A detective leading the hunt for North Carolina schoolgirl Madalina Cojocari said she’s convinced the 11-year-old is still alive more than a year after she was last seen walking off her school bus.
“I believe she’s alive — I do, I do,” Major Jennifer Thompson, second in command at the Cornelius Police Department, told WCCB of her force’s biggest case.
“I believe it in my heart. And it’s not one of those feelings where that’s just what I want to believe — it’s truly what I believe,” she stated firmly.
“I think it would be a disservice to Madalina if we lost hope — we’re just not going to do that.”
The sixth-grader was last spotted getting off a school bus in November 2022 — but her mother, Diana Cojocari, and stepfather, Christopher Palmiter, did not report her missing for weeks, ruining the crucial early days for a search.
Thompson was the first officer to interrogate the couple, who were both arrested last December for failure to report their child as missing.
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