the

37:14

police have that as evidence now. We

37:16

were also told that because they

37:19

waited 24 hours and because the clothes

37:21

were contaminated that they couldn't bring dogs in to

37:23

get her sent. Even if we

37:25

had other items that would have had

37:27

her sent on it. But they said

37:29

they couldn't do anything else besides just

37:31

questioning because there's no crime. They have

37:34

no suspects. Sam is

37:36

just a witness and his and

37:38

my grandma's statements are just statements. And

37:40

again, they can only be brought in for questioning, not

37:42

interrogation. So they didn't believe a crime

37:44

had occurred. They said Danny is a grown adult who

37:46

was allowed to go missing. We

37:49

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37:51

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40:23

Kendall had mentioned that Danny hadn't slept

40:25

over at Sam's until the day's proceeding

40:28

her disappearance and that was because

40:30

he was living in a halfway house for veterans that

40:32

didn't allow women to stay the night. We

40:34

wondered what it changed right before Danny went

40:36

missing that allowed her to stay there for

40:39

a couple of nights. Kendall said she's looked

40:41

into this and the answers to that question

40:43

aren't exactly clear. So it's

40:46

nothing legitimate it just

40:48

more or less has that as like the reputation.

40:50

The person who owns the house is just one

40:52

of the local scumlord landlords so it's

40:54

not like a nonprofit

40:57

and we also have learned that most of the

40:59

veterans if not all of them that were staying

41:01

in the house they were all brothers or

41:04

cousins. There is a local place

41:07

that does something similar where they

41:09

house veterans who struggle with

41:11

drug use and want to stay sober. Male

41:13

veterans only but he's not

41:16

connected technically to this house

41:18

except for the fact that he is

41:20

friends with these brothers and there's nothing

41:22

formal for what this house is. That's

41:24

just the reputation that had and we

41:26

know that it was connected to that

41:28

church but that church is

41:31

where the the brother and like I guess

41:33

his family preach and do their work.

41:36

The landlord had those rules women

41:38

aren't going to be staying here like if you're gonna I

41:41

guess do this for veterans and you're gonna live in

41:43

the house that I own like here are my rules

41:45

but there was no one like in the house and

41:47

the way that you would think for like halfway

41:49

houses or places for veterans and the

41:51

place was or is it's

41:54

just a mess unclean yeah

41:56

not what you would probably expect from

41:58

what they say the house is. Since

42:01

Danny disappeared, some information has come to

42:03

light. Not so much about Sam but

42:05

about his brother who was there that

42:07

night when Danny's grandmother spent hours at the

42:10

home Sam was living in. According

42:12

to Payne County Oklahoma court records,

42:14

Sam's brother Ezekiel was charged with

42:17

domestic assault and battery, second and

42:19

subsequent offense in early 2017. An

42:22

April 3, 2017 article in

42:24

the Stillwater Press says that Ezekiel was arrested

42:27

on March 24 for his

42:29

alleged involvement in a domestic assault.

42:31

He was facing a felony charge of domestic

42:34

assault and battery after he was accused of

42:36

beating a woman with his fists in front

42:38

of two witnesses. The Stillwater police

42:40

responded to an assault and entered

42:42

the residence to find the woman on the

42:44

couch in her living room covered in blood.

42:47

The woman refused treatment but identified Ezekiel as

42:49

her attacker, accusing him of beating her after

42:51

she was late picking him up from a

42:53

house. This woman told officers that

42:56

Ezekiel told her that it was her fault as

42:58

he beat her in the garage of the residence

43:00

and he and the two witnesses didn't let her

43:02

leave the garage for about 30 minutes

43:04

because of her bloodied appearance. Ezekiel

43:07

admitted his actions were excessive after the

43:09

woman pushed him and caused him to

43:11

snap. The victim in that case

43:13

filed for a protective order against him. Also

43:16

in Payne County, Ezekiel has convictions

43:18

for larceny of merchandise from a

43:21

retailer, maliciously defacing property of another,

43:23

breaking and entering a dwelling without

43:25

permission, unlawful possession of

43:27

drug paraphernalia and domestic assault and

43:30

battery. In February of 2023, in

43:32

the state of Texas, a

43:34

grand jury returned an indictment charging Ezekiel

43:38

with assault of a family or household

43:41

member with a previous conviction, which

43:43

is a third degree felony. Sam

43:45

has some criminal charges and or

43:47

convictions in the state of Oklahoma

43:49

but they were all non-violent crimes

43:52

including drug possession, DUI's, unauthorized use

43:54

of a vehicle and impersonating someone

43:57

else while driving on a suspended license. had

44:00

also mentioned earlier that there were several

44:02

men in and out of that house.

44:04

And the idea that someone there could have

44:06

harmed Danny is concerning to her. She explained

44:09

what she knows about the investigation into the

44:11

people known to be present there on December 7th.

44:14

The brother we know left town

44:17

that same day to Oklahoma like

44:19

after Danny went missing. The

44:21

cousin I think has been there off and on.

