At seventeen years old, Genelle Bradford was standing on the edge of adulthood. She had plans, people who loved her, and an entire life still waiting ahead of her. But when she suddenly disappeared from Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1999, authorities labeled her a runaway.
That assumption would follow her case for years, shaping how seriously her disappearance was treated and leaving her family to search for answers largely on their own. But Genelle was more than a label, and her story did not end simply because people stopped looking.
