the word help was scratched in the ground. we found two shovels that had what appeared to be blood on them. that just did it for me. i can t even think about how scared she was. a mother s worst panic. there are no signs to get there. just follow the rough, sandy trail from the subdivisions above, turn a corner and there it is, a creek, a low-twisting moving body of water in north carolina, that s nothing less than a garden of eden for teenagers playing hooky from high school. it was like a beach. if the weather was good, her decision was made, go right to the creek and bypass school all together. tell me about an afternoon at the creek, caroline, what would you do? just go swimming. after we were done swimming we would sit by the fire and get dry, and hurry up and go back to the bus and take it home. they would play all day like frisky otters. innocent fun until one day when this secret teenaged world collided with tragedy. i just knew in my heart s
it was painful. never in a million years would we have done anything. she was very precious to us. danielle s grandmother certainly didn t think her husband had anything to do with her granddaughter s disappearance. but she was also searching her heart for forgiveness. how do you let her leave? how do you let her get out the house? why didn t you call for her? tv was called in and everything. what kind of grandfather would let the child out of house this time of the night? it wasn t long before police cleared danielle s grandfather. he passed his polygraph, and police couldn t find anything in his phone or family history to make him a suspect. grandpa was off the hook. police were continuing to go down their list of names. i m tim. someone else on their list was danielle s on again-off again boyfriend jamichael malloy. where does he stand on your person of interest theories?
there anyplace you can think of that she could have ran off to or any people she could have ran off with is this. alexis couldn t think of anyone. but danielle s class meat also classmates had an idea. you still have a whole hool. . and her friends that were prepared to come forward with their own version of what transpired. and the stories police were getting were leading right back to the creek. coming up. the rumor mill churns out a new name. derrick. but he says he was at home, online when danielle disappeared. i m derrick telling you i was noodling around the computer but you re not going to find record of that because i deleted the history. if you re not doing anything wrong, why are you deleting your history? when dateline continues. del.
you got three, four sources saying the same thing that jamichael s saying. he was home that night. there were also cell phone messages jamichael sent to other friends around the time she went missing. gps data showed those texts were sent from jamichael s house. and police couldn t find any evidence he and danielle were going to meet up the night she disappeared. he lived almost a mile away from her. he doesn t have a car? no. they fired off the occasional texts from the house. there was no way to tie him to danielle s disappearance. rather, danielle s family and friends remember his worry and concern for dani. have you heard anything? you know, have anybody said anything? have anyone found her? jamichael seemed like he was very concerned. he was asking me, you know, is
that she may have ran off to, or any people that she could ve ran off with. alexis couldn t think of anyone, but daniels classmates had an idea of what had happened to the teen. the high school rumor mill was running wide, and new leads were emerging out of all that chatter. you still gotta hold high school full of kids of their,. a high school full of friends that were pretty come forward their own version of what transpired. and stories police were getting, some of them bloody and lloyd were leading right back to the creek. coming up, the rumor mill turns out a new name, derek, but he says he was at home online when daniel disappeared. i m there telling you i was doodling out with the computer, there s a deleted history. you re not doing something, wrong why you do leading your? history when dateline