[narrator] Davohnte Morgan disappeared
on May 5th, 2020.
I'm thinking every minute, every second of the day.
Where is my baby?
[man] His family is... [reading]
[woman] I believe that this area, in particular, is known for
KKK, cults, underworld fighting.
[man 2] By the time we got up there,
his girlfriend wasn't really helping.
She was, like, speaking in riddles and stuff.
Like, it was weird.
In my experience, she was acting way out of line.
[narrator reading]
...retraces... [reading]
This case does haunt me because this is not a normal case.
[man 2] I'm like, "Something happened to my brother."
Like, "Did something happen to my brother?
Right away, I'm like, "We need to get up there."
Because this is just not like Davohnte.
[narrator] The more people who know Davohnte's story,
the greater the chance of bringing him home.
[reading]
Help find him.
[reading]
My name is Terri.
And I am Davohnte's mother.
He was born special.
From day one, you know, everyone took to him.
Starting with the nurses.
It's his aura, you know.
It was before he even laughed.
It was just him.
I guess, those amazing eyes.
He's always had amazing soul.
I have never met a person
that didn't, like, you know, take to him.
[Anthony Patchell] Davohnte is my big brother.
I know growing up around Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco,
like, I wanted to be just like him.
And if I probably could have gotten, like, a wish
or there was, like, "You can turn into your big brother, if you wanted to."
I probably would have did it.
He was always, like, popular.
All the girls loved him.
My brother is very musically inclined.
He loved to freestyle, make music, he likes to sing,
play the drums and play the piano.
My name's Ruthie. I'm Davohnte's auntie.
Davohnte had a stuttering problem.
for about, hmm...
I wanna say, about 11-12 years of his life.
And it probably would take him about five minutes
to get a whole, full sentence out.
And the only time he didn't have a stuttering issue
was when he was singing or rapping.
Which is crazy.
♪ Jingle Bell Jingle Bell ♪
♪ Jingle all the way
You can get him to...
entertain or perform anywhere, at the drop of an eye.
[choir singing]
[Terri] He sang in a choir.
And he helped with the kids in the church.
He's a leader.
[Ruthie] So, family meant everything to Davohnte.
[singing]
He never missed a baby shower,
a birthday party, kids' birthday parties,
kids' births, christening.
He was there.
His comfort zone was home, church,
our neighborhood is San Francisco,
and he really didn't go too much past that.
[Anthony] He didn't like to be away from home much.
He was big on, like, staying close to the ones that he loved.
Inn 2019, my brother met a new girl and they started dating.
[Ruthie] Davohnte met his girlfriend
at the Stern Grove Concert,
in the avenues of San Francisco.
It was pretty spontaneous, a fluke.
They met eyes and she just never left his side.
[Anthony] My brother was doing different things and he was being happy.
She brought him to Vegas.
She, like...
was bringing him to beaches and stuff.
I've never seen, like, kinda, like--
my brother do these kinda things.
And these are always things I've always, like,
wanted my brother to do.
She was about, what, 20 years older than him, give or take.
But the girl was smart.
She was a life-coach, at one point.
And she was able to, like, pull Davohnte
from out of his comfort zone.
[Terri] I'd never wanted to make a issue
about her age.
I just wanted my son to be happy.
And, you know... And live life, you know.
But I did see, you know, a lot of red flags.
[Ruthie] Davohnte and his girlfriend loved to go to lot of places.
And on May 4th, they decided to drive off
to Mount Shasta, which is four hours north of San Francisco.
They were just doing a bed-and-breakfast type of deal.
And this nephew's birthday party was gonna be on May 5th.
So he was planning to return home to San Francisco,
the next day, for the birthday party.
[Anthony] I called his girlfriend's phone
knowing that my brother's phone was broken.
And he seemed pretty, like, at peace and calm
and, like, happy about being somewhere different.
And that was the last time we spoke.
My name is Tessa Clure.
And I was born and raised in Mount Shasta.
And I am currently the mayor.
Mount Shasta is a small, close-knit community
We do have a lot of different visitors
because people want to come to a small town
and disconnect for a while. And...
Mount Shasta definitely appeals
to those that wanna come here for spiritual purposes.
Some believe that the mountain itself provides
healing aspects or properties to them.
We also have the head waters of the Sacramento river
that are such a wholesome, cleansing and spiritual aspect, as well.
[Anthony] And I know that his girlfriend is spiritual.
