SHELBY ELLIS - 16 yo - Powder Springs (SW of Marietta) GA

In an unusual story about three missing kids, three Cobb County students all disappeared within a few days of each other.The three McEachern High School teens were said to be involved a Goth lifestyle, had an obsession with vampires, and then they disappeared each within a week of each other.Two of the teens turned up over the weekend. But Shelby Elllis, a 16 year old sophomore, is still missing and her parents fear the worst.The question now is what has happened to Shelby Ellis, the remaining missing teen?



And does her involvement on an eerie website hold the key."What flashes through my head every day is a girl lying in a ditch on the side of the road," Rich Ellis said."No one heard from Shelby. I'm truly afraid she is not alive. What are we supposed to think?" her step-mother, Wendy, said.Shelby has been missing for three weeks. On Oct. 11, she took the bus to school and never came home. Her last known activity on the Internet was logging onto the website "Vampire Freaks," where her parents say she lived a double life."You have the obvious thoughts of pentagrams and candles and the crazy things that you see on TV that are associated with the darker cult lifestyle," Rich Ellis said.The week after Shelby vanished, one of her friends, a 15-year-old freshman, went missing. A week later, a third girl disappeared."The way that they have come up missing one after the other makes us believe-- a lot of things point to that they are in some kind of pact," Private investigator Phillip Hambrick remarked.The family hired Hambrick to help find their daughter."We don't know if she has been coerced to go out somewhere, if she has been kidnapped," Hambrick said.The common link, the family warns, may be an underground cult."A lot of them are in this dark, 'let's be gothic, let's be different, let's suck blood.' All kinds of dark stuff," Wendy Ellis said.She said the three girls were fascinated with vampires and the dark side of life. They were all students at McEachern High School in Cobb County, although one of the girls was not enrolled this year."I know nothing about it," Principal Regina Montgomery commented.When Saltzman went to ask Montgomery about the mysterious connection between her students, the principal had her escorted off the property.The other two teens, who were found this weekend, have refused to tell investigators where Shelby might be."There are kids that go missing that you never hear from again. I don't want to be here in eight, 10 months still not knowing where our daughter is," Wendy Ellis said.The Cobb County Sheriff's Office would not provide the details of their investigation because all three girls are under age.If you have any additional information about Shelby Ellis' whereabouts, please contact the Cobb County Sheriff's Office, or her family at 770-825-2865.

Shelby Ellis, Believed to Be Abducted By 'Vampire Cult,' Found Safe in Washington


By Pete Kotz in missing persons, unsolved
Wednesday, Nov. 3 2010 @ 2:24PM
​On October 11, 16-year-old Shelby Ellis disappeared in Cobb County, Georgia. She took the bus to McEachern High School, then promptly went missing. Her parents logged onto her computer and found that the last site she'd visited was Vampire Freaks...

Shelby's parents worried that her fascination with VampireFreaks.com meant that she may have been abducted by an underground vampire cult

​It's a site for teens into the whole goth and industrial music thing, which wouldn't be particularly alarming. But at least in her parents' eyes, it was a sign their little girl was leading a double life.

"You have the obvious thoughts of pentagrams and candles and the crazy things that you see on TV that are associated with the darker cult lifestyle," father Rich Ellis told CBS Atlanta.

More confounding was that a week after Shelby went missing, a 15-year-old friend disappeared. That was followed by a third girl who went missing a week after that.

Shelby's parents hired a private investigator, who also shared the notion that Shelby may have been abducted by a cult. We're not sure if they have any evidence of this, or if they're simply conservative religious people freaked out by the whole goth thing. But if they were looking for answers, they wouldn't find them at the girls' school. When a CBS reporter went to talk to McEachern Principal Regina Montgomery, she promptly had the reporter booted off the property.

The other two girls would eventually turn up, but police aren't saying what happened to them. All we know is that the cops had to retrieve them and they didn't willingly return home. But both refused to say where Shelby was.

The good news is that police have found her alive and safe in Lakewood, Washington today. She'd apparently taken a bus to Washington, where she was voluntarily staying with someone who we're guessing she met online. There's no word on why she left or what she was doing out west, but we'll keep you posted.