Alisa Petrov is a 15 12 months outdated lady who left her house in South Jordan, Itah on April 21, 2025. She was dropped off to go to high school in American Fork and has not returned house since.
Members of the family stated she boarded a prepare towards Provo. Two males have just lately been charged in relation to Alisa’s disappearance and she or he stays lacking.
As some background into Alisa, her mother and father are Olga and Nikolai Petrov.
Olga has spoken concerning the occasions of April 21, 2025 which was a Monday. Olga stated she dropped Alisa off at her college that day.
On-line feedback point out that Alisa was enrolled at Canyon Grove Academy which is a hybrid college. College students attend the ability a number of days per week and homeschool for the rest of the time.
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“She entered the constructing, she didn’t make it to the classroom,” Olga stated. “The academics stated she by no means noticed her that day.”
Alisa left the premises and went to a close-by gasoline station. She advised two boys there that she deliberate to run away. The boys apparently tried to dissuade her from doing so.
“They advised her, ‘No, don’t do it,’ however I assume she went for it anyway,” Olga stated.
After she left the gasoline station, Alisa satisfied somebody to offer her a experience to the UTA FrontRunner station at 6786 W. 7750 North. Alisa then received on the prepare and traveled to Provo.
The mother and father and police stated Alisa approached a number of folks about serving to her in her journey.
“She requested a lady to get her a ticket in trade of money for the bus to Las Vegas,” Olga stated.
Alisa did take her cellphone and iPad together with her. In an interview with KSL TV on Might 4, Alisa’s mother and father stated that she had not been energetic on social media and had not responded to any of their messages.
“If she’s in Las Vegas, it may be actually harmful,” Nikolai stated. “Somebody can abuse her. It’s actually dangerous.”
Her mother and father stated that they had spoken with Alisa within the months previous to her disappearance and had warned her about web security. They’d spoken to her about speaking on-line to strangers, together with in locations like Discord and Snapchat, they usually instructed her to delete contacts she didn’t know.
They stated that they had checked her daughter’s cellphone within the days previous to her look, and there was nothing to recommend she was going to run away.
“(Our) entire life is the wrong way up proper now,” Olga stated on the time. “We want her again. We miss her.”
The household created a web site in an try to assist the seek for their daughter.
https://findalisa.com
Alisa, if you happen to can see this, please know that we love you, we’ll at all times love you. We miss you, All your buddies and our buddies are very apprehensive too. All of us need you to come back again house. You’ll not get in bother for working away. We aren’t mad at you. We completely love you no matter what occurred, and you might be welcome house at any time.
We simply need you to return again in order that we’re collectively as a cheerful household who care about one another, and we’ll attempt our hardest to make you content. Please come again.
On Might 10, the South Jordan Police Division stated that they had acquired a tip from the Nationwide Middle for Lacking and Exploited Youngsters figuring out a person in Texas who’s believed to have communicated with Alisa earlier than she left college on April 21. The person’s title was not launched at the moment.
The division stated it might be “working carefully” with the Texas Metropolis Police Division of their seek for Alisa.
Police stated that Alisa is “believed to be making an attempt to fulfill people she met on-line” utilizing a number of social media platforms and chat functions.
“The Texas Metropolis Police Division stays dedicated to defending our youth and guaranteeing that offenders are delivered to justice,” the division stated within the put up. “We are going to proceed to replace the general public as extra investigations attain their conclusion…”
Alisa’s mother and father stated presently that they have been apprehensive she might have been lured by an grownup and trafficked.
“That’s what we’re suspecting in the mean time,” Olga advised KSL TV. “Now we have no affirmation, however considerations.”
On Might 20, we discovered that two males had been charged in relation to Alisa’s disappearance.
South Jordan police recognized one of many males as Florida man Matthew Nicholas Menard (35). They are saying that he enticed her to go there, in response to a search warrant, which requested full entry to his cellphone.
Investigators discovered textual content conversations between him and Alisa on his cellphone.
“Matt and the sufferer even have intensive conversations the place they plan on the juvenile working away from house to fulfill him in Las Vegas, NV,” the warrant states. “Matt tells the sufferer he’ll fly to Las Vegas for a enterprise journey later in Might, and she will lay low till he will get there. They then deliberate to fly to Los Angeles, CA collectively for a number of days, earlier than in the end going again to Miami, FL the place Matt lives.”
The warrant states the 2 mentioned “strategies by which the sufferer can journey with out being tracked and keep away from detection.”
“In addition they focus on their future plans and the way they’ll create a false state of affairs the place Matt tells folks she is his daughter,” it states.
Charging paperwork from Utah described intimately the sexual conversations that Alisa and Matthew had earlier than she vanished.
In one of many conversations, Alisa advised Matthew that she was 15 and that she was a minor. He acknowledged her age and saved chatting together with her about intercourse.
Charing paperwork acknowledged that Matthew requested Alisa to take inappropriate images and ship them to him.
Matthew was charged on Friday, Might 16, 2025. He faces costs for aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, enticement of a minor, and prison solicitation. Prosecutors requested a no-bail arrest warrant, however have but to seek out both him or Alisa.
The second individual recognized as having had communication with Alisa is William Taylor Glines (37). He’s from Texas Metropolis, Texas so it looks like he could also be the one that the earlier tip was about.
William has truly been arrested although. He has been charged with aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, tried aggravated sexual exploitation, sexual exploitation of a minor, enticement of a minor and prison solicitation.
It’s believed that Alisa and Matthew began speaking round January 17, 2025.
Utah charging paperwork acknowledged that William had conversations way back to February 2025 with Alisa by which he acknowledged her age, expressed that he wished to interact in sexual actions, and demanded inappropriate photos of her. In a single dialog, stated he was “double checking” that she was 14 or 15 years outdated.
Based on an affidavit within the case, Alisa used a stranger’s cellphone at a bus cease in Utah to message William. She advised William that “she was protected and that she was utilizing a stranger’s cellphone to contact him and to not reply.”
Texas authorities have been in a position to monitor the quantity that she messaged and have been in a position to arrest William.
After the lads have been charged, Nikolai made one other enchantment to Alisa. “We actually need her to come back again house. We is not going to get her in bother. We need to be a whole household once more,” Nikolai stated.
Nikolai additionally inspired mother and father to concentrate on what their youngsters are doing and to maintain monitor of who their children are speaking to on-line.
“There ought to in all probability be some understanding that it’s not a privateness difficulty however a security difficulty as a substitute as a result of there are lots of actually bizarre folks on-line who might benefit from children being curious and naive,” Nikolai stated.
Alisa’s father stated her household desires her to come back again house and stated they “don’t care what she was attempting to do.”
“We love her lots and that’s why we would like her to come back again,” he stated.
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