A missing teenager left a note telling her mother: ‘this will be the last time you hear from me for a very long time’, then disappeared.
Geneva Hodge, 17, ran away from her home in Bellville, Texas, Wednesday morning and left the handwritten note on her pillow.
Her mother, Frances Schrader, discovered the message that morning and has not heard from Geneva since and fears she may have been kidnapped.
“I am completely heartbroken. The day she disappeared, I couldn’t breathe. I felt like my heart had been ripped out of my chest. I miss my baby so much,” she said.
Geneva Hodge, 17, ran away from her home in Bellville, Texas, Wednesday morning and left the note on her pillow.
Geneva with his older brothers, both soldiers. Her family said she planned to join the Air Force after finishing high school.
Schrader shared the note with DailyMail.com and said it was nothing like his daughter, who was excited about her final year of school.
“Dear mother, I love you very much and I know that my departure will kill you. I’m doing well! It was no one’s decision but mine,” it read.
“I’m going to take online classes and finish everything. I’m with people I trust a lot.
“I will always be your little girl. I grew up and became this incredible young woman. Don’t forget mom, I love you so much!!
“It’s goodbye for a long time!” I’m sorry. Goodbye mom, I love you! My love, Geneva.
Schrader said the note contained spelling errors even though she was a good student, meaning it was written in a hurry.
“She’s not my daughter. She was just named color guard captain for her senior year, she got grades and grades in school even with her learning disabilities,” she said.
“It may have been her handwriting on the note, but the words weren’t her.”
Her mother, Frances Schrader, discovered the note that morning and has not heard from Geneva since and fears she may have been kidnapped.
Schrader discovered the note that morning and has not heard from her since, and fears she may have been kidnapped.
Schrader said her daughter was a “good kid” who had never done anything like this before, and she has a bad feeling about what happened to her.
Schrader said Geneva factory reset his phone, removed the SIM card, put it in another phone case and hid it in a drawer with other old phones.
Geneva also left without clothes, without medication, without her asthma inhaler, or even without a toothbrush, and her debit card had not been used since her disappearance.
“She definitely has poison ivy, she’s very allergic to it and she didn’t even take medicine for it with her,” her mother said.
Schrader told DailyMail.com that the teen was seen with an older man about 26 miles away in Brookshire, Texas, between 8 and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
“I’m so afraid she was kidnapped. I think he convinced her to go with him,” she said.
Schrader said the owner of D’Lux Donuts on the corner of Bains and S Front streets said the man arrived in Geneva in a white Honda Civic.
He was 30 to 40 years old, about 5 feet 10 to 6 feet tall, skinny and “dirty” with glasses, said the witness, who initially thought he was her father.
Geneva was a model student and would become captain of her school’s color guard the next year.
Geneva with her mother and stepfather at her brothers’ graduation
Schrader said the man was “rubbing her back and touching her butt and she looked uncomfortable.”
“She just stood there, still and didn’t move, like something was really wrong,” she told the witness.
The man also wore a badge with his work name, but it was turned around so the name could not be seen.
Police continue to confirm the girl was in Geneva, but the witness identified the missing teen from a photograph, Schrader said.
Schrader said Geneva showed a photo of the man to a co-worker at her local Brookshire Brothers, where she had worked for two years, four or five days before he disappeared.
“She said he ‘looked like he was on drugs’ and told me, my daughter, ‘that man doesn’t look good,'” she said.
“Geneva said he was 21 and he was going to take care of me.”
Schrader said the co-worker gave her a detailed description of the man in the photo that matched that given by the donut shop owner.
The man was lying in bed, wearing a wife beater and metal-rimmed square oval prescription glasses.
He had short, curly brown or dirty-blonde hair, a patchy mustache and beard, a scruffy face, a skinny nose, and a square chin.
Her name started with an E, but she couldn’t remember exactly what it was.
Geneva went to work as normal on Tuesday and was seen talking to a teenager in her truck during her lunch break.
Schrader said the two men were just friends and that police questioned the young man and cleared him of any involvement in Geneva’s disappearance.
Her mother picked her up from work and the family went to bed around 10:30 p.m., before which it seemed like everything was fine.
“She was happy, she was smiling, she was eating dinner, she was showing us the poison ivy that was all over her,” she said.
and Schrader and her husband, Kelly, went to work the next morning.
Schrader returned home for lunch around 11 a.m. and discovered Geneva’s message when she went to her room to check on her.
She said Geneva had to leave before her husband even got up, around 5:45 a.m.
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