NJ DANIELLE LOPEZ: Missing from Brendan T. Byrne State Forest campground, NJ - 13 April 2024 - Age 37 (1 Viewer)

In 2015, Sue Quackenbush lost her son, Eric, to suicide. Ten months later, her other son, Michael, a US Marine and combat veteran, died in an accident.

Now, Quackenbush, of West Chester, PA, is desperate to find her 37-year-old Willingboro, NJ daughter, Danielle Lopez, who has been missing since April 13, 2024.


Danielle also lost her grandpa, her brothers, and her beloved dog within a short period of time. Her mother, Sue, is completely crushed, which is why I wanted to add Danielle's case to our forum. She was last seen by YouTube vloggers and didn't seem to be suicidal to me, just wanted help getting her car out of the mud. I'm kinda ticked that the vloggers didn't give her a ride somewhere, but I don't know all the circumstances surrounding why they left her out there. You can listen to the whole story on the Dateline podcast. Here's an article about it:

Puzzling disappearance of New Jersey woman leaves mother desperate for answers

Danielle Lopez, 37, was last seen walking down a road in a heavily wooded area on the evening of April 13, 2024.

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MEDIA: Please help the devasted mom of DANIELLE LOPEZ find her daughter! Last seen on Lost Lane Road in Penn St Forest in Woodland Township, NJ - April 2024

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

$5K reward extended for tips about woman who vanished on N.J. camping trip

Danielle Lopez was last seen walking alone on a dirt road in New Jersey's Penn State Forest.

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$5K reward extended for tips about woman who vanished on N.J. camping trip​

A missing persons organization has extended the deadline to claim a reward for information leading to the discovery of a New Jersey woman who disappeared during a camping trip in the Pine Barrens last year.

Danielle Lopez, of Willingboro, was 37 when she was reported missing in April 2024 after telling her mother she was camping with her boyfriend in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, which spans Burlington and Ocean counties.

Her disappearance remains a mystery and police have provided no recent updates on the case.

The North Carolina-based Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons, a nonprofit group that advocates for missing kids and adults, is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading investigators to Lopez.

The group, known as the CUE Center, initially offered the reward in February and said it would be active for 90 days. It recently announced the reward will now be extended through July 31.

The reward can only be claimed by providing “the direct location or information leading to the direct location” of Lopez, the group stated.


The last known traces of Lopez were video images recorded the following day. She was seen that morning leaving a Wawa on Route 72 in the Vincentown section of Southampton Township in Burlington County after buying a cup of coffee.

That evening around 6 p.m., a couple spotted Lopez while driving on Lost Lane in Woodland Township in southern Burlington County, according to police.

She was walking alone on the road in Penn State Forest, about 12 miles from her campground. They spoke briefly to her before driving off, and then the couple spotted her car stuck in a large puddle, police said last year.

The interaction was captured on the couple’s GoPro video camera and they shared the footage with police.

Lopez was camping with her boyfriend, who was interviewed by police about her disappearance and said he last saw her on the morning of April 13, police said.

The boyfriend is currently in state prison on a matter unrelated to the missing persons case, according to prison records.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Desperate N.J. mom offering $25K reward after her daughter vanishes in Pine Barrens

The mother is putting up $25,000 of her own money as a "Hail Mary" to locate Danielle Lopez, who disappeared on a New Jersey camping trip last year.

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Desperate N.J. mom offering $25K reward after her daughter vanishes in Pine Barrens​

Sue Quackenbush is desperate for answers about her daughter.

Danielle Lopez, of Willingboro, was 37 when she was reported missing in April 2024. She had told her mother she was camping with her boyfriend in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, a sprawling Pine Barrens park that spans parts of Burlington and Ocean counties.

Quackenbush is now offering a $25,000 reward out of her own pocket for information that leads to locating her daughter.

“I’d rather be broke and have answers than continue like this,” she said Monday. “It’s a Hail Mary, really. I don’t know what else to do.”


Her boyfriend is currently in state prison on charges unrelated to the missing persons case, according to prison records.



Multiple people who were around Lopez in the days before she disappeared were also interviewed, authorities said last year.

