Laneeka Varnado, 22, mysteriously disappeared after attending the 2008 Dirty Awards at the Georgia International Congress Center on Nov. 24.

Varnardo, who was very close to her father, often called him several times a day to let him know she was okay. Her last phone call was to say she was heading to Club ESSO for the after party.

She was last seen driving a 1999 Silver Mercedes. It wasn’t like her to stay out late without notifying her father or friends of her whereabouts. Police immediately suspected foul play.

While riding his motorcycle on the C.H. James Parkway in Austell, Melvin Mackey had a feeling that his daughter had been found.

He spotted Cobb County officers loading a wrecked silver Mercedes onto a flatbed truck on the side of the highway, and he knew his daughter was inside.

“A calm came over me, and I knew,” Mackey said Sunday. “I thought, ‘That’s my child in there.’ “

Mackey had just left a fundraiser in College Park, GA where friends and strangers gathered to help raise funds to find his missing daughter.

Mackey took that route rather than the more familiar back roads he typically traveled because he thought his daughter might have done the same.

Police think Varnado was driving her Mercedes SLK230 down the C.H. James Parkway when she veered off the road and collided into a tree.

The land owner found the wreckage while walking his property and called police.

Mackey said his daughter was probably asleep behind the wheel. There were no skid marks at the spot where her car left the road.

Mackey said as he rode his motorcycle toward the fateful scene, he too dozed off but awakened just in time to avoid a head on collision with a truck.

“She was trying to call me and tell me where she was,” he said. “She sprinkled some dust in my eyes for me to doze off, and she brought me to the same path that she took.”

Police say motorists never saw the wreckage because the car came to rest down in a ravine.

Mackey said the family can now lay Laneeka to rest. “We’re gonna do it New Orleans style,” said Mackey. “We’re going to dance, we’re going to laugh, we’re going to celebrate her life. There is nothing to mourn.”  (Source)