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when we were called to join the search for Stephanie we arrived down here our teams uh got their standard gear out and
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we began to break up into twos groups of two and begin to cover the area on the first day uh we really concentrated on
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the high probability areas along the river there's a pond behind her house and there's a big wetlands area that is
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crisscrossed with hiking trails so our team spread out into those locations at that particular point we didn't know
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what the circumstances were so we were looking for somebody who was possibly injured somebody who had uh who had run
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into trouble with uh with somebody uh when she had gone out for a walk the nighttime temperatures were probably in
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the single digits Thursday uh our second day out here was Thanksgiving unfortunately again and didn't find
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anything I think you never totally give up hope but a long time had gone by it had been extremely cold at night it been
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snowing practically every day the chances were getting less and less at that point we wanted to really do an
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allout push on Friday I was out here on Friday and we had a big group of people from all over Colorado searching both
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the river and nearby areas what appeared to be a body in the river was reported the day we actually found her it was
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sunny and starting to warm up which probably helped because she began to emerge from the snow cover she was
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actually found not too far from where we're standing right here and she was out among some of the rocks that you can
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see out in the water right now when it came across the radio that she was located I think it
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was a sense of relief that we had finally closed it but at the same time finding
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somebody who is no longer living is not good news