The New Jersey State Police continue to investigate the case, Quackenbush said.

“The investigation is still very active,” she said. “There are things going on. They don’t tell me about a lot of it.”

A private investigator Quackenbush met through a high school friend is also helping on the case free of charge, she said.

Earlier this year, the North Carolina-based Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons, a nonprofit group that advocates for missing kids and adults, offered a $5,000 reward for information leading investigators to Lopez. The CUE Center’s reward has since expired.

Quackenbush hopes her own $25,000 reward will be enough to get someone talking.

 

[Tresir]

Quite a bit more info in this Oxygen article. Apparently there is a video of the interaction with the blogger. Anyone know how we could find that?

New Jersey Woman Vanishes While Camping with Boyfriend | Oxygen

Learn more about the ongoing search for Danielle Lopez, who went missing while camping in New Jersey.

www.oxygen.com

It’s been more than a year since Danielle Lopez was last seen in the vast wilderness of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens after her car got stuck in the mud.
Lopez’s mother Sue Quackenbush — who has already grieved the deaths of two children — is desperate for answers about what happened to her beautiful daughter.
“That's my hopes that somebody will recall or remember or go through or know something,” Quackenbush said on the Season 4 premiere of the Dateline: Missing in America podcast, a program that highlights some of the country’s most baffling disappearances.
Lopez, then 37 years old, had been camping in the Pine Barrens — a location once made famous by HBO’s The Sopranos for its remoteness — when she mysteriously vanished on April 13, 2024.

Who is Danielle Lopez? ​

It’s unlike Lopez to stay out of contact with her mom, who described her middle child as loving, loyal and loud.
“I’m quieter and I would say Danielle, you have to keep it quiet,” Quackenbush remembered. “She’d say, but mom, you didn’t name me Dan Quiet, you named me Dan Yell!”
Lopez, once a popular high school cheerleader and good student, has always been close to her family, even living for years with her grandfather after her grandmother’s death. Their pairing was once highlighted in the local newspaper in 2013 for the unique way they’d bridged the generational gap.
“They were world travelers, Yankees fans, cruises — everything so much so that she had a hat made saying that she was the granddaughter so that people didn't misinterpret their relationship,” Quackenbush said.

Suffering family tragedies​

Lopez was also close to her two brothers, but the family suffered an unimaginable tragedy when her older brother Eric took his own life on Christmas Day in 2015 and her younger brother died in a Florida car accident just 10 months later.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, the family suffered more grief when Lopez lost her beloved grandfather to the disease, followed, just a month later, by her father, who suffered a heart attack.
In the wake of the tragedies, Quackenbush said she and her daughter suffered greatly. Quackenbush found solace in therapy, and hoped to lead Danielle “by example." Quackenbush helped her daughter get into a recovery program and supported her “through thick and thin.”

Danielle Lopez
Photo: Oxygen

What happened to Danielle Lopez?​

In a conversation Quackenbush had with her daughter on the day before she disappeared, it seemed as though Lopez was in a good place and “hopeful” about the future.
She was camping in the Pine Barrens with her on-again, off-again boyfriend James Scott Dunn. But when Quackenbush was unable to get through to her daughter and her calls and texts went unanswered, she knew something was wrong.
Quackenbush went to police to report her daughter missing and brought them a tip of her own. She knew that Lopez had used her store rewards card at a Wawa convenience store near the campsite at 9:11 a.m. to purchase coffee on the morning of April 13.
“So that's where we knew how to start,” she told Correspondent Josh Mankiewicz.
Authorities were able to spot Lopez on surveillance footage making the purchase. Then just a few days later, on May 1, 2024, investigators found her blue two-door Hyundai Accent abandoned on a dirt road in the Pine Barrens known as Lost Lane.
“Multiple items of her personal property were located inside the car,” explained Detective Sgt. Ryan Labriola of the New Jersey State Police’s Major Crimes Unit. “Just clothing, things like that. No cell phone was found. We believe her cell phone is still with her at this time.”
In a strange twist of fate, a blogger and freelance photographer recorded the last known interaction with Lopez around 6 p.m. on April 13, 2024. He spotted her walking down Lost Lane, some time after her vehicle became stuck.
She told the blogger and another person with him that she had been distracted and looking at the trees when she drove into the puddle and was unable to get out.
“I was like sh-t, and it was fine until I put it in drive,” she said, before asking, “What do I do?”
She asked for help pushing her car out of the puddle, but instead the man pointed her in the direction of the main road.
“All right,” Lopez said in a video of the exchange posted online. “I was just gonna wait there.”
It was the last known sighting of Lopez.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Not judging but do wonder how differently things may have gone if he'd helped her push her car out...

