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.

FBI says escapee's accounts conflict
Details about missing woman questioned

By The Associated Press
November 22, 2002

One of the two Western Kentucky jail escapees who is now back in custody gave a conflicting account about the last time he saw a missing kidnapping victim, according to a sworn statement by an FBI agent.

The statement, based on questioning of Branden Basham, 21, was released Thursday during the initial appearance for Chadrick Fulks, 25, in U.S. District Court in South Bend, Ind.

Authorities say the two men escaped Nov. 4 from the Hopkins County Detention Center in Madisonville, Ky., and then set off on a multistate crime spree.

Fulks swallowed hard when he was told he could face the death penalty if the alleged carjacking or kidnapping resulted in the death of 44-year-old Alice Donovan, who has not been seen since a few hours after her abduction.

The affidavit by FBI agent Janet M. Bray said Basham admitted he and Fulks kidnapped Donovan and bound her with duct tape in the back seat of her BMW. But Basham gave differing accounts of when was the last time he saw Donavan, the affidavit said.

In North Carolina on Thursday, more than a hundred deputies and volunteers continued to scour a swampy woods.

Authorities think Fulks and Basham may have left Donovan tied to a tree like they did James Hawkins of Hanson, Ky., who managed to free himself from a tree in Vanderburgh County. It took more than 14 hours to break free of the duct-tape binding, and he later flagged down a motorist near Volkman Road and U.S. 41.

With lows in the South Carolina areas in the 30s and 40s the past week, police worry they may be running out of time to find Donovan alive.

Her car was found near Goshen, Ind., on Wednesday, but an FBI spokeswoman said there was no evidence she is in Indiana. FBI agent Tom VanWormer in Evansville said it was unclear whether authorities were any closer to finding her.

Complete article here

This may get uglier than it already is. Here is an article about another missing girl that may be tied to Fulk and Basham:

W.Va. officials to question suspects about Burns disappearance

By REBECCAH CANTLEY-FALK and BRYAN CHAMBERS - The Herald-Dispatch

MISSING: Samantha Burns, also called Sam, has been missing since Monday.
AGE: 19

HAIR: Brown

EYES: Hazel

HEIGHT: 5-feet-4-inches

WEIGHT: 110

LAST CONTACT: Burns called her mother at 9:46 p.m. Monday and said she was on her way home from the University Courtyard Apartments in Huntington. Burns lives in West Hamlin, Lincoln County.

HOW TO HELP: Anyone with information can call the Huntington detachment of the West Virginia State Police at (304) 528-5555.

West Virginia investigators could talk today with one of the two Kentucky fugitives accused of a multi-state crime spree about the disappearance of 19-year-old Marshall University student Samantha Burns.

Chadrick E. Fulks, 25, and Branden L. Basham, 21, escaped from Hopkins County, Ky. Jail on Nov. 4 and are suspected in the abduction of a Kentucky man and a South Carolina woman, who still is missing. Basham was arrested Sunday in Ashland, Ky., and Fulks was captured Wednesday in Goshen, Ind.

Trooper Jay Powers, spokesman for the West Virginia State Police, said Thursday investigators are considering Fulks and Basham suspects in Burns’ disappearance, but have not interviewed them. Burns has been missing since Nov. 11.

The state police’s interview with Basham, who is being held at the Boyd County Detention Center on $2 million bond, could take place today, Powers said.

"The delay is mainly because the FBI has been questioning him, and we aren’t going to cut in on their interview time," Powers said.

As for Fulks, an FBI spokesman in Charleston said the agency was trying to send a West Virginia state trooper to Indiana to interview him. Kathy Guider, spokeswoman for the FBI in Indianapolis, said Thursday that agents there were handling the questioning of Fulks.

"The other divisions that have an interest in Mr. Fulks -- South Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky -- they’re sending all their questions and the information they have here," Guider said. "The people conducting the interviews are then going with those questions."

Fulks has ties to Lincoln and Cabell counties. He was born in West Hamlin, the same town Burns is from, and later lived in Huntington. He was also arrested in Cabell County in 1997 on one felony charge and several misdemeanors.

Police also have received reports that Fulks and Basham have been in the Tri-State twice since their escape -- once around Nov. 11 and the second time Nov. 15-16. WSAZ television reported Wednesday that the fugitives stayed last weekend at the Huntington home of old friends, who didn't realize they were escapees.

Samantha Burns stories
Basham was arrested Sunday in Ashland after allegedly trying to hijack a car at a mall. A Boyd County grand jury indicted Basham Thursday on attempted murder on a police officer, first-degree robbery and persistent felony charges. Basham and police exchanged fire prior to his arrest.

Fulks appeared in federal court Thursday and faced two counts of carjacking and a kidnapping charge.

Although Fulks and Basham are suspects in the Burns’ case, police haven’t established evidence that directly points to their possible involvement in her disappearance, Powers said.

"There is no way we can say right now that they are directly related to this case," he said. "Unless we find evidence to show otherwise or one of them says they had a part in her disappearance, then we don’t have anything that connects them."

Samatha Burns’ family still has hope she is alive somewhere, said her mother, Kandi Burns. Searches for Samantha Burns were to continue today, Kandi Burns said.

