Diana slowly walked along the footpath, William slightly behind her. Their seven year old daughter, Desiree, ran ahead of them.

"Desiree!" Diana called to her daughter.

"Relax, Sweetie. She's just having some fun" William said and planted a soft kiss on his wife's cheek.

"I know that, Will" She said and entwined their fingers. "I just worry about her falling over and hurting herself" She added.

"Do you want me to go bring her back?" He asked, fully ready to do whatever his wife asked of him.

Diana paused for a moment then shook her head and smiled. "I'm sure she's fine. Anyway, the tyre swing is only a little bit ahead, we'll meet her there" She said and delicately placed a gentle kiss on her husband's lips.

He smiled as she did so then they turned and walked along the dusty track, it wasn't uncommon for the Reid's to go walking with their daughter on a Sunday, it was the only day out of the whole week Diana wasn't preparing for a lecture at the college she worked at.

As they turned a corner on the track the lush grass and towering trees came into view, the tyre swing Diana had talked about minutes before hanging motionless from one tree.

William smiled and let go of Diana's hand. "Where are you, Munch?" He called out in his playful voice, waiting for Desiree to jump out behind a tree and scare them. A few moments passed without a reply so he called to her again. "Des, where are you?" this time he was a little worried, there was a steep slope a hundred meters or so into the woods she might of fallen down.

"Desiree, where are you?" Diana called, searching for any sign of her long blonde hair, like her mom's.

"Come on, Des. This isn't funny anymore" Will called out after a long pause.

"Diana turned to her husband, panic stricken. "Where is she Will?" She asked with her hand on her chest.

"I don't know… I'm gonna go check the woods, you look round here for her" He gushed out then ran towards the wooded area. Diana nodded and started looking madly behind bushes and overgrown patches of grass she might be hiding in. Will called her name out as he ran through the wood, only stopping a few feet shy of the craggy slope. He got down on his front and peered over the side, looking for any sign of her, but he never saw anything.

"Desiree, where are you?" Diana called; she could tell something was very wrong. She heard feet slapping against the floor and turned towards the woods, hoping to see her young daughter trying to surprise her. But all she saw was the little girl's panicking father. "Did you find her?" She asked.

Will shook his head; he was obviously out of breath. "There's no sign of her going anywhere near the slope" He puffed out.

"Well, then where is she?" Diana asked, even though she knew he didn't know the answer.

"I don't know… maybe we should call the cops" He said and stood up straight now that he had regained his breath.

"But what if she's just hiding?" Diana asked, she was holding onto the hope her little girl was just trying to pull a prank on them even though in her heart of hearts she knew it wasn't true.

Will just looked at her for a long moment then reached into his pocket, pulled out his phone and dialled 911. "Hello?" He said into his phone. "Yeah, my daughter's missing" Diana heard him say but she walked away before she had to hear the rest. The police would be there soon, the nearest police department was only 10 miles north from where they were.

William talked for a while on the phone; probably giving directions to the operator the police could find where they were quickly. 20 or so minutes later and the police were on seen, four cops in total.

One took the lead role and told the other three to look for the girl while he talked to the parents. They asked all the usual questions, when did they last see her, what was she wearing, was she mad at them, could she have run away, etc. William answered most the questions while Diana looked round, obviously stressed.

After talking for a long time with the cop he explained to Will that, as it was only a few hours until the sunset, they were going to call in more officers and a lead detective so has to best utilise the few hours they had before they'd have to call it a night. William nodded and took it all in then took his wife to the side to explain everything but she was so distraught with the whole situation she didn't look like she was listening.

Within the next hour almost twenty cops had been brought in, along with a family liaison officer and someone to head the investigation. The cops carried on searching even after the sunset and tried their best to stay as late as they could but soon they realized they weren't going to find anything useful in the dark and they were most likely trampling over evidence.

The liaison officer escorted Diana and William home but neither of them slept; William drove round the neighbourhood to see if she had got lost while trying to get home while Diana studied all the maps in the house to see where she might have gone. The liaison officer came back bright and early and the search was resumed, but no evidence was ever discovered. Desiree's face was put on every milk cartoon in Nevada and surrounding states and she was mentioned on most news channels for a month after her disappearance. But soon everybody seemed to lose interest, the police couldn't find any new leads and the case went cold. But William and Diana never forgot their angelic little girl.