Neighbors made Easter Sunday effort to find girl

LYNN – She was resting Monday but Katelyn Vinagro should be reunited with her Marshall Middle School friends as early as Tuesday after Sunday’s successful search for the 15-year-old East Lynner.
?She said, ‘Hi Liz, hi daddy. She was very tired,” said her mother, Elizabeth Schadhauser, Monday as she described her reunion late Sunday with Katelyn after Marblehead police located the girl walking on a local street.
Schadhauser said she has not had a chance to speak with her daughter, who is developmentally disabled and has difficulty verbalizing thoughts, about why she awoke early Sunday and left home, initially on her bicycle and later on foot.
Schadhauser and her husband, Eisley, discovered Katelyn missing from her East Park Avenue bedroom at 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
?We woke up and she wasn’t in her room. We called 911,” she said.
Police converged on the neighborhood off Eastern Avenue and organized a search. Neighbors put Easter plans on hold and scoured local streets and yards while Elizabeth Schadhauser rode around in a police cruiser hoping to spot Katelyn.
?One man rode his bike around all day looking for her. Another went out with a blood hound.”
Police found the girl’s bike at the corner of Eastern Avenue and Alden Street. The search expanded beyond East Lynn while the Schadhausers’ friends and relatives gathered to support the couple and their children, including Katelyn’s twin, Nichole and her younger sisters, Alyssa and Rachel.
It was a Marblehead police officer who called with the good news hours later.
?It was really scary but I’m very, very thankful,” Schadhauser said.