44:23

But the police haven't spoken to them that we

44:25

know us. We were told that

44:28

they have only questioned Sam. Yeah, I don't

44:30

know what their stories even would be except

44:32

I do know the older brother Ezekiel left

44:34

to Oklahoma either the day of

44:36

or the day after that Thursday or that

44:39

Friday. My mom has been over there multiple

44:41

times since then just to try to talk

44:43

to them and try to convey compassionate

44:45

empathy. You know, like if you know something, please

44:47

just tell us, you know. And I'd

44:50

say for the most part, the

44:52

big themes in Sam's story have

44:54

remained consistent relatively. It's just been

44:56

details that matter that haven't been

44:58

consistent. We found out a lot

45:01

about this family. It's a small

45:03

town and they're not from this

45:05

town. They're from Oklahoma. But

45:07

we do know that they are involved

45:10

with drugs. We found out that Sam

45:12

is at least a pot dealer.

45:14

We do know that Ezekiel

45:16

does harder drugs like heroin and that

45:18

he is very violent. I

45:21

have spoken to individuals that

45:23

are family members of

45:26

women that these men have children with. And

45:29

I've heard that Ezekiel is a very

45:31

violent man. And this was before I found

45:33

out about his current trial. He

45:35

hasn't gone to trial yet, I believe, for

45:37

his recent violent crime.

45:39

I've heard that Sam is a

45:42

quiet guy. But that's all

45:44

people can really say about him is that he's an introvert

45:46

and quiet. That Ezekiel is violent

45:48

and crazy and will do any drugs, that

45:50

he is not clean. Heroin is his drug

45:52

of choice. And that he likes

45:54

to keep his women high and

45:56

complacent. I don't know anything about the

45:59

other brothers. or the cousin that

46:01

have been there and been mentioned. I

46:03

think Ezekiel's getting everyone's attention because of

46:05

his violent recent history. But

46:07

there's another individual involved who is a good

46:09

friend of these men who apparently the friend

46:12

of Danny's who used to live across the

46:14

street from my grandma. His name is Ryan.

46:17

Said he had nothing to do with these guys after

46:19

Danny went missing because he can't trust them. He's worried

46:21

that they did something. He was letting them

46:23

use his car. He took his car back because he didn't want

46:25

to get wrapped up in it if there was a crime. He

46:28

swore up and down to my family that he's cutting off

46:30

ties with these men. He doesn't trust them. He especially doesn't

46:32

trust Ezekiel. He was like, well tell us what you know

46:34

if you're such good friends with them. He told us corroborating

46:37

information about him being violent and being a

46:39

heroin user and all those things. But that

46:41

Sam is this nice guy. Ryan

46:43

is also a trucker and happened to go out

46:46

of town the night after Danny went missing as

46:48

well. We have recently found out that

46:51

Ezekiel and Ryan got pulled over together for a

46:53

DUI like within the past couple of weeks. So

46:55

we do know that he's still been hanging out

46:57

with these guys. So we can't like trust anything

46:59

we're hearing from these guys is what I was

47:01

trying to say at story wise at least. We've

47:04

learned that a lot of people know about these

47:06

guys. We have actually went and

47:08

talked to people who are

47:10

currently struggling with drug use or

47:12

drug addiction just to see like what they know.

47:15

A lot of people don't mess with them. They're like, yeah

47:17

we know who those brothers are. We don't mess with them.

47:19

That's a story we've gotten just from us going out and

47:21

like literally canvassing the whole town. I literally walked

47:23

up to strangers. I'm like, I don't think I'm

47:25

making a assumptions and it looks like you might

47:28

be struggling with this. Do you know this person?

47:30

Have you seen my sister? People know who Danny

47:32

is. They know who these guys are. Unrelated. They

47:34

didn't know Danny was with these guys. Learning

47:37

about the criminal history, especially

47:39

Ezekiel's, was scary for Danny's loved ones.

47:42

But Victoria said her mom who had been at

47:44

their house that night didn't get the sense that

47:46

anyone there was a violent threat. I've

47:49

never met Ezekiel or any of the people

47:52

my mom had and my mom is a

47:54

very sweet person. She wants to believe

47:56

everybody's the kindest best person ever.

