A missing teenager left a note saying this will be the last time you’ll hear from me for a long time, and then disappeared.
Geneva Hodge, 17, ran away from her home in Bellville, Texas, sometime Wednesday morning, leaving the handwritten note on her pillow.
Her mother, Frances Schrader, discovered the note that morning and has not heard from Geneva since, and fears she has been kidnapped.
‘I’m completely devastated. The day she went missing, I couldn’t breathe. It felt like my heart was being ripped out of my chest. “I miss my baby so much,” she said.
Geneva Hodge, 17, ran away from her home in Bellville, Texas sometime Wednesday morning, leaving the note on her pillow
Geneva with her older brothers, both in the military. Her family said she planned to join the Air Force after high school
Schrader shared the note with DailyMail.com and said it was nothing like her daughter, who was excited about her senior year of school.
“Dear mother, I love you very much and I know that my leaving will kill you. It goes well! “It was no one’s decision but my own,” it said.
‘I’m going to do online education and finish everything. I’m with a few people I trust very much.
‘I will always be your little girl. I grew up and became a wonderful young lady. Just think of Mom, I love you so much!!
‘This is a farewell for a long time! I’m sorry. Bye mom, I love you! Love, Geneva.”
Schrader said the note contained spelling mistakes despite her being a good student, meaning it was written hastily.
‘It’s not my daughter. “She just became color guard captain for her senior year, she got A’s and B’s in school even with her learning disability,” she said.
“Maybe it was her handwriting on the note, but the words weren’t hers.”
Her mother, Frances Schrader, discovered the note that morning and has not heard from Geneva since, and fears she has been kidnapped.
Schrader discovered the note that morning and has not heard from her since, and fears she has been kidnapped
Schrader said her daughter was a “good kid” who had never done anything like this before, and she feels bad about what happened to her.
Schrader said Geneva reset her phone to factory settings, took out the SIM card, put it in another phone case and hid it in a drawer among other old phones.
Geneva also left without clothes, medication, her asthma medicine or even a toothbrush, and her bank card had not been used since her disappearance.
Schrader told DailyMail.com that the teen was spotted with an older man about 26 miles away in Brookshire, Texas, between 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
‘I’m so scared she’s been kidnapped. I think he talked her into coming with him,” she said.
Schrader explained that the owner of D’Lux Donuts on the corner of Bains and S Front streets said the man arrived with Geneva in a white Honda Civic.
He was between 30 and 40 years old, about 6 feet tall, thin and “dirty” and had glasses, the witness said.
Geneva was a model student and will be captain of her school’s color guard next year
Geneva with her mother and stepfather at her brothers’ graduation
Geneva’s grandmother, Teresa Williams, said the man “rubbed her back and touched her buttocks and made her look uncomfortable.”
Police are still confirming the girl was from Geneva, but the witness identified the missing teen in a photo, Schrader said.
Geneva went to work as normal at her local Brookshire Brothers on Tuesday and was seen with a teenage boy in his truck during her lunch break.
Schrader said the pair were just friends and that police interviewed the young man and cleared him of any involvement in Geneva’s disappearance.
Her mother picked her up from work and the family went to bed around 10:30 p.m. and Schrader and her husband, Kelly, went to work the next morning.
Schrader went home for lunch around 11 a.m. and discovered Geneva’s note when she went into her room to check on her.
She said Geneva must have left before her husband got up around 5:45 am.