The parents of Dacara Thompson took the search for their daughter to a new location Monday, about a half a mile from where her car was found.
The 19-year-old has been missing for 10 days, and her parents decided to search a wooded area near the old Adelphi Mill on Riggs Road.
Her mother, Carmen Thompson, had just walked through some brush when she noticed what appeared to be a metal trap door. It was chained shut, but there was just enough of a gap to peer down inside.
She has spent 10 days searching for her daughter and thought the mill was a good place to look.
“I’m exhausting any resource, anything I can think of,” she said. “I noticed this yesterday as I rode by to go to the location. I noticed on my right view as I went by and made a note to come back here also this morning.”
Despite several hours of searching along the stream bed, Carmen and Daniel Thompson came up with nothing new.
“Just so, you know, to see if I can find any clues, any clothes, any indication of someone being here,” Carmen Thompson said.
Dacara Thompson left her father’s Lanham home the night of Aug. 22, telling her dad she was heading to purchase gas for her car. The two communicated briefly that night with her telling her dad she would be home soon.
Her father found her car parked in front of a fire hydrant pointed in the wrong direction and right across from the Chillum-Aldephi Volunteer Fire Station.
Her mom told News4 Monday Dacara Thompson was a new driver and it appeared to her she had just gotten out of the car and was going to return very quickly.
Her purse with credit cards and cash was still inside the vehicle but her phone and key fob were gone.
Her parents are still unsure but think the person walking in a grainy surveillance video could be Dacara Thompson walking in that neighborhood around 1:30 a.m. Saturday Aug. 23.
“I’m scared but still hopeful,” Daniel Thompson said.
Carmen and Daniel Thompson say Prince George’s County police are assisting in the search and asked they not share certain details with the public.
“I guess they don’t want to mess up an active investigation, but they are doing some stuff,” Daniel Thompson said.
Dacara Thompson’s phone may have been turned off in the hours after she vanished.
It’s a mystery her parents desperately want to solve.
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