#SerenityDennard was last seen on Sunday. “Obviously this is a very tragic situation due to weather and the area out there and all that but we’re still hoping that Serenity might have found a warm place to get into or someone might have picked her up out there, seen her on the road or in that area.”Īnyone who believed they had seen Serenity, who was described as a white female standing 4 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 100 pounds, with blue eyes and blonde hair, was asked to call 60.Ī sheriff’s office in South Dakota believes the desperate search for a 9-year-old girl who ran away from a children’s home is now a recovery effort. Obviously, if Serenity did not get into a warm place or was not picked up and she’s still out there in the woods due to the weather conditions and everything that’s probably not a good outcome,” Welchel added. “We’re still hopeful that we can have a good outcome on this. We have them driving in the area looking for anything still talking to anyone who may have any information in the area so we have a presence but we don’t have 100 people out going through the woods today due to the extreme circumstances,” Pennington County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Kraig Wood told KOTA. “We don’t have ground crews out there right now we do have deputies in the command post.

The scaled down search on Wednesday was partly due to harsh weather conditions, which left the area with heavy snow and wind. (Arielle Zionts/Rapid City Journal via AP) Authorities say that the girl ran away from staff at a residential youth home. A dog helps search for Serenity Dennard, 9, near Rockerville, S.D., on Feb. “With the real cold temperatures and snow, what we really need is a break in this weather, for that too, but we’re trying to get those resources just as soon as we can,” Whelchel said. “We have five investigators that are assigned to this, this is all they’re doing, working every lead, every possibility, continue to interview staff and other children in the home and family and neighbors, anybody that might have possibly been on that road,” Pennington County Sheriff’s Office deputy Wilie Welchel told KELO.Īlong with hoping for a break in the case, officials are hoping for the weather to warm up to make it easier to search for the missing girl. Law Enforcement have reported the investigation will 'remain open'.But multiple investigators are trying to track down leads as they work to determine what happened on the morning that Serenity went missing. Still, she has not been found nor any remains. Law Enforcement have interviewed staff as well as Dennard's adoptive and biological parents. Searches have been ongoing since, involving half-a-dozen state and federal authorities including the FBI. The Pennington County Sheriff's Department in Rapid City, S.D., advised of interviewing over 500 people, traversing near 6,000 miles of rugged terrain, searching by air and with K9 units, but having run out of 'new information' in the disappearance of Serenity Dennard (9) when she ran away from the group home in 2019. Open source information indicates Law Enforcement were not immediately notified of Serenity Dennard's disappearance and reports indicate it may have been around an hour and half until Law Enforcement was notified. Some open source reporting indicates she may have been last seen walking northbound on Rockerville Rd. The conditions were reported as extremely cold, and she was possibly seen leaving without a jacket. According to open source information, Serenity Dennard (9) ran away from the Black Hills Children's Home Society around 11:20 am, on.

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