And the advent of the world wide web and then smart phones has made it even harder to keep them safe from predators.

There was a white girl in Mobile, reportedly a "good girl", who somehow fell in with a black thug and they or he robbed a motel in Mobile area - and then
she ended up dead somewhere up in Ohio. The thug has been arrested.

I have a feeling that the Blanchard girl also got contacted by a thug on social media, ended up meeting him and then got kidnapped and murdered.

Parents got to be more vigilant now then ever.