Indiana family issues plea to endangered missing 17-year-old: “The only thing that matters to us is knowing you are safe”

On the night of January 5, 2026, Beau and Ronya Buzbee said goodnight to their 17-year-old daughter, Hailey, and turned in for bed.

But the next morning, Beau and Ronya, Hailey’s stepmom, woke up to find Hailey’s room empty. It seemed that she had left their Fishers, Indiana, home sometime in the middle of the night.

“It just really caught us off guard,” Beau told Dateline. “We didn’t really see her as being in a place where this was even a remote, slight chance of a possibility.”…

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