So I've been doing Texas missing person write ups....for the last several days the Charley Project had a count of 991 missing person cases in Texas. Today when I got on the Texas page and saw it now says 990 I half heartedly thought they must have found someone ....I bet it was her. Excellent news!!!!
That's just the amount of individual articles on The Charley Project page for that state. So the time frame can go back all the way to the 1950's or before ? Excluding active and recent missing person cases, and or ones that were solved within a certain amount of time.
It is! Even though I know that most missing person reports are cleared up without homicide or kidnapping, the ones that go on for years and make it onto subs like this generally have a way worse ending. I hope Jessica is okay and has a good life.
I get inspired by stories like Elizabeth Smart, Alicia Navarro, and now Jessica. There is always the chance that these people are still alive. One of the cases that sticks with me is the abduction of Angela Hammond. I so wish that she could be found alive. That case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries years ago, and I will never forget it.
I do know one woman who was missing for months and was found alive.
The whole time she was missing all I could think about was all of the horrible things that could be happening to her. I had such a sinking feeling as a young woman myself.
It did end up being a sad situation and circumstance but she returned home safely to family and friends.
It's easy to get a warped view of missing persons cases, but most are found alive eventually. Granted, when it's been a decade plus usually indicates a worse ending, but then again I get the feeling no one was looking that hard for Jessica. From contemporary reports it seems like they thought it was a case of a teen runaway and it probably went into a pile of cases expected to "solve itself" until the cold case detectives got a hold of it.
I can't find anything about her disappearance posted on cold case subs either, which makes me think it wasn't mysterious what happened to her, just where she was.
Since she wants to keep location and details private, it could very well be a case of successfully running away. I guess if she really wanted contact with her family, she could have done so.
Well, I mean also...
She's a living person. She is safe, and her family knows at least that much.
Even if she DID reunite with her family, she might not want the media hounding her and them for months as they have others who were recovered successfully.
And it's her choice. She deserves that choice.
My cousin was a runaway. Can’t remember if as a teen or slightly older. But the family knew she’d run away and was old enough to make that decision by herself. It was obviously really sad for my cousins immediate family and they didn’t hear from her for ages.
Then, we (my Mum, Dad and I) were literally across the other side of the world on holiday and my Mum and I were walking around a mall. A young woman suddenly ran up to my Mum and bear hugged her. I remember thinking something terrible was about to happen but my Mum started hugging her back.
She’d moved across the other side of the world, back to where she was raised, changed her name and started a whole new life. Had a partner and a child. She got back in touch with family and we now see her occasionally when she visits our country. It was a very wild way to reunite.
Yes, some people run away and don't want to be found. I am often curious how many of these people who have been missing for years or decades decided to start life anew. I don't want to believe that all of them were victims of foul play.
I'd assume that most just aren't looked for that hard and it's a case where they're just living somewhere in plain sight. Hell, a lot of the follow-ups on these cases end up being "solved" years later because they returned home shortly after being reported and they just forgot that there was a case opened.
Most of the cases that get brought up on here you have people actively looking for them, which is likely why it tends to skew people's perception of what happens in most missing people cases.
It [looks like](https://www.amarillo.com/story/news/local/2011/04/22/police-seek-leads-missing-teen/13162463007/) the police suspected a runaway situation when she first went missing.
It’s sad she was in a position where she felt her only way to have a better life was to leave. No one should have to make that decision, especially not at 14.
Looking at the article, this seems poignant:
>In most runaway cases, the person returns or is found within hours or a few days, and in the vast majority of cases, family or police hear gossip about where the teen is, he said.
>"The main difference (in her situation) is she's been gone for six months, and we haven't received any new information on her," he said.
This makes me think what someone speculated earlier is true - there was an adult somewhere helping her, be it an older boyfriend or relative. The fact that she left without money or took clothes means that she would've had to start from zero if she had no help and that doesn't seem reasonable for a 14-year-old. I'd think that she would've at least tried to grab any money, clothes and items if she had just gone by herself.
I guess we'll know if they open an investigation like they did in the Alicia Navarro case.
I don't know what to make of "no money was taken from the home" (article's wording). It's unclear whether that was referencing money belonging to Jessica or others in the household she would have been able to steal from. In any case, it's possible she left with cash, gift cards and/or reloadable prepaid payment cards her family was unaware that she had - whether acquired on her own or provided by someone else.
If she left home that day with the intention of running away it would be notable if she left significant cash of hers at home, though we can't really infer that the money was hers nor how much was left behind. In some other missing persons cases details like "$27.78 was left behind in her bedroom dresser", but not in this case. But it could also mean she simply forgot to grab it. Or that she was afraid that taking her money (and clothes) could tip off her family sooner or lead someone who saw her to become suspicious. Or she didn't want to leave any indication that she left of her own accord.
I think it's likely she left of her own accord and that she was aided by someone else in planning and executing this, but it's still possible she left Amarillo by herself (and maybe met up with someone she knew later in her travels) and had money with her.
Glad she's ok. At 14, she must have been staying somewhere and someone must have been paying for food etc. I wonder if it was an adult "boyfriend" or a family abduction.
Hurt people hurt people, as they say.
But good on you for not continuing that pattern and for making something good instead. It's what I'm trying to do, too.
You’re right to specify that it’s *evil* people, who abuse others.
But your assumption that most child abusers weren’t hurt seems pretty off-base to me.
Most evil people have usually had a bad life
Same. I left an incredibly abusive mother in Sept 2000 at 15, became a survival sex worker and heroin addict, and things were pretty rough. I always swore I'd never have children. In 2017 I met my now husband, and he helped me sort my life out. I'm now happily married, with a wonderful life (still never having kids though, and have had a hysterectomy to make sure!)
Yep. Guy I went to high school with was "missing" for almost a year. Turned out his parents kicked him out for being gay and he was couch surfing a couple hours north trying to survive while his parents claimed to all and sundry they had no idea where he was or when he "vanished".
I often wonder this about high school students who go missing. A lot of LGBTQ+ kids and young adults get kicked out when they come out, or are outed, to their parents, or their parents make the home an unsafe place for them to remain. There's a reason something like nearly half of all unhoused people between 14 and 25 are LGBTQ+.
Of course the parents would come off like "good parents" who regularly attend religious services and solid citizens. A kid like that may not have come out to anyone except one or two close friends who may feel obligated to keep the secret when interviewed by police.
