Law Enforcement

We feel like the person is right here in the community and we're asking for the community that if you know of anybody that just has changed their routine since Wednesday, that's just acting differently. Maybe didn't show up for work or maybe cleaned out a vehicle or tried to sell an ATV. That's the type of information today that may help us solve this case.

We feel like the person is right here in the community and we're asking for the community that if you know of anybody that just has changed their routine since Wednesday, that's just acting differently. Maybe didn't show up for work or maybe cleaned out a vehicle or tried to sell an ATV. That's the type of information today that may help us solve this case.

We feel like the person is right here in the community and we're asking for the community that if you know of anybody that just has changed their routine since Wednesday, that's just acting differently. Maybe didn't show up for work or maybe cleaned out a vehicle or tried to sell an ATV. That's the type of information today that may help us solve this case.

We're not going to have tunnel vision to anything or anybody.

We're not going to have tunnel vision to anything or anybody.

We're not going to have tunnel vision to anything or anybody.

We were hoping for maybe DNA. Looking for fibers and those type of things that could have attached to Samantha. There was a shed separated from the house.

We were hoping for maybe DNA. Looking for fibers and those type of things that could have attached to Samantha. There was a shed separated from the house.

U.S. Attorney's Office.

U.S. Attorney's Office.

After talking to the family, Essex Police Department obtained a search warrant to go in the house and have a look.

After talking to the family, Essex Police Department obtained a search warrant to go in the house and have a look.

We had many tips to run down about many different people. The quality of the information that they provided was generally not good. Nevertheless, it had to be run down.

We had many tips to run down about many different people. The quality of the information that they provided was generally not good. Nevertheless, it had to be run down.

People were just walking around there, trying to locate some sign of them.

People were just walking around there, trying to locate some sign of them.

So it can be very, very difficult to come up with a witness to something because it's not like the city where there's always going to be people on the street. It's not like that here.

So it can be very, very difficult to come up with a witness to something because it's not like the city where there's always going to be people on the street. It's not like that here.

It was like a bomb went off. I can't even begin to describe the emotion of that moment. We just got the thing that's been missing all along from this case, and that's the truth.

It was like a bomb went off. I can't even begin to describe the emotion of that moment. We just got the thing that's been missing all along from this case, and that's the truth.