Jessica, 3, and John, 13, Schafer,(Found Safe) Missing Since 1/8/09, East Hanover, NJ

[Faith]

Authorities search for missing East Hanover mother, two young children

by Jim Lockwood (jlockwood@starledger.com)/The Star-Ledger Friday January 09, 2009, 1:19 PM


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Patricia Schafer, 38



Authorities in Morris County are searching today for an East Hanover mother and her two children who have been reported missing.


Patricia Schafer, 38, and her children, Jessica, 3, and John, 13, were last seen at the family's home Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. by her husband, Douglas Schafer, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.


A search is under way by authorities in several locations throughout the state.


The 5-foot-tall mother is thin, weighing about 85 pounds, investigators in the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said.


She is believed to be driving a silver 2003 Saturn Wagon, with New Jersey license plates PFZ-77A.


Anyone with information is asked to call East Hanover police at (973) 887-0432 or the Morris County Prosecutor's Office at (973) 285-6200.



http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/2009/01/large_Missing1.jpgJessica, 3, and John, 13, were last seen at the family's home Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/01/search_under_way_for_mother_an.html

[nanabillie]

http://celebgalz.com/patricia-schafer-schafer-and-children-missing/

Patricia Schafer,38, is missing. Schafer and her two kids, John, 13, and Jessica, 3, were last seen in their home in East Hanover on Thur., Jan 8. Police in East Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey, are searching for Patricia Schafer. Schafer may be driving
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(http://celebgalz.com/patricia-schafer-schafer-and-children-missing/#)2003 Saturn Wagon with New Jersey license plates PFZ-77A

[nanabillie]

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Woman-With-Cancer-Her-2-Kids-Missing-Since-Thursday.html
Woman With Cancer, Her 2 Kids Missing Since Thursday Husband seen leaving home with police officers

Updated 11:22 AM EST, Sat, Jan 10, 2009
Related Topics: Patricia Schafer (http://www.nbcnewyork.com/topics?topic=Patricia+Schafer)

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Officials in New Jersey (http://www.nbcnewyork.com/topics?topic=New+Jersey) are trying to find a missing woman and her two children.
Patricia Schafer (http://www.nbcnewyork.com/topics?topic=Patricia+Schafer), her 13-year-old son John and her 3-year-old daughter Jessica were last seen Thursday morning leaving their East Hanover (http://www.nbcnewyork.com/topics?topic=East+Hanover) home.
Neighbors said Schafer has cancer, so they have trouble believing she just ran off.
Her husband, Douglas Schafer (http://www.nbcnewyork.com/topics?topic=Douglas+Schafer), was seen leaving their home Friday night with several police officers. He refused to answer questions from reporters.
Investigators said Patricia Schafer is only 5 feet tall and weights just 85 pounds. She might be driving a silver 2003 Saturn wagon with New Jersey license plate PFZ 77A.

[nanabillie]

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January 10, 2009

Search on for missing mom, two children

East Hanover trio last seen Thursday, prosecutor says

By Matt Manochio
GANNETT NEW JERSEYAuthorities said Friday they are looking in multiple locations for a township mother and her two children who have been reported missing.

Patricia Schafer, 38, and her children, Jessica, 3, and John, 13, were last seen by her husband, Douglas Schafer, at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement released Friday.

A television report quoted the husband saying his wife suffers from drug dependency and cancer.

"I want my kids, I want my kids to be safe," Douglas Schafer, 42, told WCBS TV.

He said in that interview that the family has had problems with money and that his wife apparently left home after he caught her searching through his pockets for money.

"She's battling cancer. She has esophageal cancer. Right now, she's bald. She wears a wig," he said in that interview.

He said relatives have not heard from her.

He also told the television station that authorities gave him a polygraph test, which he passed.

He could not be reached Friday afternoon or evening.

Capt. Jeff Paul, a spokesman for Morris County Prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi, said in a statement that the prosecutor's office Missing Persons Unit along with the East Hanover Police Department and the Morris County Sheriff's Office "are aggressively pursuing this missing persons case."