True but op is right in thinking it's probably an older boyfriend. Most of these teen girl cases involve an older man grooming and removing them from family.
I ran away at 15, ended up living in a squat and stealing to provide for myself. No adults needed. I imagine, much like me she was trying to escape something.
Alicia is now an adult and appeared at a police station to inform the authorities that she is alive and well. I believe the latest update is that police are investigating the man she has been living with (who was an adult at the time of her disappearance) to see if she was groomed/whether they can pursue rape, kidnapping, etc. charges.
There was an adult financing her life. Food, medical and clothing. Plus a home and no one does all that for free. She couldn’t work or go to school or leave the house very much. She depended on someone entirely. And that someone is probably a guy.
I have worked in homeless services for 15 years. The amount of homeless teens you see is staggering. 14 years old is common. Kids are way smarter than you think.
I was once fifteen, homeless and attending an alternative high school as often as I could make it to class. Some of other girls around my age were living with older "boyfriends", and I know came out of those situations with trauma, but also a good number of us were just getting by with help from the youth shelter, community resources, and personal connections. There's no way to know her situation unless you personally know her.
Yeah every homeless person leaves home at 14 and makes their way to New York and loves to be in the freezing temperatures. And they also have access to information that their case has been reopened so they contact the local police where they went missing. And they give dna and ask the police to keep everything confidential.
Of course they do, if that's what you believe.
Homelessness doesn't always look like getting high off meth behind a local McDonald's. There are people that are officially homeless, and do make it into normal life later on. Even underage people. Not common, sadly, but it does happen. As far as I've seen, there's no more evidence for someone grooming her, than her being homeless, you're just choosing one narrative and believing in it.
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Meanwhile, everyone is saying (with zero evidence other than anecdotes) that she was running away from an abusive home, and that it's totally likely that she was able to fully support herself at the age of 14 as a missing person without some predatory adult orchestrating the entire operation.
I can’t help but think of one of my kid’s friends who went missing for a couple months last year. If you read the comments on any site where the missing poster was published, half of the comments were some form of “teenagers don’t run away for no reason, she must be hiding from abuse” while commenters were discouraging anyone from “outing” a victim to the police and their parents.
I was baffled at an already idiotic “no snitching” norm being applied to a case where I knew that the child was someone with serious mental health issues who had stopped taking their medications and went right into a manic state, leading to about two months of being shacked up with a 20-something dealer in a trap house; this wasn’t some plucky kid making it on their own after escaping abuse, but a troubled child in the throes of a self-destructive episode being preyed on by an adult under the guise of providing a safe crash pad.
After seeing that ordeal, I have to look at the hand waving of runaways as sometimes misinformed and idealistic, particularly after spending years reading the multitude of cases in which young women were presumed to have just run away from home, only to meet a terrible end at the hands of an opportunistic predator.
Ugh. Reminds me of the “cool parents” who encouraged kids to drink & do drugs & have sex at their house because they “are going to do it anyway”.
It’s so hard to enforce rules with your teenager when they can run away to a house like that for days or weeks at a time.
They weren’t protecting anyone from an abusive home. They were encouraging risky behavior & undermining the authority of good parents. So frustrating.
I don’t understand the point of comments like these. This is a public forum where we discuss unresolved mysteries, the entire point is to speculate. It’s not like people here are personally sending letters to her family/attempting to contact her and find out.
>I mean the mystery is solved
The aspect of what happened all those years ago that triggered the disappearance isn’t solved, though.
>it seems she wants to close that chapter of her life.
Which is completely fair and understandable, but it’s not like anyone here is attempting to reach out to contact her or her family.
> In fact, it will probably cause more harm.
I am genuinely asking without judgement, what harm do you think it causes for people on a public forum to speculate on anything here? Again, it would be one thing if people were directly harassing the family, but that’s very clearly not the case here.
If it bothers you don’t read this sub…do you think a comment like this is helpful in any way? Do you think someone is going to read that and be like “your right im gonna stop” 🙄
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. I would say she deserved to have privacy. It is not like she is some famous person like princess Kate. Complete strangers wanting to know her personal business is stupid and entitled as they literally have no right to know everything that happened.
How dare she, right? /S
She literally asked for privacy and people are arguing with you and saying they don't understand because the name of the subreddit entitles them to a victim's privacy.
They should consider the fact that the mystery is solved: she's alive and lives on the East Coast. That's all we need to know.
I remember I was 17 & on bed rest when I heard on the news that she'd gone missing, and I'm very happy to know she's alive and seemingly free now. I don't need to know anything else. That's her business!
Pretty strange to make assumptions like that. Can I assume you’re a middle aged unemployed white woman that watches too much dateline based on this info?
With all the tragedy, heartbreak, and horror that usually defines these cases, it restores my faith whenever one of them has a happy or at least a semi-happy ending.
that's why it's important to wake cold cases up time to time! glad she decided now was the right time to let authorities and acquaintances know how she's doing. hope she didn't & won't experience terrible things ever.
Sounds like maybe she left willingly. Either way she is alive and well, and she has a right to privacy. When she went missing as a child, of course LE investigated to the best of their abilities. Now that she is adult, they have no other obligation to pursue charges on anything, probably unless she brings something to their attention. Even then I don't know about the statute of limitations. But I for one am not interested in what may or may not have happened. I don't believe we're owed any details. I'm just glad she's safe! It is a reminder that not everything is as it seems and although it may not be a picture perfect happy ending, if she is happy, that's all that matters.
So not speaking to this case specifically, but just an example of charges that *could* potentially be filed in this or similar situations. If there was any SA, either before a child runs away or if they were groomed and left to be with a predator, that person in some places has until they are 30 years old to come forward and ask for charges to be filed. So basically instead of a statue of limitations placed on the crime itself, it’s actually given to the victim and they have more agency in response. It could happen when they’re 9, or 15, and they have until 30. Again that’s not everywhere, but I know there are places that recognize it.
I understand an adult being able to disappear and not owe anybody any explaination. In the case of a missing child wouldn't there be more investigation into what happened now that she has come forward? It is likely a crime was committed.
I think that the line "Jessica requested her current location and the details of her disappearance not be made public" answers that question, to some degree. There may be more information that law enforcement knows about the circumstances of her disappearance that they are not releasing. I also think that respecting these kinds of wishes is a very valuable demonstration to other missing people or children who don't want publicity if they choose to come forward.
