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
very, very relaxed. he doesn t even seem concerned about being in trouble. he s cool having a smoke? cool. detectives wanted to find out, what did he know about danielle? suddenly the like a sister story was out the window. he claimed he hardly knew her. only thing i knew about her, white female, black hair, blue ice, went missing march 11th. when you did see her in school, where did you see her senate. > at? walking around in the hallways. he denied knowing her but that he d met her. she was a very, very beautiful girl. she seemed a little too preppy.
i m dara brown. former trump advisor steve bannon was found guilty on two counts of contempt of congress. he failed to sit for a deposition when asked to produce documents for the january 6 kmit committee and faces two year in prison. meanwhile, former president trump and former vice president pence went head to head. trump is supporting kari lake. pence sbaking karen taylor robson. now back to dateline. g karen r robson no danielle locklear was missing for a day, then two. by then, local news, including wral tv was picking up on the missing teen story. this does not make any sense.
had a pen chant for skipping. he was a regular at the creek and familiar with danielle s crowd. derrick was like, at the time he was big and bulky and everybody was kind of afraid of him. did you hear stories about him later? yes, i did. and the story going around about derrick was more than a little bit scary. we got information about him that he was also trying to get into a romantic relationship with ms. locklear. and she refused him. as a result, he cut her neck and left her in the woods. detective, this is like a whole grade b horror movie. yeah. as horrible as the story was. it sounds like a good lead. it was a good lead. kids were telling it almost verbatim. this wasn t coming from one kid but two or three kids. so we needed to follow up on this for sure. police brought derrick in for an interview. what do you see in his demeanor?
what do you got for us today? feed the beast. did that put extra pressure on the investigators because it had jumped the fence and really become a national story? yeah. there s pressure for answers, pressures for resolution. and in this case, you know, you had a beautiful, young 15-year-old girl just basically vanish into thin air. reporter: north carolina s state bureau of investigation and the atf were consulted. federal agents traveled in from across the southeast. cadaver dogs were even brought in from england. they assisted as danielle s entire subdivision was searched. every house in her neighborhood and was probably 200-plus houses. and there was was searched with the consent of the homeowner. reporter: volunteers were drafted, too. over three hundred joined danielle s family for a top-to-bottom search of the creek area. that s my baby, she sweet and loving, and we re just trying to find her. reporter: friends from the neighborhood and the church pitched in. in