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Tennessee teenager who was believed to have been held against her will by her father for nearly two years was found safe in Alabama earlier this week, authorities recently announced.
Just days after now-18-year-old Daphne Westbrook was located in Samson, Ala., Tennessee s Hamilton County District Attorney’s Office said Friday morning that law enforcement agents are still searching for her father, John Westbrook.
Westbrook was reported missing in October 2019 after she never returned home from a weekend with her father. Nearly a year and a half later, John Westbrook was indicted and charged with aggravated kidnapping – but investigators had to find him first, the district attorney’s office announced at the time.
Missing teen thought to be in Washington found safe over a year later
Daphne Westbrook was found in southern Alabama after going missing in October of 2019. Investigators say she was held against her will by her father.
Credit: Hamilton County DA s Office
Daphne Westbrook and her dad John Oliver Westbrook Author: Associated Press, KING 5 Staff Published: 2:00 PM PDT May 28, 2021 Updated: 2:00 PM PDT May 28, 2021
SAMSON, Ala. A now 18-year-old who investigators have been looking for since October 2019 was found safe in Samson, Alabama.
Authorities believed Daphne Westbrook could have been in Washington state as her father, and kidnapper has family ties to Auburn.
Missing Tennessee girl, 18, allegedly kidnapped by father in 2019 found safe; likely hidden for some time in Colorado
Authorities still searching for father
Hamilton County, Tennessee District Attorney s Offic
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A missing 18-year-old girl out of Tennessee who was allegedly kidnapped by her father, and likely hidden for some time in Colorado, has been found safe.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced Friday morning that Daphne Westbrook, 18, was found safe in Samson in south Alabama â about 10 miles north of the Alabama-Florida state line â around 1:30 a.m. on Friday. She was pulled over for a traffic violation, according to Denver7 s sister station ABC15 in Florida. According to the local district attorney s office, her father and alleged kidnapper, John Oliver Westbrook, let Daphne go and was sending her to his sister s home in Sebring, Florida, ABC15 reported. The district attorney s office previously said the sister w