Lisa Sullivan, Katelins mother, says she dropped her daughter off at her stepdads home in Spotsylvania County on Saturday so he could take her to the airport to catch a flight to Arizona. Sullivan said the teens stepdad told her that Akens decided she wanted to go to Springfield Town Center first. She then planned to take the Franconia-Springfield metro to Reagan National Airport.
According to Captain Jeff Pearce with the Spotsylvania County Sheriffs Office, authorities have been able to corroborate that Akens stepfathers car was in the area of the mall that day, though there is no surveillance video of Katelin or her stepdad at Springfield Town Center. Captain Pearce says cameras were not covering the area of the mall that the stepfather says he left Katelin. He would not elaborate on how investigators confirmed the car was there.
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