The mother of a missing 13-year-old Dallas girl says her family is focusing its search on the Grapevine area after receiving several reports of possible sightings there.<\/p>\n
Natalie Armstrong has been missing since Wednesday night, when her mother says the teenager left home without a phone, money or other electronics. Her mother believes Natalie may have gotten on DART and ended up in an unfamiliar area.<\/p>\n
Natalie’s mother, Megan Bernhardt, said her daughter is autistic and has been experiencing anxiety related to school.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have not had any contact with her since she left on Wednesday night,\u201d her mother said. \u201cShe ran out with nothing on her, like no phone, no electronics, no money.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Dallas Police Department has also asked for help finding Natalie, who is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs about 135 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. Police said she was last seen wearing a gray hoodie, blue jeans and white shoes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe shoes, I think, are probably the most recognizable thing on her,” Bernhardt said.<\/p>\n
Armstrong was last seen on foot in the 9300 block of Whistle Stop Place on October 21, 2026, at approximately 10:08 p.m. <\/p>\n
Bernhardt said the lack of contact from her daughter is concerning.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe knows my phone number. She does, so it\u2019s alarming that she hasn\u2019t reached out,\u201d Bernhardt said.<\/p>\n
Her mother said Natalie may be more comfortable approaching someone her own age than an adult and urged parents to ask their teenagers whether they have seen or spoken with her.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information as to Natalie\u2019s whereabouts is asked to contact the Dallas Police Department by calling 9-1-1 or 214-671-4268. Please reference case number 155505-2026.<\/p>\n
Speaking directly to her daughter during an interview with NBC 5, Bernhardt pleaded for her return.<\/p>\n
\u201cNatalie, we\u2019re so worried, and we love you so much. Like, we just want you to come home, and we want everything to be okay,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019re not in trouble. We just need you to come home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of a missing 13-year-old Dallas girl says her family is focusing its search on the Grapevine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2474],"class_list":["post-477657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-missing-persons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}