“Something set that off. Do you have anything we can use to help find her? Anything she might’ve taken or left behind?” Evan retrieved Lara’s phone, explaining she’d left it inside. It felt unnervingly heavy when he placed it in the officer’s hand. High-risk classifications allowed limited emergency previews—timestamps, alerts, cached location pings if any existed.
Sometimes even a fragment was enough. But after nearly an hour of checking, the officers returned with nothing useful. Lara’s phone held no recent messages, no activity, no clues. It was as if her digital life had simply gone silent.