--- description: Jholie Moussa, a 16-year-old from Virginia, went missing two weeks ago. Her body was found in Woodlawn Park after in Alexandria title: Missing 16-Year-Old Girl Found Dead Weeks After Strange Text image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0453fbc9bcba8b7/6988f9b8ab6d77f8de6b183c/jholie-moussa-fairfax-county.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Crime](/tag/crime/) ## Crime Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Missing 16-Year-Old Girl Found Dead Weeks After Strange Text Message by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 27, 2018 6:38 PM CUT  Fairfax County Police Department by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 27, 2018 6:38 PM CUT The body of a 16-year-old girl from the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, Va., was found two weeks after she went missing. Jholie Moussa, who was last seen leaving her home after she told her twin sister she had to go out, was found in Woodlawn Park on Friday morning, [NBC reported](https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Body-of-Missing-16-Year-Old-Virginia-Girl-Found-471351894.html "undefined"). Her sister Zhane Moussa told the network Jholie had started acting oddly before she disappeared, abruptly leaving the home after exchanging text messages with an unknown person, then later texting Zhane that she was attending a party 200 miles away in Norfolk. Jholie Moussa called her mother Syreeta Steward later that night, though her mother missed the call, according to NBC. Her family never heard from her again. The FBI got involved in the case days after Jholie Moussa went missing, and her body was found less than a mile away from her home. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5121698/jholie-moussa-found-woodlawn-park/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5121698/jholie-moussa-found-woodlawn-park/"},"headline":"Missing 16-Year-Old Girl Found Dead Weeks After Strange Text Message","datePublished":"2018-01-27T18:38:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T19:02:37.775Z","description":"Jholie Moussa was found less than a mile from her home","url":"https://time.com/5121698/jholie-moussa-found-woodlawn-park/","keywords":["Crime","onetime","onetimecrime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0453fbc9bcba8b7/6988f9b8ab6d77f8de6b183c/jholie-moussa-fairfax-county.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0453fbc9bcba8b7/6988f9b8ab6d77f8de6b183c/jholie-moussa-fairfax-county.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jholie-moussa-fairfax-county","caption":"Jholie Moussa Fairfax County","creditText":"Fairfax County Police Department","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/crime/","name":"Crime"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5121698/jholie-moussa-found-woodlawn-park/","name":"Missing 16-Year-Old Girl Found Dead Weeks After Strange Text Message"}}]}] ```