{"id":55715,"date":"2026-02-09T08:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/?p=55715"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:31:54","slug":"p2-2-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/news\/p2-2-7-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Kentucky State Police Post 2 Searches for Missing Juvenile in Muhlenberg County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>***UPDATE*** <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MADISONVILLE, Ky. (March 26, 2026) <\/strong>-Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 2 authorities have located missing juvenile Peyton G. Speck, age 17 of Greenville, Kentucky. The juvenile is safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Original News Release below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MADISONVILLE, Ky.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(February 7, 2026)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 2 is requesting the public\u2019s assistance in locating a missing Muhlenberg County juvenile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peyton G. Speck, age 17, identifies as female and is described as approximately 6 feet tall and weighing around 160 pounds. Peyton has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen on February 6, 2026, at approximately 1:30 p.m. in the Powderly, Kentucky area. At the time, she was wearing a black tank top, a black coat with furry edges, and white Nike shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Peyton Speck is urged to contact Kentucky State Police Post 2 at (270) 676-3313. Trooper Hunter Combs (U\/592) is the lead investigator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p># # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/speck_original-copy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55716\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***UPDATE*** MADISONVILLE, Ky. (March 26, 2026) -Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 2 authorities have located missing juvenile Peyton G. Speck, age 17 of Greenville, Kentucky. The juvenile is safe.\u00a0 Original News Release below: MADISONVILLE, Ky.&nbsp;(February 7, 2026)&nbsp;\u2013Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 2 is requesting the public\u2019s assistance in locating a missing Muhlenberg County juvenile. Peyton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,54],"tags":[182,77],"class_list":["post-55715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksp-news","category-post-2","tag-missing-person","tag-post-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024-Article-Graphics-Missing-Person-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57325,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55715\/revisions\/57325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.kentuckystatepolice.ky.gov\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}