Texas cops: Missing 16-year-old girl told mom she was coming home

Autumn Theis, 16, went missing after she told her mother she was coming home but never did, police said.

Autumn Theis, 16, went missing after she told her mother she was coming home but never did, police said.

Kilgore Police Department

A 16-year-old girl went missing after failing to return to her home in Texas on Sunday, Nov. 27, police said.

Autumn Theis “told her mom that she was on the way home,” according to a Nov. 29 report from the Kilgore Police Department, but she never arrived.

Autumn’s mother, Thea Howell, reported on her daughter as a fugitiveshe said in a Facebook post.

“I will not stop looking for you and I will leave no stone unturned” Howell said. “I’m not mad at you baby, I just want you to come home.”

She is described as 5 feet, 3 inches, 120 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Rusk County Sheriff’s Department at 903-657-3581. Kilgore is about 120 miles southeast of Dallas.

“She has a loving family who miss her and are very worried about her.” – said a friend on Facebook. “She has two little siblings who love and care for her. All her friends are very worried and miss her.’

Mike Stanson covers the news in real time for McClatchy. A 2011 graduate of Western Kentucky University, he previously worked at the Paducah Sun and Madisonville Messenger as a sports reporter and at the Lexington Herald-Leader as a breaking news reporter.
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