A 13-year-old girl was last seen near the 3100 block of West 68th Avenue in Denver around midnight, wearing a gray hoodie, black sweatpants and purple Crocs, before vanishing into the dark. Jody Hunt is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall and about 100 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Law enforcement says it is concerned for her safety.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation issued an Endangered Missing Alert for Hunt, according to a post from CBI
on X. The agency asked anyone who spots Hunt to call 911 or the Adams County Sheriff's Office directly at 303-288-1535. The location is north of Denver, and the search is being conducted in Adams County, as Hoodline reported when Hunt went missing from nearby 3100 Hooker Street in
a prior August disappearance
.
The alert concerns Hunt's disappearance.
Why This Isn't an AMBER Alert
Colorado reserves AMBER Alerts for cases with confirmed evidence of an abduction posing immediate risk of serious injury or death, a threshold Hunt's case does not meet based on available information. Instead, the state uses an Endangered Missing Alert, sometimes called a Media Alert, for individuals who are in evident danger or at risk without confirmed abduction evidence, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Once activated, the alert lets CBI broadcast the child's description to radio and television stations statewide and, when vehicle or suspect details are available, coordinate with the state transportation department to post information on highway message signs.
Colorado established its Missing Children Clearinghouse under CBI in 1985, and the bureau is based in Denver. Once a missing child report is filed, agencies must notify CBI and enter case details into state crime databases within two hours.
A County With the State's Highest Trafficking Numbers
The urgency behind these alerts is rooted in county-level data. Adams County accounted for 27 percent of all recorded human trafficking victims in Colorado between 2008 and 2025, the highest share of any county in the state, according to a February report from the Common Sense Institute. The same report found minors made up an average of 64 percent of trafficking victims statewide, while commercial sex trafficking accounted for 79 percent of reported trafficking crimes in Colorado in 2025.
The broader concern also includes runaway youth generally.
A Familiar Pattern in Adams County
Hunt's case echoes another Adams County alert resolved successfully weeks earlier. Fourteen-year-old Aaliyah Sanchez, who had gone missing twice in three months in the Denver area, was located safe in August after the Adams County Sheriff's Office and CBI coordinated a search, as Hoodline detailed in its coverage of that Thornton teen's recovery. Recently, a missing 4-year-old was found after her disappearance prompted a statewide alert, underscoring how frequently the agency has had to mobilize on behalf of Adams County children this year.
It remains unclear what happened to Hunt. For now, her case remains unresolved.