She likes to collect crystals,
and, like, sage and all of that.
She's always talking about the stars, and the numbers and alignment.
All this... All this stuff.
[phone ringing]
[Anthony] On May 5th, 2020.
That night, my brother's girlfriend called me
and told me, like, "Man, we got into an argument.
"He left and he hasn't came back.
"You know how Davohnte is."
I don't remember hearing, like, distraught or worry in her voice.
And I think that played a big part in me kinda being, like,
"Okay, well, like, let's-- Let's give it some time.
"'Cause I know if y'all arguing,
"he probably feel like he could just walk off.
"And feel like it's-- Like it's cool."
It didn't really sound like it was a pressed emergency
when she reached out to me.
I just remember, initially, thinking like,
it wasn't real weird.
[Ruthie] Once Thursday, May 7th came,
the girlfriend called Anthony, his brother, and said,
that Davohnte was missing since Tuesday, May 5th.
Right away, I'm like, "We need to get up there."
Because this is just not like Davohnte.
She called me and I said,
"We're on our way.
"But I need you to go and make a police report.
"Not now but right now."
My name is Sergeant Priddy,
with the Mount Shasta Police Department
An official Missing Persons report
was filed on May 7th at 9:16 am
by Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend.
Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend
initially told us that they checked into a local motel
and got a rental car
on the 4th of May.
She said, in the early hours of May 5th,
she was awoken by Davohnte to come outside and have a cigarette.
She was mad at Davohnte for waking her
to come outside and have a cigarette.
They realized that they left the hotel key inside the hotel,
and they called the after-hours service to get let back in.
An on-call manager came down
and let them both back in.
[Ruthie] Davohnte's comfort zone was home.
But due to where he was at,
he didn't even wanna go smoke a cigarette out there by hisself.
[Priddy] They continued to fight till the early hours of May 5th.
At that point, she said,
that they had been walking their separate ways to cool off.
So they both left the hotel.
[Ruthie] She just put it like he was just-- walked off on her.
So, we didn't take it to the extreme.
We kinda took it with a grain of salt in a way
because this is what he does.
He'll get away from her, if he needs to.
[Priddy] She wanted to go see the sunrise.
And Davohnte went the other direction.
And the morning on May 5th,
she saw Davohnte on the other side of the street
on North Mount Shasta Boulevard,
walking in a different direction.
She stated that he still looked mad,
so she continued back to the motel.
Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend explained that this is common in their relationship.
That when they get into fights,
they both agree to go separate ways for colling off.
But now, it's been over 24 hours,
and this is not normal.
Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend told the officer
that he was wearing black sweatpants and had on 49er flipflops.
And she said that his phone was broken.
She was all over the place.
She did not seem to concerned, or sad, or upset
that he has not been found.
In my experience, she was acting way out of line
for someone that she should be caring about
filing a Missing Persons report.
[Tessa] Usually, missing people in Mount Shasta
need a rescue on the mountain or that type of thing.
So to hear that someone could potentially be missing,
and they're not off of a hiking trail,
was definitely alarming.
[Anthony] The family, we went up to Mount Shasta, immediately.
At that point, I was really worried.
I was spooked.
I just remember being afraid, like, "What it we can't find him?"
[Terri] On the drive up there,
I'm thinking every moment, every second of the day,
"Where's my baby? And what happened to him?
"Where did he go?"
I just was like--
just "save the day" mode.
I know that his girlfriend knows more.
She was with him and I want answers.
[Ruthie] Before Davohnte went missing,
he was going through some things, emotionally.
He was in a very, very hard space.
In 2017, he was shot
on our front porch.
From a bullet that was meant for someone else.
[Anthony] It wasn't his fault.
He just-- He wasn't a person that was
involved in, like, any problems
or any, like-- any type of street issues.
He was definitely, like, a mistarget.
I think somebody rode by and thought he was somebody else.
I know that did affect him.
Like, that is a safe haven, it's his home.
What a freak accident to get shot on his own porch
from a bullet meant for someone else.
So, pretty much at 25, he was old.
He felt as if his life had stopped.
I think-- Well, a lot of people don't think of
or understand, it's like when you get shot,
there's the physical pain you gotta recover from
and there's, like, a big, traumatic mental thing
you have to overcome and it's hard.
So, he definitely did, like, smoke weed or, like, drink some alcohol.
Might have helped cope with the pain.
