Police in Florida confirm that the child’s body that was found in a landfill in Georgia is the body of Somer Thompson, who went missing on Monday after school. Somer was walking the mile long home with friends and siblings when she decided to run ahead after an argument with one of the other kids. When her two other siblings got home and realized she wasn’t there, they immediately began searching, along with their mother’s boyfriend. When the boyfriend called the mother, she contacted authorities. Authorities as well as friends and family began searching and continued searching late into the night. On Wednesday authorities followed garbage trucks from Somer’s neighborhood to a landfill nearly 50 miles away from. They began searching through the garbage of each truck. They searched through 100 tons of garbage before finding the body. The cause of death has not yet been released but an autopsy was planned for Thursday but authorities won’t disclose their findings. The police started questioning sex offenders as soon as the girl went missing. They have questioned all 161 sex offenders residing in a 5-mile radius of Somer’s home and they all were in the clear on Friday. The police are collecting evidence from a vacant home along the road where she was last seen.
In another story, in Missouri, a 9-year old girl vanishes when she leaves a friend’s house. In central Missouri, Elizabeth Olten left her friend’s house around 6:15 pm on Wednesday to walk the quarter mile to her house in St. Martins, which is just west of Jefferson City. She normally would walk through neighbor’s yard instead of walking on the two-lane county highway that runs in front of their houses. When she did not return home at 7:00 pm, she was reported missing. Elizabeth was listed as an “endangered missing person.” The sheriff stated that it did not appear that she ran away but an amber alert was not issued because they had found any evidence to suspect abduction or foul play. Onna Adrian, the mother-in-law of Elizabeth’s oldest sister, stated that Elizabeth was shy, she was not the type to get in a vehicle with anybody she did not know and would have screamed and tried to run away if she was confronted by a stranger. Authorities started the search in a section of woods several hundred yards in diameter, which they had triangulated with the girl’s cell phone location, but the battery died Thursday morning. By 2:30 am that morning, all but one of the search teams had stopped searching.
I read both of these stories and I got goose bumps just thinking of my kids. My kids walk 4 blocks everyday from school to get to their grandma’s house. I call everyday around 3:00 pm to make sure they made it. They get out of school at 2:45 and there should be no reason why they shouldn’t be at the granny’s by 3:00. I have also told both my kids that they are not to walk by themselves, what so ever. If one has an after school meeting than I have grandma pick them up. My kids think that I am over reacting but I would rather “over react” and still have my kids, than have something happen and I not know about it. I would not know what I would do if something happened to my kids. I tear up just thinking about it.
******UPDATE*****
Elizabeth Olten was found in a heavily wooded area on Friday. They have an older juvenile as a person of interest.
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