Michaela Nelson missing from Columbus, OH since 10/26/2021

[raisedbywolves]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-army...nelson-missing

Michaela Nelson, a specialist with the Ohio Army National Guard, has been missing for a month.

She last spoke with her family Oct. 26. Before that, she completed her Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Oct. 2 but failed to return to her Dayton-based unit, military authorities said in a statement.

Her family believes she?s still alive and may be in hiding, according to James Terry, the private investigator they hired to find her. While Nelson's phone is off, her FaceTime still rings, according to Terry.

She?s using a phone, some sort of phone," he told Fox News Digital this week. "She just doesn?t have her number on."

Nelson last spoke with friends and relatives at the end of October in a text message exchange with her grandmother, cousin Elise Miller said Friday. But the last time Miller spoke with Nelson was a month earlier at Nelson?s mother?s funeral, Miller said.

"She could be anywhere in the United States," her father, Lance Nelson, told Fox News Digital. And she may still be driving her dark gray 2016 Dodge Charger SXT.

Between Oct. 6 and 15, the elder Nelson said, license plate readers in Columbus, Ohio, picked up her car near an apartment where she had lived. But by the time she had been reported missing and police swept the area in early November, the vehicle was gone.

Nelson also had an ex who was the subject of a restraining order, her father said, but that is no longer in effect.

"I think that faded," he said.

Miller issued a plea Friday for Nelson to contact relatives and let them know she?s OK.

"We?d just like to help her," she said.

In recent months, Nelson, a former college athlete with 18,000 followers on TikTok, began hanging out with a new group of friends, her cousin told Fox News Digital. The group includes a number of professional athletes who Miller said she recognized from their ties to Indiana, where she lives.

"First and foremost, Spc. Nelson?s health and safety are our priority," an Ohio Army National Guard spokesperson told Fox News this week.

"Any discussion of discipline or administrative action is not a priority."

Nelson uses the name Michaela Kay on her social media accounts and may have also gone by Kayla Kay.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call the Columbus Police Department at 614-645-4545. Terry is also urging anyone who has information about Nelson's whereabouts but is reluctant to call police to call Gulf Coast Investigation at 813-993-2242.

[Angiebla]

Why does her family think she's in hiding?

If her phone was on couldnt they trace it?

[raisedbywolves]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/missing-o...on-found-alive

Missing Ohio National Guard Spc. Michaela Nelson found alive

Ohio Army National Guard Spc. Michaela Nelson, who went missing in late October, has been found alive.

James Terry, a private investigator working the case on behalf of her dad, said police found her around noon ET Tuesday in her gray 2016 Dodge Charger, which had broken down in Columbus. A police statement said a detective found her in apparent good health but took her to the hospital for a physical and mental health evaluation shortly thereafter for a "precautionary examination."

Nelson's father, Lance Nelson, told Fox News Digital that he began receiving text messages from his daughter's number late Tuesday morning. He went to the hospital to meet her.

"She said her phone died and her car was dead," he said. "She felt really bad about what she'd done, making us worry – she wanted to die and things like that."
Missing Ohio Army National Guard Spc. Michaela Nelson, shown in this undated photograph taken by her friend, has been found alive.

Columbus police said a detective found her inside her car near the intersection of Sawmill and Bethel Roads.

Nelson appeared to have been going through a rough patch in recent months.

She last spoke with friends and relatives at the end of October in a text message exchange with her grandmother, her cousin Elise Miller said Friday. But the last time Miller spoke with Nelson directly came a month earlier at Nelson’s mother’s funeral, she said.

In August, Nelson posted a video to TikTok, addressing concerns that she'd failed out of officer candidate school. And her ex-husband remarried earlier this year just four months after finalizing their divorce.

[Nic B]

Damn, was she sleeping in her car for the whole month she was gone??