Article: Portage la Prairie teenager missing.(NATIONAL NEWS)(Jennifer Leigh Catcheway )(Brief article)

When Jennifer Leigh Catcheway failed to show up for her 18th birthday party her family started to suspect foul play. Now the Portage la Prairie teenager has been missing for over a month. Catcheway was last seen at a party in Grand Rapids on June 19 2008.

Three days after she went missing Mary Starr, Catcheway's 30-year old sister and Catcheway's mother tried to file a missing persons report but were toldy by police that it was too early to do so.

"They acted like it's her 18th birthday, so she's out drinking somewhere. They didn't help us right away, only once she had been missing for a week and a half," said Starr in a news release. "If she was a white ...

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