[Terri] He wouldn't let it keep him down.
He pushed himself to heal more quickly than he should have.
And it caused him to walk with a slight limp.
And it caused him to be depressed.
Like, "Why me?
"I'm a good person.
"I'm good to everybody.
"Why did this happen to me?"
[Ruthie] He still seemed prayerful and hopeful.
But he admitted that he just wasn't well.
It got hard for him.
He's kinda private. He wouldn't, like, wanna share that much.
I pretty much had to push him, you know.
To let him know that life is not over
and God has a plan for him.
That's why he's still here.
[Anthony] He definitely, like, wanted to get, like, clean.
Wanted to be sober.
He used to go to the gym everyday, like-- and that kept him sober.
He definitely was-- was trying to, like,
still progress.
But it's hard. It's hard.
[Ruthie] That's something that I think the girlfriend definitely took advantage of.
and kept him like a carrot on the string pulled, like...
She kept the alcohol and the bottles going
because I think she did drugs, herself.
[Anthony] For him and missy, they definitely fought a lot.
I know that they weren't a happy couple.
I would say that.
She was very, very demanding.
And she wanted to, always, like, pick a fight.
She wanted to make sure that she was being heard, let's put it that way.
[Anthony] Even though they had weird and irritating and long arguments,
I'd never thought about my brother just going missing.
[Ruthie] We went up to Mount Shasta on Thursday, May 7th.
And my ride going up to Mount Shasta
was so blurry.
I need to get a conversation with the girlfriend.
I need to talk to her, right now.
[Anthony] By the time we got up there,
like, his girlfriend wasn't really helping.
She was, like, speaking in, like, riddles and stuff.
Like, it was weird.
[Ruthie] When I talked to her,
she makes sure to give this narrative
of, like, him just walking off in the sunset
with a pina colada
versus explaining
that this is just something he would never do.
[Anthony] You could tell, in her mind,
it was, like, spinning.
It was spinning and it was constantly going
and it was stuff and it was just different stuff
and she was just blurting it out.
She'd be like, "Oh, Davohnte's here.
"I can feel him, he's here.
"Oh, I think he's crazy.
"But, like, this don't make sense.
"'Cause it the tree started talking to the moon,
"and the moon started talking to the stars..."
She was doing stuff like that.
To the point it had us, like, "Oh, my God."
[stuttering] We couldn't even fully take her serious, so much.
But we were trying to
because she was the only person that was there
Which felt like--
Everything she had us doing
was, like, throwing us off.
I'm like, "Why is she crazy?"
"What happened?" That was a big thing for me.
I'm like, "If something happened to my brother..."
Like, "Did something happen to me brother? 'Cause why is she loopy?"
[Terri] Something was wrong.
And thinking back now...
Something happened to him while in her persons.
I believed that the girlfriend
had something to do with Davohnte going missing.
Her narrative was almost, like,
derailing purposely
to give this, like, voluntary missing story.
[Terri] In my opinion,
the police department didn't take it seriously.
By him being a 28 year old--
and to them, you know, he probably was "got tired of her and walked away".
Not my child.
I tried to enforce them to do more.
I feel like there's certain types of disappearances
that get more recognition
than someone like my nephew,
I feel like, because he's a Black African American man.
Later, his age too.
Just like, kinda just falls off people back.
[Priddy] We thought, maybe, Davohnte Morgan just went and got another hotel.
And didn't wanna be around the girlfriend
But as soon as the family showed up,
we could see, just by speaking to them
that they were extremely concerned.
Completely opposite of how Davohnte's girlfriend was acting.
And we knew it was serious.
And it sounds like he was a extremely family-oriented guy.
And he would not just voluntarily go missing
without at least calling his brother.
Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend told us that his phone was broken.
So, a ping might not bring up
an accurate location to search.
So, unfortunately, phone records were not helpful.
The police didn't have any information for us. No leads.
I was frustrated.
So, we made our first official flyers and gathered a search party.
[bleep] in the woods.
It's not a good combination. We love you 'Vohnte.
[bleep] you know we love you. We out here...
We got-- put out flyers.
Talked to everybody that we could.
To the point where we'd be on the streets,
somebody would be passing by in a car,
walking my way, and I say, "Excuse me.
"My brother is missing. Can I please just give you a flyer?"
[Terri] Meanwhile, the girlfriend keeps saying, "On this day,
"Davohnte is gonna show up. He's gonna manifest.
