Since this one is a bit hard to keep track of, here is the list of major players:
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Karlie Guse (missing teenager - focus of the thread, abbreviated 'KG', all relationships after are to her)
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Lindsay Fairley (biological mother - often referred to as 'Mom')
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Melissa Guse (stepmother - referred to as 'MG' or 'Stepmom', last one to see her and central figure)
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Zac Guse (biological father - may be abbreviated 'ZG')
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Donald Arrowood III (boyfriend - allegedly who she attended party with night before disappearance)
The early story here alleged that Karlie told Stepmom she was attending a football game but then calling her to come get her. All info below is from video Stepmom made saying that she:
- Found Karlie alone and she was very apologetic in admitting she had attended a party which boyfriend confirmed and smoked marijuana and was 'acting paranoid' on drive home (also referred to as 'disoriented')
- Didn't take Karlie to a hospital because she "was a teen who smoked marijuana" and didn't think it was something to go to that step over
- Took her home, she ate a salad then wanted to do several things with Stepmom like paint nails and 'color'
- Karlie then said she wanted to go to bed and asked if Stepmom would lay with her which she did
- Woke up and saw Karlie laying next to her awake at 5:45 AM on morning of her disappearance, then fell back asleep and when she woke up around 7:15 AM, Karlie had vanished
The more I read into this story, it sounds like whatever Karlie smoked was laced with some kind of hallucinogen or something that caused a very adverse reaction mentally. She did not appear to be right when Stepmom picked her up on night before she vanished and likely needed medical care to take something to counter the drug's effects or outright go to a hospital.
Throughout the night before she vanished, Karlie seems to be displaying behaviors of someone who is under the influence of something other/more than marijuana. There are several inconsistencies in Stepmom's story imo but the last part of it makes sense - that Karlie was under the influence of something, got up and wandered off down the highway. It also can explain why she wouldn't have her phone - if she wasn't right mentally I can see someone whose age and body aren't mature enough to handle drugs just wandering off. If the timeframe is correct, that gives her up to a 90 minute head start.
Most humans can walk around 3 MPH at an average pace and my assumption is given the state Karlie was in she wasn't running or sprinting. If she left shortly after Stepmom fell back asleep, she could've traveled approximately 4.5 miles in any direction. Given where the family lives and the mountains and hills that surround them, that's a wide range of tough terrain to cover. It's possible by the time searches outside the immediate home were started, Karlie was even further away.
As far as what happened to her, there are lots of possibilities but unfortunately not many of them are good ends.
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If she did just walk off under the influence, the drugs would've eventually worn off and she could've tried to return home or find a phone to call someone. It's looking more to me like she ended up in the mountains that surround their home which leads to all kinds of bad potential endings.
Abduction is possible but it would've had to be either a member of her family such as Stepmom or dad or a totally random person along the highway. Again while possible, to me these aren't likely and the simplest answer is she was under the influence of a drug and was not right mentally and wandered off.
Still praying for a good outcome here but given the length of time she's been gone, it's becoming tougher.