OK Teen Found
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A missing Oklahoma teen is reunited with her family after being found in North Carolina.
16 year old Amanda Rauch was reported kidnapped April 4th from Skiatook High School. Earlier this week the Delaware County teen called family members to say she had been threatened and taken to Rose Hill, North Carolina by 39 year old Gary Patterson of Afton, Oklahoma.
Rauch was able to walk to the Rose Hill Police Department and told authorities Patterson had threatened to hurt her and her family if she did not go with him. Rauch was reunited with her family on Thursday. Patterson remains the in the Duplin County Jail in North Carolina and is awaiting extradition back to Oklahoma.
Reported By: Jennifer Haile
