Kendall Rae

So it's not like Sydney could have or would have gone somewhere without those things, right?

And so because of that, Alex frantically calls Maggie, her mother, home.

and asks if she's with her, because that's really the only scenario that made sense in his mind, but she wasn't.

So now, both of them agreed that something had to have happened, and the more they texted her and called her without an answer, the more worried they became.

Maggie also called Sydney's dad and brothers to tell them that they needed to get to her house as fast as possible, and a missing persons report was filed shortly after that.

Within hours, there was an all hands on deck effort to look for Sydney, and they utilized as many resources as they possibly could.

For starters, her loved ones knew that technology might be able to help them find her.

And they did something that I thought was really smart and resourceful.

I've never seen this done before, but they basically knew that her phone was connected to her car via Bluetooth.

So they had this idea to drive around the area and, you know, specifically where she would run.

And then they would call the phone and hope that the call would connect to the car and that would tell them if she was in that immediate area.

Now, this unfortunately didn't end up working, but yeah, I thought it was a good idea and something for people to remember.

They also tried to gain access to her laptop so they could see if they could find her phone location that way, but it sounds like that didn't work either, unfortunately.

And when it came to law enforcement, they wasted really no time getting started with a ground search.

Of course, it started out at Sydney's house and fanned out from there, and they made sure to check the route that she would typically run.

And like I said, this is a rural farming area, so that region in general is just pretty desolate.

Sydney would normally leave her house and jog down County Road 41, which about a half mile from her house turns from a paved road to a dirt road.

And if you're watching this episode, you can get a pretty good idea of what it looks like.

But

If you're not, just imagine a dirt road with flat plains on either side.