Teen Girl Missing for 4 Months Is Found Alive in Sex Offender’s Closet

A Columbia, Missouri, father receives a call from his teenage daughter’s high school, reporting she is absent after missing all her classes.

He calls his 15-year-old several times. After receiving no answer, he rushes home from work to check on her. He hopes she simply overslept or missed the bus. But she isn’t there, and some of her belongings, including her phone, are also missing.

The teen is immediately reported missing. Police believe she intentionally prepared to leave home. After searches turn up nothing and her phone remains unused since the day she vanished, investigators begin interviewing her friends. Fellow students say she may have been talking to someone online.

More than four months later, police find the girl cowering naked in a closet in a Fort Collins, Colorado, home, where she had been forced to work in a snow shoveling business.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

Caryn Stark – Forensic Psychologist, Renowned TV and Radio Trauma Expert and Consultant; Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
Todd Shipley – Digital Cyber-Crime expert, Former Detective Sergeant with the Reno, Nevada Police Dept. [25 year in law enforcement], Author of: “Surviving a Cyberattack: Securing Social Media and Protecting Your Home,” and “Investigating Internet Crimes: An Introduction to solving Crimes in Cyberspace;” X Twitter: @webcase
Titania Jordan - Chief Parent Officer of Bark Parental Controls, and Author: “Parenting In A Tech World;”Instagram/X: @TitaniaJordan
Gigi McKelvey – Journalist, Host of Podcast “Pretty Lies and Alibis;”Facebook, IG, TikTok: @PrettyLiesAndAlibis, X: @PrettiesLiesAlibi

Additional Guest

Greg Morse – Criminal Defense Attorney of Morse Legal, Author of “The Untested” [found on Amazon]

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[Feature Photo via Colorado Bureau of Investigation]

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