RACHAEL BLAKELY - 18 yo - Ridgefield (N of Portland OR) WA

Police in Ridgefield are asking the public to help them find a missing woman.
The parents of 18-year-old Rachael Blakely said she went for a walk on Wednesday and hasn't been seen since.
Blakely was last seen wearing a white hoodie and a full-length jean
skirt. She has long, dirty-blond hair and was carrying a small pink purse.
Her family says she is highly religious and does not use drugs or alcohol.



However Ridgefield investigators indicate that sometimes teens in her family's religion may partake
in something similar to Rumspringa, an Amish tradition that relaxes
the rules for teens and allows them to integrate into other communities until marriage.
Meanwhile, Ridgefield police imply her family is so conservative
that they may believe females should wear skirts at all times.
Investigators now report some of the kids in Blakely's neighborhood say
they talked to Blakely before she disappeared, and Blakely asked them
how far it was to get to Vancouver. Investigators also say they have a
sighting of the 18 year old at the Walmart store on Highway 99 in
Vancouver's Hazel Dell area – reportedly buying pants.

An 18-year-old Ridgefield woman’s parents are increasingly worried
because she left home more than two weeks ago and hasn’t tried to
contact them.

“We’re absolutely frantic about it,” Rachael Blakely’s father, Dave
Blakely, said Thursday afternoon. “We just want to know that our child’s
safe.”

Rachael, the father said, has been missing since Aug. 4, when she left saying she was going for a walk.

Ridgefield police have investigated, and have seen Rachael in a
security video made a couple days after she disappeared, at the WalMart
in Hazel Dell. But there’s been no indication of any foul play and,
because Rachael is an adult, police have no authority to make her return
home, a police employee said.

Dave Blakely said it’s unlike Rachael to not call home, and said she
had no friends that he’s aware of. He said the family moved to
Ridgefield only recently, and Rachael was being home-schooled, soon to
finish her last year.

“We’ve put out fliers by the hundreds” all over the Vancouver area, including at convenience stores and bus stops, he said.

Asked where he figures Rachael might be, he said: “I haven’t got a clue, unless she knows someone we’re not aware of.”

Rachel is 5 feet 1 inch tall and 110 pounds, with waist-length
sandy-brown hair that she likes to wear in braids. She has brown eyes
and wears prescription eyeglasses with pink frames, her father said.

The family is asking anyone with information about Rachael’s whereabouts to call 360-931-5571.

http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/misadult.phpLast updated: October 20, 2010

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Rachael Blakely