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Central Texas Newspaper Editor Still Missing
Authorities spent a second day Friday searching for a Central Texas newspaper editor who disappeared after leaving to purchase a new cell phone battery.
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(May 30, 2008)—Authorities spent a second day Friday searching for missing Bosque County News Managing Editor La Dawn Garland, 42, who’s been missing since leaving Wednesday to drive to Waco to purchase a cell phone battery.
Garland left the newspaper office in Meridian a little after 4 p.m. Wednesday to make the bank deposit.
Officials confirmed the deposit was made.
She then planned to drive to Waco.
Garland hasn’t been heard from since she called her husband around 7 p.m. Wednesday to ask him what he wanted for dinner.
When he called her back a few minutes later, the call went immediately to voice mail, authorities said.
Investigators say there has been no activity on her credit cards and that her cell phone hasn’t been used since the call she placed Wednesday to her husband.
She was last seen driving a 1998 white Dodge Dakota extended cab pickup, Texas license number 70P-ZR3.
Waco police checked the Best Buy parking lot Thursday and also came up empty handed and on Thursday a helicopter flew over likely routes she could have taken to Waco, but found no trace of Garland or the truck.
Deputies retraced her possible route again Friday.
Two helicopters and a number of patrol units converged Friday afternoon on Highway 317 between Crawford and Valley Mills.
A law enforcement source said a call from a woman claiming to be a psychic may have triggered interest in the area.
The source said the woman said she had a vision of a body lying in a field and of the numeral 317.
Nothing was found.
Authorities planned to view Best Buy store surveillance tapes, but at this point, they’re not sure whether she ever got to the store.
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she was completly disorintated, her phone had been dropped in the water and had no communications, we dont know what happend everyone here is assuming
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I think this poor woman was worked to death and just maybe decided to get the heck out of dodge. She worked on her days off,weekends,and during the week. Maybe she was just burnt out with everything. At lease she was not hurt or hurt someone else if she has a medical condiditon. Glad she is home safe we may never know the real reason.
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all the way to Wyoming????hopefully she gets the medical attention she desperately needs. Something does not add up. If she has the sense to pull over, why not call someone?? Sounds fishy!!
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