saw sheila s distress firsthand. she was trying so hard to help them find anything, so hard to help them figure out what had happened. the star city police are still looking for a missing 16-year-old. dave made a plea for help on local news station wboy. we love her. we want her home. by sunday night, skylar had been gone the whole weekend. her family, including her aunt carol, was heartsick. i just had this horrible feeling in my heart that, you know, something terrible had happened and it wasn t like her to run away or disappear like she did. mary told me that night, she said, something s wrong, babe. something s bad wrong. the community held a candlelight vigil. skylar s school friends came, including rachel and sheila. they were crying, came up and hugged me and mary, just crying their eyes out. the only thing mary could say was, what can we do to help these girls?
tonight, tonight reporter: a high bar to match when casting the new adaptation of the film. it was a global search. i posted one flyer on social media one day, and then it went viral. we had 35,000 people send in their audition tapes for four parts. i was looking for somebody who could act, sing, and dance. 50 cast members have never been in a movie before, including rachel, who is right out of playing princess fiona in her high school senior year production of shrek. honestly the hardest part to ultimately cast was bernardo. we had been looking for six months. reporter: cindy tolan remembered a 10-year-old from the stage production of david dropped out of the business. he just stopped acting. i had been backpacking in mexico for a couple years. i was kind of off-grid. and cindy sent me a private message. reporter: each actor received
firsthand. she was trying so hard to help them find anything, so hard to help them figure out what had happened. the star city police are still looking for a missing 16-year-old. dave made a plea for help on local news station wboy. we love her. we want her home. by sunday night, skylar had been gone the whole weekend. her family, including her aunt carol, was heartsick. i just had this horrible feeling in my heart that, you know, something terrible had happened and it wasn t like her to run away or disappear like she did. mary told me that night, she said, something s wrong, babe. something s bad wrong. the community held a candlelight vigil. skylar s school friends came, including rachel and sheila. they were crying, came up and hugged me and mary, just crying their eyes out.
skylar s school friends came, including rachel and sheila. they were crying, came up and hugged me and mary, just crying their eyes out. the only thing mary could say was, what can we do to help these girls? how can we help these girls? skylar s family friend morgan lawrence was upset too. she was at camp when she read on facebook that skylar was missing. how worried were you? sick to my stomach worried. so was officer coalbank. she was at it nonstop. i d come back to the office in the evenings, watching video, getting facebook records. she was swamped with tips saying they d seen skylar. from morgantown to california. each sighting was a dead end. at the same time, coalbank pulled skylar s records. what she found was ominous. skylar wasn t using her cell phone or atm card. coalbank now had serious doubts skylar had run away. usually runaways take items with them they want.