We were so very glad to see the interviews with Jennifer's parents and husband on WAAY TV. We also appreciate the thanks from her Dad and Mom, concerning the search party that we have worked on forming for the 6th of Dec.
My heart goes out to her children and parents. You can tell by simply watching and listening just how much pain they are in. I sincerely hope that this search turns up something that will enable the authorities to find Jennifer.
What bothered me, was the portion of the interview given by Jennifer's husband. He really didn't show any signs of being upset about her being gone, except for wiping at his eyes one time. He is "hurt" that people that don't know him or know of his "love for Jennifer", thinking that he could have had something to do with her disappearance.
I still do not think that he "gets it". It isn't just that he's suspected, as the husband of a woman that is missing in the public's opinion. It has been his actions during this horrible time that have made him seem suspect to the public. If he did want to look suspicious, then maybe he should not have waited 2 WEEKS to report Jennifer as missing. If he did not want to look suspicious, then maybe he should not have been standing around within days of her being missing, openly flirting and laughing with a fellow employee that was a female, for all to see. If he did not want to look suspicious, then maybe he should not have waited until he found out that someone other than himself, has organized a search party to look for his wife. He needs to understand that it has been no one but himself, that has made himself look guilty of something in the disappearance of Jennifer.
I personally think that he knows more than he is willing to tell anyone about her being missing. I will say this, AGAIN.......IF he is completely innocent in the disappearance of his beautiful wife, I will personally stand on the courthouse steps, during the busiest part of the day and make a public apology to him, for ever thinking that he might be guilty of something in this case. HOWEVER, if he does know something, and he is guilty of being involved in her disappearance, then I will make a point of sitting in the courtroom every single day of his trial, and pushing for the strongest sentence possible to be handed down to him.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Search Party Times and Dates
We have planned a search party to look for Jennifer Powers. Please read the information and if you have any questions please ask.
Search Party time and date set for Jennifer Powers missing from Harvest, Alabama.
The date for the search party is Saturday December 6, 2008 and possible December 7. The meeting point will be at Sparkman High School in Harvest, Alabama. We will be meeting between 8:30-9:00 am there.
Please try to wear boots if possible and bring a flash light since we will be walking through wooded areas. Trash bags will be provided to everyone to place your trash in while walking through the woods. If you can please bring a small notepad and pen with you to take notes of the area you are in.
Please respect her family during this hard time. With the Holiday season closing in on us we don’t want them to feel any more pressure. We don’t require them there, but her family is more than welcome to join us. Remember she has 3 children and a husband at home.
If you have any questions please email helpfindher@live.com with your questions. If you would like to join us you can email and let us know, if you don’t email and still would like to join us on this search please feel free to show up at the High School.
There will be a 15-20 minute briefing starting at 9:05 am to go over all the information with everyone.
Thank you,
Helpfindher
Search Party time and date set for Jennifer Powers missing from Harvest, Alabama.
The date for the search party is Saturday December 6, 2008 and possible December 7. The meeting point will be at Sparkman High School in Harvest, Alabama. We will be meeting between 8:30-9:00 am there.
Please try to wear boots if possible and bring a flash light since we will be walking through wooded areas. Trash bags will be provided to everyone to place your trash in while walking through the woods. If you can please bring a small notepad and pen with you to take notes of the area you are in.
Please respect her family during this hard time. With the Holiday season closing in on us we don’t want them to feel any more pressure. We don’t require them there, but her family is more than welcome to join us. Remember she has 3 children and a husband at home.
If you have any questions please email helpfindher@live.com with your questions. If you would like to join us you can email and let us know, if you don’t email and still would like to join us on this search please feel free to show up at the High School.
There will be a 15-20 minute briefing starting at 9:05 am to go over all the information with everyone.
Thank you,
Helpfindher
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
4 Months and Counting.........
Today marks the 4 month anniversary of the disappearance of Jennifer Powers.
It has been 4 months with no word from this beautiful young mother of 3 children. According to her husband, Jason, she simply got up in the night and left their home. In addition to leaving her 3 children alone with no mother, she also supposedly left her wallet, containing her driver's license and other important documents that all women keep in their purse or wallet.
If her husband is to be believed, Jennifer walked away from everything that was her life. But, he also waited approximately 2 weeks of Jennifer being gone to contact the Madison County Sheriff's Department, to file a missing persons report on her disappearance.
He has made no attempt to make a public plea with the news stations or the local newspaper to get the info about Jennifer out to the public. He has made no attempt to have any search parties formed in an attempt to find Jennifer. He has made no attempt whatsoever to find his wife and the mother of his children.
We ask that you continue to remember Jennifer, her children and parents, in your prayers. Please pray that she will be found.....one way or another. Jennifer's 3 children, her parents, other family members and friends deserve to know what has happened to her. They deserve to be able to lay this matter to rest and start their long over due healing process.
If you have any info at all on the disappearance of Jennifer Powers, please call the investigations division of the Madison County Sheriff's Department.
It has been 4 months with no word from this beautiful young mother of 3 children. According to her husband, Jason, she simply got up in the night and left their home. In addition to leaving her 3 children alone with no mother, she also supposedly left her wallet, containing her driver's license and other important documents that all women keep in their purse or wallet.
If her husband is to be believed, Jennifer walked away from everything that was her life. But, he also waited approximately 2 weeks of Jennifer being gone to contact the Madison County Sheriff's Department, to file a missing persons report on her disappearance.
He has made no attempt to make a public plea with the news stations or the local newspaper to get the info about Jennifer out to the public. He has made no attempt to have any search parties formed in an attempt to find Jennifer. He has made no attempt whatsoever to find his wife and the mother of his children.
We ask that you continue to remember Jennifer, her children and parents, in your prayers. Please pray that she will be found.....one way or another. Jennifer's 3 children, her parents, other family members and friends deserve to know what has happened to her. They deserve to be able to lay this matter to rest and start their long over due healing process.
If you have any info at all on the disappearance of Jennifer Powers, please call the investigations division of the Madison County Sheriff's Department.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Two weeks and counting.............
YES.......2 weeks and counting.........
In 2 weeks, I will be home for the holidays. I will be there until after Christmas, and I have MANY plans for this trip.
Of course, next to spending time with my family, my top priority will be helping to organize an actual search for Jennifer. Anyone that reads this blog, is more than welcome to join us. All you need to do is contact either of us by email and we will be more than happy to give you the details and what you will need to bring with you.
I have satellite maps of the area where Jennifer lived. These show all wooded areas and bodies of water that are located within several miles of her home. We will be using these maps as starting points and marking each area as it is searched. We sincerely hope that you will join us in an effort to find this beautiful young woman. Jennifer's 3 children and family have a right to know what has happened to her.
With that being said, I would like to take the time to add something here that has been bothering me. Please bare with me on this and try to understand that I'm merely an outsider trying to put the pieces together with this case, and posting my thoughts.
Jennifer's husband, Jason, apparently has been fired from his job. With that being said, let me say that I understand that he has to take the time to find new employment to financially support himself and the children. However, I'm most concerned that with extra time on his hands, he has not taken any of that time to remind people publicly that his wife has just vanished. There have been no reports of any searches. There have been no more articles written about Jennifer. There have been no news updates on any tv stations, or requests by Jason for help in finding his wife.
Why is he keeping silent? Why did he wait 2 weeks to report Jennifer missing? There are just so many why's that he has not taken the time to answer. As someone that worked in the legal field, it leads me to think that he does not want Jennifer to be found. Then, that brings me around to wondering why a man would not want his wife found. In my experience, the majority of people that have a spouse that has just vanished into thin air, would be shouting from the rooftops until that spouse was found. They would move Heaven and earth to find them. That doesn't seem to be the case with Jennifer's husband, so again I have to wonder "why?".
If I could see him face to face, I would have to say the following to him, "Jason, if you truly loved your beautiful wife, Jennifer, and you truly love the beautiful children that Jennifer gave you by birth, why don't you seem to want her found? Why, Jason, why?"
In 2 weeks, I will be home for the holidays. I will be there until after Christmas, and I have MANY plans for this trip.
Of course, next to spending time with my family, my top priority will be helping to organize an actual search for Jennifer. Anyone that reads this blog, is more than welcome to join us. All you need to do is contact either of us by email and we will be more than happy to give you the details and what you will need to bring with you.
I have satellite maps of the area where Jennifer lived. These show all wooded areas and bodies of water that are located within several miles of her home. We will be using these maps as starting points and marking each area as it is searched. We sincerely hope that you will join us in an effort to find this beautiful young woman. Jennifer's 3 children and family have a right to know what has happened to her.
With that being said, I would like to take the time to add something here that has been bothering me. Please bare with me on this and try to understand that I'm merely an outsider trying to put the pieces together with this case, and posting my thoughts.
Jennifer's husband, Jason, apparently has been fired from his job. With that being said, let me say that I understand that he has to take the time to find new employment to financially support himself and the children. However, I'm most concerned that with extra time on his hands, he has not taken any of that time to remind people publicly that his wife has just vanished. There have been no reports of any searches. There have been no more articles written about Jennifer. There have been no news updates on any tv stations, or requests by Jason for help in finding his wife.
