“Is there any chance she might’ve run away?”
“None,” Jordy said. “She’s actually a homebody by nature. We were relieved when she started asking to go out with her friends.”
“Have you ever heard the names Ethan Hogan, Tomas Cambra or Brecken Mayfield?”
Jordy looked to Court.
“None of them are familiar to me,” Court said.
“Me either,” he added.
“Any chance she might’ve connected with someone online who lured her out?”
“We monitor everything,” Court said.
“Does she have access to the internet?”
“Only through a computer we all share.”
“And you’ve checked her activity on that computer?”
They looked at each other.
“Not recently,” Court said. “Please understand, we have no reason not to trust her. She’s not sneaky or deceptive.”
Or she hasn’t been yet, Sam thought. “I’d like to have some of our IT people take a look at the computer. Do I have your permission to do that?”
“Is that really necessary?”
Sam stared at her. “I believe we have the same goal here.”
“We do, but we also want to protect her privacy.”
“Ma’am, if my daughter has been possibly communicating with a predator online, I’d want to know about that, and I assume you do, too.”
“You think that’s what happened?” Jordy asked in a whisper, suddenly looking even wilder than he had a few minutes earlier.
“I don’t know, and I won’t know what we’re dealing with until we investigate further. Do I have your permission to call in IT to look at the computer?”
Jordy nodded as Court sobbed next to him. “Do what you have to do.”
“We’re going to need to relocate you so we can fully process your home for evidence.”
“What?” Court gasped. “Nothing happened here.”
“We don’t know that for certain, ma’am, and if there’s something here or on your phones and other devices that might lead us to her, we want to make sure to find it. This is routine procedure in the cases of missing people.”
“We have to give up our phones?” Court asked on a gasp.
“Everything. Is there somewhere you can go?”
They exchanged glances. “We can ask our neighbors, two doors down.”
“Go ahead and do that. We’ll need their names, address and phone numbers where we can reach you.”
Sam got up and left the room to make the call to Archie.
“What’ve you got?” he asked.
