In search of her daughter, she posted hundreds of missing persons posters in the Burkittsville area and hired a private investigator, Buck Buchanan, to do an independent investigation into her daughter's disappearance. Heather went missing in October 1994 in the woods near Burkittsville, [[Maryland] while filming a documentary about the Blair Witch. When a ten-day search turned up nothing, Angie began an exhaustive personal search for Heather and her companions, hiring private investigator Buck Buchanan to do an independent investigation into her daughter's disappearance.