Why is he keeping silent? Why did he wait 2 weeks to report Jennifer missing? There are just so many why's that he has not taken the time to answer. As someone that worked in the legal field, it leads me to think that he does not want Jennifer to be found. Then, that brings me around to wondering why a man would not want his wife found. In my experience, the majority of people that have a spouse that has just vanished into thin air, would be shouting from the rooftops until that spouse was found. They would move Heaven and earth to find them. That doesn't seem to be the case with Jennifer's husband, so again I have to wonder "why?".
If I could see him face to face, I would have to say the following to him, "Jason, if you truly loved your beautiful wife, Jennifer, and you truly love the beautiful children that Jennifer gave you by birth, why don't you seem to want her found? Why, Jason, why?"
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Things to ponder.............
As more time passes with Jennifer remaining missing, more questions and thoughts come to mind.
Some of those thoughts and questions are:
Someone has to know more about this case than they are sharing with the authorities. Maybe a neighbor saw something but is afraid to speak out. Maybe something was said to a friend, that they didn't think was important at the time. Maybe she didn't just walk away.
Everyone that knows anything about women, knows for a fact that they never leave home without their purse or wallet. That would be like leaving home with no clothes on to women. We have those things with us no matter where we go. We keep hearing stories from a few that say Jennifer had a drug problem. Well, how would she buy the drugs if she didn't have her wallet and money? That isn't something that you can get for free!
Did Jennifer have her own personal vehicle to drive? If she did, was it still at her home.....or was it missing also? If she did have a vehicle, and it's gone, she would need her drivers license. That once again points back to the wallet being left behind.
Did Jennifer have an ATM card or credit card? If she did, that again goes back to her wallet being left behind. If she had either or both of these, she would need them to get money. Have there been any cash withdrawals made on either of her cards? She would have to have money to eat at the very least.
Did Jennifer just leave her home wearing what she slept in? Did she take the time to change clothes before leaving? If she took the time to find clothes and change, wouldn't her husband hear her and wake up? If she didn't change before leaving, where could she go wearing either a nightshirt, nightgown or pj's? If a woman was walking around like that somewhere, she would most definitely be noticed.
Then there are the 3 children. Does anyone actually believe that it's OK for those kids to think that their mother just walked out on them? I don't care how many times you say "Oh, the kids are doing great", you have no idea as to what is going on in their minds. Do you honestly think that it's alright for these beautiful children to think that their mother doesn't love or want them? Is it OK for them to spend the rest of their lives believing that they were not worthy of their mother's love? Is it OK for them to believe that they may have done something that would make their mother leave them?
If anyone honestly believes that it's alright for these children to be put in this position......then you have no heart and you certainly do not truly love them. No one could love a child and let them live in the world that they have been thrown into.
SOMEONE knows something. SOMEONE knows what happened that night. SOMEONE knows where Jennifer is. SOMEONE is living in a world that will come crashing down around their heads when they least expect it. It may not be this week. It may not be this month. It may not be this year. It might be 30 years down the road, just like in the Jean Zapata case. But someday, when you least expect it and you think that Jennifer has been forgotten........it will catch up with you.
Some of those thoughts and questions are:
Someone has to know more about this case than they are sharing with the authorities. Maybe a neighbor saw something but is afraid to speak out. Maybe something was said to a friend, that they didn't think was important at the time. Maybe she didn't just walk away.
Everyone that knows anything about women, knows for a fact that they never leave home without their purse or wallet. That would be like leaving home with no clothes on to women. We have those things with us no matter where we go. We keep hearing stories from a few that say Jennifer had a drug problem. Well, how would she buy the drugs if she didn't have her wallet and money? That isn't something that you can get for free!
Did Jennifer have her own personal vehicle to drive? If she did, was it still at her home.....or was it missing also? If she did have a vehicle, and it's gone, she would need her drivers license. That once again points back to the wallet being left behind.
Did Jennifer have an ATM card or credit card? If she did, that again goes back to her wallet being left behind. If she had either or both of these, she would need them to get money. Have there been any cash withdrawals made on either of her cards? She would have to have money to eat at the very least.
Did Jennifer just leave her home wearing what she slept in? Did she take the time to change clothes before leaving? If she took the time to find clothes and change, wouldn't her husband hear her and wake up? If she didn't change before leaving, where could she go wearing either a nightshirt, nightgown or pj's? If a woman was walking around like that somewhere, she would most definitely be noticed.
Then there are the 3 children. Does anyone actually believe that it's OK for those kids to think that their mother just walked out on them? I don't care how many times you say "Oh, the kids are doing great", you have no idea as to what is going on in their minds. Do you honestly think that it's alright for these beautiful children to think that their mother doesn't love or want them? Is it OK for them to spend the rest of their lives believing that they were not worthy of their mother's love? Is it OK for them to believe that they may have done something that would make their mother leave them?
If anyone honestly believes that it's alright for these children to be put in this position......then you have no heart and you certainly do not truly love them. No one could love a child and let them live in the world that they have been thrown into.
SOMEONE knows something. SOMEONE knows what happened that night. SOMEONE knows where Jennifer is. SOMEONE is living in a world that will come crashing down around their heads when they least expect it. It may not be this week. It may not be this month. It may not be this year. It might be 30 years down the road, just like in the Jean Zapata case. But someday, when you least expect it and you think that Jennifer has been forgotten........it will catch up with you.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Into Thin Air.....48 Hours Mystery
I watched a very interesting 48 Hours Mystery over the weekend. What I saw, reminded me of the way that Jennifer vanished. The following is a recap of the show.
Jean Zapata vanished from her home in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1976. She left behind 3 children, friends and a mystery that would take over 30 yrs. to solve.
Her daughter, Linda, remembers that she spent her whole life from age 11 just telling people that her mother had abandoned her, when they would ask about Jean. She only knew what her father had told her on the day that her mother had disappeared. "At age 11, when my dad said she took off because she was stressed out, it was cemented in my head. She took off and she's raising another family somewhere."
But, had Jean really just taken off and left her family and friends behind?
Jean's best friend, Peggy Weekly, never believed that Jean would simply abandon her family. Peggy said that because of the way that Jean had been raised, she would never have walked out on her children. It was just too deeply ingrained into Jean to take care of her kids and be a mom.
It all started in Madison in the early 1950's, when Peggy and Jean became best friends. Peggy was with her best friend for all of the good times, including when Jean married Eugene Zapata. Jean and Eugene had 3 children, Christine, Steve and Linda.
Eugene was an engineer that worked for the Dept. of Transportation and Jean was one of a few female flight instructors.
At home, things were not going well. According to Peggy, Jean was happy in her marriage for the first half of their time together. But, it became one of those marriages where behind closed doors, there was trouble.
According to Peggy, "Jean told me that they were having problems in the bedroom, but she didn't go into any detail at all. She seemed to think that he had a lot more testosterone before they said "I do". But, we didn't talk about that a lot. After all, we were nice girls, and nice girls didn't have problems with their marriage."
Jean wanted to try to keep the spark alive in her marriage, even if it meant agreeing to do things that "nice girls" didn't always do. But no matter what she did, nothing worked. Eugene moved out of the house.
On Monday, Oct. 11, 1976, Linda remembers seeing her mother drinking her morning coffee. Linda left for school and never saw her mother again.
Ivan Norton worked with Jean at the flight school, and was surprised when she didn't show up to teach a student pilot that day.
At the house, where Jean lived with the 3 kids, Eugene was already explaining to the children where their mother was. Linda remembers asking her father where her mom was at. He told her that she probably needed a vacation or break and that she would probably be home in a couple of weeks.
When Jean didn't show up for work after 3 days, Ivan Norton called the police and then called Eugene. "I says, 'Well, hey, have you turned her in missing to the police?' 'No, I haven't done it" said Eugene. And I said "Well, you don't have to. I did", Ivan recalls.
A week after Jean went missing, Police Officer Greg Martin showed up at the Zapata house. He was trying out for the detective squad, so he was assigned to what had been classified as just a routine missing persons case. "I went in and I noticed there was no damage, no evidence of a fight, no evidence of a struggle or anything that we could see. The first thing I noticed that was totally out of order was that her purse was there," he remembers. "A woman goes nowhere without her purse."
Officially, Jean Zapata was classified as a missing person by the Madison, Wisconsin police department. But, Martin was learning some things about the Zapata's marriage, which added to his suspicions. "Eugene had placed an ad for her in a swingers type magazine."
One day the post office had called Jean to complain about some x-rated material in a mailbox that was rented by Eugene. It was the first that she'd heard about a mailbox. She went to look and was horrified by what she found. According to her best friend, Peggy, "She (Jean) picks it up and is rifling through it, and she sees her own nude picture looking back at her, where her husband is pimping her out to anyone who subscribes to that magazine." Jean's divorce attorney, Daphne Webb, learned that the swingers' magazine was only part of the story.
Jean not only wanted a divorce, she wanted a restraining order.
Eugene moved out, but he did not move on. The divorce was bitter, and he seemed obsessed with Jean. "In today's terms, I would say she was describing stalking behavior. He would come to the house on the pretext of seeing the children, and he would go through her underwear drawer and her possessions. And, she found it very disturbing." Webb says.
The restraining order limited Eugene's visitation rights with the children to 9 am and 11am on Saturdays. That was the only time that he was permitted to be at the house.
On the Monday morning that Jean disappeared, she had phoned her attorney at about 8:15 am and left a message. When Webb returned the call about an hour later, it was Eugene that answered the phone. "Which was surprising because he was not supposed to be in the house." Webb points out.