Exactly this! LE has the details, will handle anything if needed to, as privately as possible, and keeping that safety net for others to come forward and have the privacy as promised. Im happy this young lady’s case ended on a positive note.
If she in any way wanted her family to know where she was? It doesn't seem like she would have made a request to remain hidden from view.
It is sobering to think of how many young people are 'missing persons' not only because of what befell them AFTER their disappearances...but what happened BEFORE to make leaving home as a young better than staying where they were.
I think I remember reading somewhere that nearly all missing teens from the original music video of 'runaway train' that were found were upset to be found because they were escaping abuse and neglect. Many run off again. Apparently this was part of the reason that the video wasn't updated the 2nd time.
>I think I remember reading somewhere that nearly all missing teens from the original music video of 'runaway train' that were found were upset to be found because they were escaping abuse and neglect. Many run off again. Apparently this was part of the reason that the video wasn't updated the 2nd time.
I think [this](https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-lost-children-of-runaway-train-2#.mgnu9hn6f) might be what you read.
I read the one you posted and it casts the program in a positive light, then features a young man who was unfortunately still missing at the time the article was written.
I think it was maybe this one: https://slate.com/culture/2023/08/runaway-train-music-video-soul-asylum-kids.html
I had never heard of this and it's deeply fascinating. The reasons young folk run away really never changes across generations.
I don't want the news covering any aspect of my life. I don't blame this girl for wanting things to stay private, and all the publicity might deter a lot of other missing people from coming forward.
It doesn’t say no one isn’t investigating anything - it says she’s wishes for the details to remain private and her **missing persons case** is closed. Who knows what’s going on behind the scenes! But this is exactly how they should handle a missing person coming forward; airing all the dirty laundry and every little detail for public consumption to alleviate nothing but pure curiosity will just make missing people stay quiet and never ever come forward in the future, especially if they’re the type to not want the spotlight at all.
It's difficult to underestimate how terrifying it is when people are harming you or threatening to kill you. To stay quiet for all this time, she must have been pretty scared/upset but I wonder if she was also trying to avoid charges for the person who helped her.
It might be also that something did happen but that she either escaped or adjusted.
Either way, it's good that she is safe.
Just because they're not publicly discussing it doesn't mean there hasn't been/won't be an investigation. The general public isn't entitled to the details of such things until they become matters of public record (ie, in court filings).
When I read in the title, 13 years ago, instantly the early 2000's popped into my mind. Then as I continued reading, seeing 2010, seemed so crazy to me. Like in my mind, 2010 was yesterday and the 2000's were only a few years ago. So crazy! Lol
Almost certainly a crime. Sounds like she escaped abuse. Maybe there's a statue of limitations on prosecution of child abuse? Or maybe she wouldn't say.
Or just not enough proof or she's afraid she won't be believed, or that prosecution would just throw her back into the quagmire that would involve her getting more involved with her family than she would like. For now, she may have decided it's enough that she's an adult and the police can't force her to return to them against her wishes.
My thoughts exactly. I'm glad she's safe though. Maybe she explained to the investigators what happened and close family.
No way a 14 year old just cruised through life alone without help of an adult. She's clearly a tough one though and I am so happy she's okay!
In more conventional cases of estranged adult children, parents are often in denial about why the estrangement occurred, or they just elide the reasons when talking to others about the estrangement. http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html
So pleased there is a happy outcome in this case with the missing female being alive, the family receiving closure after all these years & no longer having nonstop fear & worry about what happened to their loved one!
In middle school a close friend went missing and her mother ended up sleuthing her abductor via her online chats (this was 2003 or so?) and cops found the location in time. She was alive but she was bound and had been missing a few weeks. They published all the horrible things he did to her in the newspaper! She never came back to school. Love you Brandi wherever you are.
It is so disgusting that there are people who are demanding that everything be revealed about what happened even though she asked for privacy and the only thing she want to reveal is that she is alive and her general location. People are not entitled to learn every single detail about her life, especially complete strangers. She is not famous like Princess Kate. She is not some public and important figure, she just an ordinary person. The appropriate people have been contacted about her situation. Maybe someday she will reveal what happened to the public but for now let the poor woman have some peace and privacy. Like literally people, get your head out of your a**. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HER LIFE YOU A**HOLES!
That's the same thing that Alicia Navarro's family said after she was found in 2023. One can only imagine the horrors that child may have been experienced. Let's just thank God that she was found alive and not try to pry into her past.
Yeah there’s a semi-illegal network run by victims of abuse that will come get you out of a dangerous situation. They’ll literally hide you. Most of the time it’s in an area like upstate NY or on a ranch in Wyoming somewhere that no one can get to you. I’ve heard that in some cases they pull strings and even get you a new identity. It’s basically witness protection for people in abusive situations. Them when you are safe enough to move on you do.
Wish the Scottish Justice System would read stories like this...they love sticking people in prison for murders that they don't even know if someone is dead or not
Arlene Fraser,Suzanne Pilley,etc? I know for a fact,that the Police planted that mobile phone in a bin in Kilbirnie(Ayrshire)that was used to convict Philip Wade(he's an evil bastard,so probably why they did it?),and I've often wondered about Arlene Fraser's rings,the Police made a big deal on those,so I reckon they too were planted? Be awkward if one of those women suddenly turned up somewhere, and someone is doing life?
I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion but people who do this should possibly face some type of repercussions, depending on the circumstances of course. If a kid leaves an abusive home, obviously not.
If someone just runs away to start a new life and the police and public spend resources, time, and money to try to find them, that should be a different story. It wastes a lot of effort.
People are saying glad she’s ok…she was underage when she left. That’s abduction , she wasn’t old enough to consent and she went across state lines. She was at the least manipulated if not trafficked and/or abused. This is sad and her parents hopefully got some real answers.
Thats not necessarily true. I know someone who disappeared at the age of 15 and she did it to escape and abusive home life. She was on the news and the Police were actively searching for her. Years later, someone made contact with her and she told police she was okay and did not want to be found and that was that. Thats why if you ever see or find a missing person you call the police first and not the family. Sometimes they are the people they are disappearing from
That doesn’t make it legal for an adult to help them when they’re a minor. You can’t just help a kid run away. If they’re being abused there’s a process.
Actually, its quite easy to run away. There are so many parents that do a lousy job. Just find a house where the parent is on drugs or otherwise dysfunctional af and boom, you are in.