"He's gonna reappear." And all this
At this point, nobody-- Everybody is scared of her.
You know, like, "What is she trying to do to us?"
I mean, what happened to my son?
[Priddy] Then we got a report from a local resident
that she had remembered
a couple fighting outside of her house,
on May 5th, the day Davohnte Morgan went missing.
The resident is located just north of the Cold Creek Inn.
And she heard them fighting at 9:30 in the morning.
Davohnte' girlfriend initially told us
that they did not speak to each other that morning.
This contradicts, what the witness saw and heard, with her timeline.
We are now growing way more suspicious of the girlfriend.
But we don't have any hard evidence against the girlfriend.
[Ruthie] All she kept saying is that where she was, emotionally,
and what she was going through
while she was up in Mount Shasta.
And I remember me stopping her, and saying,
"I don't give-- I don't give a [bleep] about you.
"I don't.
"I'm here for my nephew."
She needed to go home, back to San Francisco.
So, we asked his girlfriend to leave.
And we never really heard from her, after that.
Due to the strange circumstances with Davohnte Morgan's girlfriend,
we did change it to--
not "voluntary missing" to "suspicious" missing person's case.
I believe she knows more than she's giving.
We don't have anything to charge her with or hold her on.
[Anthony] I was just, like, "I'm not gonna get any answers."
And I'm like-- At this point,
I didn't trust nobody to find my brother but me.
[Priddy] It's May 14th, and we still don't have any hard leads.
So, right now, we are trying to track
Davohnte Morgan, as best we can with their surveillance.
Surveillance is really huge for us in Mount Shasta
because we are such a small agency
and such a small a small town.
We don't have CCTV like a lot of bigger cities.
So, when someone does go missing
in the city limits of Mount Shasta,
we immediately try to hop on that
and go to local businesses
just so we can see is they have cameras
that caught anything.
We were able to obtain ten different camera angles
of Davohnte walking.
The first time we locate Davohnte Morgan,
on May 5th, the day he went missing,
we have him walking in front of the police department,
and we could see him crossing the street
on Mount Shasta Boulevard
heading west on Lake Street.
We catch him, walking again, west on Lake Street,
where he continues walking,
And then he will eventually-- We'll see him cross
Lake Street and go to the local Vallero gas station.
So, then next we know he is at Valero,
so we go to Valero.
and try to get their surveillance system.
And this is where we get Davohnte Morgan, in this clip,
making a purchase.
So, after Davohnte Morgan made the purchase,
he headed back east on Lake Street,
past the police department,
and then headed back north the way he came
on North Mount Shasta Boulevard.
And the next known footage we have
is at the Jefferson School
on the North Mount Shasta Boulevard.
Which is approximately a quarter mile
north of the Cold Creek Inn.
So, he has passed the hotel
and he is continuing to walk.
Approximately, two minutes later,
he's seen passing Jefferson School, now heading south.
Back towards the Cold Creek Inn, on North Mount Shasta Boulevard.
He also is picked up on Chestnut Street
by a local crystal store on their surveillance,
where he is seen heading north on Chestnut Street.
And then making a right-hand turn,
heading east on Alma Street.
The next known location Davohnte is picked up on camera
is on Alma Street, heading east.
And the Sisson middle School picked him up on camera.
And he is continuing to walk east on Alma Street.
Sisson Middle School also picks him up
on another camera,
continuing on Alma Street, till he hits Rockfellow.
Davohnte then is seen crossing Rockfellow,
before he turns west,
heading down Rockfellow.
Which would continue back down towards the Cold Creek Inn.
And he doesn't appear to be drunk,
he doesn't appear to be on drugs.
And that's the last time we have him on video surveillance.
Everywhere Davohnte was picked up on security camera,
is a very normal, safe place to be walking.
There is no suspicious activity.
This is where all the mom and pop shops are.
It's a very normal place to see someone walking everyday, all day.
After reviewing the pattern
and the path that Davohnte is seen walking,
it doesn't seem out of the ordinary at all.
It's all within couple minute walking distance
of the hotel that he's staying at.
And it's a beautiful day
and he's just casually out on a stroll.
"Did he seem distraught? Did he seem like he was all over the place?
"Did he seem like he was just walking,
"trying to get a breath of fresh air,
"and he was gonna go back to the hotel?"
We were, like, "Oh, my God. This is just another
"key, you know, piece to the puzzle."
