- We want to bring you
into another cold case here in Russellville, Arkansas. We're working on Samantha Hopper who, 19 years old at the
time, also went missing with her 22 month old daughter and she was eight months pregnant. Today's episode, we want to thank Omaze for bringing us in and
giving this opportunity to travel across the US,
work on these cold cases. We're going to be talking about Omaze a little bit later on in the episode because they are giving
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that a little bit later on. But let me bring you into the case, or what it is that we're actually
working on, with Samantha. There's little information out there but what we do know is that
she was 19 at the time, she went missing September 11th of 1998. She was supposed to be
meeting up with a friend to go to a concert over
in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was driving a blue Ford Tempest. That's my knowledge. She never did meet up with her friend and she left her mom's
house around two, 2:30 AM is my understanding. If any of my details are wrong, please make sure that you
leave a comment down below, so that way we can continue
to help one another because while Sam and
I and Dan are out here working, boots on the ground, in the water and checking under water, like I've said before,
we're all in this together so I appreciate you being here as we give you more
information throughout the day. But to get started, let's head over across the
lake by the first boat ramp and then we're gonna
follow this entire levee all the way back to the boat
ramp where we just parked. So, let's get this day started. (mysterious music) So we're going to check out this boat ramp because it's right near Highway 40, but we also have another boat ramp off of this other little highway that's coming up to the
Highway 40 intersection just on the other side of the bridge that we're gonna check out here, and then we're gonna run the
entire bayou along this road. So it gives us a good starting point to bring you into the day. Let's start doing some sonar. (mysterious music continues) If you've never been with us before, we want to first bring you
into the world of sonar and what is it we're looking for and how we start our searches. So, first of all, we're using the Garmin with the live scope So you can actually see
there's a fish swimming by right there on the
bottom, twelve feet deep. And so you're seeing pretty much whatever happens in real time. That's this one. Now this one over here
with the Humminbird: we use the side scan, which is down below, and this one is more of a picture in time so this is what has already happened and it records the data for us. So we can actually scroll back up and identify if we miss
anything, we can zoom in on it. And a few things that
we're looking for on here: The first thing is you'll
see the black water column. And so here's our boat in the middle; we're casting 75 feet to the
right, 75 feet to the left, but anything black is from
the boat to the bottom. So you'll see six feet here and so that's roughly six feet there. So you see 18, 36, 54, 75. And so that's kind of gives you
an idea of the water column. This black over here, that's
gonna be the shoreline because we're close enough to it that we were hitting part of
what was out of the water. Now, this one here is our down imaging: with that one, right
now we're at six feet. So anything that's
water-related is gonna be black and then they'll show the bottom, so it's casting straight down. It doesn't do much of a beam,
but this one shoots a beam, like I said, 75 left, 75 right. I don't know what that was. It
was three feet tall on live. That was- it did the fish but it didn't show up on my down imaging at all. (Dan hums) And it was a 20 year old silt sediment. That was really weird. - [Dan] Was there, like, a
square shape, like a car? - Yeah, I don't know the length of it cause I kind of watched
and it kind of went fast, so we'll hit a different angle. You can kind of see where
our bubbles were at. (indistinct) Oh, it's a tree. That's what it is. (Dan hums) It's a tree laying down. All right, false alarm. (mysterious music) All right. Boat ramp number
two has been cleared. The GPS coordinates that
somebody sent us on Google Earth- in fact, Dan'll splash
that up on screen right now so you can see the exact location
of those GPS coordinates. And then I actually... Dan, while you were in the RV, a bass boater that was
setting into the water, I asked him if he'd seen any
cars in the water in this lake. He said that while he
is not on sonar himself, on his sonar, that he has seen pictures along this levee over here on this highway that we're gonna be passing so we're going to do a nice
littoral search on that one. It's still early enough in the day we think we can clear this completely. Let's just get both sides of this and we'll see if there's any cars. - [Dan] Sweet. (mysterious music continues) We're coming up certainly in the very end of the first side of the levee. With that, had like four
trees along the way. No cars. Let's pick up the sonar. Dan? (indistinct) - [Dan] Good. (boat engine humming)
(car whooshing past) - Some other things that we do know: I don't feel like she ran away and I don't feel like she left town. I don't feel like she left
