FBI Offers Reward In Year-Old Missing Myers Park Teen Case

CHARLOTTE, NC -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a $15,000 reward for information that leads to the recovery of Myers Park High School student Hailey Elizabeth Burns, who has been missing for a year.

According to the FBI, Burns is thought to have left her Baldwin Hall Drive home in Charlotte between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. on Monday, May 23, 2016. She took few belongings with her and did not take any of the medication she needed for several medical conditions. She was last seen wearing a black long-sleeve t-shirt with Marilyn Monroe on it, blue jeans and Converse tennis shoes.

She has not had any contact with friends or family since then, the FBI said.

Burns’ parents said one of their daughter’s classmates recently told them that she “had been talking to a 30-year-old man for over six months,” and suggested he might have kidnapped her and taken her to the Midwest or Tennessee, WSOC reported.

Click here to see the FBI’s missing person poster for Burns.

The FBI asks that anyone with information about her whereabouts contact the agency’s Charlotte Field Office at (704) 672-6100 or the Crime Stoppers tip line at (704) 334-1600.

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