ELIZABETH "LIZ" STONGER * AGE 27 * LIVES IN LOWELL, NC * LAST SEEN IN BELMONT, NC * 10/14/12
ndy Chevrolet Lumina away from the parking lot at Walmart in Belmont where she worked.
The 27-year-old single mother left the store Oct 14 at 1:15 p.m. on her lunch break, waved to a few people, drove away from the store alone and vanished. Her family hasn’t had any communication with her since and says it’s unlike her to just pull up stakes and leave.
Police are baffled by Stonger’s whereabouts and hope someone steps forward with the key that will lead to some answers.
“At this point we don’t have any idea where she’s at,” said Belmont Police Chief Charlie Franklin, who doesn’t suspect foul play in the case at this time.
On the evening she disappeared, her cell phone was used in McDowell County. Since then, there’s been no activity on the phone. Police say she’s conducted no banking business, used no financial cards or any social media including her Facebook account.
‘A real homebody’
Elizabeth “Liz” Stonger of Lowell is originally from the Syracuse, N.Y., area. She lives with her 2-year-old son and her mother, Deb Grover.
She spoke alongside Liz Stonger’s sister, Amy Stonger, at a press conference at Belmont Police Department on Tuesday afternoon. They said it is uncharacteristic of Liz to drive far away and leave her son behind.
Amy Stonger has left messages for her sister on her Facebook page and is taking the search effort into her own hands, driving around McDowell County hoping to see her or her 1998 Chevrolet.
Grover describes her daughter as “a real homebody.” Amy Stonger said her sister doesn’t go out often and doesn’t have many friends. They said Liz Stonger has faced hardships including unsatisfying wages and the foreclosure of Grover’s home.
Grover said her daughter doesn’t have a boyfriend or any friends in the area of western North Carolina where the phone activity was detected. The family drove through McDowell County over the summer on a camping trip but didn’t stop there.
“I can’t even see her driving up there,” Amy Stonger said. She can’t believe her sister won’t be around on Halloween to be with her 2-year-old son and says that’s uncharacteristic of her. She didn’t pack a bag in preparation to leave and as cold weather moves in, police say they don’t know if she has shelter.
“It doesn’t look like she prepared to go away. We have no reason to believe that she would,” Grover said.
Concerns about safety
Chief Franklin said the department is working with authorities in the McDowell County area in a collaborative effort to find Stonger. He hopes someone will see her or her Chevrolet and that will help pinpoint her location.
She is 5 foot 3 inches tall, weighs 180 pounds, and has red hair and hazel eyes. Her family said she also has a lot of tattoos.
“My gut tells me that she’s going to come home and I’m going to beat her up when she gets here,” Grover said.
Amy Stonger said she constantly wonders where her sister went, if she’s safe and if she needs help.
The North Carolina license plate on Liz Stonger’s burgundy Chevy is ABC-6609. The paint on the sedan is faded and a “happy bunny” sticker is on the fuel door. There is also a sticker on the rear windshield of a stick figure family that resembles a woman and child skeleton.
Anyone with information on Stonger’s whereabouts is asked to call the Belmont Police Department at 704-825-3792. The investigating officer on the case is Detective A. Buchanon.
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/local/police-search-for-missing-local-woman-1.33910
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If you see Leach or his vehicle, call the Forest County Sheriff's Department at 715-478-3331.
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![11/15/2012: Please share to help @[222558184447365:274:Seeking TheLost] find Austin Deaton (17) missing from Hazard, Kentucky since 11/11/2012 for his family. Article: A Leslie County High School student was reported missing this week after visiting with family in Hazard over the weekend. Austin Deaton, 17, was last seen Sunday, Nov. 11 in the Backwoods area of Hazard, according to his aunt, Sarah Collins, also of Leslie County. Collins has custody of Deaton, and said her nephew was visiting his mother near Memorial Gym in Hazard when he told a family member that he was going to walk to his father’s house in Walkertown. No one has seen him since then.
Collins said so far she has had few answers about her nephew’s whereabouts. The Hazard Police Department is working the case and, according to Collins, talked to several people in the area, none of whom recall seeing him.
He was last seen wearing a pair of green cargo shorts and a maroon Leslie County T-shirt with the sleeves cut off. He is 5 feet 6 inches tall with blond hair, blue eyes, and weighs around 150 pounds.
Collins has reached out to many of Deaton’s friends via Facebook, and none reported hearing from him or knowing where he might have been.
“They were all kind of shocked,” said Collins. “They didn’t think he would run away. He never gave them any indication of anything like that.”
Deaton will turn 18 in two weeks, and Collins said this is another reason why she has a hard time believing he would have run away since it is so close to his birthday when he would be considered an adult.
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