"On March 19, 2004, at about 11:30 p.m., 17-year-old Brianna Maitland disappeared on her way home from work at a Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery Vermont. Her light-green, 1985 Oldsmobile 88, with the headlights still on, was found one mile from the Inn, backed into the clapboard side of the ramshackle farmhouse commonly referred to as the "old Dutchburn house." Never before reported by the Vermont media is that on March 20, less than 12 hours after her disappearance, Brianna's abandoned car was first spotted by a passing State Police trooper on regular patrol along Route 118. The officer stopped to examine the vehicle, which had punched a hole in the clapboard siding of the Dutchburn house, causing a heavy piece of plywood covering a window to fall on to the vehicle's rear trunk. The trooper opened the vehicle's unlocked doors, saw two Black Lantern Inn paychecks made out to Brianna Maitland on the front seat, and reportedly picked up several items off the ground nearby the vehicle, including a broken necklace, and tossed them into the vehicle's back seat. He noted the vehicle's license plate number in his notepad, took a photo of the scene, and then continued on his way, reportedly thinking someone, perhaps a drunk driver, had abandoned the vehicle. Three days later, 17-year old Jillian Stout, a close friend of Brianna's since 4th grade, called Bruce and Kellie Maitland, Brianna's parents, at their Franklin home. At the time of her disappearance, Brianna had been staying with Jillian at Jillian's father's home in Sheldon. Worried about Brianna, Jillian asked the Maitlands if she had returned home, and the Maitlands quickly realized their daughter was unaccounted for." (H.P. Albarelli Jr. & Jedd Kettler)