Kaelyn Moore

That's absolutely right.

Yeah, it is.

Absolutely.

No, and so they just wait for someone to be able to make that really long drive, which is hard if you don't have access to a vehicle.

So in the meantime, the family just decides that they're going to start looking for Jermaine on their own because they don't have any support from the police.

They, I mean, do like really the only thing you can think of to do in that moment, which is call the hospitals and the homeless shelters in the area just to see if she wound up at either of those.

None of them have seen her.

On June 20th, which is four days after Jermaine was last seen or heard from, her aunt Valinda finally goes down to Missoula and she's able to file a missing person report in person.

But the police, once they get this report, start the investigation incredibly slowly.

They do the same things that the family has already done.

They go back and they call all the same hospitals.

They call all the same homeless shelters.

They won't really listen to the family when they tell them that they've already done that.

So at that point, Jermaine's family basically is begging them to do a full-blown search to expand the radius of people that they're talking to.

And so the volunteers are still searching the areas anywhere they can think of for Jermaine.

And that's when the police decide that there is one person that they're interested in talking to.

And that's who they can basically at that moment agree is maybe the last person to see her.

And it's her ex, Michael DeFrance.

Early on in the investigation, Jermaine's family used Facebook to get the word out about her disappearance, and these posts got hundreds of shares.

Many of the reposts came from locals willing to show up in person and help search for her.