FBI agents in West Virginia have evidence that Samantha Burns’ ATM card was used sometime after her disappearance, Powers said. Investigators are analyzing video footage or still pictures from cameras at ATM machines, possibly in Huntington’s West End, he said. Powers did not say what the footage contained.

"It was my understanding that Burns’ ATM card was used sometime after her disappearance, but I’m not sure when," Powers said. "The state police hasn’t seen the tapes or pictures, and we haven’t received any information from the FBI yet."

Joe Ciccarelli, the FBI’s senior resident agent for the Southern District of West Virginia, declined to comment on the ATM footage.

Police have interviewed several people and have tried to recreate Samantha Burns’ actions before her disappearance. She was reportedly last seen by an aunt around 5:30 p.m. Nov. 11 at the Huntington Mall. Her car was found burned on Nov. 12 in Wayne County.

"We’ve talked to a lot of people the entire time we’ve done this investigation," Powers said. "But we still have no evidence that connects anyone to her disappearance."

The last known contact from Samantha Burns came from her cell phone at 9:46 p.m. when she called her mother and said she was on her way to their home in West Hamlin. Samantha Burns said she was visiting a friend at the University Courtyard Apartments near 6th Avenue and 20th Street, Kandi Burns said.

"She just told me she was at Brad’s at the courtyard apartments and she was going to be leaving there," she said.

Whitney Collins, also of West Hamlin, said Samantha Burns was friends with Brad Fulks, who lives at the University Courtyard Apartments. Collins said she had introduced Samantha Burns to Brad Fulks approximately three weeks before her disappearance.

Collins said she and a friend had gone to the movies with Samantha Burns and Brad Fulks on Nov. 8. A spokesman for the FBI and Trooper J. M. Parde of the Huntington detachment said Brad Fulks is not related to Chadrick Fulks.

"There is no connection that we’re aware of," Parde said.

Brad Fulks declined to comment Thursday.

Collins last saw Samantha Burns on Nov. 10, she said. The two spent several hours talking. Collins noticed nothing unusual about her friend, she said.

"(Samantha) came up to my sister’s bar and picked me up and we just went driving around for about two hours," Collins said.

Kristen Prichard, a Marshall freshman from Branchland, said she has been interviewed by state police twice. Prichard attended Guyan Valley High School with Samantha Burns and has helped distribute fliers with information about her. Samantha Burns’ friends have no explanation for her disappearance, Prichard said.

"They keep on asking us for details or where she might be, but we just don’t know," she said.

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2002/November/22/LNtop1.htm

Looks like they kidnapped an 8-year old girl too, but then left her 10 miles away with the car running for hours:

Mrs. Peavey on TB2K posted:
"I've wondered about a connection all week.........

I first read about the abduction of Samantha Burns on Monday and at that time wondered if it was linked to Alice's abduction. I noted that Samantha was abducted on Nov. 11th, which was just a week after Fulks and Basham escaped from jail. And now we read that Fulks had a friend he's known since childhood in Huntinton.

NOW.......add into all this......another abduction! Tuesday night I posted a message in this thread about a brief abduction that happened in Barboursville, West Virginia. Look at the map.......Barboursville is less than 10 miles from Huntington. I'm going to re-post that article here: "

ABDUCTED 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL SAFE

Barboursville - A car with a young girl was stolen at 9:48 p.m. Tuesday from Barboursville.

The car and 8-year-old Ashley Michelle Wolford were found at Fairfield Plaza, across from Cabell Huntington Hospital, in Huntington at 12:15 a.m. Wednesday. No information was available at press time on whether the suspect was also found.

Wolford was inside the car when it was taken from the driveway of 1708 R. Coffman St., Barboursville Police Cpl. C. Staten said.

"They pulled in her and the girl was in the car and the car was stolen," Staten said.

The Amber Alert system immediately was activated. The system is a cooperative volunteer program that alerts the public when a child has been abducted and it's believed that the child's life is in danger.

Police found the dark blue 1988 Cheverolet Cavalier Z24 convertable in Huntington hours after it was stolen. The car had been left running and Wolford was inside, said Huntington Police Sgt. Alan Rohrig. Wolford appeared unharmed but was taken to Cabell Huntington Hospital for examination, Rohrig said. Police had no suspect and no description of a suspect at press time, Staten, said.

HE WOULDN'T COMMENT ON WHETHER THE ABDUCTION POSSIBLY WAS RELATED TO A KENTUCKY JAIL ESCAPEE. CHADRICK EVAN FULKS, 25, OF LEWISBURG, KY., AND ANOTHER MAN ESCAPED NOV. 4 FROM THE HOPKINS COUNTY JAIL IN MADISONVILLE, KY., AND ARE SUSPECTS IN ABDUCTIONS IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND KENTUCKY.

The other escapee, Branden Leon Bashan, 21, of Madisonville was arrested Sunday in Ashland. Late Monday, Ohio Highway Patrol Troopers spotted a man believed to be Fulks at a rest area in Marion County, Ohio, about 40 miles north of Columbus.

Anyone with information can call the Barboursville Police Department at 736-5204.

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