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TUSCON, Ariz. -- A family in Arizona is desperate to find their missing teenage daughter. Police think she is with a 19-year-old Utah man.
Thirteen-year-old Ashley Kingsbury's father came home Monday afternoon and discovered she was gone. Investigators at the Pima County Sheriff's Office think she's with Jordan Anthony of Pleasant Grove -- a man she met on Facebook.
Ashley's parents and friends call it a horrible waiting game. "(It's) unbearable, unthinkable," Carrie Kingsbury, Ashley's mother, said Wednesday. "We just want our daughter to come home."
The FBI and Pima County deputies are trying to track Ashley and Jordan Anthony by any cell phone or credit card evidence. A Pima County captain says evidence shows the two met online, then communicated online and by phone for as long as a year.
Deputies want to find the two right away. They say people should be on the lookout for a silver Hyundai Elantra with Utah license plate number Z75 4UV.
Authorities believe the two planned to run off together for some time, and Ashley texted Anthony to pick her up Monday morning. That's why they did not issue an Amber Alert.
But Ashley's family says her room was ransacked before she left, and the teenager uncharacteristically left without her cell phone, her purse, her make-up or any clothes.
"The cell phone being on the floor, and the glass being on the floor - and from what we understand, there was just some dents in the wall," said Jessica Federica, a family friend.
Investigators say when they arrived at Ashley's home, there was only a shattered photo. They are still investigating the other puzzling questions.
The family just hopes Ashley will call.
"[Every time the phone rings,] my heart beats faster and I pray it's her on the other line," Carrie Kingsbury said.
KSL News sent Jordan Anthony a Facebook message and asked him to contact us, but we have not heard from him.
E-mail: jboal@ksl.com
