It has been two months since Linda Stoltzfoos was last seen as she made her way home from church.  Â
The 18-year-old Amish teen was on her way to her Bird-In-Hand home to get a homemade dessert to take back for youth group when police say she was abducted. Police issued a missing person alert the next day, and hundreds of volunteers began to search for her around Bird-in-Hand.Â
34-year-old Justo Smoker has been charged with kidnapping Stoltzfoos, and the charges against him were forwarded to county court after a preliminary hearing Aug. 5.Â
Smoker is in Lancaster County Prison without bail, awaiting his day in court. Officials continue to search for Stoltzfoos.
East Lampeter Township police and the FBI will be searching for Stoltzfoos in the Welsh Mountain Nature Preserve on Saturday, Aug. 22.  Â
The agencies did not go into detail on why the East Earl nature preserve will be searched.Â
Welsh Mountain Nature Preserve is approximately 940 acres and is located about 13 miles east from where police say Stoltzfoos was last seen.  Â
No volunteers are needed, East Lampeter police public information officer Lt. Matthew Hess said Wednesday.
"We do not wish to disclose exact location, because uninvited visitors to the area would not be beneficial to the effort,” Brett Hambright, spokesperson for the Lancaster County district attorney’s office told LNP | LancasterOnline on Thursday. Â

Wayne King speaks to thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, before they rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Shaun Woods, left, and Brendan Veale, right, organized the prayer ride for Linda Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos. She's an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

A yellow ribbon is seen on the boot of Brendan Veale, a co-organizer of the prayer ride for Linda Stoltzfoos, on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Veale and Shaun Woods organized the ride and thousands of bikers and cars and trucks showed up to show support for Linda Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish teen who was last seen on June 21.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers and cars rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Linda Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers and cars rumbled from Ephrata to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Linda Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Sisters Teresa Cross, left, and Cynthia Woodward, of New Castle, Deleware, decorate their car in yellow ribbons to honor missing Amish teen Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color for a prayer ride on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Thousands of people participated in the prayer ride, which started at Ephrata Community Church and finished in Bird-in-Hand.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Mike Lewis, 20, of Ephrata, stands next to his car before a prayer ride for Linda Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars decked in yellow drove from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand in honor of the missing 18-year-old Amish teen.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff

Thousands of bikers, trucks and cars, decked in yellow ribbons and bandannas to represent Linda Stoltzfoos' favorite color, rumbled from Ephrata Community Church to Bird-in-Hand for a prayer ride for Stoltzfoos on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman, was last seen walking home from church on June 21. A man has been charged with kidnapping but police are still looking for her.
- TY LOHR | Digital Staff





Hambright added that the area was chosen based on information obtained during the ongoing investigation.Â
The district attorney’s office hasn't said if investigators believe Stoltzfoos is dead or alive. At a press conference in July, District Attorney Heather Adams said finding Stoltzfoos’ bra and stockings buried behind a building near Harvest Drive “lends only to the conclusion that she suffered harm." Â
Few new details were revealed at Smoker’s preliminary hearing Aug. 5, but. prosecutors gave insight as to why they think Smoker was the man who abducted Stoltzfoos, adding that they believe the two had never met before June 21.Â
Smoker’s attorney, Christopher Tallarico, the county's chief public defender, argued during the hearing that Stoltzfoos could have left the area on her own. A Pennsylvania State Police trooper and the East Lampeter Township police officer who filed the charges said they had no reason to believe she wanted a change in lifestyle. Â
Smoker's red Kia Rio, with a missing front hubcap, was spotted by witnesses in several locations around the time of Stoltzfoos’ disappearance, prosecutors said.Â
East Lampeter Detective Christopher Jones testified during the hearing that hours after Stoltzfoos was last seen, Smoker sent a Facebook message to a friend saying he was cleaning out his car. Â
Jones also said that when investigators asked him why he might have been in the area of Harvest Drive on June 23, where police recovered what they believe to be Stoltzfoos' bra and stockings buried 6 to 8 inches underground, Smoker told police that if he was in the area, it was just to smoke weed. Â
Smoker will stand trial on the charges, with his formal arraignment scheduled for Friday, Aug. 28.Â
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