PRICILLA RISTICK - 12 yo - Lilburn (NE of Atlanta) GA

Gwinnett County authorities need your help finding a missing girl.Officers
said 12-year-old Priscilla Ristick disappeared while helping her uncle
sell flowers in a parking lot on Indian Trail Road.The victim's
uncle, Joey Thompson, said he briefly went into one of the businesses
and left her outside. When he returned, she was gone.



Thompson said that he was told by witnesses that Restnick left with an adult female in a white van.Priscilla has red hair, is about 4 feet tall and weighs 95 pounds.She was last seen wearing a gray jacket, blue jeans and black shoes.If you have any information, please contact local authorities or the Gwinnett County Police Department at 770-513-5300.

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Gwinnett County Police are asking for the public's help in locating a 12-year-old girl.
Priscilla Ristick was last seen by her family Sunday
evening, helping her uncle sell flowers in the parking lot outside the
Little Caesars pizza restaurant on Indian Trail Road, just off of Dickens Road.
Her uncle, Joey Thompson, told 11Alive News he went
inside to pick up a pizza-to-go at about 5:00 p.m., and when he came out Priscilla was gone.
"I told her, 'Stay by me or stay by the door,'"
Thompson said. He shook his head and looked up to the ceiling, taking a
deep breath as if re-living the moment. Priscilla's mother sat next to
him on the couch, fighting back tears.
"It was just seconds," Thompson said. "It was just seconds.
By the time I got the pizza, she wasn't there no more."
Priscilla and her mother, Julia Ristick, are from out
of state, visiting Thompson (Julia's brother-in-law) and Thompson's wife
(Julia's sister) and other relatives in Lilburn.
Julia Ristick told 11Alive News that an hour or two
after Priscilla disappeared, Priscilla called her from a cell phone that displayed "private number."
"She said, 'Mom.' And I asked her, 'Where are you, Priscilla?'
'I'm at this house with a lady.'
'What's her name?'
'Nancy.'"
Julia said Priscilla was not able to describe where the house is located.
"I told her, 'Why did you get in with her in the van?' 'Because she offered me money,
she was going to cash a check' and give her money to buy food."
Julia said she told Priscilla to get
out of there with the phone and call 911 right away and maybe police
could begin to track the location of the phone. That's when, Julia
said, someone hung up the phone.[/size]
No details on the woman named "Nancy," nor the van -- other than that it was possibly a white van -- were available.
Priscilla Ristick was last seen wearing a grey jacket,
blue jeans and black shoes. She has red hair, is about 4 feet tall and
weighs around 95 pounds.
Gwinnett County Police notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Police continue to investigate the circumstances of
Priscilla's disappearance. They are checking for video from at least
two, nearby surveillance cameras.
Police wanted to issue an "Amber Alert," but as of Monday night the
government administrators of the Amber Alerts, which,in Georgia,
is the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, were telling them no.
According to Gwinnett County Police Corporal Edwin
Ritter, in an email to 11Alive news, "The Amber Alert was refused
because it could not be determined that the missing juvenile was taken
by force," but got into the woman's van willingly.
No one was available Monday night to explain the
circumstances that would trigger an Amber Alert if a child were being held against her will.
"Please bring her back," Julia Ristick said, through tears, "Please. I want my baby back."
Anyone who has seen Priscilla should call the Gwinnett County Police Special Victims Unit at (770) 513-5300.

http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=178829&catid=40

12-Year-Old Visiting Relatives Vanishes From Shopping Center

5:23 pm EST February 22, 2011

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. -- Gwinnett County police are looking for leads on the whereabouts of a missing 12-year-old girl. The child, Pricella Ristick, has not been seen since her uncle reported to
police that she slipped away while they were having pizza at a Little
Caesar's in Lilburn on Sunday evening. He said she may have gotten into a
white van outside the shopping center with a woman named Nancy.

