the hotel, i mean, it was a little more, for the most part i would just try not to remember and just try to black it all out. but it was starting to get harder, so i just, just came out and told. on november 23, 2004, i was contacted by the lieutenant and requested to go with him to try to intervene at dan hier s residence. he was going to be arrested for charges of lewd act on a minor. dan ultimately turned himself in. i believe that had some bearing or impact on whether or not he
made a few friends. one of them was my age and the other was dan hires. well, it all started. we are playing like a game of tag going on between me and two other kids. dan started running around playing tag with us. he was like a big kid. dan offered to be some sort of role model because the girl s biological mother was not in her life at the time. he offered to start taking me to karate cralasses. anything that was going on around town we would be a part of it. going to the fair, bike rides, going fishing. showed me how to shoot a gun.
he didn t want her to find out what was going on. he didn t want her to know the truth. he didn t want her to know what had been going on the whole time. he had been doing quite a bit of research the evening before mila s death on rat poison, how to commit suicide, the effects of cyanide. our belief was maybe he was contemplating a homicide, suicide situation. however, dan s body was not at the scene and is yet to be found, so at if time, i was like oh, my gosh, this is my fault. like, you know, i didn t know what to think. i don t know, it s just a lot for a little girl to go through, to have, you know you come out and tell what happened, you know, about how he was touching
dan received the job offer with the charleston police department. they moved to the charleston area and took up residency in goose creek, which is a suburb of charleston. mila, her relationship with dan from almost the beginning had been difficult. mila was saying how dan did not show her attention or affection. it was very difficult for her having her family so far away being in brazil and her being alone.