When she was asked what she said to Eugene, Webb says, "Well, I said, 'I'm returning Jeanette's call.' And, he said, 'Well, I don't know where she is. Her car is still here.' I think that he said her purse was still on the table, and I didn't suspect any foul play...so, I just said 'Well, I returned her call. Let her know when you see her." Webb did tell the police about what had happened at the time.
After just 3 weeks, the case went cold. Eugene moved back into the house, and for Linda, it was if her mother had simply never existed. Linda says, "It's really odd, but somehow, no one talked about it. No one brought her up. I don't think that I used the word "mom" until I was in my late teens, early 20's. I don't know why. Back then, it was so taboo. And, no one told me not to talk about it, but the 3 of us kids, I think we all just shut down. For me, there was this enormous uncomfortable elephant in the middle of the room, and no one talked about it.
Two years after Jean disappeared, Eugene married his current wife, Joan. Linda now had a stepmother, but she still waited and hoped that her own mom would return. Years and decades passed, and the Zapata children grew up and moved out. Peggy moved away from Madison, but she never forgot about her best friend.
In November, 2004, more than 28 years after Jean disappeared, Peggy decided there was something she had to do for her best friend. Peggy contacted the Madison Police Department to see if they had a Cold Case Squad. They didn't, but the case landed on the desk of Det. Marianne Flynn Statz. Det. Statz said that she was immediately struck that more could probably be done with the case.
The detective did not believe that Jean had simply run away, like her husband had claimed for the past 28 years. Statz contacted every agency that she could think of inquiring about Jean. After a fairly extensive search, Statz concluded that Jean was most likely dead.
The detective started talking with anyone involved in the case back in 1976. She found Linda, the only Zapata child still living in Madison. Linda was working as a nurse at a local clinic, where the detective went to talk with her.
They went into a private room and the detective explained who she was, and that the investigation into her mother's disappearance was reopened.
Linda remembers, "...my gut dropped out, and I thought, 'Oh my God. Did you find her? I mean is she downtown right now? Is she out in the car?' You know, I thought they found her. They said no, but we're just going to reopen the case. The next question was...'Did my dad have anything to do with it? ' It just came out and I said 'I don't know why I asked that.'"
Statz knew that when she started investigating Jean's disappearance, that Linda might have to face a horrifying possibility. "What's worse? My father killed my mother? or, my mother just abandoned me?, Statz asks.
Ever since Jean vanished when Linda was just 11, she not only believed that she had been abandoned by her mother, but that she was also to blame for her mother leaving. Linda remembers, "I overheard my brother and sister saying it was my fault she left because I was a brat. And, I'm sure I was 10, 11 years old."
Linda was pretty sure that the investigator was on the right track in her investigation, and looking at the right suspect.....her father. Linda's siblings did not believe that their father had killed their mother. But, as painful as it might be, Linda was now determined to help the detectives find out whether it was true or not.
In April, 2005, word got back to her father, Eugene, that the case had been reopened. He and his 2nd wife were living in Nevada, but he suddenly showed up unexpectedly in Madison. Linda immediately called Det. Statz. The detective said that she was concerned that Eugene would tamper with any evidence he knew of in the case. Eugene managed to avoid the detective and flew back to Nevada. Two months later, Statz paid a surprise visit to his house, but it was clear that he was not talking or admitting to anything.
Linda was torn back and forth. She wondered how she could betray one and not betray the other. She wondered how she could do that to her dad and what kind of daughter was she. But then, she also realized that her mom had no one else to speak for her.
In August, 2005, almost 30 years after her mother went missing, Linda agreed to make 2 calls to her father and let the police tape the conversations.
In the recorded call to her father, Linda asks, "Just between you and me, can you at least tell me if - do you think she's alive?"
Eugene replied, "Well, first of all, I didn't have anything to do with her disappearance or anything - but, after all these years, you gotta think that no, she's not."
It took Linda a while, but she worked herself up to making an awkward, painful accusation, by telling her father that her gut told her that he had killed her mother.
All Eugene could say was, "Wow, that's pretty powerful".
Linda went on to tell her father that she knew it was, but that nothing had changed between them and she still loved him.
With a lot of work, Detective Statz was finally able to uncover handwritten notes made by Eugene. The detailed notes were just the evidence that prosecutor Bob Kaiser had been waiting for. The notes showed Eugene's obsessive state of mind when his wife filed for divorce.
"Was he going into her pants and sniffing the crotch of her pants to see if it smelled like spermicidal jelly? Yes. That's what he was doing. Breaking into her house, looking through everything in the house," Kaiser said.
Even though Jean's body had never been found, Kaiser went with what he did have, circumstantial evidence that Jean had been murdered. So, after 30 years from the time that Jean had vanished, Kaiser ordered police to arrest Eugene Zapata. Eugene was charged with first degree murder and on Sept. 4, 2007, he went on trial for the first degree murder of Jean.
The prosecution had to rely on evidence of Eugene's movements and the notes that he had tried so hard to conceal. According to the prosecution, Eugene's biggest mistake was answering the phone at Jean's home on Oct. 11, 1976, a morning that he had been barred from being there by a court order.
It took the defense less than one hour to present their case. They simply argued that the prosecution had failed to connect Eugene to any crime. Eugene never said a word in court.
Anyone looking for answers to this 30 year old mystery, would have to keep looking. Behind closed doors, the jurors argued and debated, but even after four days of deliberations, they could not decide what had happened to Jean, no matter how hard they tried. They left the judge no choice but to declare a hung jury.
On Sept. 17, 2007, Eugene walked out of court a free man. But, the husband of Jean and the father of her children, who had kept silent during his trial, was about to stun everyone. After three decades, two investigators and one trial, Eugene was about to break his silence and tell a chilling story. The prosecutor was ready to go back into court to try Eugene again. That's when Eugene suddenly announced that he was willing to plead guilty. Eugene was ready to finally answer the 30 year old question: what had happened to his wife and the mother of his children. BUT, he'd only give the answer if they would plead him down from murder, to a lesser charge.
The district attorney thought that Jean's daughter, Linda, should be the one to decide whether they should accept Eugene's plea, or start all over again in court. Linda said, "The only thing I want is for him to admit he did it. Tell us what happened to her. How he did it. And above all, I needed to see it come out of his mouth. I needed to see him say, 'I killed her.'" The deal was done, and Eugene, who had lied to his children, broke his silence and told his story to Det. Statz.
Eugene told Statz that he had gone over to Jean's house, and shortly thereafter, an argument broke out. It turned violent, he said, when he grabbed a paperweight and hit Jean in the back of the head with it.
Jean laid on the ground still alive, and then Eugene strangled her. He claimed to have no memory of actually having his hands on her throat, but he did have a memory of his hands and forearms hurting a lot. He then got a cord and wrapped it around her neck to make sure that she was actually dead.
Linda asked that her father's entire confession be videotaped. The defense agreed, on the condition that she would be the only person to see it and then it would be locked away forever.
When Linda was asked what it felt like seeing her father's confession, she says, "I just felt sick to my stomach. I felt so sad. But, it was also very therapeutic. I felt like I was there for my mom again. The truth is coming out. This is what happened. And it was big, almost a relief."
Eugene Zapata returned to court once again, this time to face his sentence and to face his daughter. The same daughter that he had lied to for 30 years.
Linda stated that she felt as if she had a huge weight off of her shoulders. She now knew that her mother did not abandon her and she could begin the mourning process. On April 12, 2008, she held a memorial service in the same church where Jean had been a member.
She said that it was if her mother were saying, "What took you guys so long?"
Jean Zapata vanished from her home in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1976. She left behind 3 children, friends and a mystery that would take over 30 yrs. to solve.
Her daughter, Linda, remembers that she spent her whole life from age 11 just telling people that her mother had abandoned her, when they would ask about Jean. She only knew what her father had told her on the day that her mother had disappeared. "At age 11, when my dad said she took off because she was stressed out, it was cemented in my head. She took off and she's raising another family somewhere."
But, had Jean really just taken off and left her family and friends behind?
Jean's best friend, Peggy Weekly, never believed that Jean would simply abandon her family. Peggy said that because of the way that Jean had been raised, she would never have walked out on her children. It was just too deeply ingrained into Jean to take care of her kids and be a mom.
It all started in Madison in the early 1950's, when Peggy and Jean became best friends. Peggy was with her best friend for all of the good times, including when Jean married Eugene Zapata. Jean and Eugene had 3 children, Christine, Steve and Linda.
Eugene was an engineer that worked for the Dept. of Transportation and Jean was one of a few female flight instructors.
At home, things were not going well. According to Peggy, Jean was happy in her marriage for the first half of their time together. But, it became one of those marriages where behind closed doors, there was trouble.
According to Peggy, "Jean told me that they were having problems in the bedroom, but she didn't go into any detail at all. She seemed to think that he had a lot more testosterone before they said "I do". But, we didn't talk about that a lot. After all, we were nice girls, and nice girls didn't have problems with their marriage."
Jean wanted to try to keep the spark alive in her marriage, even if it meant agreeing to do things that "nice girls" didn't always do. But no matter what she did, nothing worked. Eugene moved out of the house.
On Monday, Oct. 11, 1976, Linda remembers seeing her mother drinking her morning coffee. Linda left for school and never saw her mother again.
Ivan Norton worked with Jean at the flight school, and was surprised when she didn't show up to teach a student pilot that day.
