Desperate search for two 15-year-old girls who 'disappeared with boys who drove 200 miles to pick them up'/Skie Floyd and Jazlyn Visek, both 15, missing since Saturday in Iowa - Update: 10/16/12-All 4 found SAFE in Illinois.

PUBLISHED: 21:38 EST, 14 October 2012 | UPDATED: 05:13 EST, 15 October 2012

Police are searching for four teens from Iowa, two girls and two boys, who have been missing since Saturday and are believed to be runaways.

The girls, Skie Floyd and Jazlyn Visek, both 15, were last seen around noon Saturday at a park in Shellsburg, Iowa.

Police believe the girls are with two teen runaways, 13-year-old Austin Michael Boggs and 16-year-old Corey Sunderman from Atlantic, Iowa, which is roughly 200 miles from Shellsburg.
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Vanished: Skie Floyd, left, and Jazlyn Visek were last seen around on Saturday in Benton County, Iowa

The four teens are believed to be traveling in a 1997 gold Jeep Grand Cherokee with no license plates.

'At this point we're 99.99% certain what we have here is a runaway, not an abduction,' Benton County Sheriff Randy Forsyth said.

Authorities believe the teenagers are together because one of the boys borrowed a man's phone in Norway, Iowa around 10 am on Saturday to call one of the girls.

Skie's mother Dusty Hiepler-Floyd told KCRG: 'I know my daughter is scared right now, I'm sure she wants to come home.'

Floyd, who is 5ft 1ins, was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with white pin stripes, dark jeans and black boots. She weighs roughly 115 pounds and has blonde hair.
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Police believe the girls are with two teen runaways, 16-year-old Corey Sunderman, pictured left, and 13-year-old Austin Michael Boggs, pictured right

The teens are believed to be traveling in a 1997 gold Jeep Grand Cherokee with no license plates

Visek, who has brown hair and green eyes, was last seen wearing a gray zip-up sweatshirt with 'Arrow' printed on the front, blue skinny jeans and Nike shoes. She has two lip piercings, weighs 185 pounds and stands 5 feet 5 inches tall.

Anyone who's seen the teens, or the vehicle, are urged to call the Benton County Sheriff's Department at (319) 472-2337.

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All 4 parents of these teens must be ready to tear their hair out. The boy on the left looks troubled IMHO. I sure hope they went off on some lark and are all found safe! They would be grounded for a Very Long Time!

Search continues for two missing teens

by KTVO Newsdesk
Posted: 10.15.2012 at 2:14 PM

SHELLSBURG, IOWA (AP) -- Eastern Iowa authorities say two missing 15-year-old girls apparently have gone on a planned trip with two boys from the western Iowa town of Atlantic.

Benton County Sheriff Randy Forsyth says the teenagers aren't believed to be in any danger.

Forsyth says a call from one boy's cellphone went to a Pennsylvania number, but investigators aren't sure whether that's the teens' destination.

Missing are 16-year-old Corey Sunderman, 13-year-old Austin Boggs, both of Atlantic, and 15-year-old Skie Floyd and Jazlyn Visek, from the Shellsburg area.

Crystal Sunderman, the mother of Corey Sunderman, says Skie Floyd and her son had been dating and that the trip was planned.

She told Atlantic radio station KJAN that the four may be on their way to Florida for a skateboarding event.

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Mother says runaway son has “romantic notion” about skateboard competition

October 15, 2012 By Radio Iowa Contributor

An Atlantic woman says her son and another local teen who ran away with two 15-year old girls from eastern Iowa, teens planned their escapade, based on a romantic notion.

Crystal Sunderman, is the mother 16-year old Corey Sunderman. She says her son, along with 13-year old Austin Boggs, went missing over the weekend, along with Skie Floyd and Jazlyn Visek.

Sunderman says Skie and Austin had been dating. She said the event had been “Set up for a while.” She says all four teens planned it, and that Jazlyn’s dad agreed that the girls had “Romanticized this and are going to hold out for all it’s worth,” thinking they are “cool.”