47:58

So my mom didn't. have a bad thing

48:00

to say about any of them. In fact, she was

48:02

really surprised when we started hearing about

48:05

his past assault charges. She

48:07

never got that vibe. Of course, hearing that my mom

48:09

was hanging out with people and now I'm like hearing

48:11

this stuff, I'm just like, oh my goodness. But yes,

48:13

I heard that he had assaulted an ex before in

48:16

the past and apparently this was

48:18

a halfway house kind of

48:20

situation. That was kind of the vibe

48:22

they gave my mom though, that they were just trying

48:25

to throw lives back in order. I don't know. My

48:27

mom didn't think that there was anything wrong with him. And

48:30

I know some of those things happened in the past and

48:32

people can change. But yes, I don't know them

48:34

personally enough to know what kind of person

48:36

he was, but my mom was comfortable around

48:38

him. My sister, Kendall's mom, has

48:41

gone back over there and I guess

48:43

gave him two empathizes her and feel sorry if

48:45

he did do something, you know, to tell her,

48:47

but he apparently is depressed

48:49

and misses her and

48:52

all this other stuff, even though he hasn't

48:54

really done anything. He hasn't left his house

48:57

for a while because he's scared because

48:59

people have been saying stuff about him online and

49:01

feel like he's in danger and stuff. These

49:04

days, it seems like nearly everyone has some

49:07

type of camera at their homes, which can

49:09

be potentially useful in a case like

49:11

Danny's. We wondered if it's true that

49:13

Danny was wandering around that night taking

49:15

in all of the Christmas nights, which

49:17

he captured on any of the neighbor's

49:19

cameras. Kendall said she chased

49:21

down so many of these types of leads

49:23

only to come up empty time and time

49:25

again. Of course,

49:28

the days following tons of people were like,

49:30

oh my God, I saw her. I was

49:32

chasing after so many reports and

49:34

people were sending me their door cam videos

49:36

and I was going to gas stations and

49:38

convenience stores and getting their videos and none

49:41

of these women were Danny. But

49:43

nobody saw her leave that night.

49:45

The police did tell us they

49:48

canvassed the houses surrounding Sam's

49:50

house to request like doorbell

49:52

footage and they got in contact

49:54

with all but one neighbor. My

49:57

dad and Danny's, the father of

49:59

her son. went door-to-door

50:01

as well and they actually spoke to that family

50:03

that the cops couldn't get a hold of because

50:05

they were at work. The cops never came back

50:07

to that house to follow up with them but

50:09

nobody had anything on their camera footage. One

50:12

woman thought she had something on

50:15

doorbell footage of like a car leaving. She's like

50:17

maybe this could have been something but I

50:19

mean you can't see it's just a car going down the street

50:21

you can't get any detailed information about the car and it would

50:23

have been I think around like 4 a.m. so it

50:26

was a movie to say it was a car

50:28

nobody saw anything. The doorbell

50:31

cameras never turned up any clues but

50:33

Kendall told us about another camera in

50:35

the area and it's what wasn't

50:37

seen on that camera footage that may be telling.

