on a pair of glasses that didn t belong to her. so i zoomed in to the lenses, and i could see there were like four kids, like a reflection of four kids in the background. i asked her friend, i said wait a minute. so there were other people there? she s like, ah, a little hesitant. sheena pried the names of the other kids out of this friend. more names and faces for police to track down. and so now i m like, i got to find out who these kids are. sheena didn t know it then, but one of those kids was caroline. caroline first introduced danielle to the creek days before her disappearance. it didn t seem like danielle s kind of place. dani never really skipped class. and one day she was, like, i don t want to go present my project, so i can go with you. then the next day, the day danielle went missing, she was at the creek before the school day was over. she was already at the creek before me.
non-stop messaging and social media posts. boys, life. are you wondering if a striking teen like danielle had a boyfriend? well, she did. she d struck up a head-over-heels relationship with a boy in the summer of 2013. his name was jamichael lamy. danielle s grandmother kelly and great aunt had known his family forever. they belonged to the same church. kelly remembered the sparks flying when they met as teenagers. you could see something in their eyes. i m looking at her, and i m looking at him. it s like they were attracted to one another. right away. sheena, who played the role of nosey aunt always kept a hawk s eye on her niece. now she had reason to be extra vigilant. this is time for nosey aunt to get busy. yes. you have something to work with. like what s going on here? the pair had become what
like rolled into a ball and kind of like had straw in it. would she go out with her socks on like that? absolutely not. sheena could not make sense of why a sock danielle wore only at bedtime would be there. i can t imagine being barefoot or in your stocking feet, you d be all ripped up. absolutely. she that knew the sock could be an important clue. she picked it up and turned it over to police. by then something else was coming to light. police realized that danielle s almost constant social media chitchat had gone dark. the high school girl missing in life was now suddenly gone on facebook and instagram too. and cops learned something else from their own kids. they re like, you know, well, they said she s been hanging out with some bad kids lately. and i go oh, great. bad kids. a sock covered in straw. the word help carved in the sand. danielle s hours before her disappearance were becoming more
happened i m pulling into the driveway and the sun s almost down, and she is running across the driveway, and she s kind of out of breath and laughing. and i m, like, where are, what time, huh uh, where are you coming from? and she s like, oh, oh, there s this creek. there s this creek in back of the neighborhood. some kids have been trying to get me to hang out. don t worry, i won t going back there, it s a mess back there. and i m like, yeah, i know, you will not be going back there, right? the creek, sheena said now with her niece missing she had to go find it. we go to the back of the neighborhood and i see a kid on the dirt bike and i said is there a creek around here? he said yeah, i ll show you. you follow the kid to the creek. the neighborhood creek led she that into a wooded area. we re walking here, he s
hoping someone had heard from danielle. of course her boyfriend was at the top of the list. i said hey, jamichael, have you heard from danielle? she s been missing since last night? he said no, he hadn t seen danielle in days. and what s more, he said they d broken up. the split was news to danielle s aunt but wasn t 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. ah. and he wasn t giving her as much attention anymore. she didn t like that. so after she s moping around the couch. yeah. she s with him at the big dance. i said oh, you all are back together? she said oh, yeah, we re a fine. the school reported she had skipped school the day she went missing, totally out of character. what was up for that? then a light bulb moment for sheena. so the day before everything