Parents of a teenager want to think that they’re always going to use their head when it comes to chatting with people online, especially if the goal is to one day meet up in person. Sadly, a significant amount of danger lurks in the world, especially for teenage girls. A 16-year-old from Colerain, Ohio, has been missing since February 13, 2026. Concerned family members said the teen had been communicating with a mystery person on an app before her disappearance. Her phone has been dead since Friday.
According to the Madison Field‘s father, Tyler Hirn, she was last seen leaving InTown Suites on Colerain Avenue just after 4 p.m. Friday, per Fox 19. There is surveillance footage of her walking along Colerain Avenue and then heading west on nearby streets.
Fields, a sophomore at Colerain High School, had told her younger sister that she had planned to meet up with someone she messaged on an app who claimed to be 18 years old, WLWT reported.
The teen’s grandmother, Kathy Owens, said her granddaughter’s phone has been dead since Friday, per Fox 19. Family members are concerned because she had been communicating with someone who called himself “Josh” on an app called Session before she disappeared, per the news outlet.
Her father told Fox 19 that his family “doesn’t know any Josh,” and they believe that the app his daughter had been communicating on with this person likely deletes what you write immediately after a message is sent. Fields’ grandmother noted that none of her granddaughter’s friends at school were aware of someone named Josh.
“This is not Maddy. Madison is not this way. Something is wrong,” Hirn told WLWT. “I don’t want to find my daughter dead. I want to find her alive.”
Owens explained that “we’ve all thought of every possibility, every possibility. Wherever she is at, whatever is going on, … none of us think it’s because she wants to be in the position she’s in right now. We think something has happened,” Fox 19 reported.
Anyone with information about Madison Fields’ disappearance or whereabouts is asked to call Colerain police at 513-385-7504.
Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones during this time. We hope she comes home safe.