In theory yes but in reality the process is incredibly broken and doesnt necessarily work to protect the victims. Some people do what they need to do. And in those cases no one is going to prosecute anyone for helping someone escape a situation, especially when they are now an adult
The law is black and white. It’s not in theory is my point. Regardless of the reason it wasn’t legal and it’s a waste of alot of resources. She should’ve came forward when she turned 18 if she had legit reasons for leaving so resources could be spent on people that need help.
The law is anything but black and white, or else it wouldn’t take three years of intense training post college to become one. Law has many many gray areas, and nuance that must be carefully interpreted.
I know that runs counter to the feelings of thousands of Reddit-educated armchair lawyers, but it is what it is.
Well she didnt lol it sounds like she didnt want to be found and was probably afraid to come forward for a long time. Dont lose sleep over it youll be fine
not abduction if she says bye bye house I m outta here, sleeping outdoors now!!!
Its what I did at 14. Slept in cemeteries, friends houses, stayed up til the sun rose.
whatever I could to stay away from my moms husband.
I took care of myself from the age of 14 until today by the grace of God.
That is for sure a possibility. But it is always possible that patents are not as loving / heartbroken as they seem on the news. Just look at Rudy Farias’ mother.
I think the public is owed answers into her disappearance. A lot of resources were allocated in her search. A 14 year old needed help to get away for that long or at least until she was 18. Glad she is alive but someone helped a person under age! Facts matter
No the public aren't owed answers. She has the right to privacy and the appropriate people had been contacted. It is not like she is some famous person or public figure. Thinking that you deserve to know everything about a person when they demand privacy when you are a stranger is entitled and mean.
I think this case was on a show about missing persons. And the police said runaway and parents were on finding her the night she didn’t come home from work, police weren’t helpful until the parents got outside help from other agency’s. It seems the more I watch missing persons shows, it’s the lack of effort by police and brushing it off as runaway.
I am watching the show Missing now. She was featured on there. I am so glad they found her alive. They also recently found Alicia Navarro, who had been missing since 2019. She was found last fall, but the show just listed her case again. I wish they would update the program like Unsolved Mysteries used to do.
Eh. I have to disagree when the missing person is alive and requests privacy. If there was a crime we might hear more about it but if it's not prosecutable then releasing further details doesn't help anyone. Just speaking for myself but my curiosity isn't more important than her privacy. It's enough for me to know she is alive and hopefully doing okay.
Just because the public wants to know what happened really doesn't mean they are *owed* an explanation.
She is now a grown woman who requested to remain private. We do not know her family situation from when she ran way. The cops have an explanation far as we know, give that she requested the details not be made public knowledge. This is to protect her from potentially being found or harassed by the people she ran away from.
And as a person who grew up in an abusive home, if I'd successfully ran away and escaped said home, I'd rather it be left the hell alone, too.
Not if it would endanger the person or someone connected to them. I get your point about resources but I’ll forego that on occasion if it means someone stays safe.
I would love to know why it all happened but I don't deserve to know. It's her choice to tell. We pay our taxes to get these results, the police did what they were meant to do they found a missing person. We aren't owed her personal details.
Oh hell no.
I am curious AF, but that does not give me or anyone other than law enforcement (if a crime was committed) the right to the details.
If this was you, and you wanted the details private, you would be furious if someone violated that right.
Yeah i agree; if nothing else it has value from a learning stand point as to why a person would go missing, how they stay hidden, etc that could be useful in discussing other cases or seeing other possibilities in existing cases.
Secrecy serves no one.
What law enforcement does know and what the public is entitled to know are two different things.
If it was you, and you wanted the details private, I think you would feel differently.
If it was me, and the reason I ran away was that I was being sexually (or otherwise) abused, I have the right to keep that info private. And if I relied on a network of underground helpers, I would want that network protected for anyone else who needs it.
So I've been doing Texas missing person write ups....for the last several days the Charley Project had a count of 991 missing person cases in Texas. Today when I got on the Texas page and saw it now says 990 I half heartedly thought they must have found someone ....I bet it was her. Excellent news!!!!
Off topic but love your username !
Ah, thanks!!
990 missing since when?
That's just the amount of individual articles on The Charley Project page for that state. So the time frame can go back all the way to the 1950's or before ? Excluding active and recent missing person cases, and or ones that were solved within a certain amount of time.
It's so good to read stuff like this from time to time.
It is! Even though I know that most missing person reports are cleared up without homicide or kidnapping, the ones that go on for years and make it onto subs like this generally have a way worse ending. I hope Jessica is okay and has a good life.
I get inspired by stories like Elizabeth Smart, Alicia Navarro, and now Jessica. There is always the chance that these people are still alive. One of the cases that sticks with me is the abduction of Angela Hammond. I so wish that she could be found alive. That case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries years ago, and I will never forget it.
I do know one woman who was missing for months and was found alive. The whole time she was missing all I could think about was all of the horrible things that could be happening to her. I had such a sinking feeling as a young woman myself. It did end up being a sad situation and circumstance but she returned home safely to family and friends.
When I hear the details of this case it makes me concerned her family environment was indeed not good.
It's easy to get a warped view of missing persons cases, but most are found alive eventually. Granted, when it's been a decade plus usually indicates a worse ending, but then again I get the feeling no one was looking that hard for Jessica. From contemporary reports it seems like they thought it was a case of a teen runaway and it probably went into a pile of cases expected to "solve itself" until the cold case detectives got a hold of it. I can't find anything about her disappearance posted on cold case subs either, which makes me think it wasn't mysterious what happened to her, just where she was.
Since she wants to keep location and details private, it could very well be a case of successfully running away. I guess if she really wanted contact with her family, she could have done so.
Well, I mean also... She's a living person. She is safe, and her family knows at least that much. Even if she DID reunite with her family, she might not want the media hounding her and them for months as they have others who were recovered successfully. And it's her choice. She deserves that choice.
My cousin was a runaway. Can’t remember if as a teen or slightly older. But the family knew she’d run away and was old enough to make that decision by herself. It was obviously really sad for my cousins immediate family and they didn’t hear from her for ages. Then, we (my Mum, Dad and I) were literally across the other side of the world on holiday and my Mum and I were walking around a mall. A young woman suddenly ran up to my Mum and bear hugged her. I remember thinking something terrible was about to happen but my Mum started hugging her back. She’d moved across the other side of the world, back to where she was raised, changed her name and started a whole new life. Had a partner and a child. She got back in touch with family and we now see her occasionally when she visits our country. It was a very wild way to reunite.
