Search Continues for Missing Teens

Worry continues to mount as the search for two North Carolina teenagers extends into its second week with no word on the boys' whereabouts.

Jake Ziegler, 18, and Ray Pierce, 17, left a party 30 miles north of Charlotte early in the morning Oct. 13. They said they were heading to Myrtle Beach to watch the sun rise.

Ziegler sent a text message while in the Rock Hill area roughly and hour and half after leaving the party, but no one has heard from the men since, and there has been no activity on their credit or debit cards.

In a story Patch first reported, the search for Ziegler and Pierce expanded to Northeast Columbia this week. On Sunday, search teams combed the area of I-77 near Blythewood, WACH-TV reports. 

Friends distributed flyers to fans at the Carolina Panthers' home game against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, hoping South Carolina fans would report any clues, according to the Charlotte Observer.

Friends say one of the men had recently had a break-up, and apparently social media chatter suggests a variety of potential updates, but family is hopeful a private investigator and large-scale searches will turn up clues, according to WCCB-TV.