{"id":480216,"date":"2026-10-29T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480216\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:20:45","slug":"missing-13-year-old-dallas-girl-with-intellectual-disabilities-found-safely-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480216\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing 13-year-old Dallas girl with intellectual disabilities found safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Natalie Armstrong, a 13-year-old girl from Dallas who has been missing since last week, has been found safely, according to the Dallas Police Department and Texas DPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Armstrong had been missing since October 21, when she left her Lake Highlands home. She had been seen at the SMU\/Mockingbird DART station that same night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not said where Armstrong was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Natalie Armstrong (Source: Dallas Police Department)&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kdfw_fox_local_articles_173\/6a5ae51f353ed10178630d5a8382d917.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Natalie Armstrong (Source: Dallas Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas Police say 13-year-old Natalie Armstrong has been found safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Texas Department of Public Safety has also discontinued its Endangered Missing Person Alert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She was <a data-ylk=\"slk:seen;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/missing-dallas-13-year-old-spotted-dart-train\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">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 alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kdfw_fox_local_articles_173\/67abf8cdad08be1957a755da50d836d7.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Armstrong has developmental disabilities and was considered an endangered missing person in need of assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police did not say where Armstrong was located.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. More information will be added as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this story comes from the Dallas Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and previous FOX 4 coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Natalie Armstrong, a 13-year-old girl from Dallas who has been missing since last week, has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-480216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480216","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=480216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}