VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Ten years ago Thursday, Joanna Miller called 911 after her grandmother, 77-year-old Lillian Martin and her 10-year-old brother, Josh Bryant, disappeared from a home in Deltona.
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Neighbors who knew the family said they remember when their quiet neighborhood was turned upside down.
"I saw what happened, and I was very disappointed that I was so close to what happened," said neighbor Logan Ricketts.
But after a decade, the case is still a mystery that Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson said they?re still working to solve.
?You have a family, and a missing grandma, and missing brother, and no idea where they were and we had no idea," Johnson said.
After following hundreds of tips from around the nation, the case quickly went cold, until Douglas McClymont -- an electrician who had been inside the family?s home -- went on a crack-fueled crime spree three years later, authorities say.
McClymont killed three people and took two others into hostage in North Carolina, while the police were in pursuit, McClymont shot and killed himself -- that?s when he became a prime suspect in this disappearance case.
?I myself believe Doug is the one who took Josh and Lillian and was the one who murdered them," Johnson said.
Deputies organized an intense search of an area where a resident reported seeing a tan-colored van that matched the description of McClymont?s work van. There they found Bryant?s body, but still have not found Martin.
?It?s very bizarre and a haunting case to us, and the problem is Doug took all that info to the grave," Johnson said.