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UPDATE: Missing Holmen girl found safe

Published

3 years ago

February 28, 2021

Kaitlyn Riley

The Holmen Police Department announced Mariah Ernst was located safely.

Police shared that Ernst was reported as a missing/runaway individual Sunday.

The Holmen Police Department asked for the public’s help to find missing Mariah Ernst.

Police said she is reported as a missing/runaway person. Her family and the Holmen Police Department ask anyone with information on Mariah’s whereabouts to contact police at (608) 526-4212 or La Crosse County Emergency Dispatch Center at (608) 785-5942.

Kaitlyn Riley

Kaitlyn Riley’s passion for communications started on her family’s dairy farm in Gays Mills, Wis. Wanting to share agriculture’s story, she studied strategic communications and broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In college, she held officer positions with the Association of Women in Agriculture and Badger Dairy Club while volunteering as a news reporter for the college radio station. She also founded the university’s first agricultural radio talk show, AgChat. In her professional career, Kaitlyn has worked in radio, print and television news doing everything from covering local events to interviewing presidential candidates, and putting back on her barn boots to chat with farmers in the field. Today, Kaitlyn can be seen covering local stories that matter to you in the La Crosse area.