UPDATE--Located Missing Juvenile
Previous Story -- 17 yr old Kacie Klinnert was located late last night and has been returned to her family. The investigation into her disappearance is continuing and further information will be forthcoming when available.
The El Dorado County Sheriff's Department is looking for a missing 17-year-old girl who hasn't been seen since March 18th -- last Tuesday. Kacie Klinnert was last seen at the Stonegate Village in El Dorado Hills. She is 5-feet-7, 150 pounds with a thin build, brown eyes and brownish-red straight shoulder length hair. She has a fair complexion and wearing jeans, T-shirt with a Hurley logo and a gray hoodie. Authorities and her family are especially concerned because Kacie is not taking important medication.Kacie Klinnert, a developmentally disabled girl from El Dorado Hills has been missing since March 18, when she was last seen talking to a male driving a Hummer in the Safeway parking lot at Green Valley & Francisco Drive. She is 17 years old but has diminished mental capacity and needs medication. Please contact the El Dorado Sherriff's Department at 530-621-6600 with any information.
Kacie Klinnert take bipolar medication and has the reasoning of an 11-year-old, Vicki Zito, Klinner's mother, said.Kacie's parents, Scott and Vicki Zito, have mounted a wide-ranging e-mail campaign attempting to alert the community and gain media attention. They also have recruited volunteers to post fliers in store windows all over the area. Now they hope for an Amber Alert or some other type of statewide notification.
"We are doing anything we can to get her back," Vicki Zito said Tuesday afternoon in a telephone interview.
She is especially worried that her daughter has been abducted because Kacie is "developmentally and cognitively impaired."
"Imagine a 10-year-old girl in a 17-year-old's body," Zito said.
Kacie attends special-education classes and has an aide who helps her with schoolwork.
Her daughter and a friend stepped out on the evening of March 18 to get a soda at a nearby shopping center and Kacie never came home, Zito said.
About a month ago, Kacie stayed out all night, so her parents waited until the next morning to sound the alarm.
The shift by the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office came after further discussions with the parents, Kollar said. He stopped short of describing Kacie as "at-risk." Investigators must also look into the assertions that the girl is developmentally disabled and may not have the capacity to take care of herself, he added.
"If you're afraid that you can't come home -- you can," Zito pleaded.