 

[Tresir]

Very interesting. Have not been able to copy it so far but will try bit by bit. Partner sounds like a real dirtbag. This wasn't a holiday location as I thought originally but they lived there.

The Danielle Lopez Investigation: Part 1 – Verified Timeline & Initial Findings

By NJPI Agency – New Jersey Private Investigators James Ramsey III, Founder & CEO https://njpi.agency – July 2025 Danielle Evelyn Lopez: Verified Timeline & Case Overview In early April 2024, 37-year-old Danielle Evelyn Lopez left her Willingboro, NJ home after a series of escalating domestic violen

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Danielle Evelyn Lopez: Verified Timeline & Case Overview​

In early April 2024, 37-year-old Danielle Evelyn Lopez left her Willingboro, NJ home after a series of escalating domestic violence incidents involving her boyfriend, James “Scott” Dunn. They relocated to Campsite #77 in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest (not Penn State Forest), specifically at the Brendan T. Byrne Campground in Woodland Township, Burlington County, NJ.
On April 13, 2024:

• Danielle’s last confirmed sighting occurred after her blue Hyundai Accent became disabled on Lost Lane in the Penn State Forest, Woodland section of Chatsworth.
• Around 4:00 PM, a passing motorist (JC) captured Danielle on GoPro video walking on Lost Lane and asking for directions to Lake Oswego.
• At 5:50 PM, the same GoPro captured Danielle again, now on foot and further east down Lost Lane.
• At approximately 8:30 PM, another motorist (JO) discovered Danielle’s Hyundai Accent abandoned in a flooded sandy patch, with her belongings inside. Danielle was not present.

Key Points of Confusion (Addressed):

• Location Clarification: The campsite was in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest. Danielle’s car was found abandoned on Lost Lane, which is in Penn State Forest—two distinct locations.
• Wawa Account: Danielle was seen on surveillance at the Vincentown, NJ Wawa at 10:18 AM, accompanied by another individual (identity not confirmed by law enforcement). She did not appear distressed.

Missing Person Report: Danielle’s boyfriend, Scott Dunn, remained at the campground and did not report her missing. Eleven days later, Danielle’s mother, Sue Quackenbush, filed the official missing person report with the New Jersey State Police on April 24, 2024.

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Verified Chronological Timeline​

Sunday, April 7, 2024

• Danielle and Scott arrive at Campsite #77, Brendan T. Byrne Campground, after eviction from Scott’s parents’ home due to domestic violence.

Friday, April 12, 2024

• Neighboring camper (FS) photographs Danielle at the campsite in the evening.
• Danielle’s last known phone call with her mother, Sue; Danielle reported no immediate concerns.

Saturday, April 13, 2024 – Date of Disappearance

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  10:18 AM: Danielle is captured on Wawa surveillance footage with another individual (not alone), purchasing items, no signs of distress.​
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  4:00 PM: Motorist (JC) GoPro captures Danielle near her disabled vehicle (blue 2013 Hyundai Accent) on Lost Lane Road, asking for directions to Lake Oswego. A black trash bag with Danielle’s belongings is visible.​
• ​
  5:50 PM: JC’s GoPro again captures Danielle, walking further down Lost Lane, away from her vehicle—the last confirmed visual sighting.​
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  8:30 PM: Motorist (JO) finds Danielle’s vehicle abandoned and stuck off Lost Lane, personal belongings inside. Danielle not present.​

April 14–23, 2024

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  Sue Quackenbush repeatedly attempts to contact Danielle.​
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  Scott Dunn does not attempt to report Danielle missing or search for her.​

