Aaron Spencer was jolted awake by the frantic barks of his daughter’s chihuahua. He checked the bedroom of the 14-year-old, and she appeared to be fast asleep, tucked beneath the covers.

But then he looked more closely. It was a stuffed animal, wrapped in her hoodie. She was gone.

The family had been on edge. Three months earlier the teen, then 13, revealed she’d been sexually abused by a 67-year-old man she met at the home of a family friend. The alleged abuser, Michael Fosler, had been arrested but was out on bond while facing dozens of charges, including internet stalking of a child and sexual assault.

And now, just after midnight on October 8, the teen had disappeared. Spencer jumped into his Ford truck and began searching the roads around their home in Lonoke County, Arkansas. His

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