Maybe she was kidnapped. The stories did not stop, did they . No. We were getting information that they were cuddling. We have to figure out, does he have any motive to want to harm her . I see her side, right at the exit of the trail. The word help was etched into the ground. Two shovels that had what appeared to be blood on them. That just did it for me. I cant even think about how scared she was. [crying] a mothers worst nightmare. There are no signs to get there, just follow the rough, sandy trail down from the subdivisions above, turn a corner, and there it is, the creek. A twisting, slowmoving body of water in North Carolina, its nothing less than an undiscovered Garden Of Eden for teenagers playing hooky from high school. Its like going to the beach for us, its just a vacation. When caroline was a high school freshman, and terrified of math class, if the weather was good, her decision was made. Go right to the creek, and Bypass School altogether. Tell me about that afternoon at the creek, caroline, what did you do . Just go swimming, and after we were done swimming we would sit by the fire and get dry, and then we would hurry up and go back to the school, and take the bus home. So the creek was the place for the local kids could high out from the grownups, and play all day like frisky otters, in till one day in a Secret Teenage World Collide with tragedy. I just knew in my heart that something was wrong. People were actually hiding their kids. Do you think im gonna risk not knowing what happened . No i was gonna find out. So, this story is about a teenage sweetie named daniel. Danielle locklear. It seems everyone in her orbit, young and old, got a boost from her take on life. Including her mom, rhoda. She was just a fun, girl, she said, out she shined. You would notice her. She was always happy, never seen or without a smile on her face. Danielle and, was like a older sister, and a Surrogate Mom for daniel. Danielle was living with her mother, while she worked her way through a painful divorce in another state. My sister was like, do you mind daniel coming, i was like not at all. So she dropped and very naturally . Oh yeah, oh yeah. Danielle was the outsider, a new school, for all about ten minutes. Caroline and danielle became about best buds, immediately. We were sitting in the auditorium, and im guessing it was kind of like scare to talk to her because of how she pretty she was. I just kept her on her shoulder, started complementing her hair, and she just started making jokes. And hanging out with us all of the time. A few weeks into her freshman yeah, danielle was already known a round the school by her nickname, danny. Did any fit into any of the groups . Every group, every person, it didnt matter. She can sit down at any lunch table and should be welcome. She could talk to the quietest kid in the class, and have a full on conversation. And an obedient student as well, sharp as attack, straight as in rotc class. She was a girly girl, goofing on youtube with makeup tricks. Baking professional looking and tasting cakes. She loved to bake. And she was good at it . Yes, she was really, really good. She was a fast learner, so she would jump on youtube and find all these different recipes, and just different techniques, and the first time she would try something i mean it was a home run for her. And youd think shed have bruised thumbs with her nonstop messaging, and social media posts. Posts like. Are you wondering if a striking teen like daniel had a boyfriend . Well she did. She struck about her Head Over Heels relationship with a boy in the summer of 2013. His name was Jemichael Malloy. Danielles great aunt, and grandmother had known his family forever. They belong to the same church. Kelly remembered the sparks flying when jemichael and danielle met as teenagers. You can see something in their eyes, im looking at her and looking at him. Its like they were attracted to each other right away. Sheena, who played the role of nosy aunt, always kept a hawks eye on her niece, now she had a reason to be extra vigilant. Now its time for nosy and to be extra vigilant, because he had something to work with . Yes, i was like what is going on here . What was going on was that the pair had become what everyone called, a cute couple. Now she had a pep in her step, you know, now they are doing things together, and we start to see these notebooks, and jemichael. And danielle malloy. This is boyfriend or boyfriend, were going down this road really fast. He was her first real boyfriend, and an older one to. Jemichael was a senior at another school, and danielle was a freshman. She invited him to her First High School dance. Shes like, im gonna need some high heels, and i said mom , high heels. Youre going to cross that line. That line to high heels, and welcome to new young adult. So she puts on these sparkly hills, im walking her walk, and im like, oh my god. Shes pulling it off . Yeah. By spring of 2014, danielle had been living with sheena and her grandparents to close to ten months. They saw little dandy, maturing into a young woman. But she was still too young to spend the night alone. So on march 11th, when gina and her mom had to go over to atlanta for a doctors appointment, danielles grandfather was given the responsibility of keeping an eye on the teen. So grandfathers in charge here . Yes, grandfather is in charge. And this is something we would really never do, on the way down that we would text danielle, she was like, oh, you guys just left me . Its just me and pop pop. Like that. Because we would always joke. You would do that to me . Yeah, like you guys just left me. It was a tuesday, a school night, after supper, just before bed, danielle asked her grandfather if she could drop off a School Notebook at a classmates house a few doors away. He said yes. My dad says, okay, well make it quick. And we never had any issues with her. So, he lets her go. And off daniel went into the night. In atlanta, sheena said something was off. I had a bad feeling come over me, i felt really uneasy, and i felt like man, she needs to call something that. She could be in a ditch somewhere. I remember, i could not even sleep, i had this overwhelming feeling of something bad happening. And the next morning, she got a call from danielles grandfather, and it was bad. He says, danielle did not come home last night. And i am like, what . What is he saying . Daniel did not come home . What do you mean . Danielle had gone. About to be officially a missing person. As simple to state, as it was terrifying and all of its ramifications. 