Investigators at Camp Mystic just made a chilling discovery: a long blonde hair bun tangled in riverbank branches—right where they believe the last missing 8-year-old girl may have tried to escape.
At first, the soft, golden hair matched her description. Hope briefly surged—until DNA tests revealed it belonged not to the missing girl, but to her best friend, one of the 27 girls already found.
The find has shaken the search team and raised unsettling questions:
Was the best friend there longer than they thought?
Did the missing girl somehow have the hair?
Or—was it deliberately placed to throw off the investigation?
“We thought we were getting closer,” one searcher said. “Now it feels like she’s slipping away.”
With emotions raw and the mystery deepening, police are focusing on the river’s edge, using forensic mapping to piece together what happened in those final hours.
One haunting question remains:
If her best friend was there… where is she now?