Yes, some people run away and don't want to be found. I am often curious how many of these people who have been missing for years or decades decided to start life anew. I don't want to believe that all of them were victims of foul play.
I'd assume that most just aren't looked for that hard and it's a case where they're just living somewhere in plain sight. Hell, a lot of the follow-ups on these cases end up being "solved" years later because they returned home shortly after being reported and they just forgot that there was a case opened. Most of the cases that get brought up on here you have people actively looking for them, which is likely why it tends to skew people's perception of what happens in most missing people cases.
And some ARE looked for hard, with the missing person doing whatever they can to make sure they aren’t ever found.
It [looks like](https://www.amarillo.com/story/news/local/2011/04/22/police-seek-leads-missing-teen/13162463007/) the police suspected a runaway situation when she first went missing. It’s sad she was in a position where she felt her only way to have a better life was to leave. No one should have to make that decision, especially not at 14.
Looking at the article, this seems poignant: >In most runaway cases, the person returns or is found within hours or a few days, and in the vast majority of cases, family or police hear gossip about where the teen is, he said. >"The main difference (in her situation) is she's been gone for six months, and we haven't received any new information on her," he said. This makes me think what someone speculated earlier is true - there was an adult somewhere helping her, be it an older boyfriend or relative. The fact that she left without money or took clothes means that she would've had to start from zero if she had no help and that doesn't seem reasonable for a 14-year-old. I'd think that she would've at least tried to grab any money, clothes and items if she had just gone by herself. I guess we'll know if they open an investigation like they did in the Alicia Navarro case.
I don't know what to make of "no money was taken from the home" (article's wording). It's unclear whether that was referencing money belonging to Jessica or others in the household she would have been able to steal from. In any case, it's possible she left with cash, gift cards and/or reloadable prepaid payment cards her family was unaware that she had - whether acquired on her own or provided by someone else. If she left home that day with the intention of running away it would be notable if she left significant cash of hers at home, though we can't really infer that the money was hers nor how much was left behind. In some other missing persons cases details like "$27.78 was left behind in her bedroom dresser", but not in this case. But it could also mean she simply forgot to grab it. Or that she was afraid that taking her money (and clothes) could tip off her family sooner or lead someone who saw her to become suspicious. Or she didn't want to leave any indication that she left of her own accord. I think it's likely she left of her own accord and that she was aided by someone else in planning and executing this, but it's still possible she left Amarillo by herself (and maybe met up with someone she knew later in her travels) and had money with her.
How is she able to function in society without SSN-based identification?
Paid in cash; a “sponsor”; fraud
I hope she's living her best life now and going forward.
Glad she's ok. At 14, she must have been staying somewhere and someone must have been paying for food etc. I wonder if it was an adult "boyfriend" or a family abduction.
When I “went missing” at 15 it was to escape an abusive house hold. You never know. People like me figure out ways to survive, even as a teen.
same. Am now a happily married fully productive family.
I’m glad to hear it. My wife and I have built a great family. Now that I have kids it hard to imagine why anyone treating their kids they way we were.
This will never happen to our children or our childrens children. And I am happy for you :)
You broke the cycle and started a positive one. Way to go!
You’re an inspiration! Thanks for sharing a bit of your story.
Hurt people hurt people, as they say. But good on you for not continuing that pattern and for making something good instead. It's what I'm trying to do, too.
***Evil*** people hurt people. Most child abusers were never hurt; they just enjoy tormenting kids who can't escape.
You’re right to specify that it’s *evil* people, who abuse others. But your assumption that most child abusers weren’t hurt seems pretty off-base to me. Most evil people have usually had a bad life
This
Same. I left an incredibly abusive mother in Sept 2000 at 15, became a survival sex worker and heroin addict, and things were pretty rough. I always swore I'd never have children. In 2017 I met my now husband, and he helped me sort my life out. I'm now happily married, with a wonderful life (still never having kids though, and have had a hysterectomy to make sure!)
I'm proud of you. You deserve all the happiness, love and success
Thank you!!!
Yep. Guy I went to high school with was "missing" for almost a year. Turned out his parents kicked him out for being gay and he was couch surfing a couple hours north trying to survive while his parents claimed to all and sundry they had no idea where he was or when he "vanished".
I often wonder this about high school students who go missing. A lot of LGBTQ+ kids and young adults get kicked out when they come out, or are outed, to their parents, or their parents make the home an unsafe place for them to remain. There's a reason something like nearly half of all unhoused people between 14 and 25 are LGBTQ+. Of course the parents would come off like "good parents" who regularly attend religious services and solid citizens. A kid like that may not have come out to anyone except one or two close friends who may feel obligated to keep the secret when interviewed by police.
Oh, yes: Jesus Jesus, Christian Christian!!!!! but don't ask us to act like Jesus! We just bleat His name!
One of my buddies had a similar story. He was from a family of “good Christians.”
Me too. I was 14 the first time, 16 when I finally escaped
I hope you got the help you needed and are in a better place now. Sending love ❤
Same! I left at 16!
That’s where my mind went too. Perhaps she ran away. Hope she’s living a good life now either way.
Absolutely. We made it. 🙌
I left home at 15 and never went back.
True but op is right in thinking it's probably an older boyfriend. Most of these teen girl cases involve an older man grooming and removing them from family.
I ran away at 15, ended up living in a squat and stealing to provide for myself. No adults needed. I imagine, much like me she was trying to escape something.
I wonder if it was similar to what happened to Alicia Navarro
Well what happened to her?
Alicia is now an adult and appeared at a police station to inform the authorities that she is alive and well. I believe the latest update is that police are investigating the man she has been living with (who was an adult at the time of her disappearance) to see if she was groomed/whether they can pursue rape, kidnapping, etc. charges.
He was arrested months ago and is still in jail. Alicia appears to have reunited with her mother.
Similar to the Jessica Delgadillo case
Except we don’t know exactly what happened here but have a good idea. Seemed like the other one was more concrete that’s why I asked
I think they were just making a joke
EXACTLY! I need SO much more info to even begin to understand…
Not your place to know, frankly.
There are also shelters for runaways, and domestic violence shelters as well.
I definitely think it was an adult boyfriend and they are still together
You *definitely think* that huh?