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There is a police car there, my dad called the police. Detective Josh Hamilton became the Lead Investigator for the police department. The families telling all your officers that shes a good girl. Absolutely. This is not like her to go to a runner. Go to the beach with her boyfriend. Totally out of character. But police thought it was possible that daniel left voluntarily and would return on her own. Give it 24 hours, youre gonna have a different resolution here. We were hopeful that she had stayed at a Friends House. But that scenario didnt sound right to ronna. When she arrived, she said this much to police. , they were like asking all these questions, what do you think she wouldve ran away . Do you think she could be at a Friends House . You know, anything, you know. And i was like, well theres no reason why for daniel to run away the family called around to everyone that they could think. Up hoping somebody had heard from daniel. Of course, her boyfriend was at the top of the list. I said hey, jemichael, it is Chena Simmons, have you heard from danielle . Shes been missing since last night. He said, no, he hadnt seen danielle in days. And whats more, he said that they had broken up before. The split was news to daniels and, but she wasnt entirely surprised. These two had broken up before. The last time, just a few months earlier. She mentioned something about him talking to another girl. And he wasnt giving her as much attention anymore. She didnt like that. So after she is moping around the couch, she is with him to the dance. She said yes, were about to go, we are fine. Chena simmons had also called in yellow school, they reported that danielle had skipped school the day she went missing. Totally out of character, what was up that. Then a light bulb moment for chena. The day before everything kind of happened. Im pulling into the driveway, and the sun is almost down, and she is running across the driveway, and shes kind of out of breath, and laughing. And im like, im like where you coming from . Where you coming from . Oh, just, theres this creek back in the neighborhood that some kids are trying to get me to hang out. But, dont worry, i wont be going back there. Its a mess back there. And i was like, yes you wont be going back there, right . The creek. Chena simmons got told are now, with hermes missing, she had to go find her, but how . We go to the back of the neighborhood, and i see the neighbors kid on a dirt bike. I said, is there creek around here . He said yeah, ill show you. So you followed this Neighborhood Kid down to the creek . The creek. The Neighborhood Kids, led her to a wooded area. We were walking here, and hes walking his dirt bike down, and hes leading me to down to the stream. Then the kid pointed to the ground. He saw something. There, carved in the dirt, was some care, a single word. The word help was scratched into the ground. Help. As if somebody picked up a stick and like somebody had scraped help in the ground with the stick. The creek, help, frightening it just made my hair stand up and i started getting really nervous. Chena simmons did not know what was going on, but it could not be good, that sos in the sand. Does that mean anything to you . Its alarming. Its extremely alarming, i do not know if it was a call for help. I do not know if this is something that daniel had left for me. Chena simmons kept walking a down the path, and then she came upon, it the creek, down the steep road. Subdivision is just back up here. Right. And this is just from 100 years ago or something. Right. Its like the secret, undiscovered place. I had no idea that it existed, and there was just fire pits, and close from the kid to one swimming, there were old homework, notes, and all of that stuff. Including a towel that she recognized from her house. One of your Family Towels . Yes, one of our towels. Of course im concerned, it looks like she had hung out but maybe this is from today, or when was this . Because i know she was there the day before. Danielle had definitely been there at some point. Chena simmons returned home and told police which he had found. They were interested, and went back to the creek with her. They were kind of walking ahead, and i looked down, and i see her night sock. Just right at the exit of the trail. And i know its her sock, because i bought them. Its these fuzzy socks, and it was like rolled into a ball, and it kind of had straw in it. Would she go on with their socks on like that . Absolutely not. Chena simmons could not make sense of why a sock, daniel wore only at bedtime would be there. I cant imagine being barefoot in here, walking here, in the stocking feet. Youd be all ripped up. Absolutely. Chena simmons no the south could be an important clue. She picked it up, and turned it over to police. By then, Something Else was coming to light. Police realize that daniels almost constant social media chitchat, had gone dark. The High School Girl missing and life was suddenly gone on facebook and instagram too. And cops learned Something Else from their own kids. Theyre like, well shes been hanging out with some bad kids lately. Im like, oh great. Bad kids . A sock covered in straw. The word help carved in the sand. Danielles hours before her disappearance, were becoming more and more enigmatic. And infinitely more terrifying. Maybe we dont really know her the way we thought. Coming up. Pictures surface of danielle by the creek the day she disappeared. One of the pictures, she had on a pair of glasses that didnt belong to her. So, i zoomed in to the lenses, and i could see they were like for kids in the background. Stories surface too, about danielle and a boy from school. 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So you become your own detective here . I mean, my concern was to find her. Sheenas search had turned up troubling things about daniel. There was boyfriend turbulence, playing hooky from school, and hanging out at a creek. How do you reconcile this behavior, with this little girl that you have known for a long time . It did not seem right, but she is turning into a teenager as well and she has got Boyfriend Problems and maybe she is a little emotional. I dont know. Before police could get there, chena found that neighborhood friend danielle was supposed to see the night she disappeared. This is the one that she was supposed to deliver the book . Yes, and i was like hey girl, oh my gosh, did you see Daniel Last Night . She was like, no. Chena was disappointed, but the friend said Something Else. She was like, we were texting last night and she actually had some pictures of her from earlier on in the day of march 11th. And those images showed danielle hanging out at the creek. 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