Tennessee officials seeking three missing children believed to be in Minnesota

By: News Director Larissa Donovan

NASHVILLE– The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says three missing children may be headed for Minnesota. 

The TBI says the children ages one, two and six went missing under suspicious circumstances and might be with their non-custodial parents, Amanda Essex and Michale Christian.  

The TBI said they were last seen in Van Buren County southeast of Nashville and may be traveling in a white SUV.  Anyone with any information should call 1-800-TBI-FIND.


Larissa Donovan was the News Director for the stations of Paul Bunyan Broadcasting and has been, almost without interruption, since Election Day 2016, through July 2023. She covered all the beats in north-central Minnesota, such as local government, crime, education, environment and social issues. She studied communications at Bemidji State University. You can follow along with Larissa's live tweets of meetings and events on Twitter!


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