Sunderman says the teens may be on their way to Florida for a skateboarding event as they’ve been bragging about going to a skateboarding park in Tampa or Miami and mentioned there’s free room and board for skateboarders in that area. She says her son left home with about $400 in cash, but even if he runs out of money, he’ll find a way to get more.

“You know what, he’s a resourceful kid. He’ll stop at some small town and say ‘my truck broke down’ and start going door-to-door getting five, ten bucks here and there, and before you know it, he’s got another couple hundred,” Sunderman says. Crystal Sunderman passed along a personal message to the teens.

“This may seem exciting, but you really have no idea what you’re in for, and as much trouble you think you could be getting into, as your parents we’ll try to protect you as much as possible and get you the help you need,” Sunderman says She implored them to contact “Anybody, from any phone. You don’t have to tell us where you are if you don’t want to, just let us know you’re okay.”

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Benton Sheriff’s Department at (319) 472-2337.

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Well color me confused. This mother KNEW it was planned and ALLOWED her son to leave w/$400 (where did he get the money and why would she let him leave???). I am speechless.

Four Teens Go Missing in Xbox Romance
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The Benton County Sheriff's Department is searching for two 15-year-old girls who may have run away with two teenage boys Oct. 13, 2012. Family members believe the boys are driving a gold 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee with no license plates. (Crystal Sunderman | Sheriff Randall Forsyth)

By ADRIANA PRATT
Oct. 15, 2012
A romance that started on Xbox has ended in four Iowa teens running away from their homes, their parents and police say.

Two teenage girls from Shellsburg and two teenage boys from Atlantic went missing Saturday in what police said may have been a plotted escape.

Crystal Sunderman, the mother of missing 16-year-old Corey Sunderman, said she believes her son met his girlfriend Jazlyn Visek, 15, through Xbox's online gaming system and planned to run away with her and two other teens.

"I don't let him have a Facebook account because I don't want him meeting people online," Crystal Sunderman said. "I didn't realize they could do so much on Xbox."

Corey Sunderman and Austin Boggs, 13, disappeared early Saturday morning after a run-in with police the night before. Later that same day, Visek and Skie Floyd, 15, also disappeared.

Late Friday night, the boys snuck out of Corey's home to go skateboarding and were caught by the cops for violating curfew. After police brought the boys back to the Sundermans' home, Crystal Sunderman tried to make sure the teens wouldn't run out again.

"This is going to sound really stupid, but I took all the shoes downstairs and put them in a bag and took them up to my room, thinking if I had the boys' shoes, they couldn't go out and go skateboarding again," she said.

The boys found alternate boots in the garage and went a step further -- they ran away, she said.


When Corey's father Tony woke for work the next morning, he realized not only were the boys missing, but so were Crystal Sunderman's laptop and $400 from Tony Sunderman's newly-cashed check.

Also missing was a 1997 gold Jeep Cherokee Tony Sunderman had brought home from his iron and metal recycling job. The license-less vehicle was spotted nearly four hours away in Benton County at around 10 a.m. Saturday, the same county the missing Iowa girls call home.

Sheriff Randall Forsyth of Benton County said two boys driving a gold Jeep were spotted at a local shop Saturday morning, where they stopped to make a phone call. A man at the store let them, but only on the condition that they used a speakerphone.

"The conversation was something to the effect of, 'Don't pick us up at our house. Pick us up at the Quick Stop,'" Forsyth said.

At around 11:30 a.m., the missing Iowa girls told one of their mothers they were going to walk around a cemetery. At 3 p.m., they again spoke with one of their parents and said they were headed home.

The Jeep was spotted in Shellsburg shortly after dinner a block away from the Quick Stop, Forsyth said.

Parents and police have not heard from the four teens since.

This is not Corey Sunderman's first disappearance from home. He's left twice before, though he always returned and has never had any legal trouble, his mother said.

His most recent run this past summer, Crystal Sunderman said, also involved a girl he met on Xbox.So, why didn't the parents take the Xbox away from him??

"He's got contacts in Pennsylvania, in Washington, in all these places," Crystal Sunderland said. "I mean, it's just like are you kidding me?"

However, since the teens' disappearance, they've had no communication police could trace.

