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

Missing Adult family member -- thread on TimeBomb2000 Forum ^ | 11/15/02 | Prairie Lady

[TankGurrrl]

My understanding was that they ALSO got money from the Little River ATM... but I could be wrong...

[TankGurrrl]

OK... so they found the car and no Alice... that must mean she was left in the Carolinas like we thought....

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Yes, I think that's what I have read - got money both places. But if so, wouldn't Alice have been needed to give them the right PIN number both places? And if they could successfully get money out in those two places, but not others because of the wrong PIN number, could it be they had Alice with them in RDU and in Shallotte but not later? All they have to do to get in the RDU area from Wilmington is get on I 40 - it's a 2 hr trip. Then from RDU they can stay on 40 heading west to go up to the Indiana area. So, it was probably RDU AFTER SHALLOTTE, right? And if so, and if they successfully got money out in RDU but not AFTER the RDU withdrawal due to wrong PIN - perhaps - just perhaps - it is because she was not with them after RDU.

I am just throwing out ideas and hoping they are searching more than one area. AND KNOWING THERE ARE DOZENS OF VOLUNTEERS IF NOT HUNDREDS who would help them in the search.

[Geeked]

I can vouch for eXe as well, FWIW.

[alexandria]

Notice I said apparentlty, I have to go back to yesterdays reports right after the 2nd guy was caught. I know that somewhere it said that the video (at the Shallote gas station) showed 2 men and a woman "belived to be" Alice. Since they are reporting that THIS stop was at 4:00 PM (i think) and she used her phone soon after that it shows she was with them to this point.
On the 5:30-6:00 in Bolivia, sorry I got the Raligh stop mixed with that one. Do we have the time on this? From what I gather, the Bolivia stop was also an ATM withdrawl or card use, and only the men were seen. Going now to find source.

[SassNClass]

TORTURE THE S.O.B'S UNTIL THEY TALK!

[CFW]

Would the Brunswick County Extension office know about out of the way places in the area? I know our county extension agent here knows all the farm/timber land and also the owners.

Kent Wooten, Interim County Extension Director
Brunswick County Center
Brunswick County Government Complex (Building N)
25 Referendum Drive
P. O. Box 109
Bolivia, NC 28422
Telephone: (910) 253-2610
Fax: (910) 253-2612
Hours of Operation: 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday-Friday

[Velveeta]

From:
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=18599&SecID=2

snip...Brunswick County Sheriff Ronald Hewett says the two men and Alice Donovan were seen at a gas station at the town of Shallotte.

That was the same day Donovan was kidnapped. The men were seen later that night near the town of Bolivia and later back in South Carolina, but without the woman.

[TankGurrrl]

OK... Yes, Raleigh is about a 2hour drive... I really can't figure what the deal is with the wrong/then right PINs being used... wouldn't you think that if you used it and got it right, you'd write it down? So the back and forth, right and wrong thing is weird...

RDU is Definitely AFTER Shallotte according to the timeline...

Is there more than one card used?? Maybe they were trying a variety of cards and got the PINS mixed up??

Yes, there are multiple areas being searched, but ONLY WITH LE... THEY WILL NOT LET US PARTICIPATE... And I'm about "over it!" :(

[TankGurrrl]

That is in DIRECT opposition to what I was told by the detective searching up there.. he tolld me the tape at the Amoco showed NO Alice but did show the car... This gets really annoying...

[Velveeta]

and this:
http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1021435&nav=4CALCW7r

snip...The two men and Alice Donovan were seen at a gas station at the town of Shallotte, North Carolina about four pm on November 14th...snip

4:00 pm at the gas station in Shallotte, was this the Amoco? I'll keep digging

[Velveeta]

It seems to be getting more confusing :(

[CFW]

When I use my ATM card to withdraw cash, it first asks whether I want money from checking or savings? My number for checking is not the same as for savings? Could that be a factor?