April 24, 2024

• ​
  Sue Quackenbush files the official missing person report with NJ State Police.​

Key Witnesses and Roles​

• ​
  FS: Neighboring camper who photographed Danielle April 12; witnessed prior arguments between Danielle and Scott.​
• ​
  JC: Motorist who captured the last verified GoPro footage of Danielle April 13.​
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  JO: Motorist who discovered Danielle’s abandoned vehicle April 13, 8:30 PM.​
• ​
  LP: Witness who contacted Sue over a year later with information implicating a third party (JJ) in Danielle’s disappearance. Allegedly, JJ admitted Scott came to his house covered in mud that night, asking for help “with Danielle.”​

Evidence Collected​

• ​
  Vehicle: Blue 2013 Hyundai Accent, abandoned, battery dead, stuck off Lost Lane Road; processed by NJ State Police.​
  
  
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  Personal Belongings: Black trash bag (clothing), tan undergarment recovered and submitted for DNA analysis.​
  
  
• ​
  Digital Evidence: Wawa surveillance, GoPro footage.​
  
  
• ​
  Forensic Analysis: Shoeprints, fingerprints, DNA evidence under review.​

  Scott Dunn’s Statements and Behavior​

  • ​
    Provided conflicting accounts of Danielle’s last movements.​
    
    
  • ​
    Did not notify authorities or Sue after Danielle’s disappearance.​
    
    
  • ​
    Was arrested on unrelated charges after Danielle’s disappearance and remains incarcerated.​

NJPI Agency’s Actions​

• ​
  Conducted direct interviews with all key witnesses (JC, FS, JO, LP).​
  
  
• ​
  Reviewed surveillance and dash-cam footage.​
  
  
• ​
  Submitted physical and digital evidence to law enforcement.​
  
  
• ​
  Coordinated with police on forensic and case review.​

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Contact and Resources​

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  NJPI Agency: https://njpi.agency​
  
  
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  Confidential Tip Line: https://njpi.agency/contact​
  
  
• ​
  Dateline NBC Coverage: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/missing-in-america/danielle-lopez-missing-nj-rcna154882​

End of Article 1 – Verified Timeline & Initial Findings

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Note: NJPI Agency has taken this case pro bono to support victims of domestic violence and help families in crisis. We understand that law enforcement and prosecutors only get one chance to build a solid case, which makes thorough, independent investigation essential.
Our dedication to victims of domestic violence extends to our ongoing public-safety work through Overwatch, our offender recognition initiative: https://njpi.agency/ow
If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence, please contact:

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  180 Turning Lives Around (Monmouth County, NJ): https://180nj.org​
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  National Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.thehotline.org (800-799-7233)​
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  New Jersey Coalition to End Domestic Violence: https://njcedv.org​

 

[Guess Who]

Quite a bit more info in this Oxygen article. Apparently there is a video of the interaction with the blogger. Anyone know how we could find that?

New Jersey Woman Vanishes While Camping with Boyfriend | Oxygen

Learn more about the ongoing search for Danielle Lopez, who went missing while camping in New Jersey.

www.oxygen.com

It’s been more than a year since Danielle Lopez was last seen in the vast wilderness of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens after her car got stuck in the mud.
Lopez’s mother Sue Quackenbush — who has already grieved the deaths of two children — is desperate for answers about what happened to her beautiful daughter.
“That's my hopes that somebody will recall or remember or go through or know something,” Quackenbush said on the Season 4 premiere of the Dateline: Missing in America podcast, a program that highlights some of the country’s most baffling disappearances.
Lopez, then 37 years old, had been camping in the Pine Barrens — a location once made famous by HBO’s The Sopranos for its remoteness — when she mysteriously vanished on April 13, 2024.

Who is Danielle Lopez? ​

It’s unlike Lopez to stay out of contact with her mom, who described her middle child as loving, loyal and loud.
“I’m quieter and I would say Danielle, you have to keep it quiet,” Quackenbush remembered. “She’d say, but mom, you didn’t name me Dan Quiet, you named me Dan Yell!”
Lopez, once a popular high school cheerleader and good student, has always been close to her family, even living for years with her grandfather after her grandmother’s death. Their pairing was once highlighted in the local newspaper in 2013 for the unique way they’d bridged the generational gap.
“They were world travelers, Yankees fans, cruises — everything so much so that she had a hat made saying that she was the granddaughter so that people didn't misinterpret their relationship,” Quackenbush said.

