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Mom Reunited with Missing Ella, 14, 'Knew She Was Still Alive'
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21:13Now PlayingSarah Merril contacts the Mount Vernon, Washington Police Department, reporting her 14-year-old daughter, Ella Jones is missing. After police release information about Ella Jones disappearance, some of her friends reached out to Merril, telling her that Ella had been talking to an older man on social media, ‘Keith’.
Investigators determined that Ella Jones may have used a "RideShare" service when she left her home. Mount Vernon Police identified a man named "Keith" who ordered a ride share for Ella and his address in South Haven Michigan.
Van Buren County Michigan Sheriff Daniel Abbott says his detectives investigated the possible suspect location and identified the car suspected of transporting the 14-year-old girl 2,000 miles from Washington to Michigan. Once the suspect returned to the property, he immediately told detectives the 14-year-old girl was there. Once the suspect was read his Miranda rights, he lawyered up and stopped talking.
The suspect is 30-year-old Keith Freerksen, a convicted sex offender. Sheriff Daniel Abbott says the Freerksen spoke with and groomed the victim online over an extended period before she took a ride share to the suspect's home in Michigan where she was held for weeks.
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