Patricia Schafer is thin, weighing about 85 pounds, and is believed to be driving a metallic colored 2003 Saturn station wagon with New Jersey license plates PFZ-77A.

The prosecutor's office said authorities are searching for the trio at multiple locations in the state but declined to be specific.

"We are pursuing several leads," Bianchi said in a statement.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at (973) 887-0432 or the prosecutor's office at (973) 285-6200.

[nanabillie]

http://wcbstv.com/local/missing.east.hanover.2.904449.htmlUS/Eastern
Police Search For Missing N.J. Mom, Kids

East Hanover Woman, 2 Children Disappear Without A Trace

Husband Passes Lie Detector Test, Pleads For Their Return


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Sean Hennessey (http://wcbstv.com/bios/WCBS.WCBS.TV.9.8534.html)
EAST HANOVER, N.J. (CBS) ―
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On Friday night the father whose family is missing led an investigator and evidence technician back into his East Hanover home. The one he shares with wife, Patricia, and their two children.

An hour later, Douglas Schafer, 42, left with a police escort without talking to reporters, a far cry from Friday morning, when he was telling CBS 2 HD about the wife he confronted moments before she disappeared.

"I said I knew you were taking money from me. I walked up in the bedroom and I came back down and within five, 10 minutes she was gone," Douglas Schafer said. "With the children."

Schafer said his Patricia Schafer, 38, took off in a metallic Saturn wagon with New Jersey plates PFZ-77A with 13-year-old John and 4-year-old Jessica. He said that she suffers from drug dependency and cancer and has burned bridges with family.

Complete story at link

[nanabillie]

http://www.app.com/article/20090110/NEWS/90110008/1001/rss

EAST HANOVER — Authorities said Friday they are looking in multiple locations for a township mother and her two children who have been reported missing.

Patricia Schafer, 38, and her children, Jessica, 3, and John, 13, were last seen by her husband, Douglas Schafer, at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement released Friday.

A television report quoted the husband saying his wife suffers from drug dependency and cancer.

"I want my kids, I want my kids to be safe," Douglas Schafer, 42, told WCBS TV.


He said in that interview that the family has had problems with money and that his wife apparently left home after he caught her searching through his pockets for money.
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Anyone with information is asked to call police at (973) 887-0432 or the prosecutor's office at (973) 285-6200.
Matt Manochio can be reached at (973) 428-6627 or mmanochi@gannett.com (mmanochi@gannett.com).
complete story at link

[Amusedtdth]

The husband is not specific about the drug dependency but having cancer that would make sense. I feel theres more to this but I don't get a sence of the husband doing anything wrong. Also he mentions burnt bridges w/the family...
I hope shes safe and dosen't harm the children. They are always the innocent victims.

[DarkOrchid]

Apparently been found safe and unharmed. Mom has been arrested.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--missingfamily0111jan11,0,6587122.story

[Faith]

Patricia Schafer will be charged with interfering with the custody of the children and will remain jailed in Maryland pending an extradition hearing this week. It was not immediately clear if she had retained an attorney.


"The children are in good health and their father is on his way to pick them up and bring them home," Bianchi said in a statement issued Sunday night.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--missingfamily0111jan11,0,6587122.story

[Roamer]

From Orchid's above link:

Missing mom, 2 children found in Baltimore

January 11, 2009 EAST HANOVER, N.J. - A 38-year-old East Hanover mother and her two children were found unharmed in Baltimore on Sunday, just days after they disappeared from their home.

Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said Patricia Schafer, her 13-year-old son, John, and three-year-old daughter, Jessica, were in a vehicle that was leaving the Towson (http://www.newsday.com/topic/us/maryland/baltimore-county/towson-PLGEO100100603170000.topic) Town Center Mall when it was stopped by Baltimore County (http://www.newsday.com/topic/us/maryland/baltimore-county-PLGEO100100603000000.topic) police at 6:25 p.m.

