Missing Teen, Laurie Mackenzie, waives extradition Headed back to New Hampshire
Laurie Mackenzie had been missing for 5 months from Goffstown, NH. Although 
the circumstances of her disappearance were due to a pending shop-lifting felony involving items worth more than $900.00. She was recently found and arrested in Florida. Laura Mackenzie waived extradition and will be headed back to New Hampshire to face the music. However, her parents are elated that they have found their daughter safe, no matter what troubles their daughter faces.
“We’re elated. This is pure jubilation,” Laura Mackenzie’s father, Bill, said at a news conference in Goffstown. “Our prayers have been answered.”
In Florida, Laurie Mackenzie met with her mother and waived extradition on the shoplifting charge, a felony involving more than $900 worth of items.
Though her parents didn’t know it then, Mackenzie was due in Manchester District Court on the charge on March 8, the day she drove off for Goffstown High and disappeared.
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Mackenzie’s mother, Enid, said she was getting ready for work when she got the call she had been waiting for five months and “screamed for joy.”
During the teen’s absence the family had set up a website at findlaura.org to help locate her.
“We’re so happy,” Enid Mackenzie said. “I had no idea which direction she could have gone. I’m just glad that she’s safe and well, and we all will be reunite very soon.”
Investigators said they were tipped off Monday morning to Mackenzie’s location. Police found her vehicle, the same one she drove in New Hampshire, and then her.