RSS16 Year Old Marley McKenna Spindler Missing Since 8/20/15 from Myrtle Beach, SC (Update: Found Safe)(Update: Charged with Filing a False Police Report)
16 year old Marley McKenna Spindler has been missing since August 20, 2015 when she was last seen leaving a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina restaurant. According to reports, Marley was seen leaving a Chick-fil-A in Myrtle Beach around 7:30 a.m. on the day she went missing in a 2002 silver Ford Escape with South Carolina tag KFI-776. She has not been seen or heard from since.
Police are looking for a 16-year-old girl who was last seen leaving a Myrtle Beach, S.C., restaurant on Aug. 20, reports CBS affiliate WBTW.
Marley McKenna Spindler was last seen at a Chick-fil-A in Myrtle Beach around 7:30 a.m. on the day she went missing.
The teen was driving a 2002 silver Ford Escape with South Carolina tag KFI-776, according to police.
Horry County Police Lt. Raul Denis said information received by authorities indicates Spindler is likely alone and there is no evidence of foul play at this time.
The flyer describes the 16-year-old as standing 5 feet 8 inches, weighing approximately 100 pounds with light brown hair and hazel eyes. Spindler was last seen wearing long blue jeans, a white flowery tank top and gold sandals, with a cross-body style purser, a Vera Bradley book bag and Vera Bradley lunchbox, according to the flyer.
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UPDATE I: Marley was last heard from at 8:42 a.m.
According to police, Marley was last heard from at 8:42 a.m. that Thursday morning in a group text with her friends. Her aunt told Dateline NBC the teen sent the group a cryptic text saying someone was following her. “They all thought she was joking, and didn’t think that much of it,” said Long. “They are also teenagers and didn’t want to tattle on their friend if she was cutting school. They didn’t think anything bad had happened. But now we’re all scared.”
That afternoon, when his daughter missed her routine check-in call, Jay Spindler called Marley’s cellphone, which was answered by a clerk at the Ocean Reef Resort saying the phone had been found earlier that day in their parking lot.
UPDATE II: FBI Joins Hunt for Missing South Carolina Teen.
The FBI has joined the hunt for missing South Carolina teen Marley McKenna Spindler, who disappeared last week on her first day of school.
“The FBI has offered their help,” Lt. Raul Denis of the Horry County Police Department tells PEOPLE. “We will welcome any help we can get. We want to find her safe and soon.”
If anyone has any information related to Spindler’s disappearance is asked to contact the Horry County Police Department or call the Tip Line at 843-915-8477 (843-915-TIPS).
UPDATE III: Missing Teen Marley McKenna Spindler Found Safe.
Missing South Carolina teen Marley McKenna Spindler has been found safe in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, according to the Horry County Police Department.
The teen was found safe at approximately noon Wednesday by the Mt. Pleasant Police Department and will soon be reunited with her family.
UPDATE IV: Mt. Pleasant Police file charge in case of missing 16-year-old Marley Spindler.
Mount Pleasant Police have confirmed that a “filing false police report” charge has been filed in connection with the case of Marley McKenna Spindler, the 16-year-old who went missing last Thursday, and was found in Mount Pleasant on Wednesday.
At about noon on Wednesday, Mt. Pleasant police pulled over a silver Ford SUV near the Ravenel Bridge, according to a heavily-redacted police report. The vehicle description and plates matched the vehicle that 16-year-old Spindler allegedly drove off in when she went missing from the Myrtle Beach area on Thursday, August 20.
Police then took the subject to the Mt. Pleasant Police Department, and detectives from the Horry County Police Department arrived to conduct an interview. During the interview, she told detectives that she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted during the time she had been reported as missing.
Detectives searched the subject’s SUV for evidence of the assault, and a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner conducted an exam in the hopes of collecting forensic evidence of the alleged assault suspect’s identity.
While taking the subject back to the police department from the hospital, a Mt. Pleasant officer continued to discuss what happened to the subject, and realized that there was an inconsistency in her story: she originally said she was alone with the sexual assault suspect, but at one point said the suspect drove “us” down Highway 17. The subject then said she would be honest about everything.
Horry County Police again interviewed the subject. Once they got out of the interview room, they advised Mt. Pleasant Police that the subject had fabricated the entire story.
It was determined that the subject is going to be charged with filing a false police report, the report states.
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This does not bode well for the young woman. She apparently used her phone to ask for help, but no one she called realized the danger.
She should have called 911.
Sixteen year olds should not be driving themselves to school alone. Predators are always looking for an opportunity of this type where the woman is alone.
I hope the police are questioning all her friends and checking the social media sites.
I’m hoping this young girl will be found OK. But I’m not totally sure she did not take off on her own.
She skipped school on the first day, her first time driving to school, to pick up her intoxicated 22 yr old friend on Ocean Blvd and take him back to Georgetown, her phone was found at a hotel on Ocean Blvd.
She was making bad decisions, hope that didn’t get her in over her head.