'I don't believe she's out there on her own,' says mom of missing former Aberdee

The link says one has to answer a series of survey questions to read the article - IMO when possible it's better to always copy the text of an article to the thread rather than have to go to the website to read it.

When I read it, it said only losers had to answer the survey questions. Sorry.

ABERDEEN, S.D. - Three years after Morgan Bauer left Aberdeen, moved to Atlanta and disappeared, Sherri Keenan still wants answers about her daughter.

Keenan, who now lives in Tarpon Springs, Fla., said her daughter's case is a true cold case.

Bauer, who graduated from Central High School in 2014, left Aberdeen on Feb. 12, 2016, and was last heard from 13 days later.

According to reports at the time, Bauer:

Caught a flight to Atlanta in Minneapolis on Feb. 12, 2016.
Had housing arrangements fall through the second day she was in Atlanta, so found a room at a hotel.
Last posted to Facebook and Instagram Feb. 25, 2016. One post indicated she found a job at a strip club called Tease.
Was reported missing to the Atlanta Police Department and has been considered a missing person since March 12, 2016.
She is still listed as a missing person by the police department.

Keenan said she continues to hold out hope that her daughter, who turns 23 this year, will be found.

Bauer's story has been featured on three cold case podcasts — "Vanished" in November 2017, "Frozen in Time" in February and "Mysteriously Missing" in January. Each detail how she simply disappeared.

Keenan said one possibility is that her daughter became a victim of human trafficking.

"At this point, I don't believe she's out there on her own," Keenan said.

She is offering a $5,000 reward for information about Bauer and plans to make an announcement soon doubling that total for information that leads to the immediate retrieval of her daughter.

Tips can be made by calling the Atlanta Police Department at 1-404-546-4235 (case number 160721563), Atlanta CrimeStoppers at 1-404-577-8477 or a toll-free tip line set up by Keenan at 1-855-667-4262.

When I read it, it said only jaded losers had to answer the survey questions.

^ I thought it said patronizing losers.

Often times these girls don't wanna be found and eventually surface - there are young girls that wanna live the fast life of partying an drugging and hanging with bad boys.

Hopefully she's alright - a young girl from a small-town in the big-city and w/o resources is def ripe to be exploited by lowlifes.

Sadly this isn't as uncommon as people think. I think most times, they don't want to be found, have a new life. One thats not always the best. Its bad.

It sucks that she is missing or has ditched her former life and family.

But there are parts of the story missing. Took a flight to ATL and ... planned to do what?
The implied part here is that she was "forced to become a stripper" because her housing arrangement fell through. Why not go to work at the job that caused you to move to ATL? Or did she move to ATL on impulse and have no plan?

Maybe if she took a flight to ATL, lost her housing arrangement and then took a flight back home it would have been a happy ending.