[Anthony] He looked normal.
He just looked like he was going for a stroll.
And enjoying the town.
It seemed like, like he was chilling.
Finding his peace.
[Priddy] So then, we received a tip that between 9:30 and 10:00 am,
a local mail-delivery person stopped
and saw Davohnte in the area of Rockfellow and Alma.
He looked a little disoriented.
And asked for instructions to the hotel
over on Alma Street.
The mailman expressed to him that we don't have any hotels on Alma Street,
but we have an apartment complex there.
And gave Davohnte directions to that.
The Alma Street apartment complex
is not near the Cold Creek Inn.
The mailman, later, saw Davohnte Morgan on Alma Street
but not near the apartment complex.
So he stopped again and rerouted him to that area.
Later, the same mailman,
located Davohnte Morgan
off of Rockfellow on Ski Bowl Drive.
This time he did not stop to speak with him.
So, after reviewing all the surveillance,
and nailing down all the times we have spotted Davohnte Morgan,
we're looking to see, "Is he heading out of town?
"Or is he heading up the mountain?"
So we can branch out.
Or we are looking to see
if he is picked up by someone.
A vehicle, the girlfriend, we don't know.
[Clure] Just because that he was last seen walking in downtown,
certainly doesn't mean that that's where he went missing.
Our downtown is only two miles in length
and very condensed.
Once you get outside of the downtown,
it's definitely easy to get lost.
[Priddy] In Mount Shasta, we've never had a case like this,
and so, it was extremely new to us.
And hard-- And just hard to deal with
because we don't have a detective unit.
We have one officer at a time.
We don't have search dogs.
We don't have a lot of resources that, you know, a bigger city would have.
By this time in the investigation,
we had followed upon every lead.
And we realized that we needed outside support.
In my experience, this Missing Persons case was unusual,
and it continued to get more unusual.
My name is Michael Burns. I was former deputy
with the Siskiyou County Sheriff's office.
And I ran the search and rescue program in Siskiyou County
for about seven years.
We began our search and rescue for Mr. Morgan
in the general area here.
We set what we call a wheel.
We did it at a half-mile radius.
From the parking lot, right behind the library.
We started off with canvassing the area.
with SAR volunteers,
with vehicles.
Going door-to door- handing out missing person flyers.
Asking anybody if they had seen Mr. Morgan
walking, or in the vicinity.
That search then expanded into our wooded areas here.
There's several wooded areas
that were in that hub
that we expanded into.
We used search dogs.
At that point, we were using air scent and tracking dogs
in the wooded areas within our search hub.
[Anthony] They tell us that the best time to start searching
is the 24-48 hours after they've gone missing.
'Cause after that it's hard to, like distinguish what has happened.
By the time 48 hours came along,
that's when we're reporting him missing.
Honestly, I felt like those searches were just done
'cause we complained long enough.
And got them to get it done.
Not like, um, because, "Oh, yeah. We're about to find him.
"What's going on?" Like, "He's missing?
"Okay, we need to go here, we need to look here.
"We need to look there."
That-- It wasn't that.
We got one search that was just, like, so vague.
and just so, like... We did that ourself.
[Priddy] We expanded our searched out
by asking Southern Oregon Search and Rescue
to assist in our area.
And we expanded out a mile
outside of the area he was last seen,
and searched all possible areas.
We expanded as far as we could naturally take care of and use the resources for.
Siskiyou County is 400 acres of wilderness
the complete size of Hawaii.
Outside of that you have millions and millions of acres
of just woodland
where it would be impossible and a waste of resource
to continue searching
without any leads.
I do feel we went above and beyond
and still are, to this day.
In the search area that we searched,
we did not locate anything
pertaining to Mr. Morgan.
[Priddy] So, as of one month into this investigation,
we had followed up on every lead.
We'd had search and rescue.
We had multiple outside agencies
as far down as San Francisco, asking for help.
The FBI.
And we just still did not have any viable leads
and we were hitting dead ends.
We didn't have the biggest support from the police department.
And we needed things to start rolling.
I believe that this area, in particular,
is known for all these dark sites, underworld type living.
Underworld as in KKK.
Coke. Underworld fighting.
I'm like, "Anything could have happened to Vohnte. Anything."
[narrator] Davohnte Morgan
was last seen May 5th, 2020.
