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So, here’s another depressing issue.

There is a local 26-year-old woman who is nine months pregnant. She disappeared on August 14th and no one has seen her since. Her due date for her little boy was, I believe, August 17th.

I rarely watch local news but we “happened” to be watching the night of August 14th. They announced her missing and said that she had been photographed at her church in the morning, then on the security cameras at a Walgreen’s getting a soda or something, and then that she went out to another town, about 12 miles, to meet with the father of her baby. He said they met and when he left her in her car at that location, she was talking on the cell phone. Later they find her car there, but haven’t heard from her in hours.

When they gave the name of this man, I seriously almost fell off the couch. He was my networking teacher last fall semester. My jaw and stomach just dropped. I have this horrible feeling of dread.

Now, it’s hard to get all the info on this thing, for obvious reasons, but what I also understand is that she had had no contact with him the whole time she was pregnant. But then suddenly they are going to meet to talk about the baby’s last name and his responsibilities. Supposedly, I was told by someone who also had him as a teacher, a couple had shown up at his door a few weeks ago, all dressed up, and told him to call her, so he did, and then that’s why they were meeting. What?

And also supposedly, there were no calls to or from her cell phone at the time he said she was on the phone when he left her in her car.

And and also supposedly, he changed his time, first saying at 3pm, and then saying he saw her again at 5pm and that she was still on the phone.

And and and also supposedly, his neighbor saw him that morning, moving some equipment either to or from his farm/house - a bulldozer or something.

At first they said he wasn’t a suspect, but now I think they’re looking more into it for obvious reasons.

One thing I want to know is, why did they meet where they met? A civic center in my mom’s town where there was no one else there at the time. Sure traffic would have been going by constantly, but no one pays any attention if nothing’s going on up there.

Last Saturday, when I came out of the Chinese restaurant with my mom and sister, I noticed a missing flier hanging on the window with two pictures of her. I pointed to it and said, “you know, the guy that is the father of the baby –” My mom cut me off with, “yeah, he’s probably the one who killed her, too!” That totally freaked me out because I am trying to be so positive hoping that she’s okay, hoping that the child is okay. However, I know it seems quite unrealistic now…
There was also a flier on Mom’s windshield when we got to her vehicle. I still have it, I set it up in my dining/kitchen area where it’s obvious. Every time I see it, I pray for her. But I feel like it’s too late.

The civic center’s property practically borders my parents’. Okay, so maybe not literally, but it’s pretty dang close. Close enough that if you sit on their front porch when a horseshow or something is going on, you can hear it all.

Another St. Louis man was just convicted to die die die for killing his pregnant wife two years ago.

Now, I’m not accusing my teacher of anything - I obviously do not know all the facts, I really hope he didn’t do anything - but what is with this lately - I’ve heard of so many cases of pregnant women, obviously pregnant women, being murdered. Not killed in car accidents or by falling pianos. Murdered. In cold blood.

And it’s not always the men doing the killing, either. Remember the pregnant Missouri woman last year, who was killed by another woman - her baby cut from her and this second woman tried to pass it off as her own! Her husband even believed it for a while, she’d had him and her other kids fooled into thinking she was still pregnant (I believe she’d lost her baby early on). That poor man when he found out that not only was that precious baby not his, but his wife was a cold blooded murderer! But the bittersweetness for the real father - he got his precious baby girl back. Unfortunately, not his wife. And this was just at Christmastime, too, I believe.

It’s just totally freaking me out. I guess this is just hitting really close to home, even though I don’t know the woman personally. I mean, last Sunday, C and I were talking about it - she never had him as a teacher but you know, she works there, so… This woman isn’t much older than us, we may have had classes with her, maybe bumped into her in the halls sometime or at Walmart. She does look familiar to me and did from the moment I first saw her on the news.
She has a four-year-old kid, too…

I guess I just really let things get to me sometimes. I am so depressed right now…