Fortunately there were no rattlesnakes so the father decided to go trout fishing and left the girls alone to go pick flowers. A little time passed and Dorothea went to talk to mother and give her the bouquet of flowers that she had picked. At the time Marjorie was not following Dorothea and she didn't notice this. After Dorothea did her business with mother she came back and Marjorie was nowhere in sight. When they looked for her they couldn't find her so they called the police. When the police arrived there were over 200 men involved in the search. They searched all day and all night and they even brought dogs to see if they would pick up her scent but their was no trace of her.