{"id":126866,"date":"2026-04-29T18:13:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-police-seek-information-about-missing-teen\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:35:28","slug":"cortez-police-report-missing-teen-is-safe-returning-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-police-report-missing-teen-is-safe-returning-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez police report missing teen is safe, returning home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fedafc01-ced8-5a10-b4f6-e6e14f3a801c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fedafc01-ced8-5a10-b4f6-e6e14f3a801c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fedafc01-ced8-5a10-b4f6-e6e14f3a801c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fedafc01-ced8-5a10-b4f6-e6e14f3a801c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" alt=\"A flyer released by the Cortez Police Department shows 17-year-old Shaylin R. Odell, who had been reported missing after several days without contact. (Courtesy of Cortez Police Department)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A flyer released by the Cortez Police Department shows 17-year-old Shaylin R. Odell, who had been reported missing after several days without contact. (Courtesy of Cortez Police Department)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Cortez Police Department announced this morning that the family of 17-year-old Shaylin R. Odell said she contacted her mother from a private number and is now safe and headed home.<\/p>\n<p>Odell was reported missing in Cortez after several days without contact, prompting Cortez Police Department to ask for the public\u2019s help out of the concern for her safety.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook new release, the police department said Odell was reported missing Tuesday after going several days without contact, as well as missing school and some appointments. Odell hadn\u2019t been to school or work but had friends in Towaoc, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><div class=\"naviga-social-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCortezPoliceDepartment%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0qqMnY3FrjWmFffg5NyFopXySVvQ9w8BkzH8MjVv8P6kZLzBJhxWJvBYNUewwJgP6l&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"603\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>According to the release, Odell had last been seen April 15 by a parent in Cortez while a family member reported seeing Odell last Thursday. However, the family member also told police they received a Snapchat from Odell\u2019s account Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Odell was entered into the National Crime Information Center and the Colorado Crime Information Center databases. The Colorado Crime Information Center portal is a state-level computer portal for crucial data managed in part by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-98907bcfd31e30a39855f8e435ce491b\"><a href=\"mailto:awatson@the-journal.com\">awatson@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-social-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCortezPoliceDepartment%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0qqMnY3FrjWmFffg5NyFopXySVvQ9w8BkzH8MjVv8P6kZLzBJhxWJvBYNUewwJgP6l&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"603\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaylin Odell was reported missing after days without contact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[28,29,6419],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-126866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-tj-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128374,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126866\/revisions\/128374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126866"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=126866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}