When 15-year-old Danni Houchins is found dead in a swamp, her family says they were led to believe she drowned. 24 years later, Danni’s sister learns the terrible truth. Peter Van Sant reports. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Not a day since I was 12 years old have I not thought about my sister, Dani. That day in September of 1996, Dani disappeared. My name is Stephanie. Dani was my older sister. Dani was 15 years old, the kind of older sister that every little sister looks up to. Nice stuff.
My dad was sitting there, he's like, come on, let's try.
She was upset with my parents and needed some space to herself. Danielle had gone out to Cameron Bridge.
And she was familiar with this area?
Absolutely. Danny didn't return home. The mother grew deeply concerned. And so she and one of her friends drove out to Cameron Bridge to see what was going on. My mom and her friend walked around calling Danny's name and called the Sheriff's Department and reported her missing. And a search party was being pulled together.
Everybody's calling out her name. Yep. So if you were out here, you can hear them in the distance. Danny, Danny, right? Yep.
If she's out here, we just want her to come home. 730 to 8 started to get dark enough to where I called off the search.
Family friends came out after dark.
That was about 930 when the dispatcher called me and said they found her body.
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