LAST EDITED ON Nov-18-02 AT 11:07 AM (EST)
 
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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS GIRL?
19 Year old Samantha Burns is missing.
Reported by: Scott Roberts
Videographer: Unknown

Samantha Burns

A Marshall student is missing, and her parents want your help! Maybe you can bring a happy ending to this sad story. One family in Lincoln County hopes so.

It's a parent's worst nightmare. Your child dissapears without a trace. For the Burns family they want this nightmare to end as soon as possible.

19 Year old Samantha Burns has been missing since Monday evening. After leaving the Barboursville Mall she hasn't been heard from since.

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Samantha's father says Sam has never run away and he can't imagine anybody wanting to hurt her.

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As time ticks by the Burns family just want their daughter back.

John Burns

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Samantha is a physical therapy major at Marshall and she works at J.C. Penny.

If anyone has any information call the Huntington State Police at 528-5555 or Sam's father John at 824-3219.

Samantha is 19 years old, has brown hair, hazel eyes and is 5 foot - 4 inches tall. At the time she turned up missing she was driving a 1999 Burgundy Cavalier with a purple front plate labeled, "Sam." The licence number 5X9326.

MISSING GIRL IN CABELL COUNTY
The search for Samantha Burns intensifies and now it appears there is another missing girl.

Reported by: Jennifer Kinego
Videographer: Larry Clark

Another local teenager is missing.

Two missing girls in just one week. Police say the cases are completely unrelated. They stress there's no evidence of anyone on the prowl for young girls. That may be a relief to many parents, but not to Sara Owens family. Sara's stepmother, Jennifer Cross says, "It's past the point of worry."

A mother's worst fear. A child missing. 16 year-old Sara Owens, a Hungtington High sophomore, is gone.

Sara had a job interview at the Huntington Mall tuesday night and she hasn't been seen since. But police say there's no reason to fear a trip to the mall.

There's nothing to indicate that there's any preditors or anything going on at the mall.

"I would hesitate to say you're always safe everywhere, cause you're not, reguardless of what's going on," said Capt. Steve Hall with the Huntington Police. "There's nothing to indicate that there's any preditors or anything going on at the mall."

Cops say in Sara's case there's no evidence of foul play. Captain Hall adds many missing teenagers end up being runaways. Is Sara one of them?

Her stepmom says she's left home before, for a few hours, never for days. "Every friend we've talked to doesn't have any idea where she is, she hasn't been at school, she just vanished."

Her younger brother and sister play in the yard waiting for Sara to come home.

Sara's stepmother, Jennifer Cross

"And doing a lot of praying," says Jennifer.

If you've seen Sara, please call the huntington police department at 696-4420.

Huntington police say the get about a dozen runaway cases a week. Most kids are found, or simply come home, within a few days.