Posted on 11/15/2002 12:02:43 PM PST by 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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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
Bastards (excuse my language).
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.
We agree!
POSTED: 11:58 a.m. EST November 21, 2002
UPDATED: 12:24 p.m. EST November 21, 2002
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.
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