Patricia Schafer will be charged with interfering with the custody of the children and will remain jailed in Maryland (http://www.newsday.com/topic/us/maryland-PLGEO100100600000000.topic) pending an extradition hearing this week. It was not immediately clear if she had retained an attorney.

Bianchi said East Hanover Police and county authorities determined Schafer was in the mall complex, so mall security and the Baltimore County police were notified. Mall security then followed Schafer's vehicle until the county police arrived.




"The children are in good health and their father is on his way to pick them up and bring them home

[sarahhod]

East Hanover mom won't fight forced return to Morris County
Waives extradition on custody charge

By Peggy Wright • Daily Record • January 14, 2009

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An East Hanover mother who disappeared last week with her two children and was picked up Sunday in Maryland waived extradition Tuesday and agreed to be returned to New Jersey to face a charge of interfering with custody.

Patricia Schafer, 38, has been charged by Morris County authorities with taking daughter Jessica, 3, and son John, 13, away from their Goldblatt Terrace home last Thursday without alerting Douglas Schafer, her husband and the children's father, to their whereabouts.

County Prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi last Friday disclosed that the father reported to police that he last saw his family around 7:30 a.m. on Thursday. On Sunday, detectives from the prosecutor's office and East Hanover police determined the mother was in the Towson Town Center Mall in Baltimore County, Maryland. They contacted mall security, which followed the mother's vehicle until Baltimore County police arrived.

The trio was stopped in their Saturn by Baltimore County police as they exited the mall and approached the Baltimore Beltway Interloop at 6:25 p.m. Sunday. Authorities have not disclosed further information on how Schafer and the children spent their days during their absence from home. The children have been safely returned to their father, authorities said.

Schafer was held in the Baltimore County Detention Center and appeared Tuesday before a Circuit Court judge to waive extradition, or voluntarily agree to be returned to New Jersey.

Detectives from the prosecutor's office Missing Persons Unit and the prosecutor's and county sheriff's office joint fugitive task force will pick up Schafer in the next few days and bring her to the Morris County jail. She is expected to be brought before a Superior Court judge in Morristown so bail can be set on the custody interference charge.

No divorce was pending between the couple, and there is no record of domestic violence on file in Superior Court, Morristown.

Douglas Schafer last week told a television station that his wife was ill with cancer of the esophagus and that the family was having financial difficulties.

[Faith]

East Hanover mom who ran to Md. re-arrested

September 16, 2009

A 38-year-old East Hanover woman who was arrested in January after running off to Maryland with her two children was re-arrested this morning after leaving a court-ordered treatment facility without permission.

Patricia Schafer was arrested at 8:30 a.m. today at a home in Long Branch. She is charged with leaving a court-ordered treatment facility and is expected to be brought to the Morris County jail, awaiting a court appearance.

A warrant was issued for her arrest on Friday, although it is unclear how long she had been missing from the treatment facility before the order was signed.

Schafer and her children were reported missing from their East Hanover home on Jan. 8. Three days later, Schafer was arrested near a mall in Towson, Md., nearly 200 miles from her home. Her children, ages 3 and 13, were found with her and unharmed.

In April, a Morris County judge allowed Schafer to leave the Morris County jail, where she was being held in lieu of $250,000 bail, to enter a substance abuse facility in Marlboro. It was unclear today whether that was the facility she is now accused of leaving.

Following her arrest in January, Schafer also was charged with interfering with custody and credit card fraud. She also was prohibited from having contact with her children, who were placed in the custody of their father.

Authorities have said that Schafer filled several prescriptions for painkillers and sleeping pills before leaving with her children in January and took medications that would have put herself and her children at risk during those four days.

Police had learned from the husband that the family was experiencing financial problems, and that Patricia Schafer had allegedly looked through his pockets for money and stolen checks from a relative in Roseland.

Schafer arrested this morning by Detective/Supervisor Carmen Ferrante and Detective Mike Lowe from the Morris County Prosecutor's Office and Morris County Sheriff's joint Fugitive Task Force.

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