DMV Confidential | Missing and Murdered: The Dacara Thompson Story
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — When 19-year-old Dacara Thompson disappeared in Maryland in August, her father was almost immediately concerned.
Surveillance video showed Thompson on Aug. 23, leaving her 2013 Ford Edge on the side of the road before she was seen walking to a Family Dollar parking lot around Riggs Road. There, she was seen getting into the front passenger seat of a black GMC.
On Aug. 31, she was found dead under the South River Bridge in Annapolis.
Digital Content Producers Kenzie Chase and Jenny Gable dive into her disappearance and death, including who the police suspect may be responsible.
EDITOR'S NOTE -- This story contains graphic details from court documents shared with DC News Now. Reader discretion is advised. PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) -- Court documents shared with DC News Now on Friday detail the alleged events leading up to, during and following the murder of…
MARYLAND (DC News Now) -- Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is calling Dacara Thompson's murder an act of senseless violence, after a man was charged in connection with the missing 19-year-old's death. In a statement released on Friday, Moore mourned the loss of Thompson, who was found dead off the side…
HYATTSVILLE, Md. (DC News Now) -- Family and friends filled a parking lot Sunday night as they searched for a loved one. "My heart is broken, my heart is broken," said a distraught Carmen Thompson, as she described her life since her daughter, Dacara Thompson, disappeared on August 22. She…