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
i told him i loved him. he said he would be right back. i could hear a commotion of some sort. and then i remember hearing gunshots. looking to see him lying there, it was bad. it s the website we re lovers go to meet and cheat. this was someone looking to have an affair. but this affair was about so much more than deceit. you couldn t write this as a movie. you couldn t write this as a book. this affair became a game. a wife and her lover, spying on her husband and his lover. you just think, well what else have they done? and then, this by game turned deadly. one of the four lovers was gunned down. it s obviously was not something that was random. waiting at the scene, a man with a strange story. and waiting for detectives, a strange video. how creepy was that video? it was very creepy. an affair to remember. he was the one. and a fair to forget. i shouldn t have done it. and one warmer secret still to be revealed. she said, i need you to si
man, she needs to call something bad. she could be in a ditch somewhere. you had that feeling. could not even sleep, i had this overwhelming feeling of something bad happening. and the next morning sheena got a call from danielle s grandfather, and it was bad. he says, danielle didn t come home last night. hmm. and i m like, what? what is he saying? danielle didn t come home? what do you mean? danielle had gone, about to be officially a missing person. as simple to state as it was terrifying in all its ramifications. coming up. they were like asking all these questions. well, do you think she would have ran away? do you think she could be at a friend s house? where was danielle? her family was about to get its first unnerving clue. the word help was scratched
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?
or that she could have taken off on her own? can t eliminate any of em yet. your mind is going crazy. you think of the craziest stuff. by now, danielle s disappearance wasn t just a hope mills story. she was featured on dateline s missing in america series. her face was always on the billboard. every time i d hit a stop light, i d see it. reporter: the media set up shop in the police station parking lot. deputy chief servie and his team started giving regular briefings. and we are leaving no stone unturned in order to find danielle and bring her home. people want information about what s going on. they re concerned about the case. we re a hungry beast.