NELLIE BAIL - 16 yo - Bremerton WA

For the second time in two months, a teenage girl has vanished in
Bremerton.

19-year-old Kara Radabah disappeared on May 13th. Now, 16-year-old
Nellie Bail has been gone since July 8th. Both girls vanished within a
mile of each other.

Their disappearances have brought both girls' families together to try
to find them. Nellie's mother and father, Kim and Ward Bail, say they
are sick with worry. When she first disappeared, they thought she might
have run away because she's acted out before. They are confident now
that's not what happened. Ward Bail says,
"This didn't have any warnings. There were no warnings. That's why we're
so confused. We keep a pretty tight watch."

The Bail's say the day she vanished Nellie was eager to get out of the
house and go to driving school. She was last seen around 9pm that night
leaving the school at Perry Avenue Mall on her bicycle. Her dad says,
"At 9pm, I looked at the clock and said well, she should be here in 15
minutes, she may have stopped and talked for a few minutes, the bike
ride shouldn't have taken more than a few minutes because it's downhill
the whole way."

Now, Nellie's mom and dad are frustrated and scared for her.

Kara Radabah's mother Cheryl can relate. She's worked hard to get the
word out about her daughter's disappearance in May. She understands the
paralyzing fear the Bail family feels, so she reached out to them to
help by offering advice and support.

Cheryl says there are similarities in both teen's disappearances. Not
only did they take driving lessons from the same school, Kara went
missing near Illahee State Park. That's less then a mile from where
Nellie vanished. Search dogs tracked Kara walking towards Perry Avenue
Mall, the same mall Nellie was seen riding by. Unlike Nellie, Kara has a
medical condition that can cause her to be vulnerable to the wrong
person when she's forgotten to take her medicine. Cheryl says, "I
believe that if Kara had not been interrupted coming home that night,
she would have come home."

While Kitsap County detectives are actively working Kara's case as an
endangered missing teen, Bremerton Police say Nellie is a runaway and
they are not linking the two cases together.

Det. Sgt. Kevin Crane says, "The missing person Kitsap County case..we
have absolutely no evidence the two are connected in any way. We took a
runaway report that night, from her, from the parents and we've been
following up, we've been in contact with the driving school."

Whatever happened, it's a nightmare for both families who hope the girls
are okay, but fear the worst. Cheryl says, "I'd just like to implore
people to keep their eyes open for Kara and for Nelly, something is
wrong..something is off...just pleading with people out there to keep
their faces in their minds..they could be anywhere."

Nellie Bail, a 16-year-old Bremerton girl who had been missing since July 8, was found Sunday night in Forest Ridge Park, Bremerton Police Detective Sgt. Kevin Crane said.

She was taken to Harrison Medical Center for an examination and found
to be in good health, Crane said. She was then turned over to Child
Protective Services because she said she had been abused at home, Crane
said.

Crane said Bail had been staying in different places around Bremerton and had been spending some nights at Forest Ridge Park.