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>> reporter: caroline knew derek too and thought he was a decent kid, misunderstood. >> i guess everyone thought that he was that type of person because he's -- he was the kid that skipped school and that didn't -- got in trouble with teachers, or spoke back, or something like that. >> school bad boy, huh? >> yeah. >> really he was just a really soft-hearted guy. he would always be there for anybody who needed him. >> reporter: in the end police couldn't find any electronic trail linking derek to danielle. detectives' latest lead had fizzled out, and with no explanation for that word, help that chena found scrawled at the creek, they were down to their two main clues. >> so you got the sock on the trail, and you got a phone out at 95, more questions than answers. >> danielle's last cell phone ping was miles away from her neighborhood. >> we can see that she's moving in a fairly quick fashion, faster than a person could walk. >> the story told by the phone is, i'm in a car. >> yeah. >> reporter: had she been abducted, grabbed by a person or persons unknown? the stranger-danger abduction theory was gaining traction with both the police and danielle's peers. >> well a lot of girls at the high school were scared of like walking around you know in their neighborhoods and stuff at night now. >> reporter: and parents were