[narrator reading]
[Ruthie] By June 8th, it started to feel like
everything got dried up in Mount Shasta.
So, it was very vital for us to just do stuff.
Sort of action into finding him.
We had to do other things.
[Anthony] We were trying to broadcast my brother any way we can.
Only to, like, set Mount Shasta on fire.
[Terri] We went and knocked door-to door.
Whatever businesses were open.
We put up flyers, you know,
in the local establishments that we open.
And in every car,
on every pole,
in the city, in the surrounding towns.
And there is a hotline.
And there is the $25,000 reward.
We would go to supermarkets
and snatch the loudspeaker
and, like, we calling up
to different parts of the mountains.
Suspicious places that people aren't really, normally, like, going to,
we went in.
The people who were around the Mount Shasta were like,
not inviting.
And they definitely didn't want us there.
[Anthony] It's also definitely, predominantly a white area.
Vey handful of Black people that stay there.
It wasn't, ultimately, comfortable.
Um, it's known that-- We've found out, being out there
they have, like, active KKK.
And heard, like the leader or somebody who runs the KKK
drives through the town with, like, a big Confederate flag on the side of the truck.
That was something that we had to see everyday.
[Terri] My interaction with everybody
was peaceful.
But Mount Shasta is, I hate to say it,
in this day and age, racist.
[scoffs]
That wasn't too helpful. [chuckles]
[Anthony] We would spend the whole day putting up flyers.
Like we would spend all day, hours.
And we'll come out the next morning, and they'll all be gone.
Except for, like, a few.
Even some stores were taking them down
after we put them up in there.
Why are people taking it down?
Is it just because he is a Black male that's missing up here?
Or is it because there's somebody somewhere that doesn't want
him to be seen and broadcast
on a bigger level across town
because something malicious might have happened.
I remember we went out to a campsite.
Ad we began showing them, like, flyers, like, "Have you seen my brother?"
Took the flyer and was like, "No, we ain't seen him.
"But if we do, we'll tie him to a tree in the back and give you a call."
Same person pulled out guns on us.
And we had to leave off the property.
It was upsetting.
[Ruthie] We knew that we were in a area
that was not safe for us.
We were told, "Don't come this way.
"Don't look this way."
We got a bird-- What was it? Like, a chicken foot thrown at us?
A live chicken foot thrown at us while we were putting out flyers.
It's likeThe Twilight Zone up there, seriously.
And when night fall, it was just a different feel, like...
It seemed nice, but when that night fall,
you seen what it really-- you know, the skeletons of the town.
The dark side of the town.
We definitely made it clear that we were here for peace.
But we definitely didn't back down either.
No one was gonna drive us away.
We made that clear.
[Priddy] Hate crimes do have to be reported to the Department of Justice,
and I know for a fact, in the last ten years
that I've worked for the department,
we have not reported one.
We are Mount Shasta and we are very equality-based.
And would love diversity.
We are a community of a lot of different people.
We were founded by Italian immigrants
who came to work in the lumber mill.
That's kind of how it started.
And we are still a majority
Italian American community that has now grown.
And our surrounding communities are largely diverse.
More so that we are.
But we would welcome diversity with open arms.
[Ruthie] We were walking on public property
and then you just get on to private property,
and you don't know.
So, you'd be told and you'd be warned.
But as I start learning of all that took place,
I'm like, "Lord knows what could have happened."
[Anthony] I think he could have been targeted
because he was an outsider, and from the city.
If they were targeting Black people out there.
I don't know. I don't know, like...
Maybe there was some foul play.
[Clure] We are not a racist community.
We are a community of love and respect.
And open arms.
And setting foot into this community,
it would take ten minutes to know
that that's exactly who we are.
[Anthony] What's going on up here? Like...
Something's going on up here.
And it's not making sense.
"Do you think I could-- Can I have a moment of you time?
I wanna talk to you about my brother."
He was like, "Your brother?" He's like, "Davohnte is your brother?"
I'm like, "Yeah." Like, "Davohnte, that's my brother."
And he told me, "This is what I personally heard."
He said, "These guys drove him somewhere.
"And then was, like trying to rob him, for his money."
My brother was not, like, going for it.
So, he fought. He fought.
And they ended up stabbing him and pushing him in the river.
[Priddy] Davohnte Morgan's brother heard one story
that Davohnte Morgan had been
taken in a white van and went to
a rural area out in the woods,
behind a lake called Twin Arrows.
