not in the car. >> were you trying to hold onto hope? >> yeah. >> trying to, yeah. >> hope turned to action, and the family got organized in a big way. >> everybody came to my house. and then we -- we just started searching, just anywhere we thought to even just go, we just went. >> how many search volunteers are we talking about? >> there was at least 200 the first day. >> pretty humbling because you can see how many people that she touched and -- >> cared about her. >> yeah. >> we just put it together in an hour on, you know, social media and this is how many, how many people we have right now. but there's more people on the way and there's already people searching. >> beyond searching, this large family started its own investigation, making calls and combing through social media. >> checking facebook, making sure she didn't update anything. >> the professional detectives were also looking at sarah's online life, piecing together