KY WYNTER WAGONER: Missing from Orlando, KY - 14 Oct 2025 - Age 13 (1 Viewer)

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FBI helping with ongoing search for southern Kentucky teen​

Officials with multiple Kentucky law enforcement agencies held a press conference at 1 p.m. on Wednesday to update the public about an ongoing search for Wynter B. Wagoner, who has been missing since Oct. 14.

FOX 56 News crew members attended Wednesday’s press conference, where the Rockcastle County Sheriff’s Office announced that the FBI would be helping in the search to find Wagoner.

Officials said that since she went missing, Wagoner’s social media accounts have gone silent.

Around noon on Oct. 22, officials with the Mount Vernon Fire Department wrote that crews had been helping with several search efforts for Wagoner, 13, in the Climax area. She had reportedly last been seen in the Orlando area.

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Family of missing southern Kentucky teen asks for her safe return, offers cash reward​

Exhausted, pained, and worried, yet Wynter Wagoner’s family is standing together amid her disappearance. The only priority they have right now is ensuring that she is safe.

Haley Whitehead, Wynter’s aunt, said the 13-year-old had been at her latest foster care home for about a year, when she went missing the evening of Oct. 14 in Rockcastle County near the Orlando area.

“She’s not an outdoor girl. She’s more of a Netflix and chill kind of girl. She didn’t walk out of those woods. She didn’t go run into the woods. Someone has had to have got her and picked her up and took her out of there,” Whitehead said.

The family is offering thousands of dollars out of their own pocket for information that would lead to Wynter’s return.

“As long as I have confirmation she’s safe, that’s what we need at this point. Nothing else matters, and I will gladly hand over $5,000 to know she’s safe,” Whitehead said.

After more than a week of searching and distributing flyers, the family is wondering why more hasn’t been done.

“This should have probably been more of an alert early on. I do feel like a new system needs put in play to get the word out about missing,” Whitehead said.

Local law enforcement officials stated that more agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), are now involved.

Tpr. Scottie Pennington, a Kentucky State Police public affairs officer, shared that, “searches are going on, ground searches, and they’re flying drones. We’re just looking for the assistance of the people. If you see something, say something.”


MEDIA - WYNTER WAGONER: Missing from Orlando, KY - 14 Oct 2025 - Age 13

 

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Father of missing Rockcastle County 13-year-old speaks out as search continues

Wynter Wagoner has been missing for nearly two weeks, and her father says he's being left in the dark as local, state, and federal agencies search for the 13-year-old girl.

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Father of missing Rockcastle County 13-year-old speaks out as search continues​

Wynter Wagoner has been missing for nearly two weeks, and her father says he's being left in the dark as local, state, and federal agencies search for the 13-year-old girl.

Dusty Wagoner was working to regain custody of his daughter, also known as Wynterbrook, after getting out of prison this summer.

The Rockcastle County Sheriff says Wynter disappeared from her foster home on Wolfe Creek Road in Rockcastle County on the night of October 14.

"There's a message actually on my Facebook where she had wrote right before I got out how excited she was for me to be coming home. How excited she was to come live with me, she couldn't wait," Wagoner said. "She's my everything."

Wagoner says he didn't find out about his daughter's disappearance until days later, when a case worker contacted him.

"It's kind of depressing, you know. Because you just, you are left in the dark," he said.

The Rockcastle County Sheriff's Office is leading the search with assistance from multiple national agencies, including the FBI and the United States Marshals Service. Dusty says authorities have visited Wynter's aunt's house and her boyfriend's house to gain information.

"They've been everywhere, but they've never came to my family's house, not once," he said.

Dusty says his daughter had run away before and immediately called her grandmother when she got to a phone.

"I feel like she would have called me and let me know something because she did then," he said. "I definitely feel like there's something wrong."

The father says Wynter wasn't happy with her living situation.

"She wanted me to come pick her up several times. And I explained to her, I said, 'Wynter, I can't do that. I have to go through the courts. I have to do everything right because I can't just come and pick you up and take you off from there,'" Dusty added. "Because I'll get in trouble, you'll get in trouble, and you'll have to go right back."

Before Wynter's disappearance, Wagoner says things were looking up.

"It's been crazy, really. I have my hopes set high on just bringing her home and letting her have a better life and just a happier childhood, you know, she's been through a lot. Winterbrook has through her whole life," he said.

Now, Wagoner says controlling his emotions is getting harder as the search continues.

"I don't know what to do with myself, you know. It's painful," he said.

