It only fueled speculation and fear in an already tense and emotional situation.

During an investigation, you gotta be careful what information you release.

Because if there is somebody that's possibly you're gonna... you may look at, you don't wanna release that information, and that's standard on any investigation, right? The one thing I would have done differently is, I mean, while we did get out on the news to try and put out there that she's missing and a description of car and her and, and as much of that information as we could, I think what I would do differently now is I would get ahead of the social media flurry of information that came in that was so inaccurate and misleading, and put it out to the public First off, that we are, that we're working the case, right? And just keep them updated as much as we can on that information.

No sign of Natalie, her car, or evidence that she'd been there.

That's when all sorts of things started just coming out about that she was being sex trafficked in Whitesburg.

We went there, and we went to all these houses, and nothing was going on at these houses.

The...

We spoke to people.