Heartsick Mom Wants Her Daughter Back
Posted by Holliston at 11/17/2008 9:42 PM and is filed under Missing,Christina Hinderer


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Missing people stories are as unique as they are many. And the lives that are torn apart simply by not knowing compounded by the people in authority who don't help is truly tragic. There's a great website called Peace4 the Missing that helps get the word out. It was there I found the story of 16-year-old Christina Hinderer who disappeared in Montgomery, Texas 5 weeks ago with a 34 year-old man. The following was written by Christina's mom Lisa Seltenreich. If you have seen Christina or know where she is, please let the police know or at the very least, her mother. And if you are a corporation like WalMart or McDonald's, think hard when you deny a desperate's parent's plea to put up a poster in a visable location, particularly when the missing person worked for you.
-My 16 year old daughter Christina left with a 34 year old male who was her predator on 10/7/08. I cant find her. I can find him. He runs and I find him. He runs again, and I find him again, but I cant find Christina.
-Here is a blurb I sent to someone I thought was a reporter on behalf of Montgomery County, Texas, where we live - he ended up being affiliated with the police department and stated to me that the detectives (2 of them) have worked over 400 missing persons much like mine. I tell you this so you will understand the following, which summizes my experience so far-I have redacted the detective's name because I am not certain if he is helping for real or not, until I make that determination, I owe him the benefit of doubt:
Are you able to post my child’s missing poster in the paper. It’s been a month and Det. _____ with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s department is assigned to the case. We have desperately been trying to find her and she is missing with a 34 yr old male whom is findable but disappears periodically and I am so very exhausted.
Let me give you a little background.
Christina is a child who I prayed would be a girl even though the ultrasound said boy 3 times.
She came to us a girl with the prettiest strawberry blonde/orange hair I had ever seen. Her eyes are crystal blue and they do change with her moods. If she is angry, they do get a darker blue.
Christina was born 16.5 years ago here in Houston, at Methodist Hospital. She was everyone’s prize, especially ours.
Christina was moved to Montgomery Texas because the situation at the school she was attending became a nightmare and I wanted her safe at school as well as home. That was 4 years ago.
Anyway, Christina, the day before her 16th birthday informed me she found a job. She was so excited. I was excited for her. I figured she could help pay for her car, or at the very least, pay for her car insurance. And most importantly, she would be out of harm’s way if she was earning her way. She was so proud of her ability to work.
2 weeks after her actual birthday of May 14, I held her Sweet 16 Birthday party at the Montgomery Community Center. We had a menu and a DJ and I believe a good time was had by all. She had her princess dress and crown upon her hair, which was perfected by Kim Martin, a 34 year old who developed influence over Christina while she worked at McDonalds.
Christina met a 34 year old male predator, Larry Kellenberger at the McDonalds in Montgomery. Larry somehow was able to manipulate Christina into believing he was the bomb. The one to fall in love with. He was the man of men.
Larry would go to McDonalds and sit inside this Walmart’s McDonalds during Christina’s entire shift, since he was working there when she first started and then quit. When I found out that he was giving her rides I cut him and Kim Martin off. I spoke with both of them letting them know if they ever came near my child(ren), I would be contacting the authorities.
Then I started to rein Christina’s line in. What I didn’t know, is that Larry was going to the high school every day picking Christina up from school, most often before the last period of the day. He would drive her to our home and there they would hang out until it was time for my youngest to come home, at which time Larry would leave.
Larry had intimated to another adult couple that he has intimate feelings for Christina and that when they went to the movies, they would do more than watch the movie. This couple thought Larry disgusting and tossed his and Kim’s friendship out and notified CPS – because the couple didn’t know who I was or how to get a hold of me. I was grateful.
Time went on and Hurricane Ike occurred. Recovery was shockingly slow and things were changing. Christina was terribly loving with us, her sister and I and all seemed well. We survived the hurricane and the house was still standing and just a little bit of our things were ruined. But all in all, it was a good day.
We had stayed with a neighbor who had a brick home, the girls and I were getting a long tremendously - everyone who was with us would tell you so.
Christina and I didn’t fight, nor argue much. She was sloppy and I would demand that she clean up her messes, often to no avail and Saturdays were my day to clean up after the girls.
