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01-09-2008, 11:05 AM
Wed January 9, 2008
Family's search finds few clues Related Information
TULSA — Police are looking for a 27-year-old woman who has been missing since Dec. 16. While officers say there is no reason to believe foul play is involved, the woman's family fears the worst.
Keyonna Jenkins called her father Dec. 15 and then disappeared, stepmother Paulette Richardson said Tuesday.
"At this point, we've really got nothing to account for her even being alive,” Richardson said.
When Jenkins had not checked in for a while, which family members said was out of character, the woman's father, Mason Richardson, drove to Jenkins' house to check on her.
"He found her door key outside her door,” the stepmother said. "It wasn't in the door, but it was hanging on the doorknob.”
She said because there was no sign that anything was wrong, the Richardsons just figured their daughter was busy.
However, when the father went back to the home two days later, the key was still there, and no one had been in the house since before the ice storm.
"All the lights were still on from the ice storm and that's when we realized she was missing,” Paulette Richardson said. "And we've been searching ever since.”
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The family searched the house looking for clues, and family members found one phone number that turned up a lead.
"We found a gentleman who said he put her up in a hotel one night on the 16th of December,” she said. "He said she came to him and said she had nowhere to go, so he took her to a Super 8 on I-44 and left her there.”
Paulette Richardson said the man said he worked with Jenkins briefly several years ago and that she asked him to let her stay with him, but he couldn't because he had a wife and a child, so he bought her a hotel room, and that was the last he saw of her.
"And none of that makes any sense, because she had a house, and she had paid every bill she had on the 5th or the 6th, and she had family members everywhere,” Paulette Richardson said.
She said hotel staff said whoever was in that room checked out at 8:37 a.m. Dec. 17.
"She was in Community Care College and we know she was doing great,” Richardson said. "And the fact that she had paid all her bills shows that she meant to come back home. We're just hoping someone, somewhere has seen her.”
Tulsa police detective Bob Hickey said police don't know what happened to Jenkins, but there is no evidence to suggest criminal activity.
Jenkins is described as a 27-year-old black female with black hair and brown eyes. She is 5-feet-6-inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds.
http://newsok.com/article/3190610/1199853814
Family's search finds few clues Related Information
TULSA — Police are looking for a 27-year-old woman who has been missing since Dec. 16. While officers say there is no reason to believe foul play is involved, the woman's family fears the worst.
Keyonna Jenkins called her father Dec. 15 and then disappeared, stepmother Paulette Richardson said Tuesday.
"At this point, we've really got nothing to account for her even being alive,” Richardson said.
When Jenkins had not checked in for a while, which family members said was out of character, the woman's father, Mason Richardson, drove to Jenkins' house to check on her.
"He found her door key outside her door,” the stepmother said. "It wasn't in the door, but it was hanging on the doorknob.”
She said because there was no sign that anything was wrong, the Richardsons just figured their daughter was busy.
However, when the father went back to the home two days later, the key was still there, and no one had been in the house since before the ice storm.
"All the lights were still on from the ice storm and that's when we realized she was missing,” Paulette Richardson said. "And we've been searching ever since.”
Information questioned
The family searched the house looking for clues, and family members found one phone number that turned up a lead.
"We found a gentleman who said he put her up in a hotel one night on the 16th of December,” she said. "He said she came to him and said she had nowhere to go, so he took her to a Super 8 on I-44 and left her there.”
Paulette Richardson said the man said he worked with Jenkins briefly several years ago and that she asked him to let her stay with him, but he couldn't because he had a wife and a child, so he bought her a hotel room, and that was the last he saw of her.
"And none of that makes any sense, because she had a house, and she had paid every bill she had on the 5th or the 6th, and she had family members everywhere,” Paulette Richardson said.
She said hotel staff said whoever was in that room checked out at 8:37 a.m. Dec. 17.
"She was in Community Care College and we know she was doing great,” Richardson said. "And the fact that she had paid all her bills shows that she meant to come back home. We're just hoping someone, somewhere has seen her.”
Tulsa police detective Bob Hickey said police don't know what happened to Jenkins, but there is no evidence to suggest criminal activity.
Jenkins is described as a 27-year-old black female with black hair and brown eyes. She is 5-feet-6-inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds.
http://newsok.com/article/3190610/1199853814