Police and parents are speaking with students at each of the missing teens' schools. From those conversations, they've gleaned potential leads to the kids' whereabouts, which may include a Florida skateboarding park.

Wherever the teens have headed, it does not appear they brought a lot.

"One of the things that's a little out of the ordinary for a normal runaway is Skie did not take anything with her other than her cell phone," Forsyth said, leading police to believe the girls did not expect to be gone for long.

"It's been long enough, and nobody's heard from these kids," Forsyth said. "We're not sure what the situation is."

Crystal Sunderman said she is grateful for extensive help from the Benton County Sheriff's Office, but said she still fears the possibility of never seeing her son again.

"The most important thing of all is that wherever our kids are, whatever they're doing, if any one of them decides they've had enough, that this isn't as exciting as they thought, that they want to come home, as their parents we will do anything to get them home," she said.

"We'll protect them as much as we can from any consequences," she said. "It's more important to get them home than worrying about what's going to happen next. That's the number one thing."

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The mother is contradicting herself. She states,

"I didn't realize they could do so much on Xbox."

Then states,

This is not Corey Sunderman's first disappearance from home. He's left twice before, though he always returned and has never had any legal trouble, his mother said. His most recent run this past summer, Crystal Sunderman said, also involved a girl he met on Xbox.

Seems to me there was not much parental discipline.

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"I don't let him have a Facebook account because I don't want him meeting people online," Crystal Sunderman said.

Looks like a FB acct to me.

Who knows when he signed up for FB, it says via mobile phone and maybe his Mom wasn't aware that he figured out how to do it via a cell phone.
I would ground those kids until they are 18 when they get back!

Xbox Romance Runaways: Police Search For 4 Missing Iowa Teens

Posted: 10/16/2012 2:18 pm EDT
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Police in Iowa are searching for four missing teens.
Authorities in Iowa said they have a possible lead in the search for four missing teens who disappeared after two of them met online playing on their Xbox systems.

"There is a possible plate number for the vehicle [they are believed to be driving]," Benton County Sheriff Randall Forsyth told The Huffington Post. "We had a person see the vehicle matching the description with this plate on it in the town the kids came up missing from. [The witness] actually pulled right up behind them in front of an abandoned house and wrote down the plate number."

Skie Floyd, 15, and Jazlyn Visek, 15, were last seen Saturday afternoon in Shellsburg. They have not made contact with family members since 3 p.m. that day. The teens are believed to be with Corey Sunderman, 16, and his friend Austin Boggs, 13, who are runaways from the Atlantic area, the sheriff said.

According to Forsyth, his office is "fairly confident" the plate number is from a possible stolen plate now attached to the 1997 gold Jeep Cherokee the foursome is traveling in. He did, however, caution that he is not 100 percent certain since deputies have been unable to get in touch with the plates owner.

"[The license plate] is similar to or the same as 288-STX and that is an Iowa plate," the sheriff said.

Forsyth said the four teens are not believed to be in any danger, but authorities are concerned about their whereabouts. "We sure want them found safe. Hopefully, we'll come across them," he said.

Visek is believed to be Sunderman's girlfriend. Authorities do not yet know if there is a connection between Floyd and Boggs. The girls are sophomores at Vinton-Shellsburg High School.

The Huffington Post reached out to three of the missing teen's families, but none of them immediately responded to a request for comment.

Speaking with ABC News, Sunderman's mother, Crystal Marsh-Sunderman, said she believes her son met Visek through Xbox's online gaming system, then planned to run away with her and the other teens.

"I don't let him have a Facebook account because I don't want him meeting people online," Marsh-Sunderman said. "I didn't realize they could do so much on Xbox."

The two girls disappeared a few hours after Sunderman and Boggs disappeared early Saturday.

Marsh-Sunderman said the boys had a run-in with the law Friday night when they violated curfew. When police brought them back to her house, she said she had tried to keep them from going out again by hiding their shoes in her bedroom. The tactic, however, proved to be unsuccessful.

After taking two pair of boots from the garage, the teens allegedly stole Marsh-Sunderman's laptop, $400 from Sunderman's father, Tony Sunderman and a license-less Jeep Cherokee the elder Sunderman had acquired through his job at a metal recycling company.

