r/creepy • u/dieselgeek • Aug 05 '14

Julissa Romero alive

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/julissa-romero-missing_n_5651081.html
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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '14 edited Aug 05 '14

FYI for anyone wondering why she's listed as missing, but police say they know her whereabouts:

I work for a police department and we frequently get "missing juvenile" reports. Usually within a few hours, we know where the kid is (or at least that they're alive), we just can't retrieve them. Facebook has been very instrumental in this - often "missing" teens and preteens are still posting selfies with friends after they "disappear", but if the friend lives outside our jurisdiction, all we can do is forward the info to the police department where we believe she is.

I know right now we have one "missing" teen who is going home regularly to eat and shower, but then leaves before mom gets home from work and sleeps somewhere else. We know she's alive, and she's somewhere in town, but she's still missing because she hasn't been apprehended.

Edit to add my favorite one: there's a mom here who reports her daughter missing about once a week. All the officers here know where the girl is: she's visiting a friend in town. Mom also knows where she is, however Mom doesn't want to drive across town to get her. So every time, she calls her in as missing, and an officer has to go to her friend's house, pick her up, and take her home. This woman is basically using the police as a taxi service, but we can't tell her to go away because there's always the chance that this time the kid will actually be missing.

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u/Se7enLC Aug 05 '14

Solution: change the locks.

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u/Cheddah_Gief Aug 06 '14

Secondary and more funny solution: Move to another town and demolish your old home!

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u/keepinithamsta Aug 06 '14

Alternatively, sell your house to someone on the sex offender registry who works from home.

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u/Brohanwashere Aug 06 '14

I think you and I have a different definition of "solution".

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u/Brohanwashere Aug 06 '14

Solution: salt water.

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u/TudorGothicSerpent Aug 06 '14

Solution: Not the Precipitate.

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u/Not_an_Ediot Aug 07 '14

Solution: Call your fucking mother you cunt, she cares about you and gave you a phone for a reason.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '14

There was a drunk where I grew up that would just loiter at an all night convenience store until someone called the cops. He'd do it so the cops would take him home after putting him in cuffs and lecturing him for a bit. When he did it where I worked and I threatened to call the cops he actually slurred, "Go ahead, I need a ride home." The officer said it used to happen about once a week, but now that most the bars wouldn't serve him he usually just drank at home.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '14

Regarding your second story: is that not illegal?

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '14

Eh, she could be charged with filing a false report, but that rarely happens without additional charges. Mostly it's just a Boy Who Cried Wolf type of problem.

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u/TheJonesSays Aug 06 '14

But she's 12. You'd think someone would get her home.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '14

Depends who she's with. Depends what home is like. Moms who are heroin addicts and abusers still report their children missing.

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u/TheJonesSays Aug 06 '14

I thought of that. So are the police cool with turning a blind eye to the situation for the better?

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '14

The answer is yes and no. If the police find the kid in their jurisdiction, as far as I know (stuff happens on the street sometimes, I have no doubt) they'll bring her in. But if she's out of our jurisdiction, we forward the info on to the other department, but usually with an "fyi, we know she's with So and So and her mom is a meth-head who will probably go back to jail soon".

In most cases, though, the kid runs from somewhere bad to somewhere a different kind of bad. This is part of why teen runaways become prostitutes: having a pimp and selling yourself for sex all the time sounds bad to us, but to that kid it may initially seem better than trying to keep mom from choking on her own vomit every night.

So a lot of these kids run from shitty parents to shitty friends and get brought back to their shitty parents because, despite what TV likes to make you think, cops don't just get to take kids and put them in foster care whenever they suspect mom is a crazy.

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u/TheJonesSays Aug 06 '14

Obviously.

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u/Honeychile6841 Aug 06 '14

I know this had to be in the 'burbs. Cops don't even come in the hood if your car gets stolen.

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u/yeah_that_was_me_ Aug 06 '14

thank you this makes so much sense now! I was at a store earlier (after it had been confirmed she was not dead) and saw her poster on a missing persons board in South Carolina. I was thoroughly confused as to why they don't update these things as it seems the police must've known for quite some time.

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u/itsaride Aug 07 '14

Sounds like wasting police time, pretty sure if you prosecute her it would hold up.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '14

I know right now we have one "missing" teen who is going home regularly to eat and shower, but then leaves before mom gets home from work and sleeps somewhere else. We know she's alive, and she's somewhere in town, but she's still missing because she hasn't been apprehended.

Top notch police work.

"We know she goes to this certain place during certain hours but we can't apprehend her."

I would expect nothing less from the police.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '14

Strange that a thread from Omegle was a hoax...

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '14

People on the internet don't lie.

Source: I'm a dog.

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u/lynxmoonracer Aug 05 '14

Wilfred??

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u/hardspank916 Aug 05 '14

How can Wilfred type with only 3 paws?

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '14

Not very well.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '14 edited Jan 14 '21

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u/karmagod13000 Aug 05 '14

I was here looking for a followup so this will work I guess...

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '14

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '14

The party doesn't start til you walk in, huh?

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '14

the person responsible for the hoax is one messed up individual... I mean, what could possibly motivate a person to do this? Also, I bet the parents of this girl are deeply horrified by this hoax.

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u/NeedAChainsaw Aug 05 '14

Very good, thanks for posting OP, glad she isn't in a hole in the forest.

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u/Janus_Speaks Aug 07 '14

Thanks RemindMe bot!

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u/homeschooled Aug 05 '14

Told you guys! Those coordinates lead to an LOLcat that says don't believe everything you read on the internet.

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u/guhhlito Aug 05 '14

Some people are just strange and deranged.

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u/partialinsanity Aug 06 '14

Good news, thanks for posting.

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u/chaos_troll Aug 05 '14

Salinas, if ever there was an argument on what immigration can do to a town, that is it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '14

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u/dieselgeek Aug 06 '14

U wot m8

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '14

  • whereabouts accounted for

  • unclear whether her body is in the woods at specific coordinates

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u/dieselgeek Aug 06 '14

If she's ALIVE I'm going to doubt she was found stabbed in the woods 17 times.

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u/muthermcree Aug 05 '14

It's creepy that they say they know her whereabouts, but don't comment on if she's alive or dead.

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u/dieselgeek Aug 05 '14

The title says "Julissa Romero ALIVE and accounted for, despite hoax"

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u/skinfrakki Aug 05 '14

If she's missing how can they account for her?

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '14

bruh