Suffering family tragedies​

Lopez was also close to her two brothers, but the family suffered an unimaginable tragedy when her older brother Eric took his own life on Christmas Day in 2015 and her younger brother died in a Florida car accident just 10 months later.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, the family suffered more grief when Lopez lost her beloved grandfather to the disease, followed, just a month later, by her father, who suffered a heart attack.
In the wake of the tragedies, Quackenbush said she and her daughter suffered greatly. Quackenbush found solace in therapy, and hoped to lead Danielle “by example." Quackenbush helped her daughter get into a recovery program and supported her “through thick and thin.”

Danielle Lopez
Photo: Oxygen

What happened to Danielle Lopez?​

In a conversation Quackenbush had with her daughter on the day before she disappeared, it seemed as though Lopez was in a good place and “hopeful” about the future.
She was camping in the Pine Barrens with her on-again, off-again boyfriend James Scott Dunn. But when Quackenbush was unable to get through to her daughter and her calls and texts went unanswered, she knew something was wrong.
Quackenbush went to police to report her daughter missing and brought them a tip of her own. She knew that Lopez had used her store rewards card at a Wawa convenience store near the campsite at 9:11 a.m. to purchase coffee on the morning of April 13.
“So that's where we knew how to start,” she told Correspondent Josh Mankiewicz.
Authorities were able to spot Lopez on surveillance footage making the purchase. Then just a few days later, on May 1, 2024, investigators found her blue two-door Hyundai Accent abandoned on a dirt road in the Pine Barrens known as Lost Lane.
“Multiple items of her personal property were located inside the car,” explained Detective Sgt. Ryan Labriola of the New Jersey State Police’s Major Crimes Unit. “Just clothing, things like that. No cell phone was found. We believe her cell phone is still with her at this time.”
In a strange twist of fate, a blogger and freelance photographer recorded the last known interaction with Lopez around 6 p.m. on April 13, 2024. He spotted her walking down Lost Lane, some time after her vehicle became stuck.
She told the blogger and another person with him that she had been distracted and looking at the trees when she drove into the puddle and was unable to get out.
“I was like sh-t, and it was fine until I put it in drive,” she said, before asking, “What do I do?”
She asked for help pushing her car out of the puddle, but instead the man pointed her in the direction of the main road.
“All right,” Lopez said in a video of the exchange posted online. “I was just gonna wait there.”
It was the last known sighting of Lopez.

Love this part!

“She’d say, but mom, you didn’t name me Dan Quiet, you named me Dan Yell!”

 

[Guess Who]

Very interesting. Have not been able to copy it so far but will try bit by bit. Partner sounds like a real dirtbag. This wasn't a holiday location as I thought originally but they lived there.

The Danielle Lopez Investigation: Part 1 – Verified Timeline & Initial Findings

By NJPI Agency – New Jersey Private Investigators James Ramsey III, Founder & CEO https://njpi.agency – July 2025 Danielle Evelyn Lopez: Verified Timeline & Case Overview In early April 2024, 37-year-old Danielle Evelyn Lopez left her Willingboro, NJ home after a series of escalating domestic violen

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Danielle Evelyn Lopez: Verified Timeline & Case Overview​

In early April 2024, 37-year-old Danielle Evelyn Lopez left her Willingboro, NJ home after a series of escalating domestic violence incidents involving her boyfriend, James “Scott” Dunn. They relocated to Campsite #77 in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest (not Penn State Forest), specifically at the Brendan T. Byrne Campground in Woodland Township, Burlington County, NJ.
On April 13, 2024:

• Danielle’s last confirmed sighting occurred after her blue Hyundai Accent became disabled on Lost Lane in the Penn State Forest, Woodland section of Chatsworth.
• Around 4:00 PM, a passing motorist (JC) captured Danielle on GoPro video walking on Lost Lane and asking for directions to Lake Oswego.
• At 5:50 PM, the same GoPro captured Danielle again, now on foot and further east down Lost Lane.
• At approximately 8:30 PM, another motorist (JO) discovered Danielle’s Hyundai Accent abandoned in a flooded sandy patch, with her belongings inside. Danielle was not present.

