GA EMMA "ZARI" LINEK: Missing from Atlanta, GA (flew from Ohio) - 6 Sept 2022 - Age 17 *Found Safe*

FBI searching for 'endangered' teen last seen leaving Atlanta airport with unknown man

The FBI said Emma Linek, who goes by Zari, was last seen leaving the North Daily parking lot at Atlanta's airport at around 10 a.m. on Sept. 6. Agents said she was with an unknown man.

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FBI searching for 'endangered' teen last seen leaving Atlanta airport with unknown man​

The FBI is searching for a missing 17-year-old girl who hasn't been seen since leaving Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport four days ago.

The FBI said Emma Linek, who goes by Zari, was last seen leaving the North Daily parking lot at Atlanta's airport at around 10 a.m. on Sept. 6. Agents said she was with an unknown man.

The FBI said she flew into Atlanta from Cleveland on Sept. 6. A photo of her near a Delta kiosk shows her wearing plaid pants and a black shirt.

Ohio teen girl who went missing at Atlanta airport found safe, FBI says

The FBI said Emma Danei Linek walked into a local police department late Sunday afternoon and was reunited with her father.

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FBI looking for Ohio teen girl who flew to Atlanta, left airport with unknown man​

The FBI said Saturday they were trying to find a missing girl from Ohio who had flown to Atlanta and then left the airport with an unknown man.

The bureau said Emma Danei Linek is believed to be "endangered" and in need of medication.

"She was last seen leaving the airport with an unknown male at approximately 10 a.m. in the North Daily Parking lot at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport," the FBI said. "Linek has not been seen since."


MEDIA - EMMA "ZARI" LINEK: Missing from Atlanta, GA (flew from Ohio) since 6 Sept 2022 - Age 17

 

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The bureau originally said that Emma Danei Linek had left Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport with an “unknown man” about 10 a.m. on Tuesday. The FBI has since identified the man and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Christopher Macrae said during a Saturday news conference that Linek was not with that man.

“At this time we have not located Emma,” Macrae said. “Emma was not with that individual.”

The teenager is believed to be “endangered” and in need of her daily medication, which Macrae said she does not have with her. He added that Linek is autistic but highly functioning.
The teenager flew from Cleveland to Atlanta on Delta Air Lines on Tuesday. Her final destination was Boston. “That flight change was unscheduled, so she did not know she was going to be in Atlanta,” Macrae said.

FBI searching for autistic Ohio teen last seen leaving Atlanta airport

Authorities are trying to locate a missing 17-year-old girl from Ohio who landed in Atlanta for a connection flight earlier this week and has not been seen since, the FBI said.

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Eleanor Linek, the teen's mom, told Beacon Journal news partner News 5 Cleveland that they took her to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and watched her go through security to her gate for a flight to Boston, where she attends a therapeutic boarding school.

“We don’t know what happened, if she got something to eat or what, but she missed her plane,” Linek told the news station.

So the airline got Emma on another flight to Boston, which had a connecting flight in Atlanta. The teen, who was traveling alone, landed in Atlanta but never boarded the plane to Boston, her mom said.

"Her bags made it to Boston, but she did not," the FBI confirmed at the news conference Saturday.

“She was seen wandering through the airport and at times appeared lost,” the FBI said, citing footage from cameras. “We have evidence that later that morning, at approximately 10 a.m., she left the north daily parking lot at Hartsville with a man. Emma has not been seen since.”

Missing Twinsburg teen seen leaving Atlanta airport Saturday with unidentified male

“One of our concerns is that she’s on medication and she does not have her medication with her," Eleanor Linek told told News 5 Cleveland.

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[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I don't like this. I hope the man was not a predator who saw her looking lost and offered to "help".
This does not at all sound like a runaway situation. I thought maybe the man was a rideshare person but it doesn't sound like that either.
Based on the FBI comments about being in "discussions" with him and still having not located her, this may be a trafficking situation...He would not answer the reporters question about it.

 

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[GrandmaBear]

So she was first said to be seen leaving with this man then it said she didn't once they located the man??

I hate the fact no one can go through and watch anyone board any longer whether elderly, children or other vulnerable people. I was almost made to board a plane once without my 13 year old daughter and they were brooking NO ARGUMENT. She would have been left at the huge Denver airport had that happened! Without resourcese, help, family or anything. This was a few months after 09/11! I had to get on the plane without her and short of being locked down and taken away I had no choice. I told them I was not getting on the plane without her. OH don't ever say that! I have NOTHING good to say about such! She came through and onto the plane at the last moment as I saw many passengers come on before her through tense minutes and the flight get readied. She was WITH me as we went through the ticket process right before boarding! She was panicked and scared to death. They had forced me through and held her back! I was ready to bolt on the plane and was at wit's end.

So she missed her flight. Someone or she handled it and got her on another flight. Did they call her family or did she have a cell phone and do so to tell them? It appears not? She did right and boarded that flight and it says she is high functioning but again never called home to advise she was getting on another flight?

