
Allentown Police Department in a Facebook post had issued an Amber alert for the girl and the man.
In the weeks since Amy Yu vanished, the 16-year-old's family has replayed eight years of caution signs about the heightening connection between the secondary school understudy and the 45-year-old father of four with whom she fled to Mexico.
Police say the young lady and her "mystery sweetheart," Kevin Esterly, clandestinely fled to the resort town of Playa del Carmen together this month. An Amber caution and a global inquiry followed, and the combine came back to the United States under inconceivably extraordinary conditions on Saturday.
Amy was brought together with her family. Esterly stays in government care, anticipating removal and accused of criminal obstruction of the care of a minor.
Esterly initially met Amy when she was 8. He was a father of four in his late 30s who was acquainted with Amy's family at their place of love close Allentown, Pennsylvania, as indicated by the Allentown Morning Call. Throughout the following couple of years, Amy went with Esterly's family on a few shorelines and outdoors trips, ending up near his most seasoned little girl - and, evidently, to him.
There was a mystery, concealed angle to the connection between the high schooler and the moderately aged man.
Esterly had marked the young lady out of school 10 times since November without her family's authorization, demonstrations made simpler by the way that she had recorded him as her stepfather on crisis contact shapes, as indicated by CNN. The vanishing demonstrations got so awful that, at a certain point, Esterly was disallowed from being on the grounds of Lehigh Valley Academy Regional Charter School.
Amy's mom, Miu Luu, stood up to Esterly about the pickups, the Morning Call detailed, however, he called them "untruths and theory."
Be that as it may, more awful was occurring in mystery, relatives and specialists accept. The young lady had traded many instant messages with the man.
As insights into the relationship streamed out, there were battles about telephones that contained an alarming electronic trail. Amy's mom revealed to CNN that writings she found on her little girl's telephone influenced the adolescent and Esterly to appear like sweetheart and beau. Esterly and his better half had gotten into a fight as she attempted to take a gander at Facebook posts on a telephone, and police were called.
And a few blocks from Amy's home, police told the Morning Call, Esterly had rented out an apartment that he kept secret from his family.
As more details came out, tensions escalated.
Last month, Esterly and his wife came to Amy's house and got into a shouting match with the teen's mother that was so vitriolic that police were called.
"They were yelling about they think that Amy and Kevin are sleeping together and doing stupid stuff," Amy's brother, John, told CNN.
Esterly denied the affair, the Morning Call reported. Police told the Esterly's to leave the Yus' home and never come back.
But during that time, investigators believe, Amy and Esterly were making plans to leave Allentown together.
On March 5, Amy's mother called the police and said her daughter had disappeared.
The woman told authorities that she had dropped her daughter off at the bus stop that morning but that Amy never arrived at school.
She made other troubling discoveries at home: The girl's passport and other personal documents were gone. So was some of her mother's jewellery.
Esterly had also vanished, along with $4,000 he had withdrawn from his wife's bank account. His family reported him missing two days after Amy's family filed their missing-person report.
"They know or planned to do this," John Yu told CNN. "I think it was both of their ideas because Amy is not that stupid."
On March 7, the Allentown Police Department issued an Amber Alert. The 4-foot-11 girl was missing and believed to be with Esterly. They "could possibly be travelling together in a 1999 red Honda Accord" with a Pennsylvania license plate. The girl, the alert said, "could possibly be endangered."
But the car was apparently only the first part of their plan.
A little later, Frank Castrovinci, a man on a flight headed to the Mexican resort town of Cancun, saw a teenage girl and a middle-aged man board the plane just before the doors were secured.
They had backpacks or duffel bags, Castrovinci told CNN. He said he assumed it was "a guy who adopted a girl and she looked obviously much younger," but the pair's behaviour after they found their seats made him change his mind about the nature of the relationship.
"It seemed odd the way she was leaning up against him and how he was rubbing her leg and it seemed like his hand was quivering a little bit," Castrovinci said.
comments home a few days later, he turned on the TV news and saw a report about a missing girl and a middle-aged man and recognized the faces on his screen.
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