On February 5, 1921, Fred Bernell was preparing to feed his chickens when he realized that he had run out of grit to mix with the corn.

Grid is an important part of the feed because it helps birds digest the food.

He gave his 8 year old daughter Frida Shelling and told her to run to the next street over to get

some grit from the corn store.

He told her that if she was fast enough he'd give her a penny.

Frida excitedly ran off to the store but she would never be seen alive again.

This is monsters. You're going to be. It should have only taken Frida about 10 minutes to get to the corn store and back, so after about 30 minutes, Fred started to wonder where she had gone.

He walked over to Mortimer's corn store and looked in the window but didn't see his daughter.

Instead of going inside the store,

he walked down the street to the co-op,

which also sold chicken feed.

He went inside and asked if anyone had seen Frida,

but nobody had.

By then, Fred was

starting to worry so he went to the town Crier who began announcing that the young girl was missing

encouraging anyone who had seen her to contact Fred.

A few hours later, Fred reported his daughter missing to the police and a search

party was organized. That evening, the cinema showed a description of the girl before the movie started.

Police and locals searched through the night, but the following morning, Frida was still missing.

Mary and Wiltshire had seen the message at the cinema the night before and told police that she saw

Frida walking past her house at a little after 9 a.m.

Mary Ann's house was between the Bernell's house and the feed shop and her timeline matched when Fred said his daughter had left.

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