At the house, where Jean lived with the 3 kids, Eugene was already explaining to the children where their mother was. Linda remembers asking her father where her mom was at. He told her that she probably needed a vacation or break and that she would probably be home in a couple of weeks.
When Jean didn't show up for work after 3 days, Ivan Norton called the police and then called Eugene. "I says, 'Well, hey, have you turned her in missing to the police?' 'No, I haven't done it" said Eugene. And I said "Well, you don't have to. I did", Ivan recalls.
A week after Jean went missing, Police Officer Greg Martin showed up at the Zapata house. He was trying out for the detective squad, so he was assigned to what had been classified as just a routine missing persons case. "I went in and I noticed there was no damage, no evidence of a fight, no evidence of a struggle or anything that we could see. The first thing I noticed that was totally out of order was that her purse was there," he remembers. "A woman goes nowhere without her purse."
Officially, Jean Zapata was classified as a missing person by the Madison, Wisconsin police department. But, Martin was learning some things about the Zapata's marriage, which added to his suspicions. "Eugene had placed an ad for her in a swingers type magazine."
One day the post office had called Jean to complain about some x-rated material in a mailbox that was rented by Eugene. It was the first that she'd heard about a mailbox. She went to look and was horrified by what she found. According to her best friend, Peggy, "She (Jean) picks it up and is rifling through it, and she sees her own nude picture looking back at her, where her husband is pimping her out to anyone who subscribes to that magazine." Jean's divorce attorney, Daphne Webb, learned that the swingers' magazine was only part of the story.
Jean not only wanted a divorce, she wanted a restraining order.
Eugene moved out, but he did not move on. The divorce was bitter, and he seemed obsessed with Jean. "In today's terms, I would say she was describing stalking behavior. He would come to the house on the pretext of seeing the children, and he would go through her underwear drawer and her possessions. And, she found it very disturbing." Webb says.
The restraining order limited Eugene's visitation rights with the children to 9 am and 11am on Saturdays. That was the only time that he was permitted to be at the house.
On the Monday morning that Jean disappeared, she had phoned her attorney at about 8:15 am and left a message. When Webb returned the call about an hour later, it was Eugene that answered the phone. "Which was surprising because he was not supposed to be in the house." Webb points out.
When she was asked what she said to Eugene, Webb says, "Well, I said, 'I'm returning Jeanette's call.' And, he said, 'Well, I don't know where she is. Her car is still here.' I think that he said her purse was still on the table, and I didn't suspect any foul play...so, I just said 'Well, I returned her call. Let her know when you see her." Webb did tell the police about what had happened at the time.
After just 3 weeks, the case went cold. Eugene moved back into the house, and for Linda, it was if her mother had simply never existed. Linda says, "It's really odd, but somehow, no one talked about it. No one brought her up. I don't think that I used the word "mom" until I was in my late teens, early 20's. I don't know why. Back then, it was so taboo. And, no one told me not to talk about it, but the 3 of us kids, I think we all just shut down. For me, there was this enormous uncomfortable elephant in the middle of the room, and no one talked about it.
Two years after Jean disappeared, Eugene married his current wife, Joan. Linda now had a stepmother, but she still waited and hoped that her own mom would return. Years and decades passed, and the Zapata children grew up and moved out. Peggy moved away from Madison, but she never forgot about her best friend.
In November, 2004, more than 28 years after Jean disappeared, Peggy decided there was something she had to do for her best friend. Peggy contacted the Madison Police Department to see if they had a Cold Case Squad. They didn't, but the case landed on the desk of Det. Marianne Flynn Statz. Det. Statz said that she was immediately struck that more could probably be done with the case.
The detective did not believe that Jean had simply run away, like her husband had claimed for the past 28 years. Statz contacted every agency that she could think of inquiring about Jean. After a fairly extensive search, Statz concluded that Jean was most likely dead.
The detective started talking with anyone involved in the case back in 1976. She found Linda, the only Zapata child still living in Madison. Linda was working as a nurse at a local clinic, where the detective went to talk with her.
They went into a private room and the detective explained who she was, and that the investigation into her mother's disappearance was reopened.
Linda remembers, "...my gut dropped out, and I thought, 'Oh my God. Did you find her? I mean is she downtown right now? Is she out in the car?' You know, I thought they found her. They said no, but we're just going to reopen the case. The next question was...'Did my dad have anything to do with it? ' It just came out and I said 'I don't know why I asked that.'"
Statz knew that when she started investigating Jean's disappearance, that Linda might have to face a horrifying possibility. "What's worse? My father killed my mother? or, my mother just abandoned me?, Statz asks.
Ever since Jean vanished when Linda was just 11, she not only believed that she had been abandoned by her mother, but that she was also to blame for her mother leaving. Linda remembers, "I overheard my brother and sister saying it was my fault she left because I was a brat. And, I'm sure I was 10, 11 years old."
Linda was pretty sure that the investigator was on the right track in her investigation, and looking at the right suspect.....her father. Linda's siblings did not believe that their father had killed their mother. But, as painful as it might be, Linda was now determined to help the detectives find out whether it was true or not.
In April, 2005, word got back to her father, Eugene, that the case had been reopened. He and his 2nd wife were living in Nevada, but he suddenly showed up unexpectedly in Madison. Linda immediately called Det. Statz. The detective said that she was concerned that Eugene would tamper with any evidence he knew of in the case. Eugene managed to avoid the detective and flew back to Nevada. Two months later, Statz paid a surprise visit to his house, but it was clear that he was not talking or admitting to anything.
Linda was torn back and forth. She wondered how she could betray one and not betray the other. She wondered how she could do that to her dad and what kind of daughter was she. But then, she also realized that her mom had no one else to speak for her.
In August, 2005, almost 30 years after her mother went missing, Linda agreed to make 2 calls to her father and let the police tape the conversations.
In the recorded call to her father, Linda asks, "Just between you and me, can you at least tell me if - do you think she's alive?"
Eugene replied, "Well, first of all, I didn't have anything to do with her disappearance or anything - but, after all these years, you gotta think that no, she's not."
It took Linda a while, but she worked herself up to making an awkward, painful accusation, by telling her father that her gut told her that he had killed her mother.
All Eugene could say was, "Wow, that's pretty powerful".
Linda went on to tell her father that she knew it was, but that nothing had changed between them and she still loved him.
With a lot of work, Detective Statz was finally able to uncover handwritten notes made by Eugene. The detailed notes were just the evidence that prosecutor Bob Kaiser had been waiting for. The notes showed Eugene's obsessive state of mind when his wife filed for divorce.
"Was he going into her pants and sniffing the crotch of her pants to see if it smelled like spermicidal jelly? Yes. That's what he was doing. Breaking into her house, looking through everything in the house," Kaiser said.
Even though Jean's body had never been found, Kaiser went with what he did have, circumstantial evidence that Jean had been murdered. So, after 30 years from the time that Jean had vanished, Kaiser ordered police to arrest Eugene Zapata. Eugene was charged with first degree murder and on Sept. 4, 2007, he went on trial for the first degree murder of Jean.
The prosecution had to rely on evidence of Eugene's movements and the notes that he had tried so hard to conceal. According to the prosecution, Eugene's biggest mistake was answering the phone at Jean's home on Oct. 11, 1976, a morning that he had been barred from being there by a court order.
It took the defense less than one hour to present their case. They simply argued that the prosecution had failed to connect Eugene to any crime. Eugene never said a word in court.
Anyone looking for answers to this 30 year old mystery, would have to keep looking. Behind closed doors, the jurors argued and debated, but even after four days of deliberations, they could not decide what had happened to Jean, no matter how hard they tried. They left the judge no choice but to declare a hung jury.
On Sept. 17, 2007, Eugene walked out of court a free man. But, the husband of Jean and the father of her children, who had kept silent during his trial, was about to stun everyone. After three decades, two investigators and one trial, Eugene was about to break his silence and tell a chilling story. The prosecutor was ready to go back into court to try Eugene again. That's when Eugene suddenly announced that he was willing to plead guilty. Eugene was ready to finally answer the 30 year old question: what had happened to his wife and the mother of his children. BUT, he'd only give the answer if they would plead him down from murder, to a lesser charge.
The district attorney thought that Jean's daughter, Linda, should be the one to decide whether they should accept Eugene's plea, or start all over again in court. Linda said, "The only thing I want is for him to admit he did it. Tell us what happened to her. How he did it. And above all, I needed to see it come out of his mouth. I needed to see him say, 'I killed her.'" The deal was done, and Eugene, who had lied to his children, broke his silence and told his story to Det. Statz.
Eugene told Statz that he had gone over to Jean's house, and shortly thereafter, an argument broke out. It turned violent, he said, when he grabbed a paperweight and hit Jean in the back of the head with it.
Jean laid on the ground still alive, and then Eugene strangled her. He claimed to have no memory of actually having his hands on her throat, but he did have a memory of his hands and forearms hurting a lot. He then got a cord and wrapped it around her neck to make sure that she was actually dead.
Linda asked that her father's entire confession be videotaped. The defense agreed, on the condition that she would be the only person to see it and then it would be locked away forever.
When Linda was asked what it felt like seeing her father's confession, she says, "I just felt sick to my stomach. I felt so sad. But, it was also very therapeutic. I felt like I was there for my mom again. The truth is coming out. This is what happened. And it was big, almost a relief."
Eugene Zapata returned to court once again, this time to face his sentence and to face his daughter. The same daughter that he had lied to for 30 years.