Key Points of Confusion (Addressed):

• Location Clarification: The campsite was in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest. Danielle’s car was found abandoned on Lost Lane, which is in Penn State Forest—two distinct locations.
• Wawa Account: Danielle was seen on surveillance at the Vincentown, NJ Wawa at 10:18 AM, accompanied by another individual (identity not confirmed by law enforcement). She did not appear distressed.

Missing Person Report: Danielle’s boyfriend, Scott Dunn, remained at the campground and did not report her missing. Eleven days later, Danielle’s mother, Sue Quackenbush, filed the official missing person report with the New Jersey State Police on April 24, 2024.

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Verified Chronological Timeline​

Sunday, April 7, 2024

• Danielle and Scott arrive at Campsite #77, Brendan T. Byrne Campground, after eviction from Scott’s parents’ home due to domestic violence.

Friday, April 12, 2024

• Neighboring camper (FS) photographs Danielle at the campsite in the evening.
• Danielle’s last known phone call with her mother, Sue; Danielle reported no immediate concerns.

Saturday, April 13, 2024 – Date of Disappearance

• ​
  10:18 AM: Danielle is captured on Wawa surveillance footage with another individual (not alone), purchasing items, no signs of distress.​
• ​
  4:00 PM: Motorist (JC) GoPro captures Danielle near her disabled vehicle (blue 2013 Hyundai Accent) on Lost Lane Road, asking for directions to Lake Oswego. A black trash bag with Danielle’s belongings is visible.​
• ​
  5:50 PM: JC’s GoPro again captures Danielle, walking further down Lost Lane, away from her vehicle—the last confirmed visual sighting.​
• ​
  8:30 PM: Motorist (JO) finds Danielle’s vehicle abandoned and stuck off Lost Lane, personal belongings inside. Danielle not present.​

April 14–23, 2024

• ​
  Sue Quackenbush repeatedly attempts to contact Danielle.​
• ​
  Scott Dunn does not attempt to report Danielle missing or search for her.​

April 24, 2024

• ​
  Sue Quackenbush files the official missing person report with NJ State Police.​

Key Witnesses and Roles​

• ​
  FS: Neighboring camper who photographed Danielle April 12; witnessed prior arguments between Danielle and Scott.​
• ​
  JC: Motorist who captured the last verified GoPro footage of Danielle April 13.​
• ​
  JO: Motorist who discovered Danielle’s abandoned vehicle April 13, 8:30 PM.​
• ​
  LP: Witness who contacted Sue over a year later with information implicating a third party (JJ) in Danielle’s disappearance. Allegedly, JJ admitted Scott came to his house covered in mud that night, asking for help “with Danielle.”​

Evidence Collected​

• ​
  Vehicle: Blue 2013 Hyundai Accent, abandoned, battery dead, stuck off Lost Lane Road; processed by NJ State Police.​
  
  
• ​
  Personal Belongings: Black trash bag (clothing), tan undergarment recovered and submitted for DNA analysis.​
  
  
• ​
  Digital Evidence: Wawa surveillance, GoPro footage.​
  
  
• ​
  Forensic Analysis: Shoeprints, fingerprints, DNA evidence under review.​

  Scott Dunn’s Statements and Behavior​

  • ​
    Provided conflicting accounts of Danielle’s last movements.​
    
    
  • ​
    Did not notify authorities or Sue after Danielle’s disappearance.​
    
    
  • ​
    Was arrested on unrelated charges after Danielle’s disappearance and remains incarcerated.​

NJPI Agency’s Actions​

• ​
  Conducted direct interviews with all key witnesses (JC, FS, JO, LP).​
  
  
• ​
  Reviewed surveillance and dash-cam footage.​
  
  
• ​
  Submitted physical and digital evidence to law enforcement.​
  
  
• ​
  Coordinated with police on forensic and case review.​

---

Contact and Resources​

• ​
  NJPI Agency: https://njpi.agency​
  
  
• ​
  Confidential Tip Line: https://njpi.agency/contact​
  
  
• ​
  Dateline NBC Coverage: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/missing-in-america/danielle-lopez-missing-nj-rcna154882​

Can't actually "live" there. There is a two week maximum at any site there.

