Precious 9-year-old South Dakota girl vanishes, 911 call DELAYED? Where is Serenity?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

9-year-old, Serenity Dennard, runs from a children's home and vanishes. As the search continues, questions remain about the day she went missing. How did she leave so easily, and why did it take so long to call 911? Nancy talks with South Dakota State Senator, Lynne DiSanto, who is a leader in the search for Serenity. Nancy's Expert Panel Also Weighs in: Marc Klass: Founder, The KlassKids Foundation Jeff Cortese: Former FBI supervisory special agent Randall Kessler: Defense attorney Dr. Ryan Fuller Clinical Psychologist Leigh Egan Crime online investigative Reporter

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0:38.7	Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
0:44.9	Authorities in Rockerville are searching for a nine-year-old girl who went missing earlier today.
0:50.0	Nine-year-old Serenity Denner was last spotted leaving the Children's Home Society
0:54.5	on South Rockerville Road around 11.20 this morning. Denner is $4.790 with blue eyes and
1:02.4	shoulder length dirty blonde hair. She was last seen wearing a long-sleeved gray shirt with flowers,
1:09.1	blue jeans, and snow boots. Temperatures are expected to drop below zero tonight. If anyone has
1:15.4	any information regarding her whereabouts, please contact the Payton County Sheriff's Office
1:20.2	at 605-394-615. Our friends at KOTA-TVs that was Nick Regan with the Breaking News
1:28.8	Swinney-Dinnered Missing, the gorgeous little girl in South Dakota. We are now learning that the
1:35.7	original reports regarding the disappearance of nine-year-old Serenity Dennered are not exactly
1:44.1	correct. What if anything does it mean? This as a search for the nine-year-old girl goes on.
1:52.3	I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. Straight out to Mark
1:58.0	Class, the founder of Class Kids Foundation. Mark, so many aspects of this story don't fit
2:06.7	together with me. This little girl was in a Children's Home in South Dakota. And I'm now learning
2:13.2	that the staff there called 911 much later than they initially reported after Serenity
2:22.2	goes missing. Now, does it mean anything? I'm not sure. But whenever I find an inconsistency
2:29.2	in the timeline and there is a missing nine-year-old girl, I don't like it, Mark Class. I don't like it
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