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From Dateline: Missing In America by NBC News

July 15, 2025 · 39 min · Season 4 · Episode 6

About this episode

The episode discusses the mysterious disappearance of 15-year-old Sophie Reeder and the subsequent investigation.

It was the early morning hours of May 20, 2017, and 15-year-old Sophie Reeder should have been in bed. Instead, she had slipped out of her house in the River Oaks neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale and walked off into the hot, humid night. Two security cameras recorded some of Sophie’s movements over the next several hours. One recorded her walking past a neighbor’s house as she started her journey; another recorded her walking along a busy road near her home at 2 a.m. In that video, a police cruiser passes the 5-foot-1, 100-pound teenager and doesn’t slow down or stop. Sophie is seen wearing a short black dress, high-top sneakers, a leopard-print fake fur coat, and headphones. They are the last known images of her. Seven weeks after Sophie’s disappearance, police executed a search warrant at an apartment in the area where her phone last pinged. Three convicted felons were staying at that address. Josh Mankiewicz talks with Sophie’s father, Patrick Reeder, her aunt Kirsten Milhorn, reporter Brittany Wallman of the Miami Herald, and Sergeant Don Geiger of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. The FLPD is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for credible information that leads to the…

People in this episode

Host: Josh Mankiewicz

Guests: Patrick Reeder, Kirsten Milhorn, Brittany Wallman, Don Geiger

Topics covered

  • disappearance
  • investigation
  • true crime
  • missing person
  • police search

Keywords

  • Sophie Reeder
  • disappearance
  • Fort Lauderdale
  • police investigation
  • missing person

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fort Lauderdale Police Department

Places: River Oaks, Fort Lauderdale

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