12-Year-Old Disappears From Shopping Center

"Please bring her back, please," said the girl's mother, Julia Ristick."That's all I want."Julia Ristick said she and her daughter are in town visiting relatives for the month.She
said Pricella, who is home-schooled, helped the family sell flowers at
the shopping center on Indian Trail Road. She said that's where her
daughter met a woman named Nancy about a week ago.A few hours after Pricella disappeared, her mother said she got a phone call from her."She told me, 'Mom, I can't get away,'" she recalled, as her eyes watered."I
told her 'Come home. Try to figure out a way out of there,' and she
said 'I can't. I don't know where I am,'" Julia Ristick told Channel 2's
Manuel Bojorquez.Julia Ristick said she was telling her daughter to call 911 when the call ended.Police
said since they cannot confirm the girl left on her own accord, they
are investigating this as a kidnapping and trying to find leads. They
said they will review surveillance video for more information.Family friends are posting fliers with the girl's photograph in the area around the shopping center where she was last seen.Anyone with information in this case is asked to call Gwinnett County police.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/26957017/detail.html

Three days after a 12-year-old girl was reported missing, Gwinnett County police have very few clues to her whereabouts.


Gwinnett County Police Department

Pricilla Ristick was last seen around 5:30 p.m. at 895 Indian Trail Road
in unincorporated Lilburn, police said. That’s where she was with her
uncle, who told authorities she got in a white van with a woman named Nancy.
Her uncle told police he left the girl briefly to go into a business,
and when he returned, she was gone.
A surveillance camera image released Wednesday show the girl, wearing
jeans and holding a jacket, walking alone toward the parking lot.
Another picture shows a side view of a white passenger van. Pricilla's
family believes she may have gotten into that van.
Gwinnett police said Wednesday there is no indication that Pricilla
was taken by force and may have left of her own will.
Pricilla Ristick's uncle, Joey Thompson, told police the girl was
selling flowers in the parking lot earlier Sunday. Thompson said other
people saw the girl get into a white van, which then drove away, police
said.
Thompson told police a woman named Nancy, who Pricilla had befriended
a week before, may have been in the white van. But police have little
else to go on and no description of Nancy.
The missing girl's mother, Julia Ristick, claimed the girl called a few hours later,
Channel 2 Action News is reporting. But police have been
unable to confirm the call, Cpl. Edwin Ritter told the AJC Wednesday.
"She told me, ‘Mom, I can't get away,'" Julia Ristick recalled, as her eyes watered.
"I told her, ‘Come home. Try to figure out a way out of there,' and
she said, ‘I can't. I don't know where I am,'" the girl's mother told Channel 2.
Julia Ristick said she was telling her daughter to call 911 when the call ended.
Pricilla Ristick is about 4 feet tall and weighs about 95 pounds,
police said. She has red hair, police said. She was last seen wearing a
gray jacket, blue jeans and black shoes.
Anyone with information is asked to call is 911 or the
Gwinnett County Police Department Special Victims Unit at 770-513-5300.

http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/images-show-12-year-847985.html

Police are treating the disappearance of 12 year-old Pricilla Ristick as an abduction – but they admit it’s a strange one.
Pricilla and her uncle, Mr. Joey Thompson, were selling flowers about
5:30 p.m. Sunday in a strip mall at 895 Indian Trail Road in Lilburn, Gwinnett County police spokesman Cpl. Jake Smith said.
Shortly after her uncle stepped into a nearby business, witnesses saw
the girl approaching a white van. A moment later, she was gone. But no
one saw the girl get into the van, Cpl. Smith said Wednesday.
Later, the girl called her mom to say she was with someone named
Nancy. She told her mom Nancy was not going to let her go. But the girl
also said, she did not want to leave Nancy, Cpl. Smith said.
Family members have heard Nancy’s name before, but have never met the woman.
“This whole thing is very odd,” Cpl. Smith said. “It’s not your usual abduction.”
The girl told her mom Nancy said she would call police Monday. Two days later, police have still not received a phone call.
Investigators think it’s possible the girl’s abductor enticed her, Cpl. Smith said.
The girl’s mom told reporters her daughter said the woman has bought her clothes and other items.
“Investigators with the Special Victims Unit are diligently working
on all leads provided in this investigation,” spokesman Cpl. Edwin
Ritter said.
They have entered Pricilla’s information into the state and national database as a missing child and notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Pricilla Ristick is a 4-foot tall red head who weighs 95 pounds. She
was last seen wearing a gray jacket, blue jeans and black shoes.
To see previous article, go to: http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-atlanta/police-search-for-missing-12-year-old-girl
Anyone with information concerning the whereabouts of Pricilla
Ristick is urged to contact the local authorities or Gwinnett County
Police Department Special Victims Unit at (770) 513-5300.