NJ Outdoors

State of New Jersey Outdoors

www.njportal.com

Maximum 14 night stay initially, then up to 40 night total in calendar year

 

[Tresir]

Can't actually "live" there. There is a two week maximum at any site there.

NJ Outdoors

State of New Jersey Outdoors

www.njportal.com

Maximum 14 night stay initially, then up to 40 night total in calendar year

Well she didnt even make the 14 nights but they would have had approx an additional 4 or 5 weeks to live there before finding somewhere else. They had only been there a week when she disappeared. I wonder how long he stayed? He never told her mother she had "disappeared" so she had to report her missing eventually 10 days later.

 

[Tresir]

Here's Part 2.

The Danielle Lopez Investigation: Part 2 – Witness Statements & Scene Analysis

The Danielle Lopez Investigation: Part 2 – Witness Statements & Scene Analysis

The Danielle Lopez Investigation: Part 2 Witness Statements & Scene Analysis By James Ramsey III NJPI Agency New Jersey Private Investigators Agency https://njpi.agency July 17,2025 Introduction to My LinkedIn Network I’m continuing to share the verified investigative work NJPI Agency has conducted

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And Part 3 Forensic and Digital info.

The Danielle Lopez Investigation: Part 3 Forensic and Digital Records Review By James Ramsey III NJPI Agency | New Jersey Private Investigator Agency

New forensic data, verified OPRA records, and digital evidence analysis shed fresh light on the disappearance of Danielle Evelyn Lopez. This is Part 3 of NJPI Agency’s continuing investigative series.

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[Guess Who]

So you're "camping" because you got kicked out of your home. Your girlfriend doesn't show up for days and you are just "meh"? At the very least, he knows FAR more than nothing about what happened to her. It sounds like it wasn't an area she was familiar with.

 

[Tresir]

So you're "camping" because you got kicked out of your home. Your girlfriend doesn't show up for days and you are just "meh"? At the very least, he knows FAR more than nothing about what happened to her. It sounds like it wasn't an area she was familiar with.

I am wondering if they have him in jail on other charges while they still investigate this.

This PI must the one known to the friend of her mother, who is mentioned as helping in post number 3 above.

 

[Guess Who]

Well she didnt even make the 14 nights but they would have had approx an additional 4 or 5 weeks to live there before finding somewhere else. They had only been there a week when she disappeared. I wonder how long he stayed? He never told her mother she had "disappeared" so she had to report her missing eventually 10 days later.

IF they stayed the 40 days, that would entail 3 different campsites. Just FYI. Setting up camp and breaking it down once sucks bad enough, let alone 3 times and if you are living that way, that would mean even more gear to have to pack and repack. YUCK!

I guess he "might" have thought she had just had it with the situation, but it sure seems like if you cared even a little bit, you would be inquiring about them way before 10 days.

 

[Kimster]

Quite a bit more info in this Oxygen article. Apparently there is a video of the interaction with the blogger. Anyone know how we could find that?

New Jersey Woman Vanishes While Camping with Boyfriend | Oxygen

Learn more about the ongoing search for Danielle Lopez, who went missing while camping in New Jersey.

www.oxygen.com

It’s been more than a year since Danielle Lopez was last seen in the vast wilderness of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens after her car got stuck in the mud.
Lopez’s mother Sue Quackenbush — who has already grieved the deaths of two children — is desperate for answers about what happened to her beautiful daughter.
“That's my hopes that somebody will recall or remember or go through or know something,” Quackenbush said on the Season 4 premiere of the Dateline: Missing in America podcast, a program that highlights some of the country’s most baffling disappearances.
Lopez, then 37 years old, had been camping in the Pine Barrens — a location once made famous by HBO’s The Sopranos for its remoteness — when she mysteriously vanished on April 13, 2024.

