After their teenage daughter vanished from a high school football game last week and was seen in anonymous images looking “damaged and ill,” a family has been left in fear.
Chloe Campbell, 14, vanished on September 30 after being seen at Boulder High School in Colorado. Shortly afterward, she was last seen acting “drunk” and with two “sketchy older males” on Boulder Creek Trail.
Despite her family having reported her missing nine days ago, Boulder Police are now urging anyone with information to come forward.
The local community has criticised the police for labelling the adolescent a “runaway” despite the lack of any evidence that she had ever left her house.
Even though they claim that the situation does not “meet the criteria for the issue of an Amber Alert,” they have now filed an appeal claiming that she may be “in danger.”
The family of Chloe has received numerous tips that their daughter is currently 600 miles away in Arizona, where they suspect she may have been trafficked.
We want to be clear that we have no family in Arizona, so this is quite strange to us, said her father David Campbell.
David asserts that they received a concerning image from an unidentified Snapchat user, demonstrating that she is still alive.
It is the sole correspondence the family has gotten from a “third party” posing as their daughter, and they note that the profile “may be anybody.”
The image was sent to her family by a Snapchat user claiming to be Chloe, but they are not familiar with the user’s name.
They thought their daughter was being held against her will, but it is now known that there was no ransom demanded.
The missing teenager reportedly sent messages to a number of her pals as well, but chats on Snapchat disappear as soon as they are opened.
Her parents worry that young teenagers in general, including her pals, may be hiding information from the police out of concern for their own safety.
To find out where their daughter is, Dr. Jessica Knape Romo, her mother, and David have hired private detectives.
