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Dear
Friends, the "eyes and ears" of Melanie Metheny:
In order to find out
what happened to Melanie on Wednesday, July 19, 2006, we need to
know what she was doing, feeling, thinking and struggling with
during the last week she was in public view.
1. On Sunday,
July 16th 2006, did ANYBODY see Melanie with her two children,
Hannah and Nathan in tow, probably also in the company of her
boyfriend, whom we will call JD? Melanie was out in public view
that afternoon, in a picnic shelter
at Coonskin Park, where she left her signature on a roof beam. If
you saw her, please try to give as much detail as possible about
how she looked, (did she look well, not well, worried, happy, sad,
emotionless?
What she was doing
when you saw her, in whose company, was she by herself or
with the children and JD? ANY information will give us valuable
clues as to the true nature of her disappearance.
2. On Monday,
July 17th 2006, Melanie was with alone with her children all day,
while JD was presumably at work. Melanie was alone with JD on
Monday evening, supposedly for dinner and a movie. Look at the
pictures in Melanie's slide show? Did you see her with JD and
without her children, or did you bump into them at a movie
theater? Again, any impressions, observations, her appearance,
demeanor, eye contact or lack thereof are important details, if we
can fit them into with what we already know or suspect.
3. On
Tuesday, July 18th 2006, all we know for sure is that her children
were quickly dropped off at her apartment around 9 AM and Melanie
was just getting out of the shower. She has never been a morning
person, and she was not "ready to go" at 9AM in the
morning, just 23 hours before she would disappear. JD's truck was
not there, so presumably he was at work. After this, we have many
rumors and much DISinformation about Melanie's last day in
public.
So once again we are
asking anybody who was in the Campbell's Creek/Belle area on that
Tuesday, from 9 AM to 5PM to remember if they saw Melanie, her
children or even her van. If you did, any details will be more
than we can trustingly accept at this time. All our other
witnesses have changed their "testimony" two or more
times.
4. We believe
that Melanie came to a crisis point of some kind during the
evening of July 18th, just 12 hours before she disappeared. Did
she call anybody on her cell phone during any of these "last
days?" Did anybody have any cell phone conversations with
Melanie, from July 1st to July 19th, that they can share with her
family (forced to do the police work, for reasons we can only
guess about.)
5. Do you
know anybody else, besides Melanie, who may have dropped off their
children at the Country Kids day care between 7:40 and 8:00 AM on
July 19th, 2006, the morning of Melanie's disappearance?
Did anybody see her
Chevy Van that morning anywhere and at any time? These seemingly
minor details could break this mystery into pieces.
6. And
finally, if you knew Melanie, her family would like you to share
in all honesty, holding back nothing (except your identity, if you
so choose) and tell us as much as you can remember about the LAST
TIME you saw Melanie Metheny among us. What did she look like,
what was she doing, how did she seem, what did she say, with whom
did you see her, etc. etc.
Study her pictures
well, if you never met her. You may have seen her and merely
thinking about where you were and what you were doing two summers
ago, mid-July, in the Charleston area, might just bring back to us
something of this beautiful child of God missing for so long. If
you know Melanie, then how could you NOT want to be honest about
the last time you saw her?
Please help and
do this SOON!
May God bless your efforts to remember,
From
the family and friends of Melanie Metheny
Here is the
newest article from the Charleston Gazette -
A year and a half after vanishing, mystery -- and sorrow -- only deeper
By Gary Harki
Staff writer
February 24, 2008
Donna Harper remembers being in the emergency room when Melanie Metheny gave birth to her son Nathan.
Metheny has been missing since July 19, 2006. The 21-year-old Belle woman's van was found four days later on Charleston's West Side, but no trace of her was ever discovered.
Harper, the grandmother to two of Metheny's three children, remembers that when Nathan was born, the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck and the doctor had to cut the cord, sending blood everywhere.
"You don't know what happened," said Harper. "It hurts. You lay in bed at night and you don't know if she was tortured, if it came swiftly."
You don't even know for sure that Metheny died, Harper said.
Metheny is now on the missing-persons Web site for the FOX television show "America's Most Wanted." Her case may also be presented on the show, said Kanawha sheriff's Detective R.A. Lane.