 

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https://fox56news.com/news/kentucky/fbi-helping-with-ongoing-search-for-southern-kentucky-teen/

FBI helping with ongoing search for southern Kentucky teen​

Officials with multiple Kentucky law enforcement agencies held a press conference at 1 p.m. on Wednesday to update the public about an ongoing search for Wynter B. Wagoner, who has been missing since Oct. 14.

FOX 56 News crew members attended Wednesday’s press conference, where the Rockcastle County Sheriff’s Office announced that the FBI would be helping in the search to find Wagoner.

Officials said that since she went missing, Wagoner’s social media accounts have gone silent.

Around noon on Oct. 22, officials with the Mount Vernon Fire Department wrote that crews had been helping with several search efforts for Wagoner, 13, in the Climax area. She had reportedly last been seen in the Orlando area.

https://fox56news.com/news/kentucky/family-of-missing-southern-kentucky-teen-asks-for-her-safe-return-offers-cash-reward/

Family of missing southern Kentucky teen asks for her safe return, offers cash reward​

Exhausted, pained, and worried, yet Wynter Wagoner’s family is standing together amid her disappearance. The only priority they have right now is ensuring that she is safe.

Haley Whitehead, Wynter’s aunt, said the 13-year-old had been at her latest foster care home for about a year, when she went missing the evening of Oct. 14 in Rockcastle County near the Orlando area.

“She’s not an outdoor girl. She’s more of a Netflix and chill kind of girl. She didn’t walk out of those woods. She didn’t go run into the woods. Someone has had to have got her and picked her up and took her out of there,” Whitehead said.

The family is offering thousands of dollars out of their own pocket for information that would lead to Wynter’s return.

“As long as I have confirmation she’s safe, that’s what we need at this point. Nothing else matters, and I will gladly hand over $5,000 to know she’s safe,” Whitehead said.

After more than a week of searching and distributing flyers, the family is wondering why more hasn’t been done.

“This should have probably been more of an alert early on. I do feel like a new system needs put in play to get the word out about missing,” Whitehead said.

Local law enforcement officials stated that more agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), are now involved.

Tpr. Scottie Pennington, a Kentucky State Police public affairs officer, shared that, “searches are going on, ground searches, and they’re flying drones. We’re just looking for the assistance of the people. If you see something, say something.”

I'm not understanding her statement about going into the woods and somebody took her out there.

 

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I'm not understanding her statement about going into the woods and somebody took her out there.

Yeahhh, glad I'm not the only one. Maybe referring to the areas they're searching?

Search for missing Rockcastle Co. teen enters second week

It has now been over a week since 13-year-old Wynter Wagoner was reported missing.

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Officials have been executing ground searches on the wooded area behind the home where she was last seen, as well as a drone search. One of the family members at the press conference claimed off camera that Wynter had called her first cousin before her disappearance. That call that is currently being investigated by the FBI.

 

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I think it maybe means the foster home is set in the woods and she is saying she'd never go through the woods to leave, depart from them, come out of them. Maybe. Or her last known area is woods, hard to tell.

Are there any details on time of day she left, how, last seen, etc. I didn't see much in skimming the links but I may have missed such.

If middle of night it could mean she wouldn't leave due to woods but that someone had to take her.

First skim of the case, may have something wrong or missed something but don't think so.

Where is the mother in this case? Referenced are father, grandmother, aunt and first cousin.

 

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Are there any details on time of day she left, how, last seen, etc. I didn't see much in skimming the links but I may have missed such.

In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, officials involved in the search shared that Wynter was last seen on Oct. 14, when she was picked up early from school by her foster parents. It was reported that she was not feeling well and was resting at home, but when her parents went to check on her at dinnertime, they discovered she was gone.

 

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Yeahhh, glad I'm not the only one. Maybe referring to the areas they're searching?

Search for missing Rockcastle Co. teen enters second week

It has now been over a week since 13-year-old Wynter Wagoner was reported missing.

www.wkyt.com

Officials have been executing ground searches on the wooded area behind the home where she was last seen, as well as a drone search. One of the family members at the press conference claimed off camera that Wynter had called her first cousin before her disappearance. That call that is currently being investigated by the FBI.

It would have taken a reporter only a few more seconds to write the context of that comment.

 

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In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, officials involved in the search shared that Wynter was last seen on Oct. 14, when she was picked up early from school by her foster parents. It was reported that she was not feeling well and was resting at home, but when her parents went to check on her at dinnertime, they discovered she was gone.

Thank you. So she went missing during the daytime, a school day, after being picked up at school. So it seems likely she did leave on her own, assuming the foster family had no involvement.