A missing 17-year-old Texas girl has been reunited with her mother more than 60 miles from her home, four days after leaving a chilling “goodbye” note on her pillow that said she’d be missing for a “long time.”
Geneva Hodge disappeared from her Belleville home Wednesday morning and was missing for several hours before her mother, Frances Schroeder, found a strange note on her bed. Kou.
“It says, ‘This is the last time you will hear from me for a long time. I love you, Mom. I will always be your little girl,'” Schrader said the letter from her daughter read.
The concerned mother immediately feared her daughter was in imminent danger and speculated that Mr Hodge may have been persuaded or coached in writing the note.
“Anyone who reads this letter is thinking, this is not Geneva, this is not her,” she said.
Schroeder explained that before the girl disappeared, the two had gotten into an argument over the girl’s alleged romantic relationship with an older man. Daily Mail.
Her mother explained that Hodge had left her cell phone behind, taken no clothes and hadn’t used her debit card while she was missing.
According to DailyMail.com, she feared her daughter, who was about to enter her final year of high school, would be at risk of human trafficking after she was seen with an older man.
Fortunately for the family, on Sunday, four days after Hodge disappeared, a stranger called the mother’s phone number using a missing person flyer and told her their daughter had been found.
Schroeder then drove to Spring, Texas, about 63 miles from her home, to pick up her daughter.
of Belleville Police Department He confirmed that Hodge had been found on Sunday.
“She is fine. She slept for a while today,” the girl’s mother told DailyMail.com.
Schroeder explained that when she discovered the note, she was “completely heartbroken” because there was no trace of her daughter.
“It felt like my heart had been ripped out of my chest,” she explained.
Schrader said she “hadn’t smiled” since she found out her daughter was missing, but she was “glowing” since she was found.
Details about where Hodge had been for nearly a week are unclear, but Colman Ryan, a private investigator who worked with Schrader to search for her daughter, told KHOU that there was something odd about her disappearance.
“She and people close to her say it’s not her, there’s something wrong, and I agree. Who would have thought that was the case?” Ryan said.
