A missing teenager left a note telling her mother, “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 and left 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 am completely heartbroken. The day she disappeared she couldn’t breathe. I 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 and left the note on her pillow.
Guinevere with her older brothers, both in the army. Her family said she planned to join the Air Force after finishing high school.
Schrader shared the note with DailyMail.com and said it was nothing like her daughter, who was excited about her last year of school.
‘Dear mom, I love you very much and I know that if I leave I will kill you. I’m fine! It was no one’s decision but mine,” she said.
‘I’m going to study online and finish everything. I’m with some people I trust a lot.
‘I will always be your little girl. I grew up and became this amazing young woman. Just remember mom, I love you so much!!
‘This is goodbye for a long time! I’m sorry. Bye mom, I love you! Love, Geneva.
Schrader said the note contained spelling errors even though she was a good student, meaning it was written in a hurry.
‘She is not my daughter. “She just became color guard captain for her senior year, she got A’s and A’s in school even with her learning disability,” she said.
“It may have been her handwriting that was on the note, but the words were not 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 girl” who had never done anything like this before and she has a bad feeling about what happened to her.
Schrader said Geneva factory reset her phone, took out the SIM card, put it in a different case and hid it in a drawer along with other old phones.
Geneva also left without clothes, medication, her asthma inhaler or even a toothbrush, and her debit card had not been used since she disappeared.
Schrader told DailyMail.com that the teen was seen with an older man about 26 miles away in Brookshire, Texas, between 8 and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
‘I’m very afraid that they have kidnapped her. I think he convinced her to go 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 5 feet, 10 to 6 feet tall, thin and “dirty looking,” and wore 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 butt and she seemed uncomfortable.”
Police are still confirming the girl was Geneva, but the witness identified the missing teen through a photograph, Schrader said.
Geneva went to work at her local Brookshire Brothers as usual on Tuesday and was seen talking to a teenager in her truck during her lunch break.
Schrader said the two 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 he came into her room to check on her.
He said Geneva must have left before her husband even got up, around 5:45 a.m.