Cayce McDaniel

Fourteen-year-old Cayce McDaniel was last seen on August 16, 1996 in Milan, Tennessee.

Disappearance
After attending a back-to-school party at the Double Springs Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Cayce was dropped off at home by a chaperone at approximately 12:30 in the morning.

When her mother, Cindy came home between approximately 1:30 and 2:00 in the morning, she discovered the TV set in Cayce's bedroom was turned on, the clothes she had worn to the party were lying out, there was a bowl of cookies & some milk sitting on the floor and the back door was slightly open. Cayce has not been seen since.

Cindy didn't report Cayce missing right away because Cayce would often spend the night at a friend's house. Cayce used the telephone at a family friend's house to call her friend. When Cindy discovered that Cayce wasn't at the friend's houe, she had the family friend drive her around to search for Cayce. Ten hours after Cayce was last seen, Cindy called the police.

In July of 2018, a man named Finis "Pete" Hill was named a suspect in Cayce's disappearance. Cayce knew him and called him "Uncle Pete". Hill has an extensive criminal record (including charges of aggravated rape and burglary).

Hill was convicted of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault after attempting to kidnap a woman in 2003. A few months after his release from prison in 2018, he was charged with crossing state lines to have sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl.

According to Cindy, she and her boyfriend were at a party the night Cayce went missing. Hill left the party just as they were arriving. Cindy said that Hill would make repeated sexual advances towards her, but she turned him down, threatening to tell her boyfriend that he was bothering her which angered Hill. Cindy believes that Hill went to her house to get revenge for rejecting him and found Cayce alone instead. She said that Cayce trusted Hill enough to let him inside the house.

Hill's wife gave him an alibi for the night of Cayce's disappearance, but it turned out to be false. In October of 2019, Finis Hill was charged with rape and murder in Cayce's disappearance. He is awaiting trial for that case.

Cayce's disappearance is classified as an endangered missing person.