Investigators in Liberty County are looking for information on the whereabouts of a 15-year-old girl who was last seen by family members on Monday night.
Tristen Gallaspy disappeared sometime between Monday at 8 pm. and Tuesday at 6 a.m., said her adoptive father, Donald Gallaspy. When he went to wake her up for school that morning, he found the window tampered with, and Tristen gone.
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While Tristen had sneaked out of the home before, she has never left for longer than four or five hours, Gallaspy said.
“She didn’t take anything like she was running away,” he said. “She left her toothbrush, everything.”
When he tries to call his daughter’s cell phone, he gets a message that the number is unreachable. Gallaspy said he has since learned that Tristen might have had a second cell phone that he didn’t know about.
The 15-year-old was adopted when she was 13 but has been living with the Gallaspys, who have seven other children, since she was 12.
Gallaspy said Tristen’s biological family, who are living in Magnolia, was under court order not to have any contact with her, but wasn’t sure if they had been obeying that order.
Liberty County sheriff’s officials said Thursday they were working the case as a runaway situation unless they are able to confirm another scenario. Because of those restrictions, they are unable to put out an Amber Alert, said Capt. Rex Evans.
Austin-based private investigator Chuck Foreman said while investigators are restricted to working the case as a runaway for now, he is looking into the possibility of abduction.
“Sneaking out is not considered runaway,” he said. “The quicker we get the story out there, the quicker we can get information.”
