Missing Adult, HELP NEEDED (crime in progress?) [SC]

This is an urgent plea for help from Prairie Lady; these are her posts: [copied]

I JUST got off the phone with my neice. It seems my sister (her mother) is missing since yesterday between 3pm and 4:40pm yesterday from the SouthCarolina area.

She headed north as far as we can track, but then nothing. This is TOTALLY uncharacteristic of her.

We need to know if she is on her own willingly making decisions, or if she has been abducted and is in need of help. Is there anybody from that area that can help?
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ok, she spoke to hubbie from home via phone about 3 pm yesterday afternoon. She left home at that time saying she was headed for her local walmart near Aynor South Carolina..I don't know the exact town...maybe conroe or something? She never made it to walmart. Survaliance tapes show she never went in there. She withdrew some money from the bank locally. She put gas in her car at the north carolina / south carolina state line (cherry creek). She withdrew a BUNCH of money in Raliegh Durham North Carolina. She spoke to her daughter at 4:30 saying she was going christmas shopping and that she would be late. But she never made it home.

If she had any inclinations to leave home, she never indicated it, and she would NOT be heading NORTH!!

She is 5'7 inches tall, LONG legs, 150 lbs, has very short medium brown hair. lots of freckels, hazel eyes. Driving a Dark Blue BMW 4 door with a mini antennea on the driver's side on the post between the door and the windshield, licence plate # 845HLG
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Go ahead and post it at freeps..thanks
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My brother in law is former military police. He made a call to the police and is tracking bank usage which is showing itself to be very abnormal such as numerous attempts to use the various cards but rejects due to wrong pin numbers. He's requested survalance tapes from the banks as well. She was supposed to go to walmart, but walmart survaliance tapes show she never made it there. So, hes compiling stuff to show that something IS very wrong.

Also, she talked to her daughter AFTER one of the cash drafts and said someting weird to her daughter...like I love you...and she NEVER says that to THAT daughter.

Second Kentucky Escapee Nabbed in Indiana

Wednesday, November 20, 2002

GOSHEN, Ind. — The second of two escaped inmates suspected of abducting a South Carolina woman during a multistate crime spree was captured Wednesday in Indiana. The woman's whereabouts were not immediately known.

Chadrick E. Fulks, 25, was being questioned Wednesday afternoon.

FBI agent Kathy Guider said federal agents had notified Goshen officials that Fulks might be headed there because his father and brother live in the area.

The FBI said Fulks was arrested after he came out of his brother's house in Goshen and got into a car. He was caught by a police officer after a short chase on foot.

Fulks' brother and a woman driving the car were being questioned and agents were checking the car and home for clues. FBI agent Tom VanWormer said it was not immediately clear if authorities were any closer to finding 44-year-old Alice Donovan.

Authorities believe Donovan was kidnapped last week from a Wal-Mart parking lot in Conway, S.C., by Fulks and another escaped inmate, L. Branden Basham, who was captured Sunday. Police said the woman's ATM card had been used near Raleigh, N.C., last week.

Fulks and Basham, 21, broke out of the Hopkins County jail in Kentucky on Nov. 4.

They are suspected of abducting a 42-year-old Kentucky man, James Hawkins, two days later and leaving him tied to a tree with duct tape and electrical cord. Hawkins freed himself after 14 hours.

Basham was arrested after allegedly trying to hijack a car at an Ashland, Ky., mall. Without elaborating, Kentucky police said Basham's arrest yielded "a lot of leads" in the search for Donovan.

At the time of the escape, Basham was serving a five-year sentence for writing a bad check. He had broken out of the same jail in February but was quickly caught. Fulks was awaiting trial on robbery charges.

The two men were cellmates and they had contrasting reputations.

Fulks was quiet and blended in, while Basham had trouble getting along with inmates, Hopkins County Jailer Jim Lantrip said. He said Basham was involved in a couple of scuffles.

"Basham was a problematic inmate," Lantrip said. "Not a serious, hardcore troublemaker, but just couldn't get along with people. He was just a young, hyperactive, immature person."

Lantrip also said he had talked to Hawkins about his ordeal.

"He thought Basham was being manipulated by the other guy," the jailer said. "When they stopped to get gas, Basham begged Hawkins not to do anything stupid or do anything in which we would have to hurt you."

Basham is a middle-school dropout who was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, his mother, Kathy Basham, said from her home in Madisonville, Ky.

She declined further comment, except to say: "He's sorry for all that he's done, and now all we can do is sit and wait for the verdict."

In the southern Kentucky town of Lewisburg, Fulks was largely unknown. He rented a mobile home and his landlord, Jane Skipworth, said Fulks gave aliases to her and her husband and to utility companies.

She said Fulks always paid his $300 monthly rent though he never held a job. "He was a clean-cut guy, and really, I thought he was a gambler," she said.

I have not had a definite answer on that cell phone call... but then I don't think some of LE has either... It seems that everyone doesn't have all the peices... Some know this, and some know that... I don't understand why, but that seems to be the issue... Seems like it would work better if anyone (LEO) involved knew the main pertinent information... I'll shut up now... (I'm not criticizing LE, just frustrated that some WITHIN LE don't have all the info they could use)... Nuff said.

So, in answer to your question, I've only read that a cell tower in Brunswick Cty intercepted that call... Not sure what that means on her location though...

Well gmopbcf, I've added in what I know which changed it just a touch...

Thursday Nov. 14th

1:45 pm Kentucky escaped convicts burglarize home (of weapons) in Forney...from Cascadians' post #647 http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAFMMJMO8D.html & http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/local/4545736.htm
2:37 pm Wal-Mart in Conway captures abduction on lot-cam video (as per FBI agent Jeff Long...from http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/4545908.htm)
4:04 pm Put gas in car at an Amoco in Shallotte...from FoxNews 11-20, 7 pm, "FoxReport w/Shepard Smith"; from Cascadians' post #1. ***TG has confirmed this as well***
4:28 pm Alice called her daughter from her cell phone to say she would be Christmas shopping and would be home late....from Cascadians' post #1.
4:30pm Guys in Bolivia
6:00 pm Guys withdrew cash from Little River ATM...from Cascadians' post #1. ***TG- Isn't this where we know Alice was not seen at the ATM?***

Friday Nov. 15th

12:00+ am Alice's bank card used and cash withdrawn by escapees from an ATM in Raleigh-Durham area. (this is late Thursday night/Friday morning?)

Saturday Nov. 16th

__:__ Card used at the ATM in the Raleigh area again... or so I've read (Tank)

That's all I know... :-/

OK... try this one on for frustration -- the LEO up in Brunswick County has had an excuse EVERY SINGLE DAY for why I (and a group of "civilians") DON'T need to come help them.

(Please forgive me since I need to vent here) Now I find out that they're doing the same thing to the woman from CUE (Center for Missing Persons)... She wants to take me and others and go up... and they're telling her not to come. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR....

So, to me it's more frustrating to BE HERE and not be allowed to help!!! I told Monica from CUE tonight that if Alice is NOT found tonight, we're just going to have to barge in on their party tomorrow. I've had it with doing what I can ... I need to do more.... :(

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