Continue reading on Examiner.com: Missing 12-year-old girl tells mom she doesn't want to leave her "abductor" - Atlanta Crime | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-atlanta/missing-12-year-old-girl-tells-mom-she-doesn-t-want-to-leave-her-abductor#ixzz1EqO5Ro1G

Priscilla and her mother, Julia Ristick, are from out
of state, visiting Thompson (Julia's brother-in-law) and Thompson's wife
(Julia's sister) and other relatives in Lilburn.

---So, how would Nancy know this? If family members have heard of "Nancy" before, then this must be a recent "acquaintance".
Wouldn't you be suspicious if someone else was buying your pre-teen clothes "and other items"?

kiwimom wrote:Three days after a 12-year-old girl was reported missing, Gwinnett County police have very few clues to her whereabouts.


Gwinnett County Police Department

Pricilla Ristick was last seen around 5:30 p.m. at 895 Indian Trail Road
in unincorporated Lilburn, police said. That’s where she was with her
uncle, who told authorities she got in a white van with a woman named Nancy.
Her uncle told police he left the girl briefly to go into a business,
and when he returned, she was gone.
A surveillance camera image released Wednesday show the girl, wearing
jeans and holding a jacket, walking alone toward the parking lot.
Another picture shows a side view of a white passenger van. Pricilla's
family believes she may have gotten into that van.
Gwinnett police said Wednesday there is no indication that Pricilla
was taken by force and may have left of her own will.
Pricilla Ristick's uncle, Joey Thompson, told police the girl was
selling flowers in the parking lot earlier Sunday. Thompson said other
people saw the girl get into a white van, which then drove away, police
said.
Thompson told police a woman named Nancy, who Pricilla had befriended
a week before, may have been in the white van. But police have little
else to go on and no description of Nancy.
The missing girl's mother, Julia Ristick, claimed the girl called a few hours later,
Channel 2 Action News is reporting. But police have been
unable to confirm the call, Cpl. Edwin Ritter told the AJC Wednesday.
"She told me, ‘Mom, I can't get away,'" Julia Ristick recalled, as her eyes watered.
"I told her, ‘Come home. Try to figure out a way out of there,' and
she said, ‘I can't. I don't know where I am,'" the girl's mother told Channel 2.
Julia Ristick said she was telling her daughter to call 911 when the call ended.
Pricilla Ristick is about 4 feet tall and weighs about 95 pounds,
police said. She has red hair, police said. She was last seen wearing a
gray jacket, blue jeans and black shoes.
Anyone with information is asked to call is 911 or the
Gwinnett County Police Department Special Victims Unit at 770-513-5300.

http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/images-show-12-year-847985.html

This phone call is suspicious. All calls show up yet this one didn't. Makes me wonder about the mom Julia.

Am I getting too suspicious?

No, you're not Twink. Apart from everything else, my alarm bells went off as soon as I read she was home schooled and that she was working for them selling flowers. The two don't go together IMO. The type of parent who wants to home school their child is a bit at odds with a parent who would have their child selling stuff in a parking lot. JMO

Poster's note. This picture shows what looks like her running toward the van or white car as if she knows them.

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. -- The search for a missing 12-year-old has intensified.Pricilla
Ristick was last seen Sunday when she and her uncle took a break from
selling flowers at a Lilburn strip mall and went to get a pizza from
Little Caesars.A state task force made up of different agencies,
including the department of corrections, has been formed in the search
for the missing girl. At least 12 investigators started assisting
Gwinnett police Wednesday night to follow up on leads.Also two
investigators with the National Center For Missing And Exploited
Children canvassed on Thursday, the strip mall in Lilburn where Pricilla
went missing.Wednesday, police released pictures from surveillance video that shows Pricilla approaching a white van."


