What Happened to Sophie Reeder? Preview Dateline: Missing in America Season 4

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

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Hey Dateline fans, we’re sharing with you a special preview of the final episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Josh Mankiewicz reports on the disappearance of Sophie Reeder, a 15-year-old girl who left her Fort Lauderdale home in the middle of the night in May 2017 and never returned. Listen to the full episode in the ‘Dateline: Missing in America’ feed – something you hear might unlock a memory that could be the key to finding Sophie.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Josh Mancowitz with a preview of Dateline Missing in America.
0:06.1	In our podcast's fourth season, we share six new unsolved mysteries.
0:12.1	And we hope someone listening may have a clue that could help crack one of these cases.
0:17.6	Could that someone be you?
0:20.7	Here's Dateline, missing in America.
0:28.3	It was 12.45 a.m. when Sophie Reader started her journey, slipping out of her house and into a syrupy Florida night.
0:39.1	At 2.16 a.m., a security camera recorded her walking along Davy Boulevard in South Fort Lauderdale.
0:47.2	She was wearing a short black dress, a brown fur coat, headphones, and high-top sneakers.
0:55.6	Sophie Reader was 15 years old, and that video is the last known image of her on May 20, 2017,
1:04.6	the day she disappeared.
1:07.4	Patrick Reeder is her father.
1:10.2	Patrick, I can't imagine how difficult this has been for you.
1:13.5	Yeah, it's like a living nightmare.
1:15.3	A living nightmare.
1:16.0	You've got to deal with it every day.
1:18.5	Police would later discover where Sophie went on her middle of the night walk.
1:24.1	The mystery they have not solved is what happened after she arrived.
1:28.9	She got there after that long walk.
1:31.3	Yeah.
1:31.9	What does that tell you?
1:33.3	That puts us in the vicinity to start the investigation.
1:36.0	We call it a last scene point.
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