Lost Lane

Dateline: Missing In America

NBC News

True Crime

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On April 13, 2024, 37-year-old Danielle Lopez vanished in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey while camping with her boyfriend. Her mother, Sue Quackenbush, knew something was wrong when Danielle stopped answering her texts and calls. Sue reported her daughter missing to the New Jersey State Police. Investigators scoured the forest in southern New Jersey and eventually located Danielle’s car on Lost Lane, but found no sign of her. The case remains open and active. Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz speaks with Danielle’s mother, a New Jersey private investigator who is working the case, and Monica Caison and Lisa Valentino from the Cue Center for Missing Persons. Danielle Lopez is 5’4”, and at the time of her disappearance weighed 135 lbs. She has brown hair, and green eyes. Danielle would be 38 years old today. CUE is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads investigators to Danielle. The reward is in effect until July 31, 2025. Anyone with information regarding her disappearance is asked to contact the New Jersey State Police Missing Persons Unit at (609) 882-2000 or contact the CUE Center for Missing Persons 24-hour line at (910) 232-1687. Get more information and see pictures of Danielle Lopez here: https://www.nbcnews.com/datelinemissing

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0:00.0	The picture of New Jersey that most people hold in their minds is so different from this one,
0:12.0	that considered beside it, the pine barrens, as they are called, become as incongruous as they are beautiful.
0:22.3	That's the writer John McPhee, talking about the pine barons of southern New Jersey.
0:28.7	The garden state has one of the highest population densities in the U.S.
0:34.6	But across a million dense acres, whole swaths of the pine barons are as empty as the days before there was a New Jersey or an old Jersey.
0:47.0	If you want to get lost, this is the place.
0:51.7	And if you want someone else to vanish, this is the place. And if you want someone else to vanish,
0:56.1	this is the place.
1:00.0	Easy to disappear and easy to get lost in.
1:02.2	A lot of weird stories down there.
1:04.5	Almost 25 years ago,
1:08.2	a certain TV show made the Pine Barons famous.
1:15.6	You woke at the snow,rens famous. The Sopranos. Let's take them down the Pine Barons.
1:18.6	That's South Jersey.
1:19.6	It's perfect.
1:20.6	It's deserted down there.
1:23.6	We take them in the woods, take a hole, and the store.
1:37.2	On the evening of April 13, 2024, 37-year-old Danielle Lopez evaporated into these thick woods.
1:44.2	No call, no text, no goodbye, and almost no trace.
1:47.5	The not knowing is the hardest part.
1:49.5	What happened to Danielle?
1:51.8	Where did she go?
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