On October 7, 2008, I received a call from my youngest daughter, “Ah mom, have you seen Chris?” I explained that I didn’t get my call from her at 2:45 nor at 3 when the bus would arrive.
I became panicked. I knew instantly that something was wrong and I knew instantly that those two people, Kim and Larry had something to do with it. They were the only ones.
I arrived home and spoke with the teenager cattycorner from our house, she told me that Christina left with that man in the blue small SUV that always comes over. My stomach sank to my toes. This man has jailhouse tattoos down his legs and skulls across his fingers. He is husky and quiet. Eerily quiet for a grown man.
I telephoned the police that moment. October 7, 2008 and reported everything I knew about everyone and everything. He told me that it takes a week before the detectives get the case. My stomach now fell out of my body and my heart sank. Anything can happen in a week.
Then my landlord called and as I was speaking with him, he told me too, that he saw Larry – describing him to a tee, always at my house when I wasn’t home and he thought he was a relative. Anxiety started building to a level I could no longer handle.
I hung up the phone, telephoned the police and wanted to make an amended report to include the landlord, and the police did come back out, this time the officer wasn’t very nice and in fact yelled at me as he really didn’t want to make the amended report.
I wondered if it was because I lived in a trailer. Surely not, I was educated enough to know that my daughter, my beautiful little redheaded daughter, missing and under the spell of this 34 year old man was missing and as time went on I realized she took our best towels, older pots and pans and a few plates and silverware.
She was setting up house. I was going to implode now.
I desperately drove around looking for her each evening as I got off of work – I have to pay the bills so I have to work – then Saturday came. I found Larry and Kim, but no Christina. The witnesses told me what the vehicle was and who she left with, I knew they have their hands in this mess.
So I built my own flyer. The detectives didn’t have the case yet, not yet at all. I had 100 color flyers made of Christina and the car and the guy. I took them everywhere. I even took them to Larry’s mother’s home only to listen to her tell me what a good boy she had and how she knew my 16 year old was trouble those few times he brought her to his mother’s home. I said to her, “ma’am, my daughter may be trouble, but she is only 16, your son is 34.”
She looked at me and then I excused myself and left. There were several places I placed the flyers, but no one but Starbucks and after much adieu, the McDonalds in the Walmart where she worked would hang the flyers in the public’s eye. They would all agree to place them in the back break room, but no one wanted to post a flyer of an “endangered runaway” on their doors, it wasn’t their child.
As I struggled through the next week with the Detective who finally was assigned the case, and then had to get up to speed, that was 2 weeks lost. The third week it seemed like we were getting somewhere, but due to the fact that running away or leaving with an adult not your family member is not a crime their hands are pretty much tied.
The detective had done pretty well for the last two weeks, now we are on week 5. One week, getting the case assigned, one week getting up to speed, another week checking out the stories of Christina’s love for Larry and Larry’s love for Christina before he would having anything to go on.
Today we are on week 5, so Dear Mr. Reporter, would you be kind enough to print my story with my daughter’s Poster from National Missing and Exploited Children. I know we live in a trailer, I know we are not rich, I know that I don’t have much money, but I also know that Christina is my daughter and she is pretty and social and has a learning disability but presents so well. Her administrators at school love her. She is so loveable. I miss her hugs and kisses.
Christina gave me a gold watch the day before she left. Our relationship, I thought, was good at that time.
I later learned that Christina and Larry were trying to figure out how to emancipate Christina by claiming abuse and no where else to go. They called the child advocacy attorney in Conroe. I also learned that Christina began telling people that I had placed her in boot camp. She has never been bad enough for boot camp. I can’t even get her into boot camp today, her crime isn’t a crime.
They also told people that I beat her all the time. Her best friend told me she called Christina a liar because she never saw bruises on her. Christina said that is because I don’t beat her and would change the topic.
Larry and Christina also told people that the reason she didn’t go with her father is because he was in a hospital dying of cancer. He isn’t in a hospital dying of cancer, he is living on 290 and Jones Road, he just won’t keep his word and come visit Christina when he says he will.
So you see, Christina is under the spell of Larry. He has taught her well. She is lost and I can’t find her. Thus, if you please will post her flyer, I will be eternally grateful. I can’t even get the billboard people to let me buy a billboard, she said it would be a waste of money.
Thank you for your consideration.
Christina’s loving and heartsick mother and sister, Mom and Danielle
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