Linda stated that she felt as if she had a huge weight off of her shoulders. She now knew that her mother did not abandon her and she could begin the mourning process. On April 12, 2008, she held a memorial service in the same church where Jean had been a member.
She said that it was if her mother were saying, "What took you guys so long?"
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Three months and still nothing
Well, it was 3 months on Oct. 12th, since Jennifer went missing.
Unless, by some miracle she walks back into her home within the next few weeks, her children will be getting ready to spend their first Halloween without their mother. Imagine being a child and not having your Mother to help you pick out your costume, to help you get all dressed up and then to take you around to say those magic little words "Trick or Treat!". Imagne not having your Mother there to help you pick thru your "stash" and see all of the goodies that you got. Imagine not being able to give your Mother her favorite piece of candy that was found in your bag.
I pray that Jennifer is found alive and well. But so much time has passed, that I'm so afraid that won't be the case. With each day that passes, the chances of her being found alive and well slip further and further away.
If someone has done something to her, I hope that her face and voice will haunt them until the day that they die. We all need to remember that all because we THINK that we have gotten away with something that we've done on this earth....it will catch up to us. We may not pay for it in this lifetime, but when we have to stand before God to be judged.....we will most assuredly pay for it then.
We are planning on organizing a search party when I get there in Nov., if Jennifer has not been found by then. We will post more info here, on the myspace pages and on the new forum, as we get more details. You can also email us at the email address furnished on this blog, or at my personal email address: djansons52@yahoo.ca
In the meantime, if you have any info, please contact the Madison County Sheriff's Dept.
Unless, by some miracle she walks back into her home within the next few weeks, her children will be getting ready to spend their first Halloween without their mother. Imagine being a child and not having your Mother to help you pick out your costume, to help you get all dressed up and then to take you around to say those magic little words "Trick or Treat!". Imagne not having your Mother there to help you pick thru your "stash" and see all of the goodies that you got. Imagine not being able to give your Mother her favorite piece of candy that was found in your bag.
I pray that Jennifer is found alive and well. But so much time has passed, that I'm so afraid that won't be the case. With each day that passes, the chances of her being found alive and well slip further and further away.
If someone has done something to her, I hope that her face and voice will haunt them until the day that they die. We all need to remember that all because we THINK that we have gotten away with something that we've done on this earth....it will catch up to us. We may not pay for it in this lifetime, but when we have to stand before God to be judged.....we will most assuredly pay for it then.
We are planning on organizing a search party when I get there in Nov., if Jennifer has not been found by then. We will post more info here, on the myspace pages and on the new forum, as we get more details. You can also email us at the email address furnished on this blog, or at my personal email address: djansons52@yahoo.ca
In the meantime, if you have any info, please contact the Madison County Sheriff's Dept.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
New site for Jennifer set up
In addition to the blog, we have set up a new site for Jennifer.
The link to the site is:
http://helpfindjenniferpowers.freeforum.ca
Since this is a forum, you can use any screen name that you choose, so that you will still be anonymous in your postings.
Please feel free to check it out and post.
Deb
The link to the site is:
http://helpfindjenniferpowers.freeforum.ca
Since this is a forum, you can use any screen name that you choose, so that you will still be anonymous in your postings.
Please feel free to check it out and post.
Deb
Monday, September 29, 2008
Body Identified as Jennifer Hampton
Unfortunately, the body found in the water close to Oak Ridge, TN., has been identified as that of Jennifer Hampton, 21.
The official word came in today. The authorities are maintaining that this was a homocide, but no details are being released at this time.
Let's offer our thoughts and prayers to her family. Her poor parent's must be so lost.
This is TWO women that went missing and have been found murdered in a very short time!
What is happening that these women are being attacked and slaughtered like cattle and then disposed of like a piece of trash?? Whatever happened to men that knew how to be a man and walk away instead of doing these horrendous deeds?
Every time that I hear another body has been found, I hold my breath until an ID has been made. I pray everyday that "our" Jennifer will come home safe and sound. But, with each day that passes, I fear that will never happen.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming up. Those children need their mother to be with them especially at Christmas. I'm an adult. I lost my mother 3 years ago, but I can tell you now, Christmas is NEVER the same without your mother being there with you, no matter what your age.
Keep your emails coming. Maybe one of those will be the one that will unlock this whole mystery.
Friday, September 26, 2008
77 Days with no answers
It has been 77 days since Jennifer Powers left home. There are still a lot of unanswered questions. The holidays are not far off.Don't you think that her kids would like there Mom home to eat Turkey at Thanksgiving and open gifts on Christmas.
Why hasn't Jennifer's picture been on the news. Does anyone care that she walked out of her house in the middle of the night.
There have been a few other cases that have been pushed under the rug. A few people gave me a great idea. We are going to start writing letters to our congressmen/women. There has to be more done than oh she/he left on there own. They need to follow every clue and not just say there is no foul play. The way the law sees it is no body no foul play.
If you would like to write a letter that would be wonderful. I will post the link at the bottom of this post. It will give you the info on the members of congress that Represent the area Jennifer went missing from.
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=ALSR&site=ctc&address=&city=&state=AL&zipcode=35803&plusfour=N/A
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=ALJR&site=ctc&address=&city=&state=AL&zipcode=35803&plusfour=N/A
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=ALJR&site=ctc&address=&city=&state=AL&zipcode=35803&plusfour=N/A
Why hasn't Jennifer's picture been on the news. Does anyone care that she walked out of her house in the middle of the night.
There have been a few other cases that have been pushed under the rug. A few people gave me a great idea. We are going to start writing letters to our congressmen/women. There has to be more done than oh she/he left on there own. They need to follow every clue and not just say there is no foul play. The way the law sees it is no body no foul play.
If you would like to write a letter that would be wonderful. I will post the link at the bottom of this post. It will give you the info on the members of congress that Represent the area Jennifer went missing from.
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=ALSR&site=ctc&address=&city=&state=AL&zipcode=35803&plusfour=N/A
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=ALJR&site=ctc&address=&city=&state=AL&zipcode=35803&plusfour=N/A
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=ALJR&site=ctc&address=&city=&state=AL&zipcode=35803&plusfour=N/A
Friday, September 12, 2008
Today marks the 2 month anniversary............
Today marks the 2 month anniversary, since Jennifer "left home".
This has to be the hardest thing that her children and parents have ever had to endure. Can you imagine not knowing where your mother/daughter is, or what has happened to her?????
Her children may laugh and continue with their lives, but in the backs of their minds, they have to be thinking about their mother and wondering why she would leave them. Her parents must be thinking about the phone calls that never come from her anymore, or the visits with their daughter that they must have looked forward to.
How could anyone live with themselves if they had something to do with this beautiful young woman now being "missing"? How could they look at her children, parents, family and friends, knowing that they have that piece of missing information that would bring her home. How could they sleep at night? Would her face and voice not haunt their dreams and every waking hour?
If anyone out there knows anything at all about the disappearance of Jennifer, they need to contact the proper authorities immediately. Please help to bring her home, for her children and parents.....if for no other reason.
This has to be the hardest thing that her children and parents have ever had to endure. Can you imagine not knowing where your mother/daughter is, or what has happened to her?????
Her children may laugh and continue with their lives, but in the backs of their minds, they have to be thinking about their mother and wondering why she would leave them. Her parents must be thinking about the phone calls that never come from her anymore, or the visits with their daughter that they must have looked forward to.
How could anyone live with themselves if they had something to do with this beautiful young woman now being "missing"? How could they look at her children, parents, family and friends, knowing that they have that piece of missing information that would bring her home. How could they sleep at night? Would her face and voice not haunt their dreams and every waking hour?
If anyone out there knows anything at all about the disappearance of Jennifer, they need to contact the proper authorities immediately. Please help to bring her home, for her children and parents.....if for no other reason.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Body found in well identified........................
The body found in the well at 229 Henry Bayless Rd., Ardmore, TN, has been identified as 36 yr. old Rachel Michelle Lane.
This case started out as a child's report of sexual abuse to a school counselor. It went from a report of sexual abuse, to the search for a missing person and then finally a case of murder.
The TN. Dept. of Human Resources, referred the case to Investigator Joyce McConnell. McConnell went to the home of Keith Allen Lane, 35, to investigate the allegations of child sexual abuse. McConnell also wanted to speak with his wife, Rachel Michelle Lane. Lane told McConnell that he and his wife were "seperated and his wife was out of the house".
Lane was living with his mother, and he and Rachel were married and had one little boy. Lane had another child, a biological daughter, and there was one more little boy in the home, a nephew. According to McConnell, the Lane's were in the process of divorcing.
McConnell said that she came to interview Rachel Lane, because "when you are working a child abuse case, you need to talk to the mother as a possible witness." However, McConnell could not find Rachel to talk with her. She finally located Rachel's mother. The mother was living in another state and had not heard from her daughter. The more McConnell checked, the more suspicous she became and the more the mother checked.
Rachel's mother filed a missing person's report on June 30th, and Rachel was listed as officially missing.
McConnell obtained a search warrant, to search the Lane home on Henry Bayless Rd. after further investigation. They searched for 2 days, and on Aug. 14th, investigators found the remains of a woman, 28 ft. down in the bottom of a hand-dug well on the property.
The medical examiner identified the remains as that of Rachel Michelle Lane with an old x-ray. Rachel had been in an automobile accident in Feb. and had pins in her ankle. The pins were what led to the positive ID.
