Detective Jason McDonald

There's a lot of old seedy hotels, motels, tattoo shops, every kind of adult vice you could possibly want, you can find on Colfax.

And so Daphne, just living in a few blocks north of Colfax, in a rough part of town, you could certainly accurately say many sex workers have been picked up off of Colfax and have disappeared forever.

And so Detective Connor, he wrote a letter in 2008 to Richard White, who was locked up in DOC for all these murders, and asked him if he'd be willing to talk about this case, if he had anything to do with this disappearance.

I mean, I wouldn't rule him out.

I can't rule anybody out right now.

And he certainly fits the profile of somebody who snatches women off the streets and kills them.

When you've done everything you can and there's nothing left to pull, the case typically will then go cold.

Not closed.

It'll always remain open as long as it's unsolved.

But what else can you do?

You've got other cases that you've got to move on.

The to-do list I created for myself from the get-go was I need to follow up with the FBI and the district attorney's offices to see if Daphne was in fact ever a protected client of theirs.

Because that's what her brother had told Gary at one point.

And, you know, maybe she's in Kansas somewhere living on a ranch under a different identity.

So I needed to rule that out first.

And I did that.

I followed up with the FBI.

I followed up with the district attorney's offices to find out if Daphne Hope was ever a confidential informant.

Was she ever in protective custody for any type of case?

And she was not.