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Tuesday, November 19, 2002

SC Woman Still Missing

THERE HAS BEEN NO SIGN OF 44-YEAR-OLD ALICE DONOVAN SINCE LAST THURSDAY ... WHEN THE MOTHER OF TWO WAS ABDUCTED FROM THIS WAL MART PARKING LOT IN CONWAY SOUTH CAROLINA.

we don't have any hard evidence right now to know where she is

BUT INVESTIGATORS MAY BE ONE STEP CLOSER TO SOLVING THE CASE.

ONE OF THE TWO SUSPECTS ... 21-YEAR-OLD BRANDEN BASHAM IS BACK IN CUSTODY ... AFTER ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO CARJACK A WOMAN AND HER 15-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IN ASHLAND KENTUCKY.

we're making every effort to get mr. basham to cooperate with our number one objective being to find mrs. donovan ... hopefully alive

STATE TROOPERS BELIEVE THEY SPOTTED THE OTHER SUSPECT ... 25-YEAR-OLD CHADRICK FULKS ...

DRIVING DONOVANS STOLEN B-M-W MONDAY NIGHT IN NORTH CENTRAL OHIO.

POLICE CAUGHT THE HIGH-SPEED CHASE ON VIDEO ... BUT THE SUSPECT GOT AWAY.

POLICE SAY FULKS AND BASHAM COMMITED MULTIPLE CRIMES IN SEVERAL STATES AFTER ESCAPING FROM A KENTUCKY PRISON NOVEMBER 4TH.

law enforcement agencies since last week have been looking at mo's of different crimes that might of happened in the areas that we know these suspects were in

BEFORE ESCAPING FROM PRISON ... BASHAM WAS SERVING A FIVE-YEAR SENTENCE FOR WRITING A BAD CHECK AND FULKS WAS AWAITING TRIAL ON ROBBERY CHARGES.

Sort of odd formatting for a news article but that's how it appears at that addy ...

This is a Sun News article that was on the AP... Very human of Alice and family... much more info of the robbery and the guys trying to get vehicles before they abducted Alice:

Abducted woman's family waits for news

The Associated Press

As police in Ohio hunt for a man suspected of abducting a 44-year-old
grandmother in Conway, her family hopes her knack for gaining trust and her
friendliness will buy her safety.

Police think Kentucky jail escapees Branden Basham, 21, and Chadrick Fulks,
25, abducted Donovan from a Wal-Mart parking lot in Conway. The men also are
suspects in the abduction of a 42-year-old Kentucky man, who escaped after
being tied to a tree and abandoned.

Basham was arrested Sunday after allegedly trying to hijack a car from a
woman and her 15-year-old daughter at an Ashland, Ky., mall. After a foot
chase during which Basham and an officer exchanged gunfire, police found him
in the Ohio River.

Fulks eluded police Tuesday after a chase.

Donovan, of Galivants Ferry, is a warm, caring and a deep thinker, her
sister Gloria Lindsey says. She has two grown daughters and three
grandchildren.

"She's a good listener and cares about other people," Lindsey said from her
mother's home in New Hampshire.

"She doesn't care from what walk of life they're from. She can relate to
them. She can understand how people think and how they are. She can get
inside your head. I do feel it will help her survive. ... I can't help but
think that if the kidnappers just let her talk, gain her trust and get to
know her, they would not harm her."

"She can have a good rapport with the younger ones, and she's good with
talking," said her mother, Lorraine Moore of Bristol, N.H., a gathering
point form some of Donovan's family as they wait for any news.

Lindsey said her sister was comfortable with anyone, from a truck driver to
a nun, and not easily intimidated. "That's just Alice," he said. "She's
lovable, fun and so caring."

Donovan has four other sisters and a brother.

Donovan had stopped at the Wal-Mart to buy Christmas presents. Parking lot
cameras captured the moment she was abducted.

Less than an hour earlier, residents say they saw the two men, who had
escaped from the Hopkins County jail in western Kentucky on Nov. 4.

Two men fired at Carl Jordan as he chased them away from his son's mobile
home. They'd stolen guns. A few minutes later, Mark Cooper saw two men in a
green minivan speeding down the driveway to his metalworks company. They saw
him, turned and headed back down the driveway, headed to a neighbor's house.
"I knew they weren't supposed to be there so I called her," Cooper said. "I
asked her if two young guys were supposed to be there. She said, `No.' She
wanted me to call the law."

Armed with a gun and cell phone, Cooper drove to the end of his neighbor's
driveway. but the men left before police arrived. Police found the van stuck
in the mud on a dirt road behind the house.

Oleita Hyman said the men knocked on her neighbor's door. "They wanted her
to take them somewhere and use her phone." Hyman said her neighbor refused
twice to let them inside. Then the men drove away in Hyman's farm truck.
That truck was left in the Wal-Mart parking lot before Donovan disappeared.
"If I had seen them getting my truck, I would have tried to stop them,"
Hyman said. "They probably would have shot me. It's a good thing I didn't
know it."

Donovan's family is trying to dispel what they don't know with hope as they
gather in front of the television. Watching the news coverage, Moore stopped
abruptly Tuesday to listen to a news alert.

"Oh, there's my daughter," Moore said, breaking down.

"She's on the TV. Oh, my Alice ... I just want to keep covering her with a
warm blanket. I don't want her to be cold if she's out there."

When the news alert ended, Moore said goodbye to friends who had brought
food and came to offer support.

"There are so many people praying for her, strangers even. ... It's not been
easy, but we're doing it. You just pray and pray."

Information from: The Sun News