50:39

We also know

50:41

that there is a camera at the

50:44

park and it's a 360 camera

50:46

with great resolution that would have

50:48

been able to see her clothes

50:50

or even Sam picking up the clothes and the

50:52

cops didn't have it they said they had nothing

50:54

on the camera. We went to

50:57

houses that would have had cameras pointing

50:59

at the street where the clothes were

51:01

found nobody saw anything. We went to

51:03

the smoke shop to say hey did

51:05

he come in that morning they said

51:07

no they didn't have him on camera

51:10

and so we had no verified

51:12

reported sightings and then when we

51:15

did follow up on any possible

51:18

cameras it could have seen something nobody

51:20

had anything. The pieces don't they don't

51:22

add up. Sam said

51:24

that Danny left his home that night wearing the

51:26

pink pajamas that her grandmother had brought her

51:28

and he claims he found them on the roadway the

51:31

following morning. We wondered if Danny

51:33

had shoes on when she disappeared and

51:35

if those shoes were ever found. Kendall explained

51:37

that she knows. So

51:40

we found out days later

51:42

that Sam had said she

51:44

left wearing pink slides croc

51:47

slides kind of and

51:49

my grandma said she doesn't remember seeing them

51:51

she knows Danny owned them and they've never

51:53

been found. Apparently according to police they

51:55

think well if it was fentanyl and she

51:57

was hot if she took her clothes off she

51:59

would take pants off first. I think the pants were

52:01

found I guess closer to his house and the

52:04

shirt was found further away but that

52:06

wouldn't make sense. Like you would want to take your shoes

52:09

off, take your pants off I guess but they say your

52:11

shirt would come off first. So even

52:13

the location of where the clothes were found doesn't

52:15

add up to maybe how you would take your

52:17

clothes off if you were in a drug-induced overheating

52:19

stage. But yeah, apparently she's wearing

52:22

pink slides. We know she didn't have

52:24

underwear on. It was warmer than usual. I

52:26

want to say it was actually the

52:28

first warm day in a couple of days. It

52:30

was probably like the 50s or 60s but then

52:32

the next night went back down until 40s

52:35

and freezing and the nights prior had been cold but

52:37

that night I think was in like the 50s. That

52:39

was our first concern. Is she out there cold? If

52:42

this story is true that Dany left on

52:45

her own free will and later completely undressed

52:47

while on the street, is it

52:49

possible that no one would have seen her and

52:51

that she would have escaped detection on all cameras

52:53

in the area? It was late

52:56

in the night when Sam said Dany

52:58

left. But usually there's still people passing

53:00

by even at odd hours. Kendall

53:02

and her loved ones canvassed the neighborhood repeatedly

53:04

hoping to find someone who did see her

53:07

that night. That first

53:09

weekend and the second weekend when she went

53:11

missing we did community-based searches and we went

53:13

door-to-door. We talked to people who

53:15

would answer and we left flyers on those who

53:17

wouldn't or didn't and nobody ever

53:19

said they saw anything. And everybody

53:21

knows her. Like I can't I can't describe to

53:23

you like how shocking it is that a town

53:26

of 10,000 people, the percentage that

53:28

knew Dany, whether it was through like one

53:30

of her various jobs or they knew her growing up or

53:32

they'd seen her on the neighborhood or at the park. So

53:35

it'd just be shocking that if somebody saw her they didn't

53:37

know her and they didn't help her. Or at

53:39

the bare minimum Hannah's a naked person and this

53:41

is inappropriate. A lot of the

53:43

neighbors were all Facebook friends

53:45

with. They're like watching this house

53:48

for us. My mom has

53:50

kept her eyes open and peeled and nobody has noticed

53:52

anything suspicious. The only thing we had heard something about

53:55

like a refrigerator and we instantly went in check. It

53:57

was like on their porch and they were gonna move

53:59

it. My aunt said it smelled like it

54:01

had been cleaned but not like thoroughly cleaned. It

54:04

had been broken for a while. It had been

54:06

on the porch for days before she disappeared and

54:08

it was going to be moved I guess a

54:10

few days after. A few

54:12

weeks ago, this would have been many weeks

54:15

after her disappearance, somebody had

54:17

noted that it looked like they were cleaning out

54:19

the house and we thought they were being

54:21

kicked out like evicted but they're still living there

54:23

and the house doesn't actually appear to be cleaned.

54:25

So I don't think that was an accurate assessment

54:27

of whoever had said they had seen them cleaning

54:30

out the house. Victoria

54:32

has had her suspicions about the people who

54:34

had been with Danny that night but she

54:36

was caught off guard by how cooperative Sam

54:38

seemed. She isn't sure what to make of

54:40

it all. He's been

54:43

very cooperative. I will give

54:45

him that. He even got in my car,

54:47

the guy, and showed me where he says

54:49

he found the shirt and where he says he

54:51

found the pants. He gave my

54:53

mom cleaning supplies and then some extra clothes and

54:55

stuff that Danny had there which I thought was

54:57

also weird. He also gave my

54:59

mom a suitcase that he had gotten

55:01

from the casino or something. This is

55:03

the boyfriend, Sam. He gave it

55:05

to my mom and told her that Danny

55:08

had mentioned wanting to travel or something

55:10

and she wanted to go back and

55:12

forth and actually have a bag to take I guess to

55:14

his house or wherever she wanted to go. I

55:16

thought that was really weird but he again, he

55:19

got in the car, was cooperative. He didn't give

55:21

me those kind of vibes.

55:23

He definitely had his own personality but

55:25

he didn't give me those vibes. I

55:28

asked him, what kind of drugs have you

55:30

seen her do? Because at this point now we're

55:32

not really holding anything back. She's been missing

55:34

for a couple weeks at this point. He

55:37

was like, all we ever did was

55:39

smoke weed and do mushrooms sometimes. I'm

55:41

like, okay, well the way my mom explained it,

55:43

she was on something heavier than that. When

55:46

we've talked to people, they're like, well maybe she's overdosing

55:49

at the time. My mom was there. But then I

55:51

was sitting here thinking, well she left at one and

55:53

he's saying four. They had three hours in between to

55:55

do whatever they needed to do. If

55:57

you didn't want to say, she'd like to go back to the

55:59

car. wasn't at your house, how could you prove that?

56:01

Her clothes was down here so she couldn't be at

56:04

my house. I'm thinking if somebody's naked walking down the

56:06

street, I don't care who you are, you're either a

56:08

bad person and they're going to do something to them

56:10

or you're a good person and then they call us

56:12

and we take them somewhere where they can get help.

