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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This whole experience solidifies our certitude that all of us are on our own, and that self-reliance to the best of our ability is prudent.
Please let me know when we are given the all-clear to throw restraint to the wind. I'm prepared to take that detour with you all, whenever the time comes.
Posted on Tue, Nov. 26, 2002
Tips dwindle; hope remainsFulks to be in Florence today
By David Klepper and Natalie Burrowes Pruitt
The Sun News
'The search for Alice Donovan has not been called off and will not be called off.'Chadrick Fulks returns to South Carolina today to face federal kidnapping charges, 12 days after police say he and fellow fugitive Branden Basham abducted Alice Donovan from the Conway Wal-Mart.Ronald Hewett Brunswick County sheriff
Authorities would not say if he would be brought to Horry or Brunswick counties to assist in the search for the 44-year-old Galivants Ferry woman, though they said it was a possibility.
"We'd be willing to be receptive to any additional information we can get," said Tom O'Neill, FBI spokesman in Columbia. "In a generic sense, it would great to get assistance. But it's up to the defendant to cooperate."
So far, Basham and Fulks have ignored pleas from Donovan's children and police for information leading to Donovan's whereabouts, said Brunswick County, N.C., Sheriff Ronald E. Hewett.
"We are looking directly at you for the answers, and we are not getting any," Hewett said Monday in one of the many on-camera appeals he has made to the suspects.
Attorneys for Basham said they have discussed with authorities the possibility of bringing him to Brunswick to aid in the search. Fulks' attorneys did not return phone calls Monday.
Meanwhile, the Sheriff's Office has been getting many phone calls from people who want to search for Donovan.
"I'm not turning anyone away - the calls are in the hundreds to help," Hewett said.
Hewett is encouraging those who call in to drive down side roads leading off U.S. 17 - from Leland, N.C., south to the state line - and look along the roadways and in ditches for any signs of Donovan.
Donovan was last seen with Fulks and Basham in the Winnabow community, about 28 miles north of the state line, about two hours after her abduction in Conway, Hewett said. Fulks and Basham were seen again in South Carolina an hour later without Donovan.
Police and trained search and rescue teams have scoured the area and chased several leads but have been unable to locate her. The tips have dwindled, and searches in those particular areas have been exhausted, so the sheriff has assembled a response team to handle any new tips. He also has assigned a detective to be with the family.
"The search for Alice Donovan has not been called off and will not be called off," Hewett said. "We are not going to give up."
But the chances of finding Donovan alive are "slim," Hewett said, because of the number of days she has been missing coupled with the near-freezing temperatures at night.
Searches in South Carolina slowed over the weekend without new information.
"We have exhausted all of our leads," said Conway Police Chief Sam Hendrick.
Escorted by federal marshals, Fulks will appear before Judge Thomas Rogers at the U.S. Courthouse in Florence at 10:30 this morning for a preliminary hearing. He will be housed in the Florence County Detention Center in Effingham.
Basham was arraigned Monday in Kentucky on attempted murder and robbery charges stemming from a gunfight with police hours before his capture. On Monday, his lawyer asked that Basham undergo psychological evaluation, something that could delay his transfer to Florence.
U.S. Attorney J. Strom Thurmond Jr. said Basham could join Fulks as soon as a formal request to transfer him is made.
Both men face a list of charges in several jurisdictions. Prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed, however, that the federal kidnapping charges filed in South Carolina will take precedence.
"That's the plan," Thurmond said.
Fulks appeared in court in Indiana on Monday for three hearings. He waived his identity hearing and postponed his detention hearing until he arrives in South Carolina. Identity hearings are used to prove that the person in court is the person charged with the crimes.
A detention hearing is needed because authorities want to hold Fulks without bond.
That hearing will take place in South Carolina, Thurmond said.
Basham is now held in Kentucky on $2 million bond.
Staff writer Dave Gustafson contributed to this report.
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Very well said, and while the police are needed to arrest people for KNOWN crimes that they may have commited. It is your neighbor, family, and caring people in general that will really help you.
So much help since this all started from virtual strangers - it's such a miracle in and of itself. God is truly an awesome God.
I continue to pray for Alice, PL, each of you and all the families for the Lord's blessings and strength. Let's try to remain positive as long as we can, for no miracle is too great for the Lord to reveal.
The cold-hearted SOB's! They go against the 'system', yet they count on the 'system' to protect them. Fools! May they rot in hell.
It's still very, very important to find Alice and Samantha. Closure for the families, and to insure that we can give these murderers fair trials and (hopefully) speedy executions. Maybe Bush can get some judicial appointments through the Senate now so that it won't take 15 or 20 years to kill two-legged slime of the Fulks/Basham sort who needed killing yesterday.
The accused must of course be presumed innocent until found guilty by a jury of their peers, yada yada yada. Then we kill them.
Sorry for all the negativity on the thread.
I wasn't quite correct on this point. They have a new website but it is under construction. It's already there. I may have left the impression the website wasn't up yet. Sorry.
This is GREAT news Valleygal! He cannot help but be moved by the outpouring of compassionate, sincere offers of help that have been offered here. Not to mention the intellegence of the posters :o).
BW asked me to keep in touch if I (we) had any good ideas or had questions.
Heh-heh, might be getting into some information overload with this one.... Naahh! Never can have too many concerned people "brainstorming" a problem!
Yes, indeed, and also to Cascadians, who alerted us FReepers to Alice's situation in the first place.
I agree with whoever said that our grief is nothing compared to the families of Alice and Samantha, and yet it's never far away. I find myself thinking of Alice and her family when I'm in the middle of the most ordinary activities. I try to look at those occasions as nudges to pray.
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