A 14-year-old California girl went missing after walking the family dog, ktla.com reports. Leah Kritzer vanished after taking the family dog, Popeye, for a walk in Manhattan Beach on Sunday. Her parents became aware of her disappearance when a neighbor found Popeye roaming free.
“So went out to see her and there was our dog with the leash on and our daughter wasn’t there and she hasn’t come home since,” said her father Joe Kritzer, an attorney.
Leah’s parents believe she was taken by a man she met on the dating website OKCupid. Apparently Leah was promiscuous and had met other men off the website.
From KTLA.com:
On Tuesday, the teenager’s parents discovered that Leah had been secretly posing as a 19-year-old woman in online chat rooms.
They made the discovery after calling an unfamiliar number they found on Leah’s cell phone.
A 19-year-old man who answered the phone told the Kritzers that he met up with Leah in Hermosa Beach a few weeks ago but realized right away she was much younger than her profile stated and left, her parents said.
Her parents feared that on Sunday she might have met up with another man who wasn’t so nice.
Leah was described as 5 foot 7 inches tall with braces and blond hair with orange tips.
Anyone with information is urged to call Manhattan Beach Police at 310-802-5140.
