Missing Teenager Returns Home

Missing Mehlville High School student Taylor Anne Kienbusch returned home Tuesday after police searched for the teenager for 10 days.

Kienbusch, 15, with her boyfriend William Gallagher after her parents told her she could no longer associate with him, said Wendy Kienbusch, her mother. 

After 10 days on the street, Gallagher urged her to come home and the two turned themselves in to police.

“He told my husband on the phone that he knew she had a home to go to,” Wendy Kienbusch said. “He said she had a family that loved and cared for her and didn’t feel like life on the streets was good for her.”

Wendy Kienbusch will seek help for her daughter, who is a freshman at Mehlville High School and played in the concert band.

While she was missing, the response from the community was extremely powerful, Wendy said.

“The biggest supporters were the Mothers Of Preschoolers at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church,” she said. “A lot of friends offered to put up posters and brought over food. Everyone offered whatever they could.”