Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Britt and today's story the one that I have for you is

really about the ripple effect of tragedy the way that one tragedy can trigger more in its wake.

And in this case, it's about a little girl who went out to play in her small safe Ohio town

and then never made it home.

Then it's also the story of what came next.

This is the story of Devon Duniver. The Oh, When Lori Dunnever comes downstairs a few minutes before two in the afternoon of

Saturday June 27th 1998 she's like trying to wrangle her kids for a trip to the

grocery store she's not like super surprised,

although maybe a little frustrated

when her eight-year-old son

says that his five-year-old sister,

Devon, is somewhere outside,

even though Lori specifically told them to stay put

when she went upstairs to get ready at around 1.30. Now she knows Devon's got a lot

of friends in the neighborhood she likes to play with so she figures like

she's got to be out with one of them so

Lori heads out to find her the first kid she runs into right outside this kid

named Michael says he hasn't seen her and she gets the same responses at the house of a little boy named Adrian just about

a block away when she goes knocking on his door. So finally she heads to the home of

a little girl named Caitlin because if Devon is anywhere it's got to be here at Caitlin's house, except nobody

answers the door. So she heads back to their apartment building and she and her son start

kind of walking around outside. I mean just calling out

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