Hailey Buzbee, a Fishers teen who’s been missing for almost a month, is dead, the Fishers Police Department announced during a news conference the evening of Feb. 1, though the investigation is still active and Buzbee has not yet been found.
Buzbee’s parents last saw their daughter, a 17-year-old student at Hamilton Southeastern High School, at 10 p.m. Jan. 5. Police said Feb. 1 she’d allegedly been picked up by Tyler Thomas, an Ohio man she’d met through online gaming.
Police said they talked to Thomas within a few days of her disappearance, who had told them he’d dropped Buzbee off on the side of the road in western Ohio. Police soon determined that statement was not true and worked with law enforcement partners in Ohio to search Thomas’ home and vehicle…