 Early on the morning of Friday, August 12th, the body of a 12-year-old girl was found at Van Leer. Johnson County police determined that the suspect was the girl's own father. Mountaintop News spoke with the victim's mother to learn more. The body of Stacia Lee Collins was found near an old strip mine next to Butcher Haller. Her father was found nearby with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. I spoke with her dad on Tuesday and he sounded fine and all that. That spirit even came to the lawyer's office and said, you know, want 50-50 custody, share it down the middle. So I was like, that sounds good, you know, I'll do that, I agree. And then Wednesday morning I get a message from him and it's a picture of her before school and getting ready for school and he sends me that picture and then the next one is, everyone in this town is against me. And then the next one is, do you want to talk to your daughter one last time? And I was like, what do you mean one last time? And I never heard nothing back from him. One of the gas men up on the strip job servicing the gas meters is the one who found it and called 911 and had a self-inflicted gunshot wound under his chin. As this is a developing story, more details will be available in the coming days. Regardless, Stacia's family and friends will never forget the devastation they feel now, nor will they forget who she was as a person. She was full of life. She loved to make people laugh. She liked being in the center of attention. She liked getting what she wanted, you know. Her favorite things to do was listening to music and watching scary movies. You know, she always had earbuds in her ears and dancing like she's a little choreographer and she's a good one though, you know. I couldn't diss her on it, but yeah, she had so much to give. It's heartbreaking. That's the only one thing I know to say about it. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.