Sometimes, young adults want time away from their parents. So on a Friday night, when 20-year-old Cody MacPherson told his mom to call him back the next day, she didn’t think anything of it.
“He told me he was with a girl,” Cody’s mom, April Berry, told Dateline.
Even the next morning, Saturday, when Cody didn’t answer, April wasn’t too concerned.
“It’s not entirely unusual. I figured he was still with the girl,” she said. “[But] one of my family members called me on Sunday morning and asked if I had heard from him. They were pretty worried because Cody usually reaches out to somebody in the family.”
Cody had been living in New Jersey with his great-uncle on his father’s side.
His mother, who lives in Indiana, called Cody’s stepmother and asked her to go to the house where Cody was last seen to ask where he was.
“The girl [who last saw Cody] told Missie that she didn’t know where he was,” April said. “She said she last spoke to him at 4:00 a.m. on Saturday when he said he was leaving to go home. But his great-uncle said he never came home that night.”
While April left to travel to Browns Mills to help with the search efforts, Cody’s brother called local police to report him missing.
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