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