It's a wooden camp ground up behind Lake Siskiyou.
About four miles outside of town.
[Priddy] We did send an officer out there.
And were not able to locate anything.
And several people were contacted
confirming that Davohnte Morgan had not been at that area.
After investigating the area of Twin Arrows,
I'm speaking to everyone.
We did not feel it was important to search the river.
So everything came to a dead end.
[Ruthie] We put the money on the reward.
But we would get these big stories from people,
and it would just be, like, a dead-end.
We were distraught. We didn't know what to do.
[Priddy] At this time, the family has also offered a reward for his return.
So, having a reward with a Missing Person is great.
And does generate lots of good leads.
But unfortunately,
there are some leads that come in
where people are just trying to take advantage
of the reward money,
with no factual evidence.
In February, 2021,
almost a year later,
Davohnte Morgan is still missing,
and we still don't have any hard leads.
Once you are entered into the database,
for Missing Persons,
which is a nationwide database,
anytime a body is located,
that matches the descriptors,
they will then put a hit out that, "Hey, this is a possible match."
So, we now are looking for DNA from family, relatives,
so we can enter that into the DNA database
to help us generate new leads.
[Terri] So, it took me a while to do it.
Because I was scared, I was nervous, I didn't want to.
Because I thought maybe they might have found him dead.
But I did have my DNA taken here.
[Priddy] On September 17, 2021,
we got a possible match.
A male, matching the description of Davohnte Morgan,
who was, unfortunately burned up in a fire.
They were found in Jackson County, Oregon
which is approximately and hour, hour and a half away from us.
And so, we took it as a very good lead.
Unfortunately, because he was burned,
we had to go into dental records,
and then, DNA.
It was, at that point, eliminated that it was not Davohnte.
It's frustrating that my nephew is still not here.
[Anthony] The police never offered any helicopters,
never a search party bigger than my family.
And a few people in town,
and they didn't even seem like they cared enough about my brother.
[Priddy] To this day, almost three years
after the initial investigation started,
we still have the case open.
We are still actively getting interest in the case.
And we are still getting information.
And we are following up on every lead that does come in.
And I know that the family does feel
that we are not doing enough
but we are a very small department
and this was a very, very big case,
and a very big workload for our department
and the few officers that we did have.
And I do believe, throughout the community,
my police department,
Davohnte's family, we all want the same thing.
We want to find Davohnte.
In my ten years in law enforcement,
with the Mount Shasta Police Department,
this case does haunt me.
Because this is not the type of community we live in.
As the mayor, and as, more so,
just a community member of Mount Shasta,
we would really love him to be found.
One of our community members is missing and we want him back.
I don't think he's passed on because I don't feel that.
And I believe my son is still out there
and he-- he can't--
For whatever reason.
He can't come home.
He can't call us.
He can't--
I don't know what the reason is,
but whatever it is,
I feel he is still there
and he's waiting for my help.
[Ruthie] We tried to get his girlfriend to help us,
but she hasn't.
I think his girlfriend was straight up the cause of him being missing.
I believe that there's so much more
to her story.
And I want, and I pray that,
one day, that her conscience will eat her up
so much to where she'll come forth.
[Terri] There's not one second.
Not one second
that goes by that I don't think about him.
[anthony] I just try to keep hope.
And keep understanding.
But holding onto this hope is also hard.
Hard.
And I missed you, Davohnte.
[Terri] Yeah, I...
Just wanna let him know how much I love him, you know how much
him being gone has affected the whole family.
And not just our family, our community.
[Ruthie] Our family has not been the same since he's been missing.
Since he's been gone.
We can't do nothing, but, um...
remember his smile, his laugh.
His handsome face.
Most beautiful eyes.
And just... [sighs] a good person.
He meant well.
He... He walked with love.
[sobs] And purpose.
I want answers. I wanna be able to close this up.
Let that upset happen and be thankful that we know that happened.
And move on, and try to find some peace
in what has happened.
Whatever that may be.
[Anthony] Spread, spread, spread my brother's name.
If you know anything, please let us know.
[Terri] I'm just asking the public
if you know anything, please contact us.
Anybody that can help me bring my son back home.
Kristen did not rum away.
She was abducted and taken.
Unless it's your own daughter nobody cares.
This is where Kristen fell into this dark world
of child sex slavery.
Kristen was being sold for $10,000 per night.
It's every parents worst nightmare.