ATTENTION:
IS THERE A SERIAL KILLER OPERATING IN THE MIDWEST AND PARTS OF THE SOUTH AT THIS TIME.
WOMEN TRAVELING ALONE IN NIGHT SHOULD BE ALERT TO THEIR SURROUNDINGS AT ALL TIMES.

All victims has flat tires and their personal items were left in the vehicle.

Tennessee 2011
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/21/ng.01.html

Indianapolis June 2015
http://fox59.com/2015/06/25/missing-police-search-for-missing-23-year-old-larissa-sam/

Kentucky July 2015
http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/07/11/crystal-rogers-missing-mother-5-search-continues-bardstown-kentucky

University of New Orleans 2014
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2571749/Familys-fears-missing-girl-seen-getting-wheel-car-drunk.html

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (June 25, 2015) – Police are searching for a missing 22-year-old Indianapolis woman, who was last seen Sunday, June 21.

Larissa Sam was last seen in the 800 block of S. Mount Street at 4:30 a.m.

Sam is approximately 5-feet-7-inches tall and 135 pounds. She has black hair with red highlights and brown eyes. Sam has tattoos across her chest of candy and ice cream cones. Family members say she was last seen wearing green printed shorts and a black sleeveless shirt.
Larissa Sam

Larissa Sam

Her mother, Rebecca Russell, said they talked on the phone Saturday and everything seemed fine. She said Sam went to work Saturday night at the Classy Chassy and then stopped by her uncle’s house in Mars Hill on the southwest side of Indianapolis.

“I knew something was wrong immediately she would not leave her son, she would not leave her sister like that, she would not disappear,” said Russell.

Sam was supposed to pick up her son on Sunday but she never showed up. Family and friends worry she could be in danger.

Russell said police found her daughter’s car in the 2700 block of Lyons Avenue. She said it was parked in the driveway of an abandoned home in the Mars Hill area.

“The car had a flat tire in the front, the window was down, the keys were in the ignition, the cell phone was in the seat,” said Russell.

Residents with Mars Hill Crime Watch have been out searching the area. They also passed out flyers with Larissa’s picture.

IMPD Missing Persons detectives are investigating. If you have any information regarding Sam’s whereabouts, call 317-327-6160.

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A desperate search is underway for a Kentucky mother of five who has been missing for nearly a week.

Crystal Rogers vanished from her Bardstown home last Sunday. Police found her maroon 2007 four-door Chevrolet abandoned near the Bluegrass Parkway with her purse, keys and cell phone inside.

Sheriff’s deputies, state and local police and volunteers intensified their search Saturday. They were reportedly focusing on a 240-acre farm belonging to the mother of Rogers’ boyfriend.

Wednesday night, more than 100 people packed into a church to pray for her safe return.

Rogers’ family, along with friends and area businesses, have collected reward money totaling $71,000 for any information that leads them to her.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office at 502-348-1840.

Watch more above.

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A 19-year-old student missing since yesterday morning was last seen driving home drunk before stopping on the side of the road for a flat tire.

Howard’s family says when she left her Slidell home Friday morning, the Dean’s List student, who was recently accepted into pharmacy school, was headed to classes at UNO and then to work Uptown.

‘She was supposed to come to Slidell after she got off of work and meet up with us, but she ended up going with some co-workers and here we are,’ said friend Daniel Lemonier.

Missing: Hayley Howard’s dad was the last person who saw her on Saturday morning

Hayley Howard’s drove out of the University of New Orleans parking lot on Lakeshore Drive about 1.50am yesterday, NOLA Defender reported.

One of Howard’s friends told deputies the teen stopped for a flat tire on her way home to Slidell, Louisiana and a passing motorist helped her, according to WWLTV.

Intoxicated: Police believe Hayley Howard was drunk when she pulled out of a UNO car park yesterday morning

Outfit: Hayley Howard was last seen wearing a knee-length black dress with white polka dots and black shoes with a small heel and a silver accent on the toe

Police believe the young girl was intoxicated when she drove away.

They claimed the University of New Orleans student’s cellphone pinged in the area of Leon C. Simon Drive about 2am.

It was pinged again four hours later much further south, near the Irish Bayou Cell Tower.

The Northshore High School graduate was driving a 2002 silver Toyota Corolla bearing the Louisiana license plate XBP 643.
Map: Hayley Howard was last seen at the University of New Orleans and was heading home to Slidell. Her cell phone was pinged around Leon C. Simon Dr around 2am and near the Irish Bayou Cell Tower four hours later
Map: Hayley Howard was last seen at the University of New Orleans and was heading home to Slidell. Her cell phone was pinged around Leon C. Simon Dr around 2am and near the Irish Bayou Cell Tower four hours later

Howard is described as 5’3” tall and weighs about 105 pounds.

She was wearing a knee-length black dress with white polka dots and black shoes with a small heel and a silver accent on the toe.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call Detective Sandra Contreras at 504-658-6060 or 504-658-6146, or dial 911.
Scene: Hayley Howard’s dad was the last person who saw her as she drove out of the University of New Orleans parking lot on Lakeshore Drive about 1.50am yesterday
Scene: Hayley Howard’s dad was the last person who saw her as she drove out of the University of New Orleans parking lot on Lakeshore Drive about 1.50am yesterday

Drunk driving: Howard was last seen driving a 2002 silver Toyota Corolla (like this one) bearing the Louisiana license plate XBP 643
Drunk driving: Howard was last seen driving a 2002 silver Toyota Corolla (like this one) bearing the Louisiana license plate XBP 643

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Woman honors slain sister by promoting Molly’s Law

Educating communities and working with law enforcement to ensure they have the tools and funding needed to successfully use Molly’s Law is just one way Beverly Tallent keeps the memory of her sister alive.

Nancy Lyons, originally from Madison, disappeared on her way home from a night of shopping in June 2002. Her car was found with a flat tire and the engine running, and her personal belongings were inside the car three miles from her apartment in Carthage.

Five months later, Lyons’ remains were found in Bartholomew County, about 52 miles from where her car was found, Tallent said.

Because no laws or protocols had been signed into effect in 2002, law enforcement officials were ill-prepared to handle her sister’s case, she said.

Molly’s Law, named after missing Madison native Molly Dattilo, set procedures for handling missing-persons cases in Indiana and helps law enforcement and families communicate and work together in the first few days when time is most crucial.

Dattilo’s case wasn’t deemed high priority until months after her disappearance in 2004. Lyons’ case wasn’t considered high priority because police said she might have left to begin a new life, which was something she never would have done, Tallent said.

The law, signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels in 2007, outlines what would make a person be considered high risk, defines relevant information needed and tells how to proceed with a case. The law also alerts law enforcement to notify the National Crime Information Center within two hours of a report of a missing person and the protocol for handling a missing-persons case after 30 days.

Tallent described Molly’s Law as an incredible gift for families with missing loved ones.

Her sister Nancy’s disappearance “opened up a whole new world I was unaware of,” Tallent said.

She said many organizations help report or find children, but not many organizations are out there to help find missing adults, and there wasn’t a certain place to go or anyone who seemed to know exactly what to do with the case in the first few days. Molly’s Law allows families a sense of what to do and how to move forward with investigations.

Even though Molly’s Law wasn’t in effect for three Madison families when their loved ones disappeared, Tallent hopes education and communication in communities will help other families in their search for their missing loved one.

“We can make this easier for the next family because there will be a next family,” Tallent said.

Tallent still searches for answers as to what happened to her sister, and the case remains open in Bartholomew and Rush counties.

A memorial for Nancy Lyons is scheduled at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Carthage.