15-year-old Celia and 16-year-old Elsa Fitch are missing from their home in Spring Branch, Texas. It’s not often that I put up a runaway post but that is what this is. The two girls were last seen by their family Thursday, February 11th prior to going to bed for the evening. At some point during the night they ran away.

The girls gave their friends at Smithson Valley High School a couple of different stories, that they were going to Florida and that they were going to California. They did have help from someone named Tristan in San Diego.

Since the girls ran away they are not considered at risk for serious bodily injury or death which is a requirement to get an Amber Alert. What this unfortunately means is that there is effectively no law enforcement in the U.S. that is seriously looking for the two girls. As a result, the family have hired a couple of private investigators and of course are looking to help defray the costs associated with a private search. You can check out the Facebook group if you are interested in helping out in any way or feel free to leave an anonymous message here if you have any information you wish to have forwarded.

Updated 3/17/10 – I got this message along with the other folks on the Facebook group on Monday:

Elsa and Celia returned to Texas Sunday evening. They called to tell me they were coming back because they were very angry over the police issuing warrents for the woman in CA. Today they were interviewed by the police and CPS. I do not know the outcome of the interviews as no one called me.
I am thankful to those people who helped get them back in Texas. I am frustrated that authorities seem to feel no need to call me. I am sad that the girls blame me for the fate of “their BEST friend!” I am blessed by all of you who have reached out with thoughts, prayers, contact, money and food for us. Please, keep the positive thoughts and prayers coming, as it’s not over yet!
Love, Anne and Hollis

Stephanie Elizabeth Joyce Noircent of Boise, Idaho has been a bad Wiccan. The self-styled so-called pagan got into a lover’s quarrel at the Ponderosa Trailer Park (of course) that ended pretty badly for both of them. After they got finished arguing Stephanie waited until the dude had turned his back and stabbed him with a pocket knife in the lower part of his back.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not making fun of pagans. I’ve been sort of on the outskirts of being a pagan for years, it’s about as close to any kind of spiritual belief as I get. What I don’t recall though is anything in the Wiccan Rede like An Ye Harm None Except to Stab Your Boyfriend in the Back. Hell, maybe I missed that part. Stephanie, who also goes by Night Skye, could probably tell us where that part is.

Anyway, both Stephanie and her friend were treated at the hospital for minor injuries and released and then Noircent was arrested for Aggravated Battery and Domestic Battery and lodged in the Ada County Jail.