Atlanta Jewish woman, 25, missing for 12 days
Jenna Van Gelderen was last seen on August 18, when she was house-sitting at her parent’s home
Police are searching for a 25-year-old Jewish woman from Atlanta who has been missing for a week and a half.
Jenna Van Gelderen was last seen on August 18, when she was house-sitting at her parent’s home while they were away on a trip. The following day her brother found the house locked and his sister’s car, a 2010 blue Mazda, gone.
Her father, Leon, wrote on Facebook that his son had “found the house in disarray,” and that a World War II-era tapestry had been “ripped out of [the] frame” in the house.
Van Gelderen has a high-functioning form of autism, according WSB-TV 2.
Her mother, Roseanne Glick, said she did not believe Van Gelderen left on her own accord.
To Our Atlanta friends:Our daughter Jenna went missing while house sitting at our house here in Atlanta on Friday…
Posted by Leon Van Gelderen on Tuesday, August 22, 2017
“It’s still surreal,” Glick told WSB-TV 2. “I go to sleep crying, I wake up crying, I keep thinking, worrying and know that she would never have just left.”
A local synagogue, Congregation Shearith Israel, is hosting a candlelight vigil for Van Gelderen on Tuesday evening.
A Facebook page set up to help find Van Gelderen urged anyone with information to call the DeKalb County police at (770) 724-7600, Ext. 4, or (404) 966-8565.