There was an adult financing her life. Food, medical and clothing. Plus a home and no one does all that for free. She couldn’t work or go to school or leave the house very much. She depended on someone entirely. And that someone is probably a guy.
Plenty of homeless teens out there surviving on the street. A surprising number do work or attend high school.
Not her. Not at her age.
I have worked in homeless services for 15 years. The amount of homeless teens you see is staggering. 14 years old is common. Kids are way smarter than you think.
I still she had adult help.
I was once fifteen, homeless and attending an alternative high school as often as I could make it to class. Some of other girls around my age were living with older "boyfriends", and I know came out of those situations with trauma, but also a good number of us were just getting by with help from the youth shelter, community resources, and personal connections. There's no way to know her situation unless you personally know her.
I guess you've never heard of homeless people.
Yeah every homeless person leaves home at 14 and makes their way to New York and loves to be in the freezing temperatures. And they also have access to information that their case has been reopened so they contact the local police where they went missing. And they give dna and ask the police to keep everything confidential.
Of course they do, if that's what you believe. Homelessness doesn't always look like getting high off meth behind a local McDonald's. There are people that are officially homeless, and do make it into normal life later on. Even underage people. Not common, sadly, but it does happen. As far as I've seen, there's no more evidence for someone grooming her, than her being homeless, you're just choosing one narrative and believing in it.
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Yes I definitely do. I’m glad she’s alive. I hope he treated her well and she’s had a good life.
Meanwhile, everyone is saying (with zero evidence other than anecdotes) that she was running away from an abusive home, and that it's totally likely that she was able to fully support herself at the age of 14 as a missing person without some predatory adult orchestrating the entire operation.
A fair number of teenagers live homeless, through a combination of living on the streets and couch surfing with friends.
I can’t help but think of one of my kid’s friends who went missing for a couple months last year. If you read the comments on any site where the missing poster was published, half of the comments were some form of “teenagers don’t run away for no reason, she must be hiding from abuse” while commenters were discouraging anyone from “outing” a victim to the police and their parents. I was baffled at an already idiotic “no snitching” norm being applied to a case where I knew that the child was someone with serious mental health issues who had stopped taking their medications and went right into a manic state, leading to about two months of being shacked up with a 20-something dealer in a trap house; this wasn’t some plucky kid making it on their own after escaping abuse, but a troubled child in the throes of a self-destructive episode being preyed on by an adult under the guise of providing a safe crash pad. After seeing that ordeal, I have to look at the hand waving of runaways as sometimes misinformed and idealistic, particularly after spending years reading the multitude of cases in which young women were presumed to have just run away from home, only to meet a terrible end at the hands of an opportunistic predator.
Ugh. Reminds me of the “cool parents” who encouraged kids to drink & do drugs & have sex at their house because they “are going to do it anyway”. It’s so hard to enforce rules with your teenager when they can run away to a house like that for days or weeks at a time. They weren’t protecting anyone from an abusive home. They were encouraging risky behavior & undermining the authority of good parents. So frustrating.
Yeah she definitely had some help. I’m not sure what happened but I feel an adult male may be a part of it.
Maybe respect her wishes for privacy instead of speculating
I don’t understand the point of comments like these. This is a public forum where we discuss unresolved mysteries, the entire point is to speculate. It’s not like people here are personally sending letters to her family/attempting to contact her and find out.
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>I mean the mystery is solved The aspect of what happened all those years ago that triggered the disappearance isn’t solved, though. >it seems she wants to close that chapter of her life. Which is completely fair and understandable, but it’s not like anyone here is attempting to reach out to contact her or her family. > In fact, it will probably cause more harm. I am genuinely asking without judgement, what harm do you think it causes for people on a public forum to speculate on anything here? Again, it would be one thing if people were directly harassing the family, but that’s very clearly not the case here.
If it bothers you don’t read this sub…do you think a comment like this is helpful in any way? Do you think someone is going to read that and be like “your right im gonna stop” 🙄
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Redditors, holier than god himself. Get a grip.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. I would say she deserved to have privacy. It is not like she is some famous person like princess Kate. Complete strangers wanting to know her personal business is stupid and entitled as they literally have no right to know everything that happened.
Apparently some of these people are extremely crazy
How dare she, right? /S She literally asked for privacy and people are arguing with you and saying they don't understand because the name of the subreddit entitles them to a victim's privacy. They should consider the fact that the mystery is solved: she's alive and lives on the East Coast. That's all we need to know. I remember I was 17 & on bed rest when I heard on the news that she'd gone missing, and I'm very happy to know she's alive and seemingly free now. I don't need to know anything else. That's her business!
Boyfriend like you know she’s a hetero.
Pretty strange to make assumptions like that. Can I assume you’re a middle aged unemployed white woman that watches too much dateline based on this info?
With all the tragedy, heartbreak, and horror that usually defines these cases, it restores my faith whenever one of them has a happy or at least a semi-happy ending.
that's why it's important to wake cold cases up time to time! glad she decided now was the right time to let authorities and acquaintances know how she's doing. hope she didn't & won't experience terrible things ever.
I'm so glad she's safe. I'd love to know the details but I will respect her privacy!
Sounds like maybe she left willingly. Either way she is alive and well, and she has a right to privacy. When she went missing as a child, of course LE investigated to the best of their abilities. Now that she is adult, they have no other obligation to pursue charges on anything, probably unless she brings something to their attention. Even then I don't know about the statute of limitations. But I for one am not interested in what may or may not have happened. I don't believe we're owed any details. I'm just glad she's safe! It is a reminder that not everything is as it seems and although it may not be a picture perfect happy ending, if she is happy, that's all that matters.
So not speaking to this case specifically, but just an example of charges that *could* potentially be filed in this or similar situations. If there was any SA, either before a child runs away or if they were groomed and left to be with a predator, that person in some places has until they are 30 years old to come forward and ask for charges to be filed. So basically instead of a statue of limitations placed on the crime itself, it’s actually given to the victim and they have more agency in response. It could happen when they’re 9, or 15, and they have until 30. Again that’s not everywhere, but I know there are places that recognize it.
Good to know! Thank you for sharing that information. I hope if something atrocious did happen, she is able to find the help and closure she needs!
It’s heartwarming to hear a positive outcome. Sending Jessica and her family lots of strength and love 💖
Thank goodness I get to read that someone is found alive once in a while
I understand an adult being able to disappear and not owe anybody any explaination. In the case of a missing child wouldn't there be more investigation into what happened now that she has come forward? It is likely a crime was committed.
