Missing: Shelby Ellis, 16, Parents Fear Girl In Vampire Cult/ Shelby was found alive in Washington State

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Wendy Saltzman, CBS Atlanta Investigates
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POSTED: 3:36 pm EDT November 1, 2010
UPDATED: 10:51 am EDT November 2, 2010

COBB COUNTY, Ga. -- In an unusual story about three missing kids, CBS Atlanta has learned 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 Ellis, the remaining missing teen? Does her involvement on an eerie website hold the key?

Rich and Wendy Ellis spoke exclusively with CBS Atlanta's Wendy Saltzman.

"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 said 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 told CBS Atlanta News.

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 told CBS Atlanta News.

When Saltzman went to ask Montgomery about the mysterious connection between her students, the principal had her escorted off the property.

"Do you think it is suspicious that all these girls have disappeared?" Reporter Wendy Saltzman asked.

"Ma'am, can I ask you to leave?" Montgomery said as she walked away.

The other two teens, who were found this weekend, have refused to tell investigators where Shelby might be.

Police can not say anything about the two girls and where they might have been because they are juveniles.

The only thing CBS Atlanta knows is that police recovered them and they did not voluntarily return home.

"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.

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PLEASE click on the above link for very important video. I could not believe the school principal would not answer any questions.

This is the strangest case. I watched it on JVM last evening when they had the father and step mother on. Jane announced that the mother would be interviewed on Nancy Grace but either I skipped too fast through the interview or it was not there.

I am trying to find out more on Shelby. I will post what I find.

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A wanted poster for Shelby.

Just found they are posting on Nancy Grace she has been found alive! [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Insession bloggers are saying she was found in Washington State. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Washington State is the home setting for the Twilight movies about teen vampires.

Good Gravy. Could this little girl be chasing vampires?

She has been found safe.

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Shelby was found in Washington State. The state where the Twilight movies about teen vampires was set.

Imagine that.