The Cherokee was spotted Saturday morning in Benton County, where the missing teen girls live. Forsyth said there have been a few sporadic and unconfirmed sightings of the teens since then.

"We've had a couple reported possible sightings and we just got a call from a lady in Kansas City who said yesterday afternoon she saw four kids and thought the one for sure matched the description," the sheriff told HuffPost.

"Then we had [a possible sighting] here locally, northwest of us about 30 miles. [The witness] said they saw a vehicle matching that description with two boys in it. So they're kind of coming in from all over."

Students at the schools the teens attend have suggested the foursome might be traveling to Florida, but police said they could be anywhere.

Speaking with KCRG News, Floyd's mother, Dusty Hiepler-Floyd, said her daughter is likely sticking by her friend's side.

"I know my daughter is scared right now," Hiepler-Floyd said. "I'm sure she wants to come home. I just want them to know they're not in trouble."

Forsyth said a call was placed recently from one of the boy's cell phones to a Pennsylvania number, but they have garnered little information from it.

"They did make contact out there with a girl and she apparently said she had been corresponding with the one kid but had no indication they may be coming out there," he said.

Marsh-Sunderman told ABC News that she is hopeful the kids will return home.

"The most important thing of all is that wherever our kids are, whatever they're doing, if any one of them decides they've had enough, that this isn't as exciting as they thought, that they want to come home, as their parents we will do anything to get them home," she said.

"We'll protect them as much as we can from any consequences," she said. "It's more important to get them home than worrying about what's going to happen next. That's the number one thing."

Skie Justice Floyd is described as a white female, 5 feet 1 inch, 115 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing a black hoodie with white pinstripes, dark stone-washed jeans and black boots.

Jazlyn Jayne Visek is white, 5 feet 5 inches, 185 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes. She was last seen wearing a gray zip-up sweatshirt with "arrow" written on it, blue skinny jeans and gray/green Nike shoes. The teen has two lip piercings.

Descriptions for Corey Lee Matthew Sunderman and Austin Michael Boggs have not yet been made available.

Anyone with information on the missing teens or the vehicle they are believed to be traveling in is asked to contact the Benton County Sheriff's Office at 319-472-2337.

A Facebook group, "Find Austin Boggs and Corey Sunderman," has also been created.

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Nick Johansen - Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:19:00 CDT

(KMAland) -- The four missing youth who disappeared Saturday have been located.

15-year-olds Skie Floyd and Jazlyn Visek, both of the Shellsburg area, and 16-year-old Corey Sunderman and 13-year-old Austin Boggs, both of the Atlantic area, left the are Saturday afternoon. In a press release from Atlantic Police Chief Steve Green, all four youth were located in Eureka, Illinois, and are currently in the custody of Eureka Police.

The teens were transported to the Woodford County Correctional facility awaiting transportation back to Iowa. There's no word yet on whether or not charges will be filed in the case.

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Benton County Sheriff: Missing Teens Found in Illinois

Story Created: Oct 16, 2012 at 12:50 PM CDT
Story Updated: Oct 16, 2012 at 3:12 PM CDT

VINTON, Iowa - The two Benton County girls reported missing Saturday have been found safe about 200 miles away from home in central Illinois, authorities said Tuesday.

Skie J. Floyd, 15, and Jazlyn J. Visek, 15, had not been seen since noon Saturday when they were spotted in Shellsburg, and had not had contact with family members since 3 p.m. Saturday. The girls were believed to be with two runaways from the Atlantic area – Corey L. Sunderman, 16, and Austin M. Boggs, 13.

Forsyth said all four teens were found in Eureka, Ill. when law enforcement responded to a report of trespassing. All four were taken to the Woodford County, Ill. correctional facility as they await transportation back to Iowa.

Forsyth had earlier said the teenagers were not believed to be in any danger, but authorities were still concerned about their whereabouts.

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'Xbox Runaways' Found Safe, Charged With Trespassing

By Sami K. Martin , Christian Post Contributor
October 17, 2012|9:27 am

A group of four Iowa teens known as the "Xbox Runaways" were found 360 miles from their homes yesterday. They were arrested for trespassing and will soon be returning home to their parents.