her other daughter behind. And the reason why I feel that way, Dan, is because she was working, I
want to say, at Waffle House because the news story I saw
flashed Waffle House there. Could have been where she
was working, I don't know. But what they did say is that she did not pick up her last check, she didn't cash her last check, and if somebody was
going to be running away they would take as much cash, clothes, and whatever that they
could take with them. So running away, in my opinion: a hundred percent out of the question. Late at night, though, so we're dealing with
a late night accident. Did she fall asleep? End up in a body of water somewhere? Or did something more sinister happen? Now, for me personally,
right now I'm not leaning towards the sinister side of any of this. And the reason being is you would really have to hate somebody in order to take out a pregnant
mom as well as the daughter. And I think the daughter was- I hear different stories on this. I don't know if the
daughter she had with her, in the car at the time, was 18 months old or if
she was 22 months old. I've seen different press
releases on both of that. Her daughter's name,
Courtney, that was with her. And then she has another daughter that is a full-grown adult now. And she was a few years older than the youngest that was with her. And with that one, she has
only ever known her mom and has memories from
pictures when she was younger, which is kinda sad. And I've seen her talking
about never knowing her mom. But her mom: seeing her
mom relive the loss of... Her mom just wants to know. All families wanna know,
especially the mom. So if anybody has any
additional information to help give us on this case, please leave me a comment down below. We do get to that. Where we will see them even more, though, if you have something big, big, make sure that you send
us a Facebook message. So that way, when we
come out to look further, if we don't find her
today, we need your help. (mysterious music) We want to thank today's
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to enter to win. (relaxed music) I don't know what we have over here. I don't think it's a car,
it's like a whole graveyard, and we're just out in
the middle of nowhere where nothing is out here, Dan. We've seen like nothing
along this entire thing and then suddenly all
of that just pops up. Wait, we have the drone. Can you put the RV on it?
- Let's do it. - [Jared] All right. Get everything straight in front of you. (hopeful string music) - [Dan] So I handed over
the controller to Jared. He actually knows how to
(laughter) use this, maybe. - Well, I've driven it
before, yeah, once or twice. - [Dan] But you're
coming up on some stuff? - Yeah, I'm going to get out
of this little silt cloud here. I don't know who's down there before. Dan. (Dan laughs) - Stirred up just a little bit of silt. That's all right. It looked like a piece of concrete, is what it kind of looked like. I'm not quite sure. I'm on another one right now. Yeah, it looks like concrete
is what it looks like. (Dan hums) Yeah, it's definitely concrete. I'm going right along the side of it here. I don't know why it would be this far out. Maybe it was just when they were doing
the levee or something. Just initially somebody
just took a dump truck load or something, dumped it over there. - [Dan] Huh. Maybe-oh, you know what? It almost looks like the old bridge beams. The concrete beams is what
it kind of looks like. In my opinion, it's not wood.
Definitely looks concrete. - [Dan] It's not a car. - It's not a car. And that, Dan, is how you
use a drone. Now watch. I'm gonna bring it up. Watch this. You ready? And there it is. - [Dan] Nice work, Jared.
- Thank you. If you guys are interested in FIFISH we do have a link in the
description down below. I like that, Dan. (mysterious music) Second side of the levee is now done. I mean, for the most part,
I've gotta be honest with you. Just scanning, and being in the boat- I mean, it's nice being in the boat, but it's also long, whole days. I want to know from you: we are actually recording
a lot of this stuff, we have this; for some of you, do you want
to see everything underwater? Like, we did another channel and just put this stuff over there for the technical side of it and just hours of this footage? Leave me a comment down below. - [Dan] I think we can
actually do a poll on YouTube. - We can do a poll? - [Dan] I'm pretty sure that's a thing. - I don't even know. We're going to see if we can do a poll. If we can, the poll's right there. But also, if you are enjoying our videos, and you've not done so
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boat ramp to go check out as we sort of go down and
wrap up the day today. Fingers crossed. Maybe that's the one. (mysterious music) Well, Dan, that wraps
up the final boat dock. I don't know where to take it from here. You know, it's about
getting out on the water, it's about bringing
awareness to Samantha Hopper, to her daughter Courtney,
to her eight month old. She was eight months pregnant at the time. So here's where we need to ask you to leave your comments, send us emails, get ahold of us on Facebook Messenger. If you have any tips to this case we really want to hear about it. We also want to thank Omaze
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Later, later. Bye-bye. (mysterious music)
