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

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

[Cascadians]

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.

Anyway, I didn't want to put all this on the boards...

This is too weird.
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[Cascadians]

Thank you, TankGurrrl. We are curious as to whether the flyer initiative is solely a grassroots citizen activity or whether it has been officially complemented by posters distributed by police, military, etc.

[CFW]

MIDDLEBURY, Indiana (CNN) -- Escaped convict Chadrick Fulks was arrested Wednesday after an attempted bank robbery, the FBI said, and North Carolina authorities have stepped up a search for a South Carolina woman Fulks is believed to have abducted.

The FBI confirmed Fulks' arrest in Middlebury Wednesday morning but released no details.

Investigators believe Fulks, 25, and fellow convict Branden Basham, 21, who was arrested Sunday in Kentucky, kidnapped Alice Donovan from a parking lot in Conway, South Carolina, Thursday. About 40 miles north of Conway, sheriff's deputies, state police and U.S. Marines are searching an 850-square-mile area along U.S. Highway 17 for any sign of the missing woman.

Brunswick County Sheriff Ronald Hewett said Fulks stopped at an Amoco station in Shallotte, North Carolina, at 4:04 p.m. Thursday to refuel Donovan's dark blue BMW sedan and that he and Basham are believed to have driven about 15 miles farther on U.S. 17 before turning around and returning to South Carolina by 6 p.m.

Hewett said he is asking area residents to come forward with any possible sightings of the fugitives or of Donovan's BMW.

The search focuses on a stretch of U.S. Highway 17 between Wilmington, North Carolina, and the South Carolina line. Hewett would not disclose whether investigators have been told they would find Donovan in that area -- but he said, "we certainly are not ruling that out."

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U.S. Marines Participating in Domestic Law Enforcement Matt Drudge's Title

[Catspaw]

Yeah, I figured the perps were all lawyered up. They'll only talk if they can get a plea bargain. In the meantime, Alice's family and friends are in anguish, suffering because they don't know where she is.

Bastards (excuse my language).

[Velveeta]

I saw that too and thought either the reporters are wrong or Alice called NH and left the message as a clue that something was wrong.

[r9etb]

they would each have an attorney standing over their shoulders advising them not to say anything.

From a tactical legal standpoint one supposes they're correct. However, taking the tactical legal standpoint in a case like this is also profoundly evil: a woman's life hangs in the balance, and they're helping to snuff it out.

IMHO, if they find Alice dead and tied to a tree, any attorney who counseled silence should be prosecuted as an accessory to murder.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Live in Bolivia on FOXNEWS...

[Catspaw]

Keep us stuck in the office without TV's up to date, please!

[Cascadians]

IMHO, if they find Alice dead and tied to a tree, any attorney who counseled silence should be prosecuted as an accessory to murder.

We agree!

[valleygal]

Yep, there saying "new lead" and looking there...

[Velveeta]

FOX news only reported that Alice is still missing, but her car has been found in Indiana...Goshen, I think

[valleygal]

looking in Bolivia area, that is...

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

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. Reported on FOX NEWS's timeline--cell call traced back to 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)

[Velveeta]

http://www.wnct.com/MGBW0JIXS8D.html

Missing Woman

Time is running out in the search for a missing woman in our state.
Nov. 21, 2002

Investigators say time is running out in the search for a missing woman in our state after her alleged kidnappers are nabbed.
Right now, crews are searching the area between Wilmington and Shallotte on foot and by air.

The Brunswick County Sheriff says Alice Donovan was kidnapped near Bolivia South Carolina six days ago by two Kentucky jail escapees.

The three were last seen at a gas station in Shallotte.

The men were seen later that night near the town of Bolivia and later back in South Carolina, but without the woman.

Meanwhile, the FBI says two Kentucky jail escapees are back in jail after a multistate crime spree.

[Constitution Day]

Kidnapping Victim May Be Tied To Tree

POSTED: 11:58 a.m. EST November 21, 2002
UPDATED: 12:24 p.m. EST November 21, 2002

SHALLOTTE, N.C. -- Authorities say a woman abducted in South Carolina by two fugitives from a Kentucky jail may be tied to a tree in the Brunswick County woods.

Donovan last seen at gas station off U.S. 17

The search for Alice Donovan, 44, who was abducted from a Wal-Mart parking lot on Nov. 14, continued Thursday. Searchers used helicopters and foot teams to comb thick, swampy land south of Wilmington.

Authorities believe Donovan could still be alive and tied to a tree, the Morning Star of Wilmington reported Thursday.

"She may be in the area somewhere restrained," Hewett said. "Anything is possible at this time."

Hewett said authorities' suspicions that Donovan could be alive and possibly tied to a tree stem from the suspects' other apparent abduction in Kentucky two days after their jail break.

James Hawkins, of Hanson, Ky., was kidnapped Nov. 5 by two men with a knife and left tied to a tree outside Evansville, Ind., until he freed himself.

Donovan last was seen at a gas station just off U.S. 17, where she stopped with the two suspects in her blue BMW about 4 p.m. Nov. 14. That was about 1 1/2 hours after Donovan was abducted from the Wal-Mart in Conway, S.C.

The two fugitives have been captured. Chadrick E. Fulks, 25, was arrested Wednesday. Branden Basham was captured Sunday.

Hewett said Fulks put gas in the BMW, paid at the pump and then went into the store to buy something. The sheriff wouldn't say whose credit card was used to buy the gas or what the suspect bought in the store.

"We know without a doubt that the car, the BMW, then left this parking lot back out to U.S. 17 and traveled north,"the sheriff said. "We can put the vehicle at least another 14 or 15 miles north of our location now."

"We also know between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. that the two escapees and the BMW were back in South Carolina," Hewett said. "Whatever they did here in North Carolina with Ms. Donovan, they did quickly."

Hewett asked the public to call authorities with any information about sighting of the BMW, the fugitives or Donovan.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Do you think phoning more search dog programs is a good call?

Alerting these groups to this search, and then passing on the contact information, and I would bet these folks would be eager to assist, no? I think the more dogs out there on the ground, the sooner Alice could be found if she is within the search area. The dogs might be able to pick up her scent, which might be more valuable than all the eyes in the air and on the ground.

Let me know what you think.

[Cascadians]

They must not say time is running out in the search.
They've barely started.
Air searches with heat sensors last Thursday and Friday would have been a smart thing. And dogs on the ground.

[Velveeta]

FOX news update again now

[TankGurrrl]

I was informed that there is NOTHING I CAN DO! Pisses me off... excuse me. I was informed that LAW ENFORCEMENT must be the ones that call in any dogs since "expenses must be paid, yada, yada, yada"... I have told at least 3-4 people about Donnie Harrison with the GOOD Bloodhounds in the Raleigh area... I was told that I CAN'T contact him... LEO have to... :((

I also heard "through the grapevine" that the dogs that reside in Brunswick Cty "ain't that great".... I'm about to come out of my skin here....

[valleygal]

Every time FOX announces a "breaking news" update about Alice, I jump, thinking, "they found her". Then it's the same stuff we've been hearing. Who was that man interviewed? I'm assuming LE.

[TankGurrrl]

The other reply given as an aside... IF YOU CAN CONTACT ANYONE WHO WILL HELP -- GO FOR IT!