AAP General News (Australia)
08-02-1999
WA: Police worried about missing teenage hitchhiker
PERTH, August 2 AAP - The West Australian police major crime squad has begun an
investigation into the disappearance of a teenage girl hitchhiker missing since Thursday.
A police spokeswoman said Hayley Marie Stephenson, 17, was last seen on the North West Road
in the Dandaragan district, about 200km north of Perth, where she was dropped off by a
motorist who had given her a lift from Dongara.
She had told friends in Dongara she intended to hitchhike to another friend's farm in
Moora where she hoped to find work.
"Certainly we are concerned about her welfare," the spokeswoman said.
She said police were conducting extensive inquiries in the Dandaragan area, including
searching farmland and interviewing locals.
"We're trying to delete certain things at this stage and we're making sure she's not on
any farming properties in the area," she said.
She said the teenager's family were very worried about their daughter because she
usually maintained close contact with them.
Miss Stephenson is described as 155cm tall, of slight build and a fair complexion.
She was wearing blue jeans, brown hiking boots, a black top and a man's grey jacket.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call Crimestoppers.
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KEYWORD: STEPHENSON hold
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