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9:13 PM PDT, July 14, 2010

Two teen girls have gone missing from the Bremerton area in the last two months

BREMERTON - For the second time in two months, a teenage girl has vanished in Bremerton.

19-year-old Kara Radabah disappeared on May 13th. Now, 16-year-old Nellie Bail has been gone since July 8th. Both girls vanished within a mile of each other.

Their disappearances have brought both girls' families together to try to find them. Nellie's mother and father, Kim and Ward Bail, say they are sick with worry. When she first disappeared, they thought she might have run away because she's acted out before. They are confident now that's not what happened. Ward Bail says, "This didn't have any warnings. There were no warnings. That's why we're so confused. We keep a pretty tight watch."

The Bail's say the day she vanished Nellie was eager to get out of the house and go to driving school. She was last seen around 9pm that night leaving the school at Perry Avenue Mall on her bicycle. Her dad says, "At 9pm, I looked at the clock and said well, she should be here in 15 minutes, she may have stopped and talked for a few minutes, the bike ride shouldn't have taken more than a few minutes because it's downhill the whole way."

Now, Nellie's mom and dad are frustrated and scared for her.

Kara Radabah's mother Cheryl can relate. She's worked hard to get the word out about her daughter's disappearance in May. She understands the paralyzing fear the Bail family feels, so she reached out to them to help by offering advice and support.

Cheryl says there are similarities in both teen's disappearances. Not only did they take driving lessons from the same school, Kara went missing near Illahee State Park. That's less then a mile from where Nellie vanished. Search dogs tracked Kara walking towards Perry Avenue Mall, the same mall Nellie was seen riding by. Unlike Nellie, Kara has a medical condition that can cause her to be vulnerable to the wrong person when she's forgotten to take her medicine. Cheryl says, "I believe that if Kara had not been interrupted coming home that night, she would have come home."

While Kitsap County detectives are actively working Kara's case as an endangered missing teen, Bremerton Police say Nellie is a runaway and they are not linking the two cases together.

Det. Sgt. Kevin Crane says, "The missing person Kitsap County case... we have absolutley no evidence the two are connected in any way. We took a runaway report that night, from her, from the parents and we've been following up, we've been in contact with the driving school."

Whatever happened, it's a nightmare for both families who hope the girls are okay, but fear the worst. Cheryl says, "I'd just like to implore people to keep their eyes open for Kara and for Nelly, something is wrong..something is off...just pleading with people out there to keep their faces in their minds..they could be anywhere."

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