Stephanie asked her step-father to go to the apartment after receiving an alarming early morning e-mail from Madoff asking for someone to check on their son.
The relationship between Currie and Ms Docherty was also "difficult" to the extent she would not visit her mother and step-father's home for years at a time.
Although the rumors that Obama - whose father and step-father were Muslims and who was educated in Muslim schools in Indonesia - is a Muslim are demonstrably false, his Christian affiliations are a cause for alarm in and of themselves.
Her father and step-mother Lawrence and Lisa Pott, along with her mother Sheila Pott, have started the Audrie Pott Foundation (audriepottfoundation.com) to provide music and art scholarships and offer youth counseling and support.
Audrie Pott's father, mother and step-mother made their first public comments about their daughter's death and the events leading to it during an interview with Fox News that was followed by a news conference.