According to NBC News, Marley McKenna Spindler has been missing for five days and was last seen by friends at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in the early hours of last Thursday morning.
In a concerning update to Marley’s story, it has emerged that she sent a group message to her friends after she parted ways with them, telling them that she thought she was being followed.
Marley had originally told her friends that she would be at school after she picked up a young man identified only as “Jeremy”. When her friends received the mysterious text about being followed, they presumed she was playing a joke, and they didn’t inform her family immediately for fear she was skipping school.
The teen’s car is also missing, and her phone was found in a car park on the day that she went missing. Police are now examining the phone records for clues of her whereabouts.
The authorities also managed to locate CCTV footage of Marley stopping at a bank, where she changed her clothes and withdrew under $100 from her account.
Commenting on the new information regarding the text message, Marley’s aunt, Shelly Long, told local media: “We can’t rule out that she was abducted, but we also have to face that maybe she ran away. We just don’t know.”
Meanwhile, 22-year-old “Jeremy” has been ruled out as a person of interest by police.
We hope that Marley will be found safe and well soon.
