Romeo and Juliet? Teen Girl, Boy Flee Families in Fear

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Teens Jonathan Stockle and Penny Lyles are dating. When Lyles' family moves back to Oregon, Stockle is invited to join them.

After a time, Ryan Lyles, Penny's father, reportedly reads concerning private messages on his oldest daughter's phone. Those messages are allegedly about drugs, and sneaking out of the house to use drugs. Ryan Lyles messages his daughter, Penny, at school and tells her to come straight home after school to talk. They never make it home.

Ryan Lyles and the police are called to the school after Penny Lyles tells a school counselor about abuse in the home. According to a report on News 12, after police talk to Penny, they tell her to go home with her father. Ryan Lyles alleges the school counselor tells Penny Lyles if she wants to run, go out the back door. Lyles further claims the counselor opened the door and let her run out.

The teens have been missing ever since, except for a traffic stop in Nevada. They were found by officials on Friday, but they didn’t stay “found."

News 12 confirmed that the couple was pulled over by the Nevada Highway Patrol in Tonopah. The case was turned over to the Nye County Sheriff’s Office. Officials say Penny Lyles then escaped Division of Child and Family Services custody during a transport by asking to use the restroom She left through a door, and allegedly rejoined Stockle.

The Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office says it has not substantiated the allegations of abuse against Ryan Lyles.

Joining Nancy Grace Today

Wayne Stockle - Jonathan Stockle's father
Lisa Herrick - Board-certified Juvenile Attorney, Partner at Varghese Summersett, & Former Juvenile Prosecutor; Instagram & Twitter: versustexas, TikTok: lisa_herrick_attorney, Facebook and Youtube: Varghese Summersett
Dr. Bethany Marshall – Psychoanalyst (Beverly Hills); Twitter: @DrBethanyLive/ Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall; Appearing in the new show, “Paris in Love” on Peacock
Barry Golden – Former Senior Inspector for the U.S. Marshals Service, Owner of Golden Consulting and Investigations
Domingo Ramos - Founder of Hope Alive 845 (a search and rescue nonprofit dedicated to helping families and law enforcement find loved ones); Facebook, TikTok, Instagram: @Hope Alive
Blaise Gomez - News 12 Lead Journalist; Facebook: Blaise Gomez, IG: @blaisegomez12, Twitter @blaisegomez12

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0:00.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace. A modern day Romeo and Juliet, well maybe back in Shakespearean times when a 14 or 15 year old girl goes missing and decides to secretly wed her
0:27.8	boyfriend that's okay not in 2023. There's no such thing as a Romeo and Juliet scenario with two teams that run away. That's okay. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you
0:46.8	for being with us here at Crime Stories and on serious XM 111. I'm talking
0:52.3	about two teens. They're missing. They think they're
0:58.8	in love. But why are they running? What is compelling them to leave their families, their school,
1:10.6	their everything, eluding law enforcement actually escaping and
1:15.6	staying on the run. What is it that they fear and what is going to happen to these two teens one as young as just 15 years old.
1:30.0	Again, this is crime stories. I'm Nancy Grace and I want to thank you for being with us.
1:35.0	Tip line 503 325-2016.
1:40.0	Repeat, 503 325-2016.
1:46.0	Take a listen to this.
1:47.0	The Klatsob County Sheriff's Office is requesting any information related
1:50.9	to the whereabouts of missing teens Jonathan Stockel and Penny Liles.
1:55.0	Jonathan Stockel is 18 years old with blonde hair and blue eyes.
1:59.0	He's 5 foot 11 and weighs about 155 pounds. Penny Liles is 15. Blond hair, blue eyes, 5 foot 5 and
2:07.2	120 pounds. The couple could be traveling in a gray 1998 Toyotaave 4 with Oregon license plates.
2:14.7	A 15 year old girl, a 17 year old boy, both of them A students have never been in trouble before.
2:24.4	What is possessing them to run?
2:28.0	I want the answers as to where they are, are they safe, what is happening to them right now, and what on earth
2:37.2	made them leave everything they know.
2:40.3	The mom, the dad, the sisters, the brothers, the dad, the sisters, the
2:43.1	The classroom, the friends, the pep rallies, the football games, a straight aes,
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