[Cascadians]

Good morning, everybody. We had to work last night. Yes, eXe is legitimate and there is a fundraising thread and effort on TB2K. TB2K is a much smaller forum than Free Republic but it has become tight-knit and our hearts go out to Prairie Lady who suddenly finds herself faced with expenses she could not have imagined a week ago :_(*

Praying for Alice and her family.

Thank you to all FReepers & TB2Kers who have poured so much caring and sleuthing into this case.

The authorities and reporters have been reading these two threads (here & TB2K) and they tell us it has helped them with ideas (and motivation!).

[CFW]

I wish we could do more! Prayer bump!

[Velveeta]

The authorities and reporters have been reading these two threads (here & TB2K) and they tell us it has helped them with ideas (and motivation!).

Thanks for posting this Cascadians. To LE, if you're reading: Ask for more help from the public, they are willing to help you! May God bless you and guide you to Alice.

[Cascadians]

{BRKG] TODAY SHOW ABOUT TO INTERVIEW PRAIRIE LADY !

[valleygal]

"The authorities and reporters have been reading these two threads (here & TB2K) and they tell us it has helped them with ideas (and motivation!).

To the authorities and reporters reading these threads, please know our prayers are with you, as well. We are all just desperate for Alice to be found before it's too late. We know you are, too. Many here and elsewhere just want to help.

[Cascadians]

BREAKING: FULKS HAS BEEN CAUGHT!!!

[ot] Missing Adult family member

The Missing Adult thread above is the main one that broke this story as it was happening.

[Cascadians]

http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1940677p-1908088c.html
Thursday, November 21, 2002

Abductee still missing

Alice Donovan was last seen a week ago in North Carolina with two suspects who are back in police custody after escaping Nov. 4 from a Kentucky jail

CONWAY, S.C. -- The yard that neighbors say Alice Donovan loved to work in is well-kept, even though she hasn't been home for nearly a week.

Police are concentrating their search for Donovan just across the state line in eastern North Carolina. Donovan was carjacked and kidnapped last Thursday in the parking lot of a Conway Wal-Mart.

The two suspects, Branden Basham, 21, and Chadrick Fulks, 25, escapees from a western Kentucky jail, were in custody Wednesday, but police still did not know where Donovan is.

The only signs that something is wrong at Donovan's home on a dirt road off U.S. 501 are two unmarked police cars in the driveway and a sign on the door that says "NO INTERVIEWS."

When reached by phone Wednesday, Barry Donovan said the family doesn't want to talk about Alice Donovan's work, hobbies or family, although they still hold out hope that she will be found safe, six days after she was abducted after Christmas shopping.
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"We can't give out any more information right now," said FBI agent Kathleen Murphy on Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities in Brunswick County, N.C., said Wednesday that they were searching on the ground and by air for Donovan.

"I still think Mrs. Donovan may very well be alive," Sheriff Ronald Hewett said Wednesday afternoon.

The car and suspects were seen in North Carolina with Donovan last Thursday afternoon. Two hours later, the suspects and the car were seen in South Carolina, and investigators don't believe Donovan was with them at that time.

"It's frustrating not being informed," said Gloria Lindsey, 45, Donovan's sister, who lives in Bristol, N.H.

Lindsey described her sister as warm, caring and a deep thinker. Donovan of Galivants Ferry, S.C., has four other sisters, a brother, two grown daughters and three grandchildren.

Donovan's last conversation with family members came about two hours after she was abducted. She called her daughter but didn't mention being kidnapped, said Donovan's sister July Ezell of Wiley, Colo. "She told her 'I love you,' and that was pretty much it," Ezell said.

The Donovans' two-story home sits back from a dirt road, the only permanent home in a neighborhood of trailers. Most people living nearby said they didn't have much contact with the family.

"They seemed to keep to themselves," said John Harrison, who watched the Donovans build their home about five years ago. "I'd just see her out in the yard."

Investigators are trying to determined why Fulks and Basham came to Conway after escaping Nov. 4, Murphy said.
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