MrBallen

Finally, the officer's cruiser made their way all the way to the end of the driveway and they reached Dorothy's home.

And right away, Vallelongo could see there was a woman, maybe in her 30s, who he guessed was Patricia, who was standing by the front door.

She seemed visibly anxious and impatient as she stood there waiting for Vallelongo and Strada to get out of their car.

And when they did get out and walked over to her, she got straight to the point.

She said the last officers had not actually done a real search of the place, just a sort of basic welfare check.

And so now she needed them to do a full search of Dorothy's house and her grounds to make sure Dorothy really wasn't somewhere on this property.

Vallelongo and Strada assured her that they would do that.

But first they needed her to start from the beginning and tell them about the last time she saw or spoke to Dorothy.

Patricia seemed pretty irritated by this and said she had already told the officers everything she had known, both on the phone call and then previously with those other officers who had done the welfare check.

Like, can we please just get into the search?

But Vallelongo insisted and said, look, I don't fully know the whole story, so please, like, give me some information.

And so begrudgingly, she would tell Vallelonga what she knew.

Basically that she had called her friend on the 13th at night to ask if Dorothy would need a ride to the pharmacy the next day.

She had said yes.

And then the next day comes around and Patricia calls her friend to confirm she's going to swing by and pick her up that morning.

But Dorothy doesn't answer.

And so eventually Patricia goes to the house.

Dorothy apparently isn't there.

She knocks on the door.

Dorothy doesn't come out.