56:15

None of that happens. No cameras,

56:17

the street that it's on, my sister

56:19

said there was a woman who has a camera

56:21

that points in the direction of where he's staying

56:24

that one of the items of clothing were found and

56:26

there was no footage of them being

56:29

dropped off, her walking, somebody picking them

56:31

up, nothing. That's super suspicious because if

56:33

you found the clothes, if that is

56:35

the true story, there should still be

56:37

footage of that somewhere. He

56:40

told her she was wearing like

56:42

these teak sandals so she had

56:44

her phone supposedly and then

56:46

her clothes and her shoes. We haven't

56:48

found the shoes. He tried to say

56:51

after he found the clothes, he thought he

56:53

may have seen her shoes but when

56:55

he drove back by later, he didn't see

56:57

them, that somebody must have taken them or

56:59

maybe they weren't them at all. But yes, her

57:01

shoes and her phone and her, we don't know where

57:03

they are. Victoria told

57:05

us about another lead and this one came

57:07

from that smoke shop that Sam said he

57:10

was walking to on the morning that Dani

57:12

disappeared when he found her pink pajamas along

57:14

the road and this was a lead that

57:16

Victoria hoped that someone would look into. The

57:20

last week of January,

57:22

I went to Bonham and my

57:24

sister had showed me this video

57:27

from the smoke shop that I guess they

57:29

frequented, the ones that he mentioned he was on

57:31

and went to the morning he found her clothes. I

57:34

listened to the video. Some lady had come into

57:36

the smoke shop and I believe she may have

57:38

been on drugs but if

57:40

you listen closely, essentially

57:42

some guy that's unrelated to

57:44

the brothers and Sam, he had mentioned

57:46

that Sam and them had come to

57:48

him and asked how to dispose of

57:50

a body and the smoke shop lady

57:52

took it to the police station but

57:55

didn't feel like they were being very serious about it

57:57

so she sent it to my sister and that's how I looked

57:59

at it. at it through my sister's phone. Sure

58:02

enough, you can hear the lady say, I

58:04

don't know why they wouldn't just

58:06

burn the clothes with the body. And she

58:09

mentioned that the guy that they were talking

58:11

about or that she was saying the guys

58:13

came to, she said he didn't

58:15

want to help them because he didn't want to

58:17

basically be an accessory to it. And she's sitting

58:19

here saying this on camera. And I just asked

58:21

my sister last week, whatever happened with that? And

58:23

she said, nothing. But I just think

58:26

that's very, very weird, that somebody would be

58:28

in there talking about that. Especially

58:30

when we're trying to find her and nobody sees her.

58:32

There hasn't been an ounce of anything, not even

58:34

just anxiety. But then there

58:36

was something else that the family discovered that

58:39

could possibly point away from the guys at

58:41

the house. Danny was last seen at Danny's

58:43

grandmother found a voicemail from her that she

58:45

had left weeks prior to her disappearance

58:48

and hearing the voicemail left Victoria

58:50

feeling uneasy. A boyfriend

58:52

or a guy that she was talking to

58:55

before she went missing his name is Anthony.

58:58

And my mom was going through voicemails. This

59:00

is after she went missing. And

59:02

in the voicemail to my mom from Danny, she

59:05

was talking about this Anthony guy. She

59:07

essentially stopped talking with me and started talking

59:09

to Sam. She was saying in

59:11

the voicemail, I can see Anthony on

59:14

the other street. He's following me. I'm

59:16

okay. I just wanted to let you know. He told

59:18

me, I'm a stalker. You may not see

59:21

me, but I'll see you. Like she's saying

59:23

this in the voicemail. Well, I'm like, this

59:25

is weird, mom. What? And it was probably

59:27

about three weeks or so before Danny even

59:29

went missing, but it was still really weird.

59:32

We'll come to find out that guy was in jail. He got

59:34

picked up on the Friday after she

59:36

went missing because you know, she went missing Thursday

59:38

morning, essentially. That guy got picked up

59:41

in County County for a probation violation

59:43

or something. So he was in jail the day

59:45

after she went missing. So it kind of made

59:47

me even more uncomfortable. I thought that was really

59:49

weird. So I called the police to tell him

59:51

because Joe and Kendall were like, Hey, you need

59:53

to let him know. And I sent them the

59:55

voicemail. And he was just like, well, you

59:57

know, and again, this was the guy that's over the

59:59

whole. saying that the investigation, he's

1:00:02

like, well, you know, when people say stop,

1:00:04

that's a serious allegation. I said, sir, I

1:00:06

understand when she was in the voicemail that

1:00:08

she was just casually saying stop. I

1:00:11

can do that sometimes. I said, regardless, it's

1:00:13

kind of weird that somebody would say that three

1:00:15

weeks before she went missing and now she's missing.

1:00:17

So when he was in jail, this guy that

1:00:20

I was on the phone with, he said he

1:00:22

personally was the one to interview him. And

1:00:24

he said that he broke up

1:00:26

with Deanie over a month ago and that

1:00:28

he wasn't talking to her because she was

1:00:31

sleeping around. And I don't know

1:00:33

why when he said it,

1:00:35

it kind of felt like bros talking

1:00:37

about bros, if that makes sense. And

1:00:39

of course, when I told my mom that my mom was

1:00:41

like, that's BS, she broke up with him and I'm like,

1:00:43

well, that's neither here nor there. But yeah,

1:00:45

that's kind of weird that you say you broke up

1:00:47

with somebody when you're being questioning jail about foodie disappearance

1:00:50

if you didn't. Not to mention

1:00:52

now we have this voicemail that you were

1:00:54

following her around. That's weird too.

1:00:57

And he had been to Sam's house. The only guy

1:00:59

that Danny had brought was this Anthony guy. What

1:01:01

if there was some type of feeling about that between

1:01:03

the guys? You know what I mean? We don't know.