The day Metheny disappeared, she dropped off her three young children - Ryan, now 6; Nathan, 4; and Hannah, 3 - at a day-care center in Belle about 8 a.m., Lane said.
Roughly an hour later, someone - Lane said he is not sure if it was Metheny - made a call from her cell phone to the auto-repair shop Wreck-A-Mended Paint & Body to talk about repairs for her minivan.
Then about 9:30 a.m., a second call was made from Metheny's phone, this one to her voice mailbox.
At 6 p.m. an employee from the day-care center called Harper to tell her Metheny hadn't picked up her children. Harper picked up the kids, two of whom she has had custody of ever since.
Metheny's son Ryan is with his paternal grandparents, Harper said.
Metheny had been broken up from Harper's son Matthew for several months before she disappeared and had a new boyfriend, Jared Davis. Still, Harper said, she and Metheny remained close.
"Her and my son had two babies, and she lived here up until Matt broke up," Harper said. "And after that, she would still stop by; we would get the kids every other weekend."
Two days after Metheny disappeared, tipsters prompted rescue crews and K-9 units to search near Spring Fork Drive in the Witcher Creek area, but found nothing, Lane said.
Two days after that, police found Metheny's missing gold and tan minivan on the West Side. Neighbors said the minivan had been parked there since at least 2 p.m. July 19. That's when a woman first noticed it taking one of her usual parking spaces in front of her house, Lane said.
A 'crisis point'?
Police have followed many leads that went nowhere, Lane said. They are now going back and interviewing everyone again, essentially restarting the investigation, he said.
One thing police would like to learn more about is a mysterious red sport-utility vehicle. Police said that on the afternoon of Metheny's disappearance a witness on the West Side saw a woman inside the SUV struggling to free herself and yelling, "What about my babies?"
Police described the witness only as someone close to Metheny. Lane said police haven't been able to find the SUV.
"Somebody knows something about Melanie and they are keeping a tight lid on it right now," he said. "And we need closure. We need this thing to be solved. If anyone knows anything about her or her disappearance and they want to remain anonymous, they will remain anonymous."
Friends and family of Metheny's have set up a Web site, www.findmelanie.com, which offers a $5,000 reward for information that solves the mystery. The Web site also gives a detailed timeline of the days before the disappearance.
About 12 hours before Metheny disappeared, the Web site claims, she came to a "crisis point."
Lane said he had no information about Metheny suffering through a "crisis point," though he said he has heard rumors about Metheny owing drug dealers $300. While Metheny did use drugs in social settings, he said, he doesn't believe she owed anyone a large sum of money.
"That's asinine," he said. "She was saving to rent a house and get out of the apartment she lived in. She had money; it wasn't a huge amount, but if she needed to, she could use it if she was in that much trouble."
'We need to find out'
Both Harper and Lane say Metheny was a devoted mom.
"Her family members and her friends have said that you always really saw her with her kids except when she went to school," Lane said. "She would take them to their grandparents' houses and let them see them. ... She was a young woman that had three kids and wanted to make something out of her life and for her kids, to give her kids something she might never have had."
Metheny was taking classes to prepare herself for college-entrance exams. She wanted to be a nurse, Harper said.
"With her being gone this long, reality sets in and it makes you think that something worse has happened to her," Lane said. "Then again, you have hope that she is still alive out there. I mean, I've got hope."
Harper's mother died in November. Nathan and Hannah both noticed how sad their grandmother was.
"Little Nathan, he saw that I was upset and said, 'Well, Mamaw, I already lost my mommy.' It's pitiful. It's like a double hurt for me," Harper said. "Wherever the truth lies, we need to find out what happened to her. This needs to come out. These children need to know."
New
Poster!
A new link to Melanie's
MySpace page - click
here
Also, new photos were uploaded today - click
here
July
19th, 2007
Today marks the one year since
Melanie has disappeared. Please tune into MissingPieces.info for a
radio broadcast with Melanie's family. Click
Here
June 5th, 2007
Please take a few minutes and
read this chat log that was sent to us - if you think you know
anything, please contact the police IMMEDIATELY. Someone knows
more to this story, and it's time to let it out and give the
family some closure -
CLICK
HERE TO READ THE CHAT LOG
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