Autopsy results cannot be released yet, but the TN. authorities believe that they know the cause of death.
A Preliminary Hearing has been held for Keith Allen Lane, and the case was bound over to the Lincoln County Circuit Court. A grand jury will convene on Sept. 16th to decide if there's enough evidence to indict Lane on the following charges:
1) Criminal homicide in connection with his wife's death;
2)Sexual battery by an authority figure; and
3)Assault in connection with abuse of one of the children.
The child's name and age are not being disclosed.
Keith Lane is being held without bond in the Lincoln County Jail and all 3 children have been removed from the Lane home.
McConnell says that she doesn't know if Rachel would have ever been found if there had not been an investigation of child abuse in the Lane home.
***NOTE***
This story was taken from the Athens-News Courier.
This case started out as a child's report of sexual abuse to a school counselor. It went from a report of sexual abuse, to the search for a missing person and then finally a case of murder.
The TN. Dept. of Human Resources, referred the case to Investigator Joyce McConnell. McConnell went to the home of Keith Allen Lane, 35, to investigate the allegations of child sexual abuse. McConnell also wanted to speak with his wife, Rachel Michelle Lane. Lane told McConnell that he and his wife were "seperated and his wife was out of the house".
Lane was living with his mother, and he and Rachel were married and had one little boy. Lane had another child, a biological daughter, and there was one more little boy in the home, a nephew. According to McConnell, the Lane's were in the process of divorcing.
McConnell said that she came to interview Rachel Lane, because "when you are working a child abuse case, you need to talk to the mother as a possible witness." However, McConnell could not find Rachel to talk with her. She finally located Rachel's mother. The mother was living in another state and had not heard from her daughter. The more McConnell checked, the more suspicous she became and the more the mother checked.
Rachel's mother filed a missing person's report on June 30th, and Rachel was listed as officially missing.
McConnell obtained a search warrant, to search the Lane home on Henry Bayless Rd. after further investigation. They searched for 2 days, and on Aug. 14th, investigators found the remains of a woman, 28 ft. down in the bottom of a hand-dug well on the property.
The medical examiner identified the remains as that of Rachel Michelle Lane with an old x-ray. Rachel had been in an automobile accident in Feb. and had pins in her ankle. The pins were what led to the positive ID.
Autopsy results cannot be released yet, but the TN. authorities believe that they know the cause of death.
A Preliminary Hearing has been held for Keith Allen Lane, and the case was bound over to the Lincoln County Circuit Court. A grand jury will convene on Sept. 16th to decide if there's enough evidence to indict Lane on the following charges:
1) Criminal homicide in connection with his wife's death;
2)Sexual battery by an authority figure; and
3)Assault in connection with abuse of one of the children.
The child's name and age are not being disclosed.
Keith Lane is being held without bond in the Lincoln County Jail and all 3 children have been removed from the Lane home.
McConnell says that she doesn't know if Rachel would have ever been found if there had not been an investigation of child abuse in the Lane home.
***NOTE***
This story was taken from the Athens-News Courier.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
IF YOU DO NOT LIKE................
WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THEM DO NOT READ IT. WE ARE ENTITLED TO OUR OPINIONS AND OUR FREEDOM TO CHAT ABOUT THIS. I AM TIRED OF PEOPLE ASKING ME WHO I AM. GUESS WHAT I AM NOT GOING TO TELL YOU WHO I AM. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THAT THEN I AM SORRY. IT SEEMS LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE TALKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO JENNIFER ARE MORE CONCERNED THEN HER OWN HUSBAND.
IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WHAT WE SAY PLEASE DO NOT READ WHAT WE ARE WRITING. THAT WAY YOU HAVE NOTHING TO GET MAD OR UPSET ABOUT.
THE ONLY REASON WE HAVEN'T ASKED TO DO A SEARCH FOR JENNIFER IS BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT TO DO IT WITHOUT THE FAMILY BEING INVOLVED. IF THEY DO WANT TO DO A SEARCH I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE WILLING TO HELP.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT THIS UNTIL JENNIFER COMES HOME.
IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WHAT WE SAY PLEASE DO NOT READ WHAT WE ARE WRITING. THAT WAY YOU HAVE NOTHING TO GET MAD OR UPSET ABOUT.
THE ONLY REASON WE HAVEN'T ASKED TO DO A SEARCH FOR JENNIFER IS BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT TO DO IT WITHOUT THE FAMILY BEING INVOLVED. IF THEY DO WANT TO DO A SEARCH I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE WILLING TO HELP.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT THIS UNTIL JENNIFER COMES HOME.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Information from the neighborhood
Hello all,
I have some info from the neighborhood that Jennifer's parents live in. She has been letting me know what is going on at the Locke's home. I received a email from her today. I told her that I would not give out her name. Just because I want to protect her from the unknown. Since we don't know what happened to Jennifer I don't want the bad guy to know who the neighbor is.
Here is her email.....................
Jennifer
From:
Sent: Wed 8/27/08 11:01 AM
To: helpfindher@live.com
I agree that we need a search party. I live in the same subdivision as Jennifers mother and grandmother, her son plays with my stepson in the summer. Our whole neighborhood has offered to do a search party. I am afraid it is too late though. THis morning when I looked out my kitchen window, I saw 2 madison county cars parked at her parents house. I am afraid that she is gone, I am hopeful that they found her alive, but I am scared that she is gone and yes I do think her husband is guilty. He is an ass.
But if you want to get more people involved in a search party, we have a whole neighborhood ready to go at a moments notice. Everyone out here grew up with Jennifer and it is BEYOND STRANGE that she would just leave.
Here is the email I sent back.................
----- Original Message ----
From: Help find Jennifer Powers
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:33:39 AM
Subject: RE: Jennifer
I don't know Jennifer. But I feel like I have known her for a while. I am deadly afraid of her husband. I keep having dreams that he breaks into my house and tries to kill me. My husband works with Jason at UPS. There has been talk that he (Jason) is mad by the blogs on line talking about what is going on. Do you know if you have any pictures of Jennifer that we can get up. There is a myspace account and a blog through google that is set up for her.
I have seen Jason laughing with a female guard at his work. If he is so upset that his wife is missing why is he standing there talking to this girl laughing. Then this girl was asking about him when Jason was off for a hurt foot. Why is he not bugging the crap out of the news to keep her story out in the public eye.
There is a lot of people that would help with a search. But we don't want to cross a thin line with the family. I know that her parents have to be so sad over this. If you hear of a search please let me know so I can get the word out.
Also do you mind if I put your email on the blog and myspace account. I wont put you email or anything like that. We just want to update everyone.
Myspace account
http://www.myspace.com/helpfindjenniferpowers
Helpfindthemissing.org site for Jennifer
http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6928
Google Blog
http://helpfindjenniferpowers.blogspot.com/
Then she wrote this back.....................
Re: Jennifer
From:
Sent: Wed 8/27/08 1:45 PM
To: Help find Jennifer Powers (helpfindher@live.com)
I dont mind if you use my email. I dont have any pics of jennifer, but her oldest daughter looks just like her, just without the red hair. Jennifer is a nice looking girl, she still looks like shes 17, she weights about 100 pounds, skinny, freckles, and red hair. I will talk more to our neighbors and see if they would like to talk to the family. Her cousin lives across the street and she is 100% sure the husband did it. SHe also wants a search party. I will see what I can do.
This gives me the feeling that she didn't leave on her own. Someone took her out of the house. I will keep everyone updated on the information I get from her.
I have some info from the neighborhood that Jennifer's parents live in. She has been letting me know what is going on at the Locke's home. I received a email from her today. I told her that I would not give out her name. Just because I want to protect her from the unknown. Since we don't know what happened to Jennifer I don't want the bad guy to know who the neighbor is.
Here is her email.....................
Jennifer
From:
Sent: Wed 8/27/08 11:01 AM
To: helpfindher@live.com
I agree that we need a search party. I live in the same subdivision as Jennifers mother and grandmother, her son plays with my stepson in the summer. Our whole neighborhood has offered to do a search party. I am afraid it is too late though. THis morning when I looked out my kitchen window, I saw 2 madison county cars parked at her parents house. I am afraid that she is gone, I am hopeful that they found her alive, but I am scared that she is gone and yes I do think her husband is guilty. He is an ass.
But if you want to get more people involved in a search party, we have a whole neighborhood ready to go at a moments notice. Everyone out here grew up with Jennifer and it is BEYOND STRANGE that she would just leave.
Here is the email I sent back.................
----- Original Message ----
From: Help find Jennifer Powers
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:33:39 AM
Subject: RE: Jennifer
I don't know Jennifer. But I feel like I have known her for a while. I am deadly afraid of her husband. I keep having dreams that he breaks into my house and tries to kill me. My husband works with Jason at UPS. There has been talk that he (Jason) is mad by the blogs on line talking about what is going on. Do you know if you have any pictures of Jennifer that we can get up. There is a myspace account and a blog through google that is set up for her.
I have seen Jason laughing with a female guard at his work. If he is so upset that his wife is missing why is he standing there talking to this girl laughing. Then this girl was asking about him when Jason was off for a hurt foot. Why is he not bugging the crap out of the news to keep her story out in the public eye.
There is a lot of people that would help with a search. But we don't want to cross a thin line with the family. I know that her parents have to be so sad over this. If you hear of a search please let me know so I can get the word out.
