Abducted Texas girls found safe in Colorado; suspect in custody
ROUND ROCK, TX (KXAN) – Two Texas girls abducted from Round Rock have been found safe in Colorado, according to Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks.
The man accused of taking the girls, 44-year-old Terry Miles, is in custody.
In a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Chief Banks said the tips they have received took his officers and federal agents to Trinidad, Colorado, a town just north of the New Mexico border.
Video from an unnamed local business on Dec. 30 captured Miles, but the video did not show him with the two girls, 7-year-old Lulu Bandera-Margret and 14-year-old Lili Griffith.
The day before Miles was caught on camera, the girls’ mother, Tonya Bates, 44, was found dead inside her home in Round Rock, in what is being investigated as a homicide.
Authorities have not released how she died, but a law enforcement agency in Louisiana told 24-Hour News 8 sister station, KXAN, she was beaten to death, similar to another case Miles was connected to in that state.
Chief Banks, who is expected to speak at 10:45 p.m., wrote in a tweet at 9:58 p.m. Wednesday: “CAUGHT!!! Terry Allen Miles was caught in Colorado without incident. The girls are SAFE!!! Thank God!!!”