Who is Danielle Lopez? ​

It’s unlike Lopez to stay out of contact with her mom, who described her middle child as loving, loyal and loud.
“I’m quieter and I would say Danielle, you have to keep it quiet,” Quackenbush remembered. “She’d say, but mom, you didn’t name me Dan Quiet, you named me Dan Yell!”
Lopez, once a popular high school cheerleader and good student, has always been close to her family, even living for years with her grandfather after her grandmother’s death. Their pairing was once highlighted in the local newspaper in 2013 for the unique way they’d bridged the generational gap.
“They were world travelers, Yankees fans, cruises — everything so much so that she had a hat made saying that she was the granddaughter so that people didn't misinterpret their relationship,” Quackenbush said.

Suffering family tragedies​

Lopez was also close to her two brothers, but the family suffered an unimaginable tragedy when her older brother Eric took his own life on Christmas Day in 2015 and her younger brother died in a Florida car accident just 10 months later.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, the family suffered more grief when Lopez lost her beloved grandfather to the disease, followed, just a month later, by her father, who suffered a heart attack.
In the wake of the tragedies, Quackenbush said she and her daughter suffered greatly. Quackenbush found solace in therapy, and hoped to lead Danielle “by example." Quackenbush helped her daughter get into a recovery program and supported her “through thick and thin.”

Danielle Lopez
Photo: Oxygen

What happened to Danielle Lopez?​

In a conversation Quackenbush had with her daughter on the day before she disappeared, it seemed as though Lopez was in a good place and “hopeful” about the future.
She was camping in the Pine Barrens with her on-again, off-again boyfriend James Scott Dunn. But when Quackenbush was unable to get through to her daughter and her calls and texts went unanswered, she knew something was wrong.
Quackenbush went to police to report her daughter missing and brought them a tip of her own. She knew that Lopez had used her store rewards card at a Wawa convenience store near the campsite at 9:11 a.m. to purchase coffee on the morning of April 13.
“So that's where we knew how to start,” she told Correspondent Josh Mankiewicz.
Authorities were able to spot Lopez on surveillance footage making the purchase. Then just a few days later, on May 1, 2024, investigators found her blue two-door Hyundai Accent abandoned on a dirt road in the Pine Barrens known as Lost Lane.
“Multiple items of her personal property were located inside the car,” explained Detective Sgt. Ryan Labriola of the New Jersey State Police’s Major Crimes Unit. “Just clothing, things like that. No cell phone was found. We believe her cell phone is still with her at this time.”
In a strange twist of fate, a blogger and freelance photographer recorded the last known interaction with Lopez around 6 p.m. on April 13, 2024. He spotted her walking down Lost Lane, some time after her vehicle became stuck.
She told the blogger and another person with him that she had been distracted and looking at the trees when she drove into the puddle and was unable to get out.
“I was like sh-t, and it was fine until I put it in drive,” she said, before asking, “What do I do?”
She asked for help pushing her car out of the puddle, but instead the man pointed her in the direction of the main road.
“All right,” Lopez said in a video of the exchange posted online. “I was just gonna wait there.”
It was the last known sighting of Lopez.

I heard an audio of it somewhere back when I first heard of this case, but never saw a video. I'll link it if I find it again.

ETA: I'm pretty sure it's part of the Dateline podcast.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Her car was stuck in the mud. I wonder if he also had a car or were they dependent on one car.

From one of the above posts, this struck me:

Location Clarification: The campsite was in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest. Danielle’s car was found abandoned on Lost Lane, which is in Penn State Forest—two distinct locations.

I googled and they are about 13 miles apart generally, the two forests...

It is a red flag he never reported her missing. I guess one would need to know their pattern. Did she often leave him? If she did, was it common of him to call her to try to get her back, etc. because if he commonly did, he apparently didn't this time.

It also struck me in a post above that they were testing for DNA on a tan undergarment... Where did they find this? The bag of clothes they mention I think were in her car, but what about the undergarment?

I haven't read every link. Had an appt. today so no time earlier.