{"id":480124,"date":"2026-10-29T06:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480124\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:56:38","slug":"missing-13-year-old-dallas-girl-with-intellectual-disabilities-found-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480124\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing 13-year-old Dallas girl with intellectual disabilities found safely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A Dallas teenager with intellectual disabilities has been located safely after she had been reported missing for over a week.<\/p>\n<p> Natalie Armstrong found safe <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793256997_55_screenshot-2026-10-25-100409.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-1fc0918c=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-1fc0918c=\"\">Natalie Armstrong (Source: Dallas Police Department) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Dallas Police say 13-year-old Natalie Armstrong has been found safe.<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">The Texas Department of Public Safety has also discontinued its Endangered Missing Person Alert.<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Armstrong had been missing since October 21, when she left her Lake Highlands home. Her mother told FOX 4 Armstrong left home after becoming upset about upcoming school evaluations.<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">She was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/missing-dallas-13-year-old-spotted-dart-train\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">seen<\/a> at the SMU\/Mockingbird DART station the same night she initially left her home. Another person believed to be a minor was seen with her.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793256998_762_image-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-1fc0918c=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Armstrong has developmental disabilities and was considered an endangered missing person in need of assistance.<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">&#8220;We just want to snuggle back up in bed. Like the thought of possibly not getting to do that again is awful,&#8221; Megan Bernhardt, Armstrong&#8217;s mother, told FOX 4 on Tuesday. &#8220;That&#8217;s one of those thoughts that I have to kind of stop myself before I get into, because if I really allow myself to venture into that, it&#8217;s pure torture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Police did not say where Armstrong was located.<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">This is a developing story. More information will be added as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from the Dallas Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and previous FOX 4 coverage.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/dallas-police\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Police Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; A Dallas teenager with intellectual disabilities has been located safely after she had been reported missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,401,2474,223,1827,216,393],"class_list":["post-480124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480124","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=480124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}