Detective Carter

This started missing.

As soon as I saw the nail polish on the fingernails, I recalled a photo that Detective Carter had shown me of Susanna.

In that photograph, her nails were painted black.

It kind of put a chill on my spine.

Something you took note of was that the remains that we were able to actually recover

indicated that her clothes were not with her at the time that she was killed.

I definitely remember thinking that whoever this girl turned out to be, it was immediately obvious that she didn't walk out into the woods.

As thick as it was, she didn't walk out here in the nude with no shoes on.

That was immediately suspicious.

By the time the medical examiner processed the scene, it was completely dark in the middle of the woods.

Our immediate concern at that point was trying to verify if, in fact, these were Susanna.

Could it really be Susanna?

All of our hearts break because, of course, we still hope she's alive.

I made arrangements to have uniformed officers out here so that there would be bodies all night guarding this perimeter, making sure that no evidence could be tampered with, to come back out here the next day to search for additional items just because it was too dark to perform that thorough of a search.

Hey, y'all hold up.

Recruits found a gun.

It felt really strange that a firearm would be out here.

I walked straight that way and there was a few more over there.

So we went that next morning out to the remains.

All right, let's go form the line from here down to the guardrail.