OH OH - Madison Fields, 16, left temp home on foot meeting man she'd been messaging on an app, Colerain, 13 Feb 2026

[imstilla.grandma]

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  The girl's father, Tyler Hirn, told WXIX that Madison was last seen after 4 p.m. on Feb. 13, leaving the InTown Suites, and that surveillance footage showed her walking on nearby streets.
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• “I’m dad," Hirn told the outlet. "I know the kid. As I said, she texts me every day. She’s a very good kid. Something is wrong. I was under the impression she was at her friend Lily’s house, but she didn’t go that way. So, that’s when we first found out something was wrong and then we got ahold of the police."
  
  The outlet reported that Madison's phone is dead and that her father is no longer able to track it.
• https://people.com/ohio-teen-girl-1...home-to-meet-man-she-messaged-on-app-11908715

 

[truthfinder2019]

Madison Fields was last seen leaving the InTown Suites on Colerain Avenue just after 4 p.m. Friday, according to her father Tyler Hirn. Surveillance footage shows her walking along Colerain Avenue and then heading west on HarryLee Lane.

The family filed an official missing person report Monday after realizing Fields had not arrived at a friend’s house as expected.

According to family members, she had been communicating on an app called Session with someone who calls himself “Josh” before her disappearance.

From what I hear from her younger sister, she was writing on that app and left to meet a boy named Josh,” Hirn said. “We don’t know any Josh.”

Owens said none of Fields’ friends at Colerain High School know anyone named Josh.

Colerain police search for missing 16-year-old girl

Madison Fields disappeared Friday after leaving family's temporary housing

www.fox19.com

Ohio Teen, 16, Missing After Leaving Home to Meet Mystery Man She First Met on App: 'Something Is Wrong'

Madison Fields has been missing since Feb. 13

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Fields, a sophomore at Colerain High School, told her younger sister she was meeting someone she messaged on an app who claimed to be an 18-year-old.

Colerain police would not answer questions about the anonymous messaging app Madison used and the timeline for obtaining a warrant for her cell phone location, who cited the ongoing investigation.

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From her FB, I seem to recall that we already discussed this last year or so. As if she had gone missing before. But I am not 200% sure. Does anyone remember?

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I hope the Josh in Session messaging app is not an adult male with ill intentions. Unfortunately we see far too many predators using these apps.

Session is an end-to-end encrypted messenger.
You don’t need a mobile number or an email to make an account with Session. Your display name can be your real name, an alias, or anything else you like.
Session does not collect any geolocation data, metadata, or any other data about the device or network.

Session uses an onion routing system, which is called onion requests, for additional privacy protection
An onion routing network is a network of nodes over which users can send anonymous encrypted messages. Onion networks encrypt messages with multiple layers of encryption, then send them through a number of nodes. Each node ‘unwraps’ (decrypts) a layer of encryption, meaning that no single node ever knows both the destination and origin of the message. Session uses onion routing to ensure that a server which receives a message never knows the IP address of the sender.

Frequently Asked Questions - Session Private Messenger

Find answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about Session.

getsession.org

 

[GraceG]

The Sessions app uses a onion routing protocal to mask IP addresses and location Onion by sending internet traffic (like messages) through multiple encrypted layers, like the layers of an onion. Each layer is ‘peeled’ by a different server in the network, hiding the sender's identity, This offers security against data breaches which is OK for general cyber security, but security against unknown linline predators? Not in my opinion. Not at all. The app website does have some cautions for users - but do you think teens read this? Likely not, at that age, I wouldn't have and because no phone number or email is required to sign up, users are anonymous, which can facilitate unmoderated, secret conversations with strangers for which tracking by LE becomes problematic. Search warrant notwithstanding, LE still needs physical access to the phone, to use specialized forensic technology to extract "active" or "residual" data, even if the app claims to be secure or deletes messages.

Just saw that @truthfinder2019 posted the info on the routing system with more detailed info but I'll leave this post up for my two cents worth.