Also do you mind if I put your email on the blog and myspace account. I wont put you email or anything like that. We just want to update everyone.
Myspace account
http://www.myspace.com/helpfindjenniferpowers
Helpfindthemissing.org site for Jennifer
http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6928
Google Blog
http://helpfindjenniferpowers.blogspot.com/
Then she wrote this back.....................
Re: Jennifer
From:
Sent: Wed 8/27/08 1:45 PM
To: Help find Jennifer Powers (helpfindher@live.com)
I dont mind if you use my email. I dont have any pics of jennifer, but her oldest daughter looks just like her, just without the red hair. Jennifer is a nice looking girl, she still looks like shes 17, she weights about 100 pounds, skinny, freckles, and red hair. I will talk more to our neighbors and see if they would like to talk to the family. Her cousin lives across the street and she is 100% sure the husband did it. SHe also wants a search party. I will see what I can do.
This gives me the feeling that she didn't leave on her own. Someone took her out of the house. I will keep everyone updated on the information I get from her.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
We need to come together
As a community we need to come together on this. Jennifer has been gone for over a month. No phone calls home, and no one has seen her. I watch the news every day and I even get the news paper. There is nothing in there about her husband wanting her found. I think it is time to set up a search party. I was on al.com today and someone posted this on a blog.
http://www.al.com/forums/huntsville/index.ssf
Madison County needs to wake up! Jennifer's parents are daily looking for their daughter, but cooperation in the sheriff's dept. is not there. If you think the department is being quiet due to being close to an arrest, you are mistaken. The sheriff's department has no idea what has happened to Jennifer, and has stated that there is nothing they can do until her body is found. The forensics division has not been called in, due to the fact that "they are not aware of a crime being committed". Unfortunately, living in Madison County, you are on your own if you are in trouble, unless you can manage to paint a clear sign where the department cannot help but see it, and decide to start looking for you. This "investigation" is about to be turned over to the two deputies that do nothing other than handle missing persons, in other words, put on a back burner. We, as residents of Madison county need to stand up and DEMAND that every person, regardless of their situation, have police protection and assistance. Alabama is the only state that I am aware of that refuses to consider fowl play until a massive amount of evidence is thrown to them, or a body is found. Jennifer has no history of leaving her family or children, in fact this is the first time she has ever let a day go by without talking to her mother. She left 3 children she adored, her Driver's License, her purse, her medication.. if these facts are not suggestive of fowl play, then what does it take?
http://www.al.com/forums/huntsville/index.ssf
Madison County needs to wake up! Jennifer's parents are daily looking for their daughter, but cooperation in the sheriff's dept. is not there. If you think the department is being quiet due to being close to an arrest, you are mistaken. The sheriff's department has no idea what has happened to Jennifer, and has stated that there is nothing they can do until her body is found. The forensics division has not been called in, due to the fact that "they are not aware of a crime being committed". Unfortunately, living in Madison County, you are on your own if you are in trouble, unless you can manage to paint a clear sign where the department cannot help but see it, and decide to start looking for you. This "investigation" is about to be turned over to the two deputies that do nothing other than handle missing persons, in other words, put on a back burner. We, as residents of Madison county need to stand up and DEMAND that every person, regardless of their situation, have police protection and assistance. Alabama is the only state that I am aware of that refuses to consider fowl play until a massive amount of evidence is thrown to them, or a body is found. Jennifer has no history of leaving her family or children, in fact this is the first time she has ever let a day go by without talking to her mother. She left 3 children she adored, her Driver's License, her purse, her medication.. if these facts are not suggestive of fowl play, then what does it take?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Lincoln County Tennessee....Update
I read a blog on al.com. Someone on there said that there was something going on in Ardmore/Fayetteville area.
This is what that person posted.
Channel 31 is reporting a story about the police being called to a trailor out in Ardmore/Fayetteville area. They aren't saying what they are searching for but they have setup a "command post" there. Will have to wait until they release more details. Can't say it's connected to Jennifer just interesting.
Well at 11 this morning I watched the news. This is what they said.
Ok I just changed the channel to the news. They said that the police have been there looking since Tuesday. They moved in dump trucks and tractors. But they are not releasing any information and wont say if it is a crime area or not. They will have more on it at 5 pm and 6 pm on channel 31. I just have a bad feeling about this. I know that the TN state line is about 45 minutes from me and I live in Southeast Huntsville. So I will watch the news tonight and see what they say.
Mysterious Investigation Underway in Lincoln County
Posted: Aug 14, 2008 11:52 AM CDT
(Photo: Brett Haas)
(Photo: Brett Haas)
FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. (WAAY) -- Something suspicious in the area of a trailer between Ardmore and Fayetteville caught investigators' attention Tuesday, with a combination of county, state and federal authorities still at the scene Thursday.
The investigation reportedly began Tuesday and continued through Wednesday. The sheriff's department moved a mobile command station onto the scene Wednesday night.
As the investigation continued Thursday morning, officials from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security were at the scene, along with backhoes and dump trucks.
Lincoln County Sheriff Murray Blackwelder said he is not able to to release what investigators are looking for, what they've found or even if it's a crime scene.
WAAY-31 has a crew at the scene in Lincoln County. Stay tuned for more details on WAAYTV.com and WAAY-31 News at 5 and 6.
Web Editor: Dana Franks and Brett Haas
This is what that person posted.
Channel 31 is reporting a story about the police being called to a trailor out in Ardmore/Fayetteville area. They aren't saying what they are searching for but they have setup a "command post" there. Will have to wait until they release more details. Can't say it's connected to Jennifer just interesting.
Well at 11 this morning I watched the news. This is what they said.
Ok I just changed the channel to the news. They said that the police have been there looking since Tuesday. They moved in dump trucks and tractors. But they are not releasing any information and wont say if it is a crime area or not. They will have more on it at 5 pm and 6 pm on channel 31. I just have a bad feeling about this. I know that the TN state line is about 45 minutes from me and I live in Southeast Huntsville. So I will watch the news tonight and see what they say.
Mysterious Investigation Underway in Lincoln County
Posted: Aug 14, 2008 11:52 AM CDT
(Photo: Brett Haas)
(Photo: Brett Haas)
FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. (WAAY) -- Something suspicious in the area of a trailer between Ardmore and Fayetteville caught investigators' attention Tuesday, with a combination of county, state and federal authorities still at the scene Thursday.
The investigation reportedly began Tuesday and continued through Wednesday. The sheriff's department moved a mobile command station onto the scene Wednesday night.
As the investigation continued Thursday morning, officials from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security were at the scene, along with backhoes and dump trucks.
Lincoln County Sheriff Murray Blackwelder said he is not able to to release what investigators are looking for, what they've found or even if it's a crime scene.
WAAY-31 has a crew at the scene in Lincoln County. Stay tuned for more details on WAAYTV.com and WAAY-31 News at 5 and 6.
Web Editor: Dana Franks and Brett Haas
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
We have past the one month mark
Well yesterday was the one month mark since Jennifer "walked outside in the middle of the night" and hasn't been seen since.
There are questions that hangs over my head.
What happened to Jennifer Powers?
Why isn't her husband Jason talking to the media asking for help?
What are her kids thinking about when mommy isn't there to say good night?
Why is the sheriff's dept so hush hush about her case?
Why can't we get a missing persons flyer on her?
Why isn't there pictures of her posted on missing person web-site?
Why haven't we been told what she was last seen wearing?
What about tattoos, scars, and jewlery?
What about bank account activity?
Why does it seem like citizens are more concerned about her than her husband?
What happened to Jennifer? Someone somewhere knows where she is. That person needs to come forward and talk to the police. If you don't have the guts to do that, then let us know where she is. You can send a email to helpfindher@live.com and let us know where Jennifer is. Her kids need there mother. Her parents need there daughter. Her friends need there friend back. The county of Madison, and the state of Alabama want there friend back. Over the last few weeks it seems like I have come to know a woman that I have never met. We all want to know where Jennifer is.
There are questions that hangs over my head.
What happened to Jennifer Powers?
Why isn't her husband Jason talking to the media asking for help?
What are her kids thinking about when mommy isn't there to say good night?
Why is the sheriff's dept so hush hush about her case?
Why can't we get a missing persons flyer on her?
Why isn't there pictures of her posted on missing person web-site?
Why haven't we been told what she was last seen wearing?
What about tattoos, scars, and jewlery?
What about bank account activity?
Why does it seem like citizens are more concerned about her than her husband?
What happened to Jennifer? Someone somewhere knows where she is. That person needs to come forward and talk to the police. If you don't have the guts to do that, then let us know where she is. You can send a email to helpfindher@live.com and let us know where Jennifer is. Her kids need there mother. Her parents need there daughter. Her friends need there friend back. The county of Madison, and the state of Alabama want there friend back. Over the last few weeks it seems like I have come to know a woman that I have never met. We all want to know where Jennifer is.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Madison County Sheriff's department
I just received a call from the Sheriff''s department. I asked if we could get a copy of the flyer. They said that is being handled through the family. They said that they would pass my number along to the family.
They also said that the family is handling the search efforts on Jennifer. The officer I spoke to said the case is confidential and that they can not give out any information about it. Ok I do understand that. But can't they give out what she was last seen wearing, if she has any tattoos, rings, scars and so on.
I hope to be getting a phone call from the family. Once that happens and I get a copy of the flyer I will email it to everyone that I have a email on.
