Missing jewish teen girls

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http://ncsy.org/smith.html go to this site- it is an add for missing jewish teen girls

Posted: Mon, Jan 29 2007, 11:08 pm Post subject: re: missing jewish teen girls

That is terrible. May Hashem guide us to find them and return these girls to their homes unharmed!!!!!
This is deeply troubling, what their families must be going through, I"YH they are and will remain safe wherever they are.
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Posted: Tue, Jan 30 2007, 7:08 am Post subject: re: missing jewish teen girls

All of us should have these girls in mind when davening and add in tefila for their safe return. They and their families must be suffering terribly.

Hashem CAN make a miracle and have these girls safely returned. Please lets all daven and give tzedaka for their sakes.

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 17 2005 Posts: 5505

every life is precious so im not belittling this - but I think at least one of them isnt jewish - her dad says she sings in the catholic church choir Shocked

Posted: Tue, Jan 30 2007, 11:32 am Post subject: re: missing jewish teen girls

Her mom is probably Jewish.

I read the same thing[/quote]
The story has a tragic ending.

Posted: Thu, Feb 08 2007, 11:57 am Post subject: re: missing jewish teen girls

Missing Md. Teens' Car Found With 2 Bodies
Loudoun Discovery Points to Suicide

By Candace Rondeaux and Steve Vogel
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, February 3, 2007; A01

The bodies of two girls were discovered yesterday in Loudoun County in a car that belongs to the family of one of two Montgomery County teenagers missing for two weeks, law enforcement authorities said. Some officials said the victims apparently committed suicide.

Loudoun sheriff's deputies found the girls dead in the front seat of the car on an access road off Route 9 near the West Virginia border yesterday afternoon. There were no signs of trauma on their bodies, and the cause of death was not known, deputies said.

Rachel Samantha Smith, 16, of Potomac and Rachel Lacy Crites, 18, of Gaithersburg have been missing since Jan. 19, when they told their parents they would be attending a movie in Georgetown. Police and family members had said they were concerned about the mental state of both teenagers based on statements they had made in the past.

Early indications are that the bodies are those of the missing girls, said a law enforcement official who asked not to be named because the identities had not been officially confirmed.

"We're trying to determine if in fact it is the two girls," said Lt. Eric Burnett, a spokesman for Montgomery police.

The bodies have been taken to the Fairfax County medical examiner's office for autopsies. "It's still a good likelihood that it's a suicide," Loudoun Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson said.

The case has drawn wide attention in the Washington area and beyond. Photographs showing the teenagers have been broadcast on television and posted in public places, and e-mails were passed along by neighborhood groups, synagogues and worried friends. Descriptions of the Crites family's car, a dark blue 1997 Subaru Outback station wagon with a dark cargo carrier on top, also were widely distributed.

Montgomery police notified law enforcement agencies along the Atlantic seaboard, from Maine to Florida, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children joined in the search. Relatives have gone on television pleading for the teenagers' return and the public's help.

The girls, close friends for more than a year, spent the night at Crites's home in Gaithersburg on Jan. 18 with the permission of their parents. Smith's parents expected her home the next evening, and when she did not return, they called police.

Police immediately suspected that they had gone to the area around Charlestown, W.Va., based on a tracked cellphone call one of them made about the time they went missing. The bodies were found a few miles from Charlestown.

The Subaru was found about 2:15 p.m. yesterday by two people in an off-road vehicle on the access road, about half a mile from the West Virginia border, according to the Loudoun sheriff's office. They called it in to authorities as a suspicious vehicle.

Montgomery police were informed of the discovery by Loudoun authorities shortly before 4 p.m., and the families of both girls were notified by police late yesterday afternoon about the discovery.

"We're not talking. We have nothing to say," said a man who answered the door at the home of Crites's father in Rockville.

At the Smiths' home in North Potomac, a woman who answered the door said the family was not ready to talk, partly because there was some uncertainty about the identities of the bodies.

The concern about the teenagers' mental state stemmed in part from a diary entry made by Crites, in which she wrote of her desire to be buried next to her true love.

Although some TV stations and newspapers reported the diary entry, The Washington Post did not report it at the request of Montgomery police, who expressed concern that publication of it might alert the teenagers that the diary was found and possibly prompt them to harm themselves.

Troy Crites, Rachel Crites's father, said in a TV interview that his daughter had suffered from depression in March.

The Loudoun sheriff's office said the teenagers were seen in the area where the bodies were found more than once since December, at a Foodway store off Route 9. The area is largely rural, with houses scattered across the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Loudoun side of the border is largely prosperous, and the West Virginia side is more mixed-income.

A member of a local safety patrol who asked not to be identified said a teenager claimed to have spotted the pair as recently as last week. About 60 local residents searched for them Sunday. They were joined by Rachel Smith's father, Paul, and an uncle, the patrol member said.

Montgomery police advise good communication in dealing with depressed teenagers. "Talking to your teenager is the best bet," Officer Melanie Hanley said. "If they're depressed, counseling is the best avenue to explore."

Staff writer Lori Aratani and staff researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report.