Posted on 10/12/2005 10:17:33 AM PDT by smartin
In August, we told you about the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of Heather Teague from Newburgh Beach. And now, one of Heather's relatives has also vanished.
Police suspect foul play in the disappearance of 26-year-old Sue Ann Ray of Woodstock, Georgia. Ray is the first cousin of Heather Teague, and strangely enough, she too was missing on the tenth anniversary of Heather's disappearance. We get that story from Jennifer Leslie out of the NBC affiliate in Atlanta.
For six weeks now, Sandy Chasm has worked nonstop to try to get the word out about her sister's disappearance, hoping anyone with information will come forward. "I just keep hoping that she's still alive, keeps me strong."
Sue Ann Ray disappeared on August 26th, a Friday, after she went to her estranged husband's home in Jasper. Quinton Ray told police she was there to get an oil change in the shop he runs out back and she left that evening. No one has seen or heard from her since.
Sgt. Dan King of the Woodstock Police Department says, "Based on the fact that it's out of character for her to be gone for such a long period of time, without talking to her family and friends, we think there's more to it than just a missing person."
Three days after Ray disappeared, police found her mini van abandoned in the Walmart parking lot in Canton. Someone backed it into the spot and left it there.
Sandy tells us, "It was backed in perfectly straight. No way she backed in - no way."
Woodstock police say the mini van is a maroon 1998 Ford Windstar. Police have interviewed Ray's family members and friends, but they have not identified any suspects.
Sandy says, "It's been horrible, a nightmare, like a bad dream and you don't wake up." Perhaps the hardest part, she says, is explaining Ray's disappearance to her six-year-old daughter. "She misses her mom, wants mom back and doesn't understand why we can't find her."
Family members are hoping a new $100,000 reward will be the key to solving this case.
Sarah Teague told us there has been some movement in the investigation to find out what happened to her daughter. And she hopes to be able to share that information in the near future.
There have been no arrests in either case.
Was Heather involved at the time with the man who eventually became SueAnn's estranged husband?
Don't think so. I think she was snatched while sunbathing.
Just a thought ...
Good one.
aliens
Very sad situation. Thanks for the info.
The only suspect, Marvin Dill, shot himself in the head.
Funny!
I see that. I was just thinking that Heather might have been involved as a teenager with a man who eventually married her cousin, and ...
Not that we know for sure that he's responsible for SueAnn's disappearance - just going with the odds.
Yeah, I know what you mean. They both seem to have been around two unstable men if reports about SueAnn's estranged husband are true (that he shoved her and may have killed her dog).
http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=2707897
There is a new development in a story we've been reporting exclusively on Newswatch.
Detectives executed a search warrant in an Evansville home last week that may have implications in the nine year old Heather Teague missing persons case.
Last Wednesday, Detective Scott Thomas from the Medina, Ohio Police Department joined Evansville Police in the execution of a search warrant at a home on Sorenson Avenue on the city's west side. It's where the fiancee of Chris Below is living.
(snip)
Very interesting.
Off topic sort of, I didn't know Kentucky had beaches.
uh-oh, here come the "Kentucky has the most beautiful beaches!" posts.
LOL
Estranged husband charged in missing woman's death
The body of Sueann Ray, the Woodstock woman missing since Aug. 26, was discovered this morning, and her estranged husband has been charged with murder, according to the GBI. Quinton Ray was arrested at 9:20 a.m. and is in the Pickens County Jail awaiting a hearing, said John Bankhead of the GBI.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cherokee/stories/0208bodyfound.html
Thanks for the update. Glad they found her body but still very sad.
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