parents couldn’t keep her in rehab once she turned eighteen.  Soon after, Melissa disappeared.  The Harbers reported the disappearance as a kidnapping.  But, when the police investigated, they treated it as a runaway.  His parents turned to the media pressuring the detectives to reopen the investigation as a kidnapping.  The media dubbed his sister “Prissy Missy” the girl who went from riches to rags.  The debate surrounding her disappearance was picked up by the national media for a short time before eventually fizzling out. 

Melissa’s body was discovered half a year after her disappearance rotting in the trunk of an abandoned car in a junk yard a hundred miles away in South Carolina.  She had been raped.  Tortured with cigarette burns.  Stabb...

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