It's so easy to literally just invent a missing person's case. Watch.
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On June 10th 2014, a missing persons report was filed to the police. The girl who had come in was the Janet Moore's sister, she said that her sister hadn't been answering calls or text messages for the past week. This was nothing unusual, her sister rarely ever answered as she kept her phone on silent. But she always got back to her in at least a day or two.
The cops initially dismissed it as her being ghosted, but the girl was adamant that something was wrong. In the days before she stopped replying, she was acting... odd. On call she sounded nervous. Not talking much, giving one word answers. When she tried to ask what was wrong her sister simply said she was stressed from college and made an excuse to close the call. Over text wasn't much different.
The cops were still pretty skeptical, but agreed to check out her apartment.
They arrived and knocked at the door, introducing themselves and the reason they're here. When no one answered they knocked again. They then called the landlord over to ask for the keys but when they tried to unlock the door they found that it was already unlocked.
Once they had opened the door they looked around and found that the place was a mess. There was trash strewn around the apartment and it was clear that it hadn't been cleaned in a while. Everything was covered in an even layer of dust, it was clear that no one had been here for at least two weeks. There was a plate of uneaten, now cold, food on a table in front of the couch. The food had grown mold. In the bedroom, clothes were strewn about, clearly thrown around in a panic. The bed was unmade and there was trash on the floor. The kitchen was no different to the rest of the apartment. Food left to go rotten. Dishes left in the sink. No one was anywhere to be found.
Upon checking security camera footage from two weeks before, the cops had found exactly what they were looking for. Janet hurriedly leaving the apartment on May 26th. She had a large purple suitcase with her and was dressed in a thick jacket and scarf. She put the scarf over her head like a hood and had put on a face mask and sunglasses. Either she was going somewhere cold or she really didn't want to be recognized. Considering the evidence, and the fact that her car was still parked in the garage, the cops leaned toward the second option.
Upon further investigation it was discovered that Janet had in fact dropped out of college a month prior, neither her friends nor her family knew of this fact, and she would even tell them about "assignments" she was working on during this time.
Janet's neighbors said they never see her go out. She always ordered groceries to her door or food or anything. She didn't even greet the delivery at the door, she would just wait until they left then take the package once they were gone. They didn't think much of it, just thought she was a recluse or something, but clearly there was something deeper going on.
The police had heard enough. Janet clearly wasn't in her right mind when leaving the apartment in late May, and this was either an extreme case of paranoia or she was running away from something or rather... someone.
The police put out a PSA urging anyone with any information on Janet's whereabouts to come forward. Days passed. Weeks. And it started to seem like no new news would be revealed. Until...
Phone call. July 6th 2014. A gas station store clerk claiming to have seen Janet two days ago. When she showed up she seemed a little nervous. He noted she kept looking back at the door like she was worried someone might come in. Her hair was shorter than in the picture the police provided. She bought two bags of chips, a stick of gum, and two bottles of water. When she walked up to the counter she silently placed the items in front of him, making it clear she wasn't interested in pleasantries. He simply rung her up and watched her walk out. It wasn't until now that he realized he'd seen her face before.
Security footage confirmed the clerk's claims as Janet was seen walking into the store, now dressed in a simple dark hoodie and plain leggings. Her hair was cut short and she wore her hood up even though summer was set to start soon and temperatures were rising. When they questioned the people working that day they said she drove in in an old car that looked like it had seen things and pumped her gas herself before parking, heading into the store, then leaving. She didn’t talk to or interact with anyone there. No one remembered the license plate.
The gas station was two states away from Janet's apartment. It was located on a middle of nowhere type street, it was sort of out of the way, the kind of road you'd only take if you didn't want anyone to see you. The police localized their search to motels on the road but no one else saw Janet or the old car she supposedly went to the gas station with.
Months had passed with no new information on Janet and it seemed the trail had finally gone cold. But then. Her cellphone pinged on a cell tower all the way in Oregon on October 5th 2014.
The police wasted no time going to the area in search of Janet. It was a fairly empty road surrounded by wooded areas but luckily just close enough to civilization for her phone to be picked up. The police found tracks of a car that stopped on the side of the road before driving off again, the tracks dissappearing justa few miles down. When they checked the wooded area they found a phone, abandoned just next to the road. It was unlocked and opened on a message in the notes.
The message read "I understand you think I am in danger, but you cops should learn to leave well enough alone. I disappeared of my own will, and unless you keep looking for me, I'll stay that way. I am not on the run from anyone or anything. Stop interfering."
It seemed the phone had been turned off on June 4th and stayed that way until now. Upon investigating more, it seemed Janet had recieved a phone call from an unknown number just the day before, which she answered. Checking for more calls with this unknown number, there was one on April 29th, another one May 15th, and the last one on June 3rd. The number was traced to a burner phone that has since been turned off.
No other evidence was found on the phone.
The police concluded that this was a willful disappearance and Janet had run off to be with some secret lover, the unknown number that had called her, and stopped investigating. Janet remains missing to this day.
I literally made all of that up off the top of my head.