Taylor Dittmar (Photo Courtesy: KQ2)
Posted: 02/02/2012
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - A tipster's phone call led police to a missing 13-year-old girl in St. Joseph.
Taylor Dittmar of Gower, Mo., was found about noon Thursday walking along Frederick Boulevard at Riverside, according to St. Joseph police.
Police said she was walking with another person.
She was not injured.
Police took her to the juvenile detention facility to talk with her about where she had been.
Taylor was reported missing Wednesday night after leaving the East Hills Shopping Mall.
A mall surveillance camera captured Taylor and what appeared to be a teenage boy leaving the mall.
Taylor did not appear to be in distress in the video, police said.
She went to the mall with her father.
He left her and went to a store near the mall, police said.
He returned 10 or 15 minutes later and found his daughter missing.
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