1:01:07

Like many families featured on the show, Kendall

1:01:09

said that they kept hearing from the police

1:01:11

department that Danny had a right to disappear

1:01:13

if she wanted to, which is true. But

1:01:15

that doesn't line up with Danny's history. She's

1:01:19

never gone missing before. It's especially abnormal

1:01:21

given that the Sunday

1:01:23

and Monday before her

1:01:25

disappearance, I mean, she was engaging in

1:01:27

all her usual activities. She had just seen her daughter, had

1:01:30

plans to go do something for

1:01:32

my nephew, her son, something for school,

1:01:34

sports or a musical related thing or

1:01:37

something. I talked to all her

1:01:39

kids that weekend, had seen her daughter on Sunday,

1:01:41

had texted all the family members like usual that

1:01:43

weekend, was messaging her friends on Facebook and

1:01:45

posting on Facebook, making and following

1:01:48

through on her plans to try to find treatment

1:01:50

for her eating disorder. She was going to her

1:01:52

doctor's appointment. She had an appointment to

1:01:54

see a neurologist, follow through on her epilepsy treatment

1:01:56

for the police to just kind of write it

1:01:59

all off as she... wanted to go

1:02:01

missing. Disagain doesn't look

1:02:03

for Danny and their family has been disappointed with

1:02:06

the search efforts thus far.

1:02:30

I feel like they definitely haven't done as much

1:02:32

as they should. I know one

1:02:34

night we called them over after she

1:02:37

went missing and we called the

1:02:39

cops to come because we had found a notebook

1:02:41

that had like just some personal numbers in it

1:02:44

that maybe some people that she they could

1:02:46

reach out to see if they'd heard anything

1:02:48

from Danny. He was saying how he just

1:02:50

got on the case and he had to kind of

1:02:53

familiarize himself with it still. But the

1:02:55

way he was talking to my mom was kind

1:02:57

of like you know how people talk to like kids

1:02:59

and old people where it's kind of

1:03:01

not condescending on purpose but it's kind

1:03:03

of condescending. Essentially he was just giving

1:03:06

my mom a lesson on drug usage

1:03:08

and how pretty much my mom

1:03:10

was probably just watching her in her

1:03:13

depth of drug usage and didn't know the

1:03:15

signs to the point where he even

1:03:17

was like no that doesn't mean we're not looking

1:03:19

for her. I don't want you to think that

1:03:21

we are looking for her. We're just hoping she's

1:03:23

somewhere maybe coming down from something. Then

1:03:26

he took me outside essentially away from my mom

1:03:28

because I guess nothing he was saying was to an

1:03:31

extent where he couldn't say it from my mom but

1:03:33

maybe he just didn't want to stress her out. So

1:03:35

he took me outside and he was just like

1:03:37

you know what do you think about this? And

1:03:39

I was just like well obviously like I do

1:03:41

hope she's somewhere coming down from drug usage because

1:03:43

the other alternative is that she's her or dead

1:03:45

or something worse. And you know

1:03:48

he just kind of stuck with the whole

1:03:50

the drug thing I guess.

1:03:52

He said Sam I met that Sam guy

1:03:55

he didn't give me those vibes but he was a weird guy.

1:03:57

I don't want you to think that we're done looking for him.

1:04:00

incident or not and then that was the

1:04:03

police officer. Now we've already got

1:04:05

the drug usage working against that. Now we've got

1:04:07

some guy in jail saying she's slept around. She

1:04:09

was last at a house with three men. It

1:04:12

all just looks really bad that should overshadow

1:04:14

the fact that it's a human being missing

1:04:16

for three months. Based

1:04:19

on her grandmother's eye witness account of that

1:04:21

night, Kendall fears that Danny was either drugged

1:04:23

or used drugs on the night she

1:04:25

went missing and something went terribly wrong.

1:04:28

Danny's family believes that she had been sober for

1:04:30

a period of years and that's

1:04:32

backed up by recent drug testing she had at

1:04:34

a doctor appointment which came up

1:04:37

clean. However, that doesn't exclude

1:04:39

the possibility that Danny may have chosen

1:04:41

to use a substance that night or someone

1:04:43

gave her something without her knowing. I think

1:04:46

our biggest issue was the

1:04:48

men that she would surround herself with.

