Detective Jason McDonald

The detective that came across this case and realized it needed to go to us did do a social security number check on Daphne to see if there had been any activity in the last seven years, and there was none.

Daphne still had an outstanding warrant in the system.

So we knew from that that she hadn't been contacted by any law enforcement for the last seven years.

And that's when Maureen went to Daphne's residence and she wasn't home.

And the person who actually answered the door was a friend named Brian.

And Brian hadn't seen Daphne either.

And he was concerned about her whereabouts.

It was unusual for Daphne to just disappear like that.

She wasn't a runaway in the past.

She didn't have a history of just disappearing and coming back under unusual circumstances.

And they knocked, and they didn't get any response.

Nobody seemed to be home.

Entry wasn't made into the residence.

There weren't circumstances that met that kind of entry at this point.

But then on August 16th, three days later, still with no contact with Daphne from family, they got her entered as a missing person with Denver police.

Detectives still had to go through the steps that we would on a fresh missing person case, which is contacting the reporting party, contacting family members that we can find, anybody associated to the missing person to try to find out more about them and where they could have gone or what happened to them.

Our detective was able to call Gary Sterling and got him by phone to agree to come to the station for an interview.

So Gary explained his relationship with Daphne, how long he'd known her, which was for some time, that they were friends, that they'd been on and off romantically.

Gary really expressed how she was like the love of his life.

And that he truly was depressed about her disappearance and really was kind of clueless on what happened to her.