Rikkell Bock drove the short distance from her house to her childhood home for her weekly breakfast with her mother, Dee Warner.
Rikkell Bock : Sundays β¦ we would β¦ go up to my mom's first thing. Rikkell says that when her mom was not there, and not answering calls or texts, it just didn't feel right.
Rikkell Bock : If my mom could glue her phone to her hand, she would β¦ If I didn't respond to a text message in five minutes, I was getting another one, "Hello? Erin Moriarty : What about your mother's car that you drove all the time, the Cadillac? The fertilizer sprayer, usually parked in a barn, was gone, and Rikkell's stepfather, Dale Warner, was out on it β working.
Rikkell Bock : Yeah. Rikkell went down the road to the home of Gregg and Shelley Hardy β Dee's brother and sister-in-law. Shelley Hardy : She said, "We can't find her. We have called everybody.
We don't know where she's at. Gregg Hardy : The first thing I did was call her number β¦ If she was somewhere, she would answer my phone call β¦ and then I text her. Rikkell and her Aunt Shelley went driving to look for Dee. They returned to her house with only more questions. Shelley Hardy : There were blankets β¦ laying on the couch and tissues, tissues everywhere β¦ Everywhere. There were these tissues. Rikkell Bock : Her make-up bag was gone. Her curling iron, and all of that stuff was gone. Rikkell Bock : The feeling that I had in my stomach was β¦ nothing but fear.