1:04:50

You know the Sam individual, those are

1:04:53

our biggest concerns because if they aren't

1:04:55

sober, if they don't appear to be

1:04:57

sober, they're on drugs, it can be

1:04:59

really hard to stay clean

1:05:01

and sober yourself. That Wednesday night

1:05:03

Thursday morning when she went missing

1:05:06

was such a dramatic shift from how

1:05:08

Danny presents. Danny is never quiet. I

1:05:12

would say catatonic zoned out, not

1:05:14

talking like a zombie. Danny

1:05:16

has never been that way sober

1:05:18

or high. That's not how Danny presents which

1:05:20

is again why I think it was something

1:05:23

like fentanyl. Danny didn't have

1:05:25

any signs physically like there weren't

1:05:27

track marks or bruises like again

1:05:29

we're looking for these things. Best

1:05:32

case scenario what I think could

1:05:35

have happened is that she either

1:05:37

had a seizure, drug-related or not

1:05:39

and they panicked or she had

1:05:41

a drug and disease or

1:05:43

she overdosed on whatever they gave her

1:05:46

and they panicked. Nothing else

1:05:48

makes sense to me. Victoria

1:05:50

doesn't know what to think when it comes to what

1:05:53

happened to Danny. As the days and

1:05:55

weeks have ticked by it feels less and

1:05:57

less likely that the outcome will be a positive

1:05:59

one. It's definitely been

1:06:01

difficult again, just not knowing where to look,

1:06:03

what to look for. I feel

1:06:06

that my sister is more fighting with the idea

1:06:08

that Sam and his family may have something to

1:06:10

do with it. I'm trying to stay

1:06:12

open-minded because if they did have something to do with

1:06:14

it the way they're acting, then she's not here. Where

1:06:17

would she be if they had something to do

1:06:19

with it unless it's something terrible? So kind

1:06:21

of finding out that she's hanging out with a

1:06:23

lot of questionable people near the time that she

1:06:25

disappeared was a little disheartening for me to hear

1:06:27

just because I will say I was more on

1:06:30

the hopeful side that she had done with addiction.

1:06:32

She was actively celebrating on Facebook and things when

1:06:34

she would meet her sobriety lines and things like

1:06:36

that. I was a little taken aback when

1:06:39

I heard about the way that she was last

1:06:41

seen and how she was acting and the

1:06:43

erratic behavior. I was really sad because one

1:06:45

of our last conversations, she was always saying,

1:06:47

thanks for listening and thanks for believing

1:06:50

in me and just encouraging

1:06:52

her because again, we all just need that

1:06:54

kind of encouragement. I can't imagine. I've

1:06:56

never been addicted to drugs. I've never had to struggle

1:06:58

in that way. And so I wanted to

1:07:01

be like that safe place for her. But finding

1:07:03

out she's hanging out with those people and just

1:07:05

like, oh my goodness, that makes more sense now.

1:07:07

I didn't see her struggling in the way that

1:07:09

my mom saw her that last day. So I

1:07:11

feel like if I had been there automatically, they would

1:07:14

have been like, what the heck? We got to call

1:07:16

911. They could have put

1:07:18

something in her drink. I know fentanyl and stuff like

1:07:20

that was one of the things that Kendall and then

1:07:22

had mentioned. Like they were kind of worried about even

1:07:24

if she was just smoking their joint and they laced

1:07:26

it with fentanyl and she had a bad reaction to

1:07:28

it. It may not have even been malice. She might

1:07:30

have just had an overdose and they didn't know to

1:07:32

handle it. But we won't

1:07:34

know that information unless they are questioned and

1:07:36

we cannot question them to the extent that

1:07:38

we need. She's small

1:07:40

and stature, but she had a

1:07:42

very mighty personality. She didn't let

1:07:45

people mess with it. That's another thing I always think

1:07:47

like if somebody was trying to hurt her, Danny would

1:07:49

put up a fight. 100% would put up a fight.

1:07:51

Unless she was under the influence of something and was

1:07:53

unable, there's no way to me somebody could try to pick

1:07:56

her up on the side of the road or whatever

1:07:58

and her not put up a fight. that

1:08:00

would cause a disturbance, it would be loud, you would

1:08:02

hear it. The past

1:08:04

several months have been extremely difficult for

1:08:06

Dani's family. It began with

1:08:08

a sense of urgency to search and find

1:08:10

any way to trace her. But all of

1:08:12

their attempts have been unsuccessful. Now they're

1:08:15

at a loss for what to do next. Victoria

1:08:17

and Dani both have daughters who are the

1:08:19

same age. And Victoria said that seeing her

1:08:22

own daughter is a daily reminder of everything

1:08:24

that Dani is missing out on. You

1:08:27

know, I'm doing a lot of firsts with my daughter

1:08:29

and I'm thinking, I know her daughter is doing the

1:08:31

same thing, but Dani's not there right

1:08:33

now to be able to experience that

1:08:36

with her. None of us know why.

1:08:38

Just having to kind of be chipper in moments of

1:08:40

sadness so my kid doesn't experience that sadness and doesn't,

1:08:42

you know, get those feelings from me. And I think

1:08:44

that's been what's really hard during the time of Dani,

1:08:46

like, yes, I want to sit and I want to

1:08:48

cry and I want to be upset. And

1:08:50

my sister obviously is devastated right now.

1:08:53

Her son turned 17 on the 21st.

1:08:56

Then we had Christmas. We had

1:08:58

New Year she missed. Her other son just turned 16

1:09:00

last week. She wouldn't

1:09:03

miss those things. I mean, this is the

1:09:05

same girl that when my mom had a stroke

1:09:07

last year, was sitting up at the hospital with

1:09:09

her, making sure she's taking out prescriptions and

1:09:11

stuff when she gets home and on

1:09:13

it, worked 60 plus hours a week.

1:09:15

As a manager, taking care of stuff,

1:09:18

she was a respectable person. She

1:09:20

may have had her flaws and her faults. The

1:09:22

biggest thing is that we love her and

1:09:25

we're at the stage now three months

1:09:27

in where we want closure.

1:09:29

We want the police to take it

1:09:31

seriously because she is loved

1:09:33

and she is missed. She's deserving.

