Deborah Roberts

See you tomorrow.

I went to bed.

She stayed up.

And how did she seem?

She seemed very happy.

Very happy and relaxed.

More of a, like a weight had been lifted off her shoulder.

Everybody says goodnight, but her parents don't know that they're actually saying goodbye.

You have to imagine how Emma would have been feeling at this point.

Friday, Riley is coming out of a ditch, claiming to have been abducted.

The next day, she's home alone.

She's taunted at home by someone dressed in black banging on her door.

You know, that is rattling.

In two days of this now, had to have been wearing her down.

The next day...

I went in there to wake her up, which is usually very easy to wake her up, and said her name, didn't hear anything, bumped her leg, didn't hear anything, and then went to her face and realized and checked for a pulse and couldn't find anything.

I don't remember a whole lot from that moment.

I mean, I know I called 911.

Emma's mother makes maybe one of the most heartbreaking 911 calls that I've ever heard.

and you hear in real time this mother's sort of