Family of missing Hot Springs teen pleads for help finding their daughter
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – A family is pleading to the Natural State to help find their daughter who went missing more than three days ago.
According to police, 15-year-old Annabel Rose was last seen Monday night around 9:30 in Hot Springs on West Grand Avenue.
She’s 5’4 with brown hair and brown eyes. She could be wearing a backwards hat and a camouflaged hoodie.
“We want that everyone who see this, to see it as this is their family member, and how many people would they tell if their family member was missing,” Stephen Rose said.
Annabel left the house with a brindled color dog named Sissy. Amy Rose said this a fear that she never wanted to come true, her child, missing.
“You’re living someone’s nightmare, and you just think every second, where is she at and who is she with,” Amy Rose said.
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Looking through cards she saved over the years from her family, they say this is one of many ways to describe her sweet spirit and how much she loved them.
“Some of them go back to when she’s 4 or 5 years old,” Stephen Rose said.
Her father, Stephen Rose says, they want her to come home, and will have open arms.
“She has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, how extremely upset the setting was, and we want to work on it, we will work on it,” Stephen Rose said.
He says the family had an argument Sunday night, but thought everything was okay, but come Tuesday morning he found her room empty.
Her parents telling us, they believe she left with someone she met online.
“We started talking to parents and the school, and that’s when we found out about the phone she had and a secret conversation,” Stephen Rose said, “Never met in person only met online.”
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Her mother, Amy Rose, with tears rolling down her cheeks says these words to Annabel.
“You’re my little drop of heaven is what I have written on one of the cards, and it reminded me of you and what I used to say, and I just pray for you and call 9-1-1 and be strong, we love you and want you home,” Amy Rose said.
Annabel’s grandmother Patricia Wireman says she misses Annabel so much.
“This is the most horrible thing that could happen to me, to my heart, I love her,” Wireman said.
Close family friend, Patty Sudmeyer says, she loves her very much.
“I just want her to come home, safely,” Sudmeyer said.
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