UPDATE: Faith is now home. See below for more info.

Faith Carrick, a 17-year-old Eureka High student, went missing from her Cutten, California home 10-days ago. On Sunday, March 15, Faith’s sister found the missing girl had “put pillows on her bed to make it look like someone was there” and left a note.

HCSO’s Public Information Officer Samantha Karges said, “A detective has been assigned to the case and is conducting a thorough investigation. The detective met with the family as part of a standard Criminal Investigations Division investigation, with the intent to gather any and all intel or evidence we can for the investigation.”

Marie Carrick told us that a Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office detective came to her Cutten home and “sat with us for 3 ½ hours…[to] gather information and try to get a picture of who Faith is.”

She said she gave the detective Faith’s Chromebook and cellphone. Kargas provided insight into HCSO’s process of analyzing the devices for viable information. She explained, “The process for conducting a forensic search of electronic/digital items can involve many different techniques. There are many factors, both legally, physically, and logically, that play into what type of searching can be completed and how it is completed.” Detectives, she said, are investigating Faith’s whereabouts and hope to “find any information that leads to the location of the Runaway Juvenile, Faith Carrick. Furthermore, if a crime has been committed, Detectives hope to find evidence of that.”

Faith’s parents sought the input from her teachers and counselors asking if they noticed any behavioral shifts. Her mother Marie said neither her teachers nor her academic counselor saw this coming. Faith’s parents searched her Eureka High locker and said they found “nothing but some papers and a couple of textbooks.”

Marie told us, “We cleaned out her backpack…looking for clues. Looked through everything in her room, desk, and closet.” Unfortunately, this search provided Faith’s parents with no information regarding her whereabouts.

After accounting for the items left in Faith’s bedroom, Marie concluded that her daughter “took her purse, her iPod, and her wallet with $35.00 in it.” Also missing was a pair of Eureka High Loggers sweatpants, dark sweatpants, and a bright purple hoodie with Dutch Bros across the front and a colorful unicorn across the front.

Faith’s mother Marie said, “The letter Faith left the morning has always bothered me.” She told us that the note “is definitely Faith’s writing but not her style. When you look at essays and poetry, it is not her style. The note is curt and short. She is usually graded down on run-on sentences and being too long in her writing.”

A postscript to the note Faith left the morning she ran away reads: “P.S. Rose will protect me”. When Faith’s mother Marie was asked about “Rose”, she had no knowledge of who that could be.

HCSO’s Samantha Karges clarified the department’s perspective on Faith’s disappearance, “As of this point, our detectives have not found any indication of any criminal activity, though that status could change if detectives receive information indicating otherwise.” Kargas further stated that “there is no indication that Faith Carrick was abducted. In fact, at this point in the investigation, all things suggest Faith Carrick ran away from home willfully 10 days ago and does not want to be located.”

Faith’s parents, Marie and Clyde Carrick, thanked the community for its help in trying to find their daughter: “We thank everyone in our community, friends, and people we do not even know for their efforts to find our daughter.” In a direct message to Faith, her parents assured her, “You can always come home. Whatever is going on, we will figure it out. We love you”.

Faith Carrick is 5’5’’, weighs 175 pounds, has brown hair, hazel eyes, and wears glasses. Faith could be wearing sweatpants and a purple hoodie with “Dutch Bros” and a unicorn insignia.

Anyone who knows of Faith’s whereabouts is encouraged to come forward. Contact the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 if you have any information.

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UPDATE: **GREAT NEWS: HUMBOLDT COUNTY TEEN FAITH CARRICK HAS COME HOME**

Marie Carrick, Faith’s mother, told us her daughter had finally come home. She thanked “everyone for all their love, prayers and support.”

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