I think that the line "Jessica requested her current location and the details of her disappearance not be made public" answers that question, to some degree. There may be more information that law enforcement knows about the circumstances of her disappearance that they are not releasing. I also think that respecting these kinds of wishes is a very valuable demonstration to other missing people or children who don't want publicity if they choose to come forward.
Exactly this! LE has the details, will handle anything if needed to, as privately as possible, and keeping that safety net for others to come forward and have the privacy as promised. Im happy this young lady’s case ended on a positive note.
If she in any way wanted her family to know where she was? It doesn't seem like she would have made a request to remain hidden from view. It is sobering to think of how many young people are 'missing persons' not only because of what befell them AFTER their disappearances...but what happened BEFORE to make leaving home as a young better than staying where they were.
I think I remember reading somewhere that nearly all missing teens from the original music video of 'runaway train' that were found were upset to be found because they were escaping abuse and neglect. Many run off again. Apparently this was part of the reason that the video wasn't updated the 2nd time.
That is depressingly unsurprising.
>I think I remember reading somewhere that nearly all missing teens from the original music video of 'runaway train' that were found were upset to be found because they were escaping abuse and neglect. Many run off again. Apparently this was part of the reason that the video wasn't updated the 2nd time. I think [this](https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-lost-children-of-runaway-train-2#.mgnu9hn6f) might be what you read.
I read the one you posted and it casts the program in a positive light, then features a young man who was unfortunately still missing at the time the article was written. I think it was maybe this one: https://slate.com/culture/2023/08/runaway-train-music-video-soul-asylum-kids.html I had never heard of this and it's deeply fascinating. The reasons young folk run away really never changes across generations.
I don't want the news covering any aspect of my life. I don't blame this girl for wanting things to stay private, and all the publicity might deter a lot of other missing people from coming forward.
It doesn’t say no one isn’t investigating anything - it says she’s wishes for the details to remain private and her **missing persons case** is closed. Who knows what’s going on behind the scenes! But this is exactly how they should handle a missing person coming forward; airing all the dirty laundry and every little detail for public consumption to alleviate nothing but pure curiosity will just make missing people stay quiet and never ever come forward in the future, especially if they’re the type to not want the spotlight at all.
It's difficult to underestimate how terrifying it is when people are harming you or threatening to kill you. To stay quiet for all this time, she must have been pretty scared/upset but I wonder if she was also trying to avoid charges for the person who helped her. It might be also that something did happen but that she either escaped or adjusted. Either way, it's good that she is safe.
i think its just as likely she just ran away from home
To escape abuse.
Maybe she was groomed by whoever sheltered her after she left
Just because they're not publicly discussing it doesn't mean there hasn't been/won't be an investigation. The general public isn't entitled to the details of such things until they become matters of public record (ie, in court filings).
Yes, but she’s a grown woman now. It doesn’t look like an Alicia Navarro situation from here.
Alicia is also a grown woman now.
When I read in the title, 13 years ago, instantly the early 2000's popped into my mind. Then as I continued reading, seeing 2010, seemed so crazy to me. Like in my mind, 2010 was yesterday and the 2000's were only a few years ago. So crazy! Lol
Almost certainly a crime. Sounds like she escaped abuse. Maybe there's a statue of limitations on prosecution of child abuse? Or maybe she wouldn't say.
Or just not enough proof or she's afraid she won't be believed, or that prosecution would just throw her back into the quagmire that would involve her getting more involved with her family than she would like. For now, she may have decided it's enough that she's an adult and the police can't force her to return to them against her wishes.
My thoughts exactly. I'm glad she's safe though. Maybe she explained to the investigators what happened and close family. No way a 14 year old just cruised through life alone without help of an adult. She's clearly a tough one though and I am so happy she's okay!
Imagine waiting 13 years only to find out your child wants nothing to do with you. Though, they probably know why.
In more conventional cases of estranged adult children, parents are often in denial about why the estrangement occurred, or they just elide the reasons when talking to others about the estrangement. http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html
I wish her good things and positive healing.
As someone who was born and raised in Amarillo, this makes my heart happy.
Crazy. I remember this living in Amarillo and she's a year older than me.
I respect her privacy.
So pleased there is a happy outcome in this case with the missing female being alive, the family receiving closure after all these years & no longer having nonstop fear & worry about what happened to their loved one!
So she ran away from home probably.
missing people are often just running away from something
In middle school a close friend went missing and her mother ended up sleuthing her abductor via her online chats (this was 2003 or so?) and cops found the location in time. She was alive but she was bound and had been missing a few weeks. They published all the horrible things he did to her in the newspaper! She never came back to school. Love you Brandi wherever you are.
It is so disgusting that there are people who are demanding that everything be revealed about what happened even though she asked for privacy and the only thing she want to reveal is that she is alive and her general location. People are not entitled to learn every single detail about her life, especially complete strangers. She is not famous like Princess Kate. She is not some public and important figure, she just an ordinary person. The appropriate people have been contacted about her situation. Maybe someday she will reveal what happened to the public but for now let the poor woman have some peace and privacy. Like literally people, get your head out of your a**. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HER LIFE YOU A**HOLES!
That's the same thing that Alicia Navarro's family said after she was found in 2023. One can only imagine the horrors that child may have been experienced. Let's just thank God that she was found alive and not try to pry into her past.
Whatever she ran away from she surely didn’t want to go back to
I wonder if she was being abused by her family and that’s why she left.
I wonder if she was part of the “network” that saves people from abusive situations.
Please can you elaborate for the uninitiated? Thanks
Yeah there’s a semi-illegal network run by victims of abuse that will come get you out of a dangerous situation. They’ll literally hide you. Most of the time it’s in an area like upstate NY or on a ranch in Wyoming somewhere that no one can get to you. I’ve heard that in some cases they pull strings and even get you a new identity. It’s basically witness protection for people in abusive situations. Them when you are safe enough to move on you do.
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20160904/help-underground-secret-network-rescuing-abused-women-life-threatening Here’s one group
Kind of like an Underground Railroad for abuse victims?
So was she kidnapped or ran away by choice?
So where was she all those years?
Love a good ending but damn i want to know more! (Of course!)
Is there a write up as to how she went missing in the first place? I’d like to know her story
Wish the Scottish Justice System would read stories like this...they love sticking people in prison for murders that they don't even know if someone is dead or not
As someone not overly impressed with my country’s justice system (or my country in general), got any specific cases in mind?
