Saturday, March 16, 2019, it was cool and dry, a perfectly ordinary day in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Inside her home on a street of neat lawns and old trees, Pam Smith was waiting for her

brother Christian to bring back lunch. While she waited, she checked Facebook and saw

something that would turn her life upside down.

It was a message about her niece, Aubrey, nicknamed Shorty.

A friend of mine, who's been my friend for like over 30 years, she messaged me and asked me if Shorty's missing.

I was like, not that I'm aware of why. So she sent me a screenshot of one of Aubrey's friends,

you know, that made a post on Facebook asking if anybody had seen Shorty, you know, to have her call this number.

Pam contacted the Sheriff's Office for Delaware County, 90 miles from Tulsa.

The county is part of the Cherokee Nation where Aubrey lived.

The Sheriff's Office confirmed that Aubrey's family had reported her missing.

So I started asking questions and the dispatcher asked me how I was related to Aubrey.

I said, I'm her auntie. I was like, you know, her mom and I are sisters.

She said, well, you'll have to call your sister and she can give you the details.

Pam's brother, Christian Fencer, arriving home, immediately sent something was off.

I go inside and look at my sister's face. I just knew something was wrong before she could even say anything.

And she said that Shorty was missing and at that point I was like, okay, she's probably somewhere at a friend's house.

But Pam was already making her next phone call. She called her sister Jennifer, Aubrey's mother, who said she'd last seen Aubrey about a week before.

Jennifer said that she woke up about 330 in the morning, walked down the hallway to the restroom.

And she saw Aubrey walking out at the side door, which goes out to under the carpet work.

And she said she was wearing a black jacket, a black top, a black skirt, and black hose, like knitted hose or something, and black boots.

Jennifer told Pam that Aubrey said she was going out to meet somebody. She never returned.

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