Serenity Dennard

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Back in early 2019, 9-year-old Serenity Dennard had been living at the Black Hills Children's Home in Rockerville, South Dakota. She had been living at the home since July of 2018. Her adoptive parents had placed her there after her behavior became too difficult to manage along with their other children at home. Serenity was on track to complete a one-year residential program at the children’s home in July and return to her adoptive parents. However, on the morning of February 3, 2019, she ran away from the home while staff members were distracted. She was last spotted by an incoming visitor, standing at the cattle gate near the road. Severe winter weather came through later that day, and Serenity had on snow boots, but no coat. She has never been seen again.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Serenity Dennard, you are urged to call the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office at 605-394-6115. You can also call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678 or 1-800-THE-LOST.

You can follow Serenity's story on Facebook at: Serenity Alert System

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:23.0	It took them two hours to notify police.
0:25.0	I don't know if she knew that there was leather. So she laughed and then got sick.
0:31.0	There's nothing else. We don't know what happened or...
0:34.0	We weren't told anything. Once she was placing the foster care system, the CPS board
0:39.0	received communication with us completely. So we didn't actually hear anything about where she had gone,
0:44.0	where she had been placed. Nobody would give us any information until she went missing.
0:48.0	Previous to her being placed in the foster care system, I know she did not have any of those symptoms at all.
0:53.0	Those were developed after she had started being found some foster care.
0:59.0	Previous to that, like I said, she didn't have any problems at all.
1:03.0	She was a very smart, very normal kid when she was with her mother.
1:12.0	Back in early 2019, 9-year-old Serenity Denard had been living at the Black Hills Children's home.
1:21.0	In Pennington County, South Dakota, since July of 2018, her adoptive parents had placed her there
1:29.0	after her behavior became too difficult to manage, along with her other siblings at home.
1:35.0	Serenity was on track to complete a one-year residential program at the Children's home in July and returned to her parents.
1:44.0	However, on the morning of February 3rd, 2019, she ran away from the home while staff members were distracted.
1:52.0	She was last spotted standing at the cattle gate near the road by an incoming visitor.
1:58.0	Severe winter weather came through later that day, and Serenity had on snow boots but no coat.
2:05.0	Since that sighting, no one has seen or heard from Serenity ever again.
2:10.0	I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 213 of The Vanished, Serenity Denard's Story.
2:41.0	Hello, I'm Hannah.
2:44.0	And I'm Serenity.
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