Breaking News: Police just found a long, blonde bun that matches the hair color of the last girl found on the Camp Mystic riverbank, but looking at the DNA results…👇
Just moments ago, investigators at Camp Mystic disclosed that they had found a long, blonde hair bun entangled in branches along the riverbank—precisely where they suspect the last missing 8-year-old girl may have attempted to flee.
At first glance, the hair corresponded with the girl’s description: soft, golden-blonde, styled in a small, disheveled bun—the same hairstyle she was last observed wearing. For a fleeting moment, rescuers believed they were one step closer to locating her.
However, the DNA results soon followed.
In a shocking and heartbreaking turn of events, forensic analysis confirmed that the hair does not belong to the missing girl, but rather to her best friend, one of the 27 girls who had already been located.
This revelation has completely altered the course of the investigation.
Detectives are now contemplating several unsettling scenarios:
Was the best friend present at the riverbank with her… even after she was reported found?
Could the missing girl have kept the hair as a memento?
Or—most disturbingly—did someone intentionally place the hair there to mislead the search efforts?
One member of the search team remarked quietly:
“We thought we were getting closer. Now it feels like she’s slipping further away.”
Parents and volunteers are heartbroken, and the girl’s family is once again engulfed in excruciating uncertainty. Police have narrowed the search area, particularly around the river’s edge, and have enlisted specialists in forensic mapping and behavioral profiling to reconstruct the movement patterns of the girls during their final hours at camp.
📌 A complete DNA analysis and an updated map of the riverbank site are available in the comments below.
The question on everyone’s mind now is:
If her best friend was here… where is she?
And what truly transpired on that riverbank?
Stay with us. This case is far from resolved.
First the rain, then the flood: How Camp Mystic campers woke to devastation on July 4
The thunder and lighting came to Camp Mystic first, but that was normal.
The storm and the driving rain at the Texas camp woke up some of the campers, including Georgia and Eloise Jones, at about 1 a.m. on July 4.
At first the pair thought nothing of it, they told ABC News. After all, it had been raining on and off for days.
“I mean, it rains a lot there, so we thought it was just normal,” Georgia said.
But within an hour or so, the girls knew something was wrong, they said, when campers from another cabin showed up at their door, saying theirs had been flooded.
“That’s when we realized something was wrong,” Georgia said. “And our cabins are high up, and for them to be flooding, it’s like, you know, something’s wrong.”
Hours later, at about 7 a.m., when they stepped out of their cabin, the sisters could see what they described as the “complete destruction” of some of the camp.
“And then we realized like we can’t stay here, you know,” Georgia said.
The flood claimed at least 27 lives at Mystic, according to local and camp officials.
Two days prior to the floods, the Texas Department of State Health Services signed off on the youth camp’s emergency plans, according to records obtained by ABC News. The details of Camp Mystic’s emergency plans were not included in the records released by the state.
The youth camp had 557 campers and 108 staffers between its Guadalupe and Cypress Lake locations at the time of the inspection.