The location where Ebby Steppach was found

This is the location where Ebby Steppach was found dead.

It is situated at Chalamont Park in Little Rock, Arkansas.

On May 22nd, 2018, the police discovered Steppach's skeletal remains in a drainage pipe beside this parking lot.

By that point, the 18-year-old had been missing for nearly three years.

On October 24th, 2015, Steppach reportedly told her mother and stepfather that she had been raped by four individuals at a party she had attended the night before. She also claimed that her attackers had recorded the assault on their phones.

Later that evening, she texted a number of the men and threatened to report them to the authorities. She also made two short phone calls to the Little Rock Police Department.

The police have said that there is no report, call log, or notes to suggest that she ever made a complaint.

At around 2 p.m. on October 25th, Steppach called her brother, Trevor. During the call, she sounded panicked and disoriented.

When she told Trevor that she was parked outside his house, he hung up and went outside to meet her. However, upon opening the front door, he couldn't see her vehicle.

Confused and worried, he called his sister back and demanded to know where she was. In response, she said that she was "with her car" and that she "didn't know her location."

During their conversation, she claimed that she was "f**ked up." She also couldn't tell him if she was with anyone.

This was the last time that anyone spoke to Steppach.

Five days later, on October 30th, police officers found her car parked beside a lamp post in Chalamont Park. The officers were tipped off by a local security guard, who reported that a Volkswagen Passat had been abandoned in the parking lot beside the woods.

When the officers arrived, they found Steppach's makeup and belongings inside the vehicle. Her keys were in the ignition, the gas tank was empty, and the battery was dead.

The security guard who reported the car claimed that he had seen Steppach talking to a group of young men at the location on at least three occasions. He also said he had dashcam footage of her with the men, but that it had been overwritten before he could hand it over to the police.

After being contacted by a private detective, he insisted that the LRPD never reached out to him about the incident.

Shortly after Steppach's disappearance, a fake Facebook account pretending to be the missing girl reportedly contacted her mother and claimed that she was OK.

In 2015, the mother of Steppach's best friend contacted the police and told them that a bad smell was emanating from the area. When officers responded to her call, they explained that she had probably just smelled sewage, as the cadaver dogs had previously failed to pick up anything.

The following year, the authorities conducted another search of the area. Although they were reminded about the smell, nothing ever came of it.

For the next two years, the case remained at a standstill.

Then, on May 22nd, 2018, the police decided to search the park again. According to one of the lead detectives, the decision to revisit the scene was based on "gut instinct."

During the search, they recovered skeletal remains in a drainage pipe close to where Steppach's silver Volkswagen had been parked.

The following day, the remains were formally identified as those of Steppach.

The teenager's death is now being treated as a homicide.

To this day, no arrests have been made.