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Updated on: September 5, 2026 / 10:59 PM EDT / CBS News The guys at the sheriff's office call her a cool dude with long hair because, they say, she's meaner than any of them -- on the gun range and in the field. Her name is Lt.
Dakota Black. She's a trained tracker and detective with the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Lt. Dakota Black : I go out to scenes when there's manhunts or trying to locate individuals.
Her specialty is finding the missing — whether alive or dead. Lt.
Dakota Black : I have found them underneath piles of leaves. … In trees and abandoned homes, sheds … I've found them pretty much in any area you can think of.
Often by her side, her partner, Deputy Haven, a trained therapy dog.
For kids and other family members caught in the crossfire of tragedy, Haven provides comfort and consolation -- a consoling presence she herself would rely on in the coming months as she embarked on one of the most heart-wrenching cases of her career . Lt.
Dakota Black : This case will stay with me forever. And it will be one that I always remember through my whole life … Because of how cruel it was.
Andria Meave : The last thing we said to each other, was "I l ove you." Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, began like most days for Andria Meave: with a 7 a.m.
phone call from her best friend and younger sister, Makayla. Andria Meave : I wish I would've known I would've said so much more.
… I'm grateful for that. At least I said, "I love you." The next morning, Saturday the 16th, the phone rang as usual around 7 a.m.
—only this time, it wasn't Makayla. It was Makayla's husband, Frank Byers.
Andria Meave : He's hysterical, crying, screaming, can barely understand what he's saying. And he says, Makayla didn't come home last night.
… He ended up telling me that Makayla went on a date the Friday night before with a bald man in a white truck … They left and she never came home last night. At the time, Makayla and Frank Byers were headed for divorce, says Andria Meave.
They were still living on the same 10-acre property in Macomb, Oklahoma -- but in separate homes. So, at first, Meave wasn't worried.
Andria Meave : My first thought is she's single. … I hope she had fun.
But Meave's mood began to shift when her many calls to Makayla went to voicemail. Andria Meave : By noon, I was worried.
One o'clock, I was really worried. Their mother, Barbara Harper, was al so anxious.
Makayla was supposed to help out at the family restaurant that afternoon. But she didn't show and hadn't called — unheard of for Makayla.
Barbara Harper : And the more I prayed about it, the more I realized that something serious had happened.
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