Police need your help locating a missing teen.
The last time anyone heard from 18 year old
Ebby Steppach was October 25th.
Her empty car was found days later.
I probably spend ten hours a day,
trying to locate her.
Ebby Steppach, gone without a trace.
Do you believe your daughter is alive today?
No.
Until we find a body, until someone confirms
that she's deceased, I'm gonna remain hopeful
that we will find her,
and bring her home.
A couple of days before
Ebby was reported missing, she went to a party.
Ebby text me that she needed to speak to me
about something important.
She doesn't show up to meet you,
I'd sent her a text message to let her know
that I was on my way and she never responded.
Then her brother Trevor calls her,
she doesn't answer,
but she calls him right back, correct?
That is correct.
Trevor asked her where she was,
she knew she was with her car.
At that point, Trevor told me
that Ebby sounded really messed up, disorientated,
he'd never heard her sound like that before.
He says, she sounds disorientated,
and claims she's lost.
It's about a four minute conversation
of where he's trying to determine
where she is
and what's going on.
That was the last phone call with her.
Yes
Five days after Ebby disappeared,
her car was found,
in a park, approximately three miles from our house.
All of her things were in the car.
Her purse,
her makeup was thrown around the car.
She was a makeup artist.
She would have never left her makeup.
I knew instantly someone had taken her.
Our daughter, she's gone.
Well it's been over a year since we spoke with
Ebby's mother Laurie,
Now sadly, her worst fears were realized earlier this year.
Breaking just in, to the THV11 Newsroom,
Little Rock police confirm the remains found
in Chalamont Park yesterday, are those of Ebby Steppach.
Police had said the remains were skeletal,
and that the pipe opens
near where Steppachs car was found.
She's been there, all this time.
We might have know what happened to her,
it just makes me sick.
This ain't fair, I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I prayed for y'all.
So good to see you again.
(tearful breaths)
Well, joining us now is Ebby's mother, Laurie.
Laurie, I just,
can't even,
find the words to tell you how sorry I am for your loss.
Y'know, you and I have been through this,
and just have been heartbroken at the outcome here.
I'm just so very very sorry for that.
Thank you.
Now,
you say that she was,
she was found very near her car.
Yes
Right where her car was found.
About 60 feet.
Wow,
and was the thinking that
she had been there all along?
Yes.
She was killed, and put in a drainage pipe.
60 feet from her car.
It had been,
how long,
between when she went missing,
and when she was found, exactly.
Almost three years.
Right.
And so,
she was identified how?
Through her jewelry.
My husband called
and said let's go to lunch.
And I knew, in 15 years he has
never asked me to go to lunch.
(audience laughs)
and so I was at work,
and,
I just knew.
And, he came in and said they found a skeleton,
but there's still a little something
in the back of your head,
that missing, you're looking y'know, people are looking,
but that day, when they come and say they've found her,
it's a whole different state of mind.