Missing teen seen in last video before disappearance as search continues

28 January 2024 , 15:17

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Alicia Anderson was spotted on a doorbell cam (Image: No credit)

Alicia Anderson, a missing 16 year old girl, was last seen in a chilling video captured by a Ring doorbell as she left her family home in Cary, North Carolina. She was wearing only her pyjamas and carrying a backpack.

The teenager, who is of Japanese-Caucasian descent and stands at around 5 feet 3 inches, has not been seen since January 19. The Cary Police Department have shared images from the sighting, hoping for more information.

Alicia is known to often wear a rosary, and police have asked anyone with information on her whereabouts to come forward. They've also shared photos of similar rosary beads which Alicia might have been wearing when she disappeared.

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Alicia Anderson disappeared on January 19 and police are continuing their appeal for information (No credit)

Meanwhile, officers in Mount Vernon, Washington, are continuing their search for Ella Celeste Jones, a 14 year old girl who has been missing since January 6. Her family fear she may have left with a man in his 20s whom she met online. Ella's mum, Sarah Merrill, told police that her daughter was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, multi-coloured plaid pyjama pants and black Nike Air Forces.

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Ella left a mysterious note for her mum hinting at a romance with an older guy, as The Mirror reported before. Sarah shared: "She wrote a note saying she loved me and that she didn't want to hurt us anymore". Sarah remembered the last time she saw Ella, saying it was a normal night.

"She was here at bedtime and we had a normal evening. She even laid with me right before I went to bed. I was tired because I had a long week at work. And she said, 'I love you. Goodnight' and left the room." Ella's pals had worried about her chatting to an older man on Omegle, a website where you talk to random strangers.

Sarah is now worried this man might have been tricking Ella online for a while, as the search in Mount Vernon goes on. Sarah added: "The only thing I do know for sure is that she had been talking to a man online. Another woman may or may not have seen her on a bus from Everett to Seattle, which is why we're in Seattle today just trying to put up fliers. I'm more emotional sitting home. And so I really want to have my boots on the ground."

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Ewan Gleadow