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FBI assists Parma police in search for missing 17-year-old girl

Now looking through surveillance video
Posted at 2:47 PM, Mar 08, 2017
and last updated 2017-03-08 23:34:01-05

The FBI and Parma Police are reviewing neighborhood surveillance video obtained Wednesday in the search for missing 17-year-old Katarina Bitterman.

They're hoping for new clues as to how she may have gone missing.

 

“As to where she went, which direction, if she got into a car with somebody," Parma Police Captain Kevin Riley said.

On Wednesday, Investigators canvassed the neighborhood near Augustine Drive where she was last seen.

Police said the teenager's parents left their home Saturday afternoon around 1:30. An hour later, police said an eyewitness saw Katarina walking down Augustine Drive. Police said when her parents called to check on her, they were unable to reach her. They sent a friend to the house but she was gone, police said.

"We're treating this as an endangered missing person's case. She hasn't contacted family, friends, we don't know where she went," Captain Riley said.

Riley said that Katarina left her cell phone in the house. Police now have that cell phone hoping it can provide clues.

Anyone with information should contact the FBI at 216-522-1400 or Parma police at 440-885-1234.

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Katarina is 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighing about 120 pounds.