This is very worrisome, she couldn't have planned it as she didn't know she would get another flight or which one or that it would lay over in Atlanta it sounds like. So someone "helped" this vulnerable girl apparently but it must have been at the Atlanta end. I just wonder why when she missed her first flight, her parents weren't called, etc.? I mean do they just allow that transfer of a paid for scheduled ticket to another flight? I wouldn't think so if missing it was her fault, one would think they would charge for a ticket on another flight...? And if so, she had the money to pay for it and understood this?

 

[Kimster]

The airlines have a service where minors can be monitored and make sure they get on their flights safely. Do they not have the service anymore? I know it’s too late now, but it’s concerning. The service was beneficial when I used it for my son who went to visit his aunt years back.

 

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The airlines have a service where minors can be monitored and make sure they get on their flights safely. Do they not have the service anymore? I know it’s too late now, but it’s concerning. The service was beneficial when I used it for my son who went to visit his aunt years back.

I wonder? They must no? Maybe her parents didn't know or use it? Or thought she was good to go and knew what she needed to do.

I was hopeful and still am she would be located. I mean she can't have planned to go missing as she couldn't know the next flight would go to Atlanta right? But I also just don't think most people who would encounter her are necessarily going to be murderers, etc. She was in airports and if she left, she could encounter someone bad but is just as likely to encounter someone helpful and even more likely is that she would hide maybe no? If overwhelmed.

I would like to know if this girl had a cell phone to reach her parents? One would think so since she is 17 and autistic right?

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

So she was first said to be seen leaving with this man then it said she didn't once they located the man??

No. She left with him. They just said she was not currently with him when they found him.

I would like to know if this girl had a cell phone to reach her parents? One would think so since she is 17 and autistic right?

She does not have a phone.

17-year-old Twinsburg girl who was last seen Tuesday found after Atlanta FBI joins search

They dropped Linek off at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. She got on her connecting flight to Atlanta, but never got on the flight to her final destination.

www.news5cleveland.com

Linek said Emma does not have a cell phone with her and only had a carry-on bag.

 

[GrandmaBear]

No. She left with him. They just said she was not currently with him when they found him.

She does not have a phone.

17-year-old Twinsburg girl who was last seen Tuesday found after Atlanta FBI joins search

They dropped Linek off at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. She got on her connecting flight to Atlanta, but never got on the flight to her final destination.

www.news5cleveland.com

Linek said Emma does not have a cell phone with her and only had a carry-on bag.

I misunderstood that then. So she did leave with someone... So either that person was lying or was able to prove where they separated and why, etc. or where he took her...

IF she knew she should be going on another plane and/or informed him of that, then no reason he should have taken her out of the airport... But maybe she didn't.

Maybe this school or wherever they send her to doesn't allow her to have a phone but I would think she could travel with one and then just give it up while there but maybe there is a reason she can't have one or doesn't operate one and the parents likely thought she'd be gate to gate and picked up with no chance of harm in between.

This is an unusual one. Something doesn't sit right but it is clear she was at the airport as they have video. They say it was not her planned flight so she couldn't have planned to meet anyone in Atlanta if she didn't know she was going there UNLESS she called someone from either airport of course or after she knew where the flight was going after it was rebooked...

I am sure they are but I'd wonder who she talked to on the plane as some on it were probably going to and/or live in Atlanta... Was the guy she left with on her flight...

Were the parents aware after she missed her flight or made aware and knew of the other flight I wonder. Because if she already had not made a flight, trusting her to transfer would be iffy. What I mean is at that point the airline or someone should have been seeing to it an airline employee on the other end saw to it she boarded the next flight or something especially if apprised of things at all. Honestly, she was a minor and the airlines should have some sort of protocol for a minor flying, a change of flight for or by a minor, etc. whether requested or not...

 

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The teenager is believed to be “endangered” and in need of her daily medication, which Macrae said she does not have with her. He added that Linek has been diagnosed with autism, but it would not be immediately apparent, as she is a “generally outgoing, bubbly person.”

On Sunday, the FBI said that they, along with MARTA police, confirmed through surveillance video that Linek was seen getting off a train at the Lindbergh Center station, more than 15 miles north of the airport in Buckhead, on Tuesday night.

 

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teen missing 6 days in Atlanta found safe​

FBI: Autistic Ohio teen missing 6 days in Atlanta found safe

A 17-year-old girl with autism from Ohio, who had been missing since landing in Atlanta for a connection flight last week, was found safe Sunday afternoon, the FBI said.

www.ajc.com

Late Sunday afternoon, the bureau said Linek had walked into a local police department and was reunited with her father.

 

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Mother of Emma "Zari" Linek speaks to 3News after daughter found safe

Eleanor Linek has two simple words for her community: thank you.

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"Our daughter is coming home after 6 days of being missing and we can't ask for anything more than that, so thank you from the bottom of our heart," Mother Eleanor Linek said.

The Lineks are slowly piecing together what happened over the past six days.

Mom says she's doing well, she'll be getting checked out when she gets home, but she had one very specific request when finally reunited in Atlanta with her Dad and brother.

"She hasn't said a whole lot but they went and got her favorite dinner, Chipotle, and she's joking a little bit and laughing but she hasn't said a whole lot about the whole process," Eleanor Linek said.