MISSOURI GIRL MISSING 5 MONTHS FOUND IN SEX OFFENDER'S CLOSET 700 MILES AWAY, NAKED, ALIVE

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

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:

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

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0:00.0	You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:10.8	A little Missouri girl missing five long months just found in a sex offender's closet
0:18.8	700 miles away, naked, cowering, but alive. Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace.
0:28.7	This is crime stories, and I want to thank you for being with us.
0:32.0	Columbia, Missouri, a father receives a call from his daughter's high school. His 15-year-old
0:36.7	daughter never showed up to class that morning.
0:39.4	Calls to the teen's cell go unanswered.
0:41.6	And when dad rushes home to check on her, he finds the home empty.
0:45.3	His daughter nowhere in sight.
0:47.0	A parent's worst nightmare.
0:49.0	You go to work.
0:50.5	You think everything is fine.
0:52.3	And then you get that call from the school, your daughter
0:57.2	never showed up.
1:00.1	Joining me, an all-star panel to make sense of what we are learning now, listen.
1:04.6	A Columbia, Missouri father gets a call from his daughter's high school that she never
1:07.9	arrived to class.
1:09.3	The dad calls his 15-year-old several times
1:11.9	and getting no answer rushes home from work to check on her. He's hopeful that she just over slept
1:17.3	or missed the bus. But when he gets home, the teen isn't there and some of her belongings, including
1:22.5	her phone, are missing. Okay, that's a sign right there that her phone is missing, probably her school backpack,
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