MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — New details shed light on what happened inside a Mesa group home from which 14-year-old Emily Pike ran from before her dismembered remains were discovered on a rural forest road 100 miles away.
Pike was last seen alive on Jan. 27 near Mesa Drive and McKellips Road. The Gila County Sheriff’s Office said her body parts were found in trash bags on Feb. 14 off U.S. 60 northeast of Globe.
Pike’s former roommate in the group home shared what happened before the teen’s disappearance and why she may have left in the first place. This fills in several missing pieces about what Pike’s life was like in the group home, a place where she was not the first, or only, teen to have run away from…