They also said that the family is handling the search efforts on Jennifer. The officer I spoke to said the case is confidential and that they can not give out any information about it. Ok I do understand that. But can't they give out what she was last seen wearing, if she has any tattoos, rings, scars and so on.
I hope to be getting a phone call from the family. Once that happens and I get a copy of the flyer I will email it to everyone that I have a email on.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
News Channels and News papers
Ok I do want to put this on here so everyone has the information. We all need to bug the news channels out there. I know that channel 19 was the only one that I saw that reported this. I know that they talked with Jennifers husband Jason Powers. I saved the link to the video, but it looks like they took it off there website.
Here is the reporters name and email address that talked with Jason.
Ellis Eskew
WHNT-TV/ NewsChannel 19
Reporter
(256) 682-1036
ellis.eskew@whnt.com
Also we need to get onto www.waff.com and start emailing them. With pressure they may step up to the plate and put something in the news.
Here is the news department at WAFF.
Stew Hirsch, News Director
Amanda Jarrett, Assignment Desk
Phone: (256) 533-6397
Fax: (256) 534-4101
e-mail: news@waff.com
We need to start writing letters to the editor for the Huntsville Times. Here is the information for Huntsville Times Publisher.
Bob Ludwig, Publisher bob.ludwig@htimes.com
We need to bug these people like there is no tomorrow.
Here is everything I can find about Jennifer Powers that has been in the paper or news.
From the Huntsville Times
29-year-old woman missing from Harvest
Posted by Staff reports July 24, 2008 2:51 PM
Categories: News
Madison County investigators are asking for the public's help in finding Jennifer Fay Powers, who has been missing since July 12.
Powers, 29, left her home in Harvest on July 12 and hasn't been seen or heard from since by family or friends, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
She is described as a white female with red hair and brown eyes. She's about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs about 125 pounds.
If anyone has information on her whereabouts, please contact the Madison County Sheriff's Department of Investigator Chad Brooks at 256-533-8826.
News Channel 19 www.whnt.com
July 24, 2008
NewsChannel 19's Ellis Eskew reports:
It's been nearly 2 weeks since Jennifer Powers' husband, Jason, last saw her. And each day it gets tougher for the family.
"I just want to know she's okay now. Went from wanting her home to now I just want to know she's okay.. I got 3 kids in here I got to put to bed every night. You know, 'where's momma?' I just 'momma loves you. momma loves you. She just needs time to herself.' I don't know what else to say to them," said husband Jason Powers.
Jason says he thinks Jennifer got up in the middle of the night to go outside. But she never returned.
She even left her wallet and driver's license behind.
Now Jason's left to take care of their three children... Brittany, Katelyn, and Dylan. And he says they are doing surprisingly well under the circumstances.
"You know, I wake up and they are in there laughing... I'm barely able to get out of bed, you know.... But they're better than I thought."
But there is one thing he would like to let his wife know.
"That we love her...please call somebody... Just let us know she's okay. That's all we want to know."
If you have any information on Jennifer Powers, contact the MAdison CountySheriff's Department at (256) 722-7181.
Here is the reporters name and email address that talked with Jason.
Ellis Eskew
WHNT-TV/ NewsChannel 19
Reporter
(256) 682-1036
ellis.eskew@whnt.com
Also we need to get onto www.waff.com and start emailing them. With pressure they may step up to the plate and put something in the news.
Here is the news department at WAFF.
Stew Hirsch, News Director
Amanda Jarrett, Assignment Desk
Phone: (256) 533-6397
Fax: (256) 534-4101
e-mail: news@waff.com
We need to start writing letters to the editor for the Huntsville Times. Here is the information for Huntsville Times Publisher.
Bob Ludwig, Publisher bob.ludwig@htimes.com
We need to bug these people like there is no tomorrow.
Here is everything I can find about Jennifer Powers that has been in the paper or news.
From the Huntsville Times
29-year-old woman missing from Harvest
Posted by Staff reports July 24, 2008 2:51 PM
Categories: News
Madison County investigators are asking for the public's help in finding Jennifer Fay Powers, who has been missing since July 12.
Powers, 29, left her home in Harvest on July 12 and hasn't been seen or heard from since by family or friends, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
She is described as a white female with red hair and brown eyes. She's about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs about 125 pounds.
If anyone has information on her whereabouts, please contact the Madison County Sheriff's Department of Investigator Chad Brooks at 256-533-8826.
News Channel 19 www.whnt.com
July 24, 2008
NewsChannel 19's Ellis Eskew reports:
It's been nearly 2 weeks since Jennifer Powers' husband, Jason, last saw her. And each day it gets tougher for the family.
"I just want to know she's okay now. Went from wanting her home to now I just want to know she's okay.. I got 3 kids in here I got to put to bed every night. You know, 'where's momma?' I just 'momma loves you. momma loves you. She just needs time to herself.' I don't know what else to say to them," said husband Jason Powers.
Jason says he thinks Jennifer got up in the middle of the night to go outside. But she never returned.
She even left her wallet and driver's license behind.
Now Jason's left to take care of their three children... Brittany, Katelyn, and Dylan. And he says they are doing surprisingly well under the circumstances.
"You know, I wake up and they are in there laughing... I'm barely able to get out of bed, you know.... But they're better than I thought."
But there is one thing he would like to let his wife know.
"That we love her...please call somebody... Just let us know she's okay. That's all we want to know."
If you have any information on Jennifer Powers, contact the MAdison CountySheriff's Department at (256) 722-7181.
Address Number 2
Ok so here I am again with another map. This one is for the address of 148 Granto Dr, Harvest, AL. You will see lots of trees around the area.
I did drive out to Harvest today to see if there were and missing person flyer's out. There is one at the corner of McKee Rd and 53. There is also one hanging in the door of the Exxon on Wall Triana Hwy and Harvest Rd. I looked at the one at the gas station and it have Samuel and Shirley Locke with the phone number of 256-837-0487.
I think that might be Jennifer's parents. When I looked up a address history on Jennifer, Mr and Mrs. Locke's address was one of them. My question is, why isn't her husbands name on the flyer's also. I do know he got hurt at work and is not working right now. So while he is at home what is he doing to find his wife. Why hasn't he talked to the media again. Why are people who don't even know Jennifer talking about doing and setting up a search party. Remember these are directed at her husband and not her parents. Her parents are most likely older and wouldn't be able to get out there and walk through trees to look for her. As a parent I would be asking these same questions to my daughters husband.
I think we should set up a search team to comb through the trees near this address. We need to start bugging the Sheriff's department. We need to know if she was wearing rings, necklaces, what clothes she had on, tattoos and ect. That way if we see any of these we can let them know. If you want to set up a search team please feel free to let me know. You can leave your comment here or you can email helpfindher@msn.com with your contact info, and the days and times that are good for you.
I did drive out to Harvest today to see if there were and missing person flyer's out. There is one at the corner of McKee Rd and 53. There is also one hanging in the door of the Exxon on Wall Triana Hwy and Harvest Rd. I looked at the one at the gas station and it have Samuel and Shirley Locke with the phone number of 256-837-0487.
I think that might be Jennifer's parents. When I looked up a address history on Jennifer, Mr and Mrs. Locke's address was one of them. My question is, why isn't her husbands name on the flyer's also. I do know he got hurt at work and is not working right now. So while he is at home what is he doing to find his wife. Why hasn't he talked to the media again. Why are people who don't even know Jennifer talking about doing and setting up a search party. Remember these are directed at her husband and not her parents. Her parents are most likely older and wouldn't be able to get out there and walk through trees to look for her. As a parent I would be asking these same questions to my daughters husband.
I think we should set up a search team to comb through the trees near this address. We need to start bugging the Sheriff's department. We need to know if she was wearing rings, necklaces, what clothes she had on, tattoos and ect. That way if we see any of these we can let them know. If you want to set up a search team please feel free to let me know. You can leave your comment here or you can email helpfindher@msn.com with your contact info, and the days and times that are good for you.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Map of address that I have for a Jennifer Powers
Here is the area that has the pond. You will see one push pin to the left. That is one of the 2 addresses that I have for a Jennifer Powers in Harvest. The 2nd push pin that is on the right is the pond. Now that is close to the address that I have. I looked for a Jason Powers on the site I use and got nothing in return.
Almost one month
It has been almost one month since Jennifer Powers has been missing. There still hasn't been any sign of her. There is a group of concerned people that want to help. But we have very little information about what happened.
We would like to hang missing person flyers out but we can not find where to get them. We have been told there are some hanging in gas stations. So Monday I am going to go to the gas station where they are at and ask for a copy. That way we can get them out all over town.
Also we have talked about doing a search party. I have looked into a few things. I have 2 possible addresses that match a Jennifer F. Powers from Harvest. One is less than a mile from a pond. The other address is in a open part of Harvest. I am going to try to see if I can save the pictures from msn maps and upload them on here so you can see what I am talking about.
We would like to hang missing person flyers out but we can not find where to get them. We have been told there are some hanging in gas stations. So Monday I am going to go to the gas station where they are at and ask for a copy. That way we can get them out all over town.
Also we have talked about doing a search party. I have looked into a few things. I have 2 possible addresses that match a Jennifer F. Powers from Harvest. One is less than a mile from a pond. The other address is in a open part of Harvest. I am going to try to see if I can save the pictures from msn maps and upload them on here so you can see what I am talking about.
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