Chelsea King: Missing Teen May Have Been Abducted: FBI

[Teressa]

Missing Poway teen Chelsea King.

SAN DIEGO — About 100 members of the sheriff’s search-and-rescue team searched overnight in Rancho Bernardo for a 17-year-old girl who went missing Thursday.

Chelsea King planned on going running at Rancho Bernardo Community Park on West Bernardo Drive near Aguamiel Road and was reported missing by her family when she did not return to her Poway home, the Sheriff’s Department said.

Deputies used cell towers to determine her cell phone was located near the park, the Sheriff’s Department said. Deputies found the phone inside of her locked car near the park Thursday night and a search was started.

Officials said Chelsea is an avid long-distance runner and routinely takes long runs in rural areas.

She is described as having blonde hair, blue eyes and a thin build. She is a member of the Poway High School cross country running team.

Sheriff’s officials on Friday morning said the case is being turned over to the San Diego Police Department because Chelsea’s car was found in police jurisdiction although search-and-rescue teams will continue searching.~snipped~

[Teressa]

Chelsea King Missing Poway Teen In Rancho Bernado Disappears On Jog

San Diego, CA - San Diego County Sheriff's Department has notified the public of a missing teen. The news of Chelsea King missing comes as a shock after she left her car for a jog at the Rancho Bernardo Community Park after school.

Chelsea King, 17, is an avid distance runner for Poway High School who often takes long runs in rural areas.

She reportedly parked her car on West Bernardo Drive and did not return to her car. Chelsea King was reported missing by her Family Late on Thursday. The San Diego Sheriffs Department has launched a 100 person search and rescue operation.

Chelsea King went missing after notifying family that she planned on going for a run after school.

Chelsea King Description:

Chelsea is described as follows:
Sex: Female
Race: Caucasian
Height: 5’ 5”
Weight: 115 pounds
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
People with Information Call:

San Diego Sheriff’s Department: 565-5200
Crime Stoppers: (619) 531-1500 or (619)531-1547~snipped~

[Teressa]

Sheriff's deputies search for missing Poway student

A search was underway late Thursday night for a missing Poway High School student. Chelsea King, 17, was reported missing just after 7 p.m.

San Diego Police and San Diego County Sheriff's Deputies are conducting an air and ground search at Rancho Bernardo Community Park. A classmate told News 8 that King's car was found there in the parking lot and that she had planned to go running.

Investigators say King does not have any history of running away. She is 5'5, 120 lbs with blonde hair and blue eyes. Anyone with information is asked to call police.~snipped~

[Teressa]

Have you seen Chelsea King?

Sex: Female
Race: Caucasian
Height: 5’ 5”
Weight: 115 pounds
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue

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Missing Teen May Have Been Abducted: FBI
Fri, Feb 26, 2010

The FBI is now involved in a missing girl case in Poway, looking into the possibility that Chelsea King may have been abducted. Investigators have taken Chelsea’s computer and cell phone into custody, according to Sheriff Bill Gore.

Friends, neighbors and family members joined search and rescue teams from San Diego, Santa Barbara and Riverside counties as well as San Diego police to search a web of running trails just south of Lake Hodges Friday looking for the Poway High School student who has been missing since Thursday afternoon.

“We have dive teams that are looking along the shore lines of Lake Hodges,” Gore said at a 5 p.m. press conference. “Obviously we're concerned otherwise we wouldn't have all these resources out here looking for her. But I'm still optimistic.”

King, 17, went for a run about 2 p.m. Thursday at Rancho Bernardo Community Park. When it got dark and her parents hadn't heard from her, they became worried and called police.

“Anybody out there, if you know anything, please just help us bring her home. She’s such a good girl, she needs to come home,” Kelly King said.

Deputies were able to track the long-distance runner’s cell phone and find her black BMW at the park. Her cell phone was found inside the car along with her school clothes, which leads investigators to think she was in running clothes when she disappeared.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Dept. Search and Rescue team, San Diego police search dogs and rescue teams from Riverside and Santa Barbara spent Friday searching a 20 square mile area south of Lake Hodges and north of the Rancho Bernardo Glassman Recreation Center where Chelsea started her run.

A reverse 911 was also put in place to get the word out to the surrounding area.

“We still have not located her and we’re just praying for Chelsea to get home and find us,” her father Brent King told reporters at a news conference Friday morning.

Hundreds of friends were searching for the missing teen overnight, but officials said their scent could complicate the search.
Instead, they have set up a base camp at the Rancho Bernardo Glassman Recreation Center and are making flyers, which they plan to distribute as far south as Tijuana and as far north as Los Angeles.

“All the volunteers that are out there now and they’ve been out there all night, thank you,” Chelsea’s mother said.

Friends say Chelsea is a college-bound senior at Poway high school and well liked by everyone. They're stunned by her disappearance.

"I'm incredibly worried. I mean she's like my best friend I can't even describe what I feel," Mckenzie Lamont said. "She's responsible, she never gets into trouble. This is just out of her character."

Chelsea had run cross-country for Poway High and friends say it wasn't uncommon for her to run for hours at a time. She was also a peer counselor and played the French horn. Lamont says when she didn't show up for symphony Thursday night -- they got worried.

"I think everyone's still in their shock phase. This doesn't feel real to anyone yet," Chelsea's friend Susan Rudiger said. "We're just trying to keep our negative thoughts inside right now and really just try to stay positive in a time like this."

“She must be an amazing person because there are a lot of friends and family that are standing here,” Caldwell said. “That’s a testimony to the kind of girl that she is.”

Chelsea is described as having strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes; she’s about 5 foot 5 inches tall and weighs 115 pounds. If you have any information regarding her whereabouts, please contact investigators.

“Anything you can do, look at her picture, look for her, please keep your eyes and ears open and pray for her,” her father pleaded.

Meanwhile, the mother of missing Escondido teenager, Amber Dubois, has been to the search scene to lend her support. She said its tough and she knows exactly what this family is going through.


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