Sadly, at the time that Debbie vanished missing children cases were not taken very seriously. While they took a report the day she vanished, they refused to file it or declare her missing for 72 hours. Even then she was not listed as a endangered missing child, she was instead classified as a runaway. To date no evidence has ever been found to support that classification. The police became so tired of my parents coming in and pressing for answers, that at one point they were escorted out of the police station, and threatened with arrest if they returned. My sisters file at the Pompano Beach police department contains 4 pages. One of the detectives who now have her case, apologized to us for how terribly her case had been mishandled. After a few years of research, and a lot of insistence my brother managed to get her case reclassified as endangered missing, he also got her listed on all of the missing child sites he could find, and the police acknowledged that she was a possible victim of John Gerard Schaefer. However, to date, despite our repeated requests and pleading, they still refuse to allow us to see the evidence they found at Schaefers residence. All we have ever been permitted to see are the few black and white photos that have been published. We feel that MAYBE we could identify something of hers.