"I hysterically started crying, just overwhelmed with joy. All floods of emotions. Overjoyed, relief, you name it. I couldn't believe it," Judy Hamilton, mother of Jazlyn Visek, told ABC News upon hearing her daughter had been found.

Jazlyn, along with friend Skie Floyd, met two young men, Austin Michael Boggs and Corey Sunderman while playing video games online. The four decided to run away from home together; Skie and Jazlyn were reported missing by their relatives but police never suspected foul play.

The young teens were found 360 miles away from home in Eureka, Illinois. They were arrested for trespassing and squatting in an abandoned home. Police say they were able to track the teens due to the vehicle they used to get away and a "complaint of trespassing at a residence," Sheriff Randall Forsyth told ABC News.

The teens have not been allowed to see their parents yet due to their illegal activity. Police are holding them and will indict them with charges of trespassing today, and then they will be returned to their parents.

"We'll probably leave tomorrow morning (for Illinois) in hopes that maybe we can see the kids before they go to court because we haven't had a chance to talk to them at all," Crystal Sunderman, Corey's mother, explained.

"I'm starting to worry about what I am going to do to keep Corey, to keep him safe… We've got to fix whatever it was that made him leave. He's had some problems at school with bullying, but honestly, I don't know," Sunderman added.

"Jazlyn had been planning for a couple weeks at least, and I had no idea," her mom said. "I've learned a valuable lesson on media devices and what you allow your children to do on Xbox or Facebook. I admit I was pretty free with Jazlyn and I trusted her, and I think I gave her too much freedom."

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Runaway Iowa teens who originally met on Xbox facing charges

Four became friends through gaming system; now charged with trespassing, criminal damage

Four Iowa teenagers who ran away together now face juvenile charges after they were found more than 200 miles from home in Illinois.

Skie J. Floyd, 15, and Jazlyn J. Visek, 15, both of Shellsburg, were found safe Tuesday in Eureka, Ill. with two boys from Atlantic — 16-year-old Corey L. Sunderman and 13-year-old Austin M. Boggs. They had not been seen since Saturday.

Authorities said the four teens were found in a vacant house when the owner came to check on the property. Eureka Police Chief Eric Luckey said the teens had broken inside.

“They were looking for a place to stay the night,” Luckey said. “They were vague about what their final destination was.”

The teens were in court Wednesday on charges of trespassing and criminal damage to property. The boys each face an additional charge of possession of a stolen vehicle.

Floyd and Visek were released to their parents, while the boys remained in custody at the McLean County Juvenile Detention Center.

Benton County Sheriff Randy Forsyth said Sunderman was Visek’s boyfriend, and that they apparently met through the Xbox video game system that allows users to interact with each other. He said they had planned for several weeks to run away together. Sunderman’s mother told KJAN Radio in Atlantic that the teens might have been headed to Florida for a skateboarding event, but authorities have not confirmed the teens’ desired destination.

Forsyth said Thursday investigators were still trying to determine if any of the teens had actually met in person before Saturday when they ran away.

National media outlets and the Daily Mail’s website in London covered the story, calling the teens the “Xbox Romance Runaways.”

Crystal Sunderman told ABCnews.com her son took off in a sport-utility vehicle that her husband had brought home from his iron and metal recycling job. Sunderman said her son had run away twice before, including this past summer with another girl he met through Xbox.

“He’s got contacts in Pennsylvania, in Washington, in all these places,” Crystal Sunderland told ABCnews.com. “I mean, it’s just like are you kidding me?”

Since the incident, Forsyth said he has learned more about the interactive video game systems. He said it presents another challenge to parents in monitoring their kids.

“Parents tend to keep an eye on the cell phone traffic and the websites their kids are on, but apparently they can communicate just like they’re on the phone on the Xbox,” Forsyth said. “It’s just another way for them to communicate. (Parents) might think they’re just on there playing games, but they might be doing something else.”

The four teens are scheduled to be back in an Illinois courtroom on Nov. 5 for an adjudicatory hearing.

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