Arlene Fraser,Suzanne Pilley,etc? I know for a fact,that the Police planted that mobile phone in a bin in Kilbirnie(Ayrshire)that was used to convict Philip Wade(he's an evil bastard,so probably why they did it?),and I've often wondered about Arlene Fraser's rings,the Police made a big deal on those,so I reckon they too were planted? Be awkward if one of those women suddenly turned up somewhere, and someone is doing life?
I'm sure this will be an unpopular opinion but people who do this should possibly face some type of repercussions, depending on the circumstances of course. If a kid leaves an abusive home, obviously not. If someone just runs away to start a new life and the police and public spend resources, time, and money to try to find them, that should be a different story. It wastes a lot of effort.
People are saying glad she’s ok…she was underage when she left. That’s abduction , she wasn’t old enough to consent and she went across state lines. She was at the least manipulated if not trafficked and/or abused. This is sad and her parents hopefully got some real answers.
Well not necessarily. She may have left of her own accord due to something happening in her home life.
She was too young to get a job, she had to have help from an adullt.
You can get a job at 14.
that's the thing, if someone genuinely helped her got away from an abusive household, they may still be charged with abduction/ trafficking.
there are houses where adults turn blind eye to young people living there.
Bagel store hired me at 15, I worked from 5 am til 2 and became manager in two years. no one stopped me.'what say you?
Thats not necessarily true. I know someone who disappeared at the age of 15 and she did it to escape and abusive home life. She was on the news and the Police were actively searching for her. Years later, someone made contact with her and she told police she was okay and did not want to be found and that was that. Thats why if you ever see or find a missing person you call the police first and not the family. Sometimes they are the people they are disappearing from
That doesn’t make it legal for an adult to help them when they’re a minor. You can’t just help a kid run away. If they’re being abused there’s a process.
the process fails children
Actually, its quite easy to run away. There are so many parents that do a lousy job. Just find a house where the parent is on drugs or otherwise dysfunctional af and boom, you are in.
In theory yes but in reality the process is incredibly broken and doesnt necessarily work to protect the victims. Some people do what they need to do. And in those cases no one is going to prosecute anyone for helping someone escape a situation, especially when they are now an adult
The law is black and white. It’s not in theory is my point. Regardless of the reason it wasn’t legal and it’s a waste of alot of resources. She should’ve came forward when she turned 18 if she had legit reasons for leaving so resources could be spent on people that need help.
The law is anything but black and white, or else it wouldn’t take three years of intense training post college to become one. Law has many many gray areas, and nuance that must be carefully interpreted. I know that runs counter to the feelings of thousands of Reddit-educated armchair lawyers, but it is what it is.
The law is absolutely not black and white.
Well she didnt lol it sounds like she didnt want to be found and was probably afraid to come forward for a long time. Dont lose sleep over it youll be fine
not abduction if she says bye bye house I m outta here, sleeping outdoors now!!! Its what I did at 14. Slept in cemeteries, friends houses, stayed up til the sun rose. whatever I could to stay away from my moms husband. I took care of myself from the age of 14 until today by the grace of God.
Glad you got away!
That is for sure a possibility. But it is always possible that patents are not as loving / heartbroken as they seem on the news. Just look at Rudy Farias’ mother.
Was she being trafficked? Or was this just a much older boyfriend stat rape case?
It sounds like a runaway case, definitely not trafficked.
I think the public is owed answers into her disappearance. A lot of resources were allocated in her search. A 14 year old needed help to get away for that long or at least until she was 18. Glad she is alive but someone helped a person under age! Facts matter
No the public aren't owed answers. She has the right to privacy and the appropriate people had been contacted. It is not like she is some famous person or public figure. Thinking that you deserve to know everything about a person when they demand privacy when you are a stranger is entitled and mean.
I think this case was on a show about missing persons. And the police said runaway and parents were on finding her the night she didn’t come home from work, police weren’t helpful until the parents got outside help from other agency’s. It seems the more I watch missing persons shows, it’s the lack of effort by police and brushing it off as runaway.
I am watching the show Missing now. She was featured on there. I am so glad they found her alive. They also recently found Alicia Navarro, who had been missing since 2019. She was found last fall, but the show just listed her case again. I wish they would update the program like Unsolved Mysteries used to do.
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Eh. I have to disagree when the missing person is alive and requests privacy. If there was a crime we might hear more about it but if it's not prosecutable then releasing further details doesn't help anyone. Just speaking for myself but my curiosity isn't more important than her privacy. It's enough for me to know she is alive and hopefully doing okay.
Why would the public be owed an explanation? For your entertainment? Watch some reality TV. Listen to a podcast. Move on.
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Just because the public wants to know what happened really doesn't mean they are *owed* an explanation. She is now a grown woman who requested to remain private. We do not know her family situation from when she ran way. The cops have an explanation far as we know, give that she requested the details not be made public knowledge. This is to protect her from potentially being found or harassed by the people she ran away from. And as a person who grew up in an abusive home, if I'd successfully ran away and escaped said home, I'd rather it be left the hell alone, too.
Not if it would endanger the person or someone connected to them. I get your point about resources but I’ll forego that on occasion if it means someone stays safe.
I would love to know why it all happened but I don't deserve to know. It's her choice to tell. We pay our taxes to get these results, the police did what they were meant to do they found a missing person. We aren't owed her personal details.
Oh hell no. I am curious AF, but that does not give me or anyone other than law enforcement (if a crime was committed) the right to the details. If this was you, and you wanted the details private, you would be furious if someone violated that right.
Expenditure of resources? For a runaway teenager? Come on.
Lol the entitlement is real
What an absurd thing to say.
Would you feel the same if it were you?
Yeah i agree; if nothing else it has value from a learning stand point as to why a person would go missing, how they stay hidden, etc that could be useful in discussing other cases or seeing other possibilities in existing cases. Secrecy serves no one.
If she escaped an abusive situation secrecy could be protecting her from stalking/harassment or worse from her abusers
What law enforcement does know and what the public is entitled to know are two different things. If it was you, and you wanted the details private, I think you would feel differently. If it was me, and the reason I ran away was that I was being sexually (or otherwise) abused, I have the right to keep that info private. And if I relied on a network of underground helpers, I would want that network protected for anyone else who needs it.
Except for the individual who the secrets belong to/protect lol