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Ellen was [music] known by everyone as
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being very bubbly, very smiley, an ideal
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teenager.
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Ellen, like most teenagers, very [music]
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active on her phone, on social media.
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She had taken an afternoon away from her
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college and had gone to a local beauty
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spot. She used Snapchat to send a
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message to her friends. That was the
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last message that she sent.
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Ellen had never been missing before, so
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when she didn't return home it was very
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concerning.
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Utilization of social media was really,
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really key to gain an information
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[music] about what had happened to her.
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And that local area is such a close-knit
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community. It's not [music] unusual that
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someone would have heard of Ellen even
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if they weren't friends with her. All of
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our digital interactions, social media
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posts for example, we leave behind
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breadcrumbs, digital breadcrumbs.
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[music] That information can be very
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useful for investigators.
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People will know Ellen. She goes to the
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local college, she's got lots of [music]
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friends, her family are known in the
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area. And so even just that was sending
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[music] ripples through this small
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community.
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They spotted something which looked
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suspicious. What looked like a human
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running away from the scene. Was that
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person Ellen? Was she injured? Was she
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lost?
