Holly Amber Elischer - Holly Womack 30 - MISSING - 03October2012 - Gary Indiana
Holly Womack vanished weeks ago after police dropped her off at a shelter.
CBS 2’s Pamela Jones reports on her family’s frantic search.
“The longer it takes, the reality is, she might not be OK,” the missing woman’s mother, Darlene Strickland, says tearfully. She describes her worst fears about what may have happened to her daughter Womack, 30.
Womack disappeared three weeks ago in Gary and hasn’t been seen since.
Her mom says the trouble began with an argument at Womack’s ex-husband’s trailer Oct. 2.
“She left his premises that night, but I’m thinking she would have called him back,” Strickland says.
From her home in Georgia, Womack’s mom called Gary police, who picked the woman up.
Police dropped her off at a shelter at 4th and Connecticut.
But Womack’s family says they turned her away.
The mother with untreated bi-polar disorder started to wander.
“If she don’t take her medicine, she’s just really spaced out and not with the program,” Strickland says.
She’d walked a couple of blocks to the Steel City Buffet. Then she told her mom on a cell phone call that she’d spent a night outdoors at a gazebo — the only one downtown.
Her mother called police but they couldn’t find her.
With no leads, Gary police asked CBS 2 for help in the case.
Gary Police Lt. Lawrence Wright holds out hope Womack will be found alive. He says her last known whereabouts were near the bus station.
“I actually hope that at some point, in some act of desperation, she actually got on a bus and went someplace,” he says.
Womack’s ex-husband tells CBS 2 there was no trouble at the trailer. He believes Womack could have boarded a bus to meet a love interest in Texas. He said police confiscated her computer to check out that theory.
Womack is from Georgia and had moved to Gary in Jul
![BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA: @[436903186373626:274:Missing Brittany Goings]
Brittany A. Goings, age 16, was last seen 10/30/2012 at about 6:25 a.m. when her father dropped her at school. Shortly after, she was seen on the school video surveillance entering a dark colored van or SUV which was parked in front of the school.
Her family has heard from Brittany once, telling them to leave her alone, but her father says even that call seemed odd. "It was almost like a recording how she said it," said Ricky Goings. "She said 'I'm alive, I'm okay' and I said Brittany why don't you come home? She said goodbye and hung up."
Her parents concern is that while she is a smart girl, she is innocent and somewhat gullible. Her family is extremely worried and fearful that she may be under the influence of an adult male and they’ve reason to believe this male may be falsely promising to give her a break into the music industry.
The first night she was missing, Ricky watched this scene play out on his television screen and heard about a 16-year-old girl murdered at 36th and Redick. "I thought it was my daughter. I was about to lose it, but it was some other girl, you know. I was shocked."
The 16-year-old girl murdered that night was Eriana Carr. Goings' heart goes out to the Carr family, but he is still driven by the hope of getting his daughter back.
Goings says his daughter is smart and headstrong, a typical teenager, but she doesn't have the years of experience needed to make all of the right decisions and to stay safe. "You had better tell that dude, whoever he is, to let you go because you need to come back home or else I'm going to come get you."
Goings says originally he thought his daughter may have headed back to Philadelphia to live with her mother, but now he is certain she still is in the area and is hiding out with the man believed to have picked her up from school.
Brittany does not have a history of running away from home.
She is 5’2” tall, weighs about 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She has a dimple in chin, spacing between front teeth, numerous scars, marks and tattoos.
Anyone with any information on her whereabouts contact the Bellevue Police Department at (402) 293-3100 or the Nebraska Missing Persons Information Clearinghouse at (402) 479-4986 in the Lincoln Metro Area or toll free 1-877-441-LOST outside the Lincoln Metro Area.
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