All
he did was go wash his hands in the store, and before you know it, she
went out the door. My brother saw her walk out and he said 'come back,
come back. She said 'no I’m going to get money from this lady.' She told
her uncle the lady promised her some money to buy flowers," said her
mother Julia Ristick."We believe she may have gotten into that
vehicle. It was a short time later that her mother received a phone call
from Pricilla saying she was with a lady named Nancy," said Cpl. Edwin
Ritter, a Gwinnett County police officer.Ristick has red hair, is about 4 feet tall and weighs 95 pounds.She was last seen wearing a gray jacket, blue jeans and black shoes.If you have any information, please contact local authorities or the Gwinnett County Police Department at 770-513-5300.

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/26983244/detail.html

kiwimom wrote:No, you're not Twink. Apart from everything else, my alarm bells went off as soon as I read she was home schooled and that she was working for them selling flowers. The two don't go together IMO. The type of parent who wants to home school their child is a bit at odds with a parent who would have their child selling stuff in a parking lot. JMO

You're right, that behavior doesn't jive. I don't have a good feeling about this case.

How many men go into a store to wash their hands?

Family's New Theory on 12-Year-Old's Disappearance


LILBURN, GA -- Family members of a 12-year-old girl who disappeared from Lilburn Sunday night now wonder if an abductor was trying to "rescue" her from a perceived bad life of selling flowers on the street, intending to deliver her to a DFACS office.

Pricella Ristick was last seen by her family Sunday evening, helping her uncle sell flowers in the parking lot outside the Little Caesars pizza restaurant on Indian Trail Road, just off of Dickens Road.

Relatives from across the country have arrived in Lilburn to help look for her. They are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to her return. They have printed and distributed flyers, and they've gone door-to-door asking people if they saw anything.

Police have told the family that only one of the surveillance cameras outside the strip mall was working when Pricella disappeared, and it was pointed away from the area where she may have gotten into a white van with a woman named Nancy.

Three photos from the video do show Pricella and a white van, but they do not show an abduction.

Police continue to search for witnesses and clues and evidence, on the assumption that Pricella was abducted and is in danger, but not knowing for sure what's happened to her.



Her uncle, Joey Thompson, told 11 Alive News he stepped inside the Little Caesar's to pick up a pizza to go at about 5 p.m. Sunday, and when he came out, Pricella was gone.

"I told her, 'Stay by me or stay by the door,'" Thompson said. He shook his head and looked up to the ceiling, taking a deep breath, as if re-living the moment.

"It was just seconds," Thompson said. "It was just seconds. By the time I got the pizza, she wasn't there no more."

Pricella's mother Julia Ristick sat next to Thompson, fighting back tears. She and her daughter, who are from out of state, were visiting Thompson (her brother-in-law), Thompson's wife (Julia's sister) and other relatives in Lilburn.

Julia Ristick told 11Alive News that an hour or two after Pricella disappeared, Pricella called her from a cell phone that displayed "private number."

"She said, 'Mom.' And I asked her, 'Where are you, Pricella?' 'I'm at this house with a lady.' 'What's her name?' 'Nancy.'"

It turns out Nancy might have first come into contact with Pricella last week as Pricella helped her uncle sell flowers in the area.

Julia said Pricella was not able to describe where the house was located.

"I told her, 'Why did you get in with her in the van?' [She said] 'Because she offered me money, she was going to cash a check' and give her money to buy food."

Julia Ristick said she told Pricella to get out of there with the phone and call 911 right away and maybe police could begin to track the location of the phone.

That's when, Julia said, someone hung up the phone.

Gwinnett County Police have notified the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Police continue to investigate the circumstances of Pricella's disappearance.

Police wanted to issue an "Amber Alert," but as of Monday night the government administrators of the Amber Alerts, which in Georgia is the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, were telling them no.

