The 15-year-old Louisiana girl who is believed to have run off willingly with a family friend who is more than 30 years her senior has been found and the man she was with has been arrested.
Authorities said Domeanna Spell was located with Cory ‘Shane’ Disotell, 47, on Friday in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, which is 1,165 miles from where she was last seen just over one week ago.
Spell, who has been deemed safe, had been missing for just over one week, after being previously last seen getting off the school bus at Port Barre High School in Louisiana at around 7am on March 28.
‘This was a joint effort with our agency, the FBI, US marshals, state police, St. Landry Parish sheriffs office and many other agencies and organizations, working tirelessly and fervently,’ Port Barre Police Chief Deon Bordeaux said.
‘We are so thankful that the hard work paid off and the end result was this girl was found safe.’
Domeanna Spell, 15 (right), who is believed to have run off from Louisiana willingly with Cory ‘Shane’ Disotell, 47 (left), has been found in Colorado and Disotell has been arrested. Spell is said to be deemed safe
Spell’s sister, Jerrie Cradeur, said the believed the teen willingly walked across the street after getting off the school bus and got into a car with Disotell on March 28.
‘He probably has her believing that she’s safe with him and that she’s madly in love with him,’ Cradeur told KATC before Spell was found.
‘I do believe he did brainwash her. It was told to me that he is manipulative and he would have done it.’
Spell’s sister, Jerrie Cradeur, said the believed the teen willingly walked across the street after getting off the school bus and got into a car with Disotell on March 28 before leaving the area, t be found on Friday 1,165 miles away in Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Spell has been found safe and will be home in Louisiana soon, according to her family
Tiffany Lynn Gramm Cormier, the fiancee of Spell’s other sister, Keisha Cormier, confirmed Spell had been found in a video shared to Facebook on Friday.
‘Domeanna has been found, she is safe, she was found in Colorado,’ she said, before thanking the people who shared information during the search for the teen.
‘We don’t know anything else besides that. He has been arrested,’ she added, referring to Disotell.
‘He probably has her believing that she’s safe with him and that she’s madly in love with him,’ Cradeur told KATC of Disotell (right) before Spell (left) was found. ‘I do believe he did brainwash her. It was told to me that he is manipulative and he would have done it’
Cradeur revealed that Disotell had become ‘really good friends’ with her and Domeanna’s parents.
‘They even got a deer lease together because they were really close friends,’ she said.
‘Domeanna started babysitting for his granddaughter, and come to find out there was no granddaughter there for her to be babysitting.’
Disotell had been giving Spell money every weekend, leading her parents to believe that she was babysitting for him.
Disotell had been giving Spell (pictured0 money every weekend, leading her parents to believe that she was babysitting for him. Cradeur believes they were secretly having a relationship
Social media posts indicate Disotell is divorced with children (he is pictured with his ex-wife)
‘She probably left on her free will, and I don’t think he would harm her in any way,’ she said. ‘But he is said to be aggressive.’
Cradeur said Spell’s family tried to keep Disotell away, however, once the family came to believe the two were carrying on a secret relationship, according to Heavy.com.
She added Disotell even told Spell’s parents, Nicholas and Elizabeth Spell, that he was in love with the teen and wanted to marry her a few months.
At that point, Cradeur said Spell’s parents told him to stay away from their daughter and forbid her from seeing him, but the relationship is believed to have continued in secret.
When neighbors saw a man sneak into Spell’s bedroom through the window, her parents called the police, Cradeur said, and that’s when an investigation into Disotell’s and Spell’s relationship first began.
That investigation was said to have been ongoing when Spell disappeared on March 28.
According to online records and social media posts, Disotell is divorced with children.
Disotell could face charges for contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile because the pair left without permission or consent from the teen’s parents.
Disotell (pictured) could face charges for contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile because the pair left without permission or consent from the teen’s parents