DURHAM, N.C. (Court TV) — A teenager who’s been missing for the last two years has been found, but is now behind bars on murder charges.
Gracie Landa was reported missing from her Tampa, Florida, home in June 2023. (NAMEC)
Gracie Elizabeth Landa, 18, is being held without bond on charges that she murdered Christopher Piedrasanta-Perez, 23.
Landa disappeared from her home in Tampa, Florida, on June 27, 2023, when she was 16. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children highlighted her case, and said at the time that she may have traveled to Durham, North Carolina.
According to an arrest warrant reviewed by The News & Observer , investigators said that Piedrasanta-Perez was sitting in a car with two friends on May 30 when two or three people approached the vehicle and opened