"The Amber Alert was refused because it could not be determined that the missing juvenile was taken by force," Gwinnett County Police Corporal Edwin Ritter wrote in an email to 11Alive News.

"Please bring her back," Julia Ristick said, through tears, "Please. I want my baby back."

Pricella Ristick was last seen wearing a grey jacket, blue jeans and black shoes. She has red hair, is about 4 feet tall and weighs around 95 pounds.


Anyone with information about Pricella or about her disappearance or about a possible abductor, or about anything else that might help find her, should call the Gwinnett County Police Special Victims Unit at (770) 513-5300.

The four-day search for a 12-year-old Gwinnett County girl ended Thursday night when she was found safe in Las Vegas, police said.

The girl, Pricilla Ristick, told police she took a bus to Las Vegas and had been there one to two days.
Police continue to investigate, among other things, whether anyone helped her get to Las Vegas.
Pricilla was last seen around 5:30 p.m. Sunday in a shopping center
on Indian Trail Road, near Lilburn. Her uncle, Joey Thompson, said he
and Pricilla were selling flowers when he went into a store and briefly
left her alone. When he returned, she was gone.
Surveillance video released Wednesday showed the girl, wearing jeans
and holding a jacket, walking toward the parking lot. Another picture
shows a side view of a white passenger van. Pricilla's family believes
she may have gotten into that van.
Thompson told police a woman named Nancy, who Pricilla had befriended
a week before, may have been in the white van. But police didn't have
any more to go on.
Thursday, Pricilla began to call Thompson from a blocked number. She
told him she was in a building with a lot of people and they wouldn't
let her leave.
When investigators took the phone, they spoke to Pricilla and she
"indicated she didn't want to go home and claimed she was at a Kroger in
Atlanta," police said in a release. "She never indicated she was in any
sort of fear or danger and claimed she was fine."
Police traced the number to an intersection in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas Police found her there.
"Pricilla informed LVPD that she caught a bus to Las Vegas and had
been there for one or two days," Gwinnett police said. "LVPD placed her
into the care of Child Services."
Pricilla's mother, Julia Ristick, told Channel 2 Action News earlier
this week that her daughter called a few hours after her disappearance.
"She told me, ‘Mom, I can't get away,'" Ristick told Channel 2. "I
told her, ‘Come home. Try to figure out a way out of there,' and she
said, ‘I can't. I don't know where I am.'"
http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/missing-12-year-old-852652.html

Las Vegas! She's only 12 FGS. So relieved she is found but I'm sure we're going to here a lot more about this.

LILBURN, GA -- His family had lost sleep for four straight nights.
Now, Leo Ristick no longer worries about the whereabouts of his niece,
12-year-old Pricella Ristick. Thursday night, she emerged unharmed in
Las Vegas, the city she called home for the last two years.
"How she got to Vegas, I don't know. How she got away, I don't know," Ristick said Friday morning.
Pricella Ristick disappeared from a Lilburn shopping center Sunday
evening. Surveillance images appeared to show her sprinting toward a
white van. She called home two hours later -- saying she was with a
woman named Nancy. Police treated it as an abduction, with many question
marks.
"This, fortunately, turned out to be good. She's healthy, she's fine.
The reasons why she left, we don't know. We're looking into that," said
Gwinnett County police spokesman Cpl. Edwin Ritter.
It was a murky case from the outset and its resolution Thursday was
no less puzzling. On Thursday afternoon, Pricella called her uncle, said
that she was still with the woman named Nancy, and that she was at a
grocery store in Atlanta. Later police used a phone trace to put the
girl at an intersection in Las Vegas.
Leo Ristick spent part of the day making arrangements to get the girl
back with her mother -- while Gwinnett and Nevada police tried to sort
through the case file.
"If there's any criminal activity going on, we're going to do
whatever we can to bring charges," Cpl. Ritter said. "If somebody
helped facilitate her transport, that's interference with custody.
Especially over state lines, you're looking at felonies."
Yet it was that rare criminal case with a happy ending.
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=179502&catid=40

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