1:09:36

She was full of life. Whether

1:09:38

she was down about certain things or not,

1:09:40

she wasn't in a position where she

1:09:42

couldn't get back up. She wasn't at

1:09:44

a point where she'd hit rock bottom and

1:09:46

there was no oracle. It was nothing like

1:09:48

that. She may have had a bad day

1:09:50

or a bad week, but it was not

1:09:52

to the extent where she would just let

1:09:54

it all go. I think

1:09:57

that that's something that's important for people

1:09:59

to understand. not one of those, she just

1:10:01

disappeared because she was tired of it. She wasn't.

1:10:04

It wasn't that. That's not her character.

1:10:06

It's not anything that she

1:10:08

would do. So what

1:10:10

happened to Danny Croft on December 7th, 2023? We

1:10:12

know that Danny's grandmother had

1:10:15

been unable to reach her by phone for

1:10:17

a couple of days. So she went over

1:10:19

to Sam's house to check on Danny. That

1:10:21

was late in the evening on the 6th.

1:10:24

She stayed for several hours and left around

1:10:26

1am on the 7th. Danny's grandmother

1:10:28

was alarmed by the scene she walked in on

1:10:30

that night. Danny seemed to be

1:10:32

on something. She was acting like she

1:10:34

was sedated and even more concerning, she

1:10:36

didn't have any clothes on. Being

1:10:38

older, Danny's grandmother was frightened and eventually

1:10:41

left after she was unable to convince

1:10:43

Danny to leave with her. The

1:10:45

next morning, Sam was knocking at her door. He

1:10:47

said that Danny had left his house around 3

1:10:50

or 4am to go look at Christmas

1:10:52

lights and never returned. On his way

1:10:54

to a local store, he spotted the clothes

1:10:56

that Danny had been wearing. This certainly was

1:10:59

alarming, but it also could line up with

1:11:01

what her grandmother had seen. Danny was saying

1:11:03

that she was hot hours earlier when her

1:11:05

grandmother had been at Sam's, but all of

1:11:07

this was still very strange. No

1:11:09

one came forward claiming to have seen

1:11:11

Danny walking that morning or any naked

1:11:13

person walking around town. She

1:11:16

wasn't captured on any cameras either. Danny's

1:11:18

phone and sandals also disappeared along with

1:11:21

her that night. Her phone

1:11:23

hadn't been turned on for some time before

1:11:25

she disappeared, which was strange for Danny, as

1:11:27

she was usually in constant contact with

1:11:29

her loved ones via phone, text, and social

1:11:32

media. So what was going on with

1:11:34

Danny and those final dates? Had

1:11:36

she slipped back into using again? Were the

1:11:38

men at this house dragging her and taking advantage

1:11:40

of Danny in a vulnerable state? Or

1:11:43

did Danny really leave that night to go look at Christmas

1:11:45

lights, as Sam had said, and something

1:11:47

else happened to her after that time? Could she

1:11:49

have wandered and gotten lost and no one has

1:11:51

found her yet? Could she have run into a

1:11:54

dangerous stranger? Or what about that

1:11:56

ex-boyfriend that Danny said was stalking her? Investigators

1:11:58

haven't found an if- evidence to point

1:12:00

in any one direction, and her loved ones

1:12:03

are left to wonder about all of the

1:12:05

possibilities. But they want to keep

1:12:07

Danny's story out there. She's only been missing

1:12:09

for a period of months, and they don't want

1:12:11

Danny to be forgotten. They want

1:12:13

the public to continue to be vigilant and

1:12:15

report anything they see or hear to the

1:12:17

police. If you have any

1:12:19

information regarding the disappearance of Danny Croft,

1:12:21

please contact the Bonham Police Department at

1:12:24

903-583-2141. We'll

1:12:29

continue to hold out that hope. We

1:12:32

started a Facebook page for Danny bringing

1:12:35

Danny's feet home, and we've had a

1:12:37

lot of people join that. Some of

1:12:39

them have entered her in different missing

1:12:41

people databases and things like that. We don't

1:12:43

have enough information to really go off of.

1:12:46

I know my family has gone

1:12:49

out and looked throughout the town,

1:12:51

abandoned buildings and abandoned homes. So

1:12:53

now searched in Oklahoma, and she's

1:12:55

looked around Bonham daily since Danny

1:12:57

went missing. I know we did

1:12:59

a search party for the community to come

1:13:01

in, and they had a pretty good turnout

1:13:03

for that. And again, they just posted stuff

1:13:06

and went door to door in different areas and

1:13:08

just asked if anybody had any footage or

1:13:10

if anybody had seen her. But

1:13:12

most of the stuff we've done has

1:13:14

been online since that initial search. When

1:13:17

I was searching through some of her things, I noticed she had a

1:13:19

lot of books just regarding spirituality and I

1:13:21

know she found a lot of peace

1:13:23

and praying with all of the

1:13:26

traumas and what's happening that she had. That

1:13:51

brings us to the end of episode 436. I'd

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