Michelle Miles Bianco, 43 Missing from Springfield, IL since 4-5-08

[Faith]

Missing Springfield Woman
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Reported by: Blake Wood / WCIA 3 News

Monday, Apr 14, 2008 @09:37pm CST

SPRINGFIELD - The family of a missing Springfield woman is calling on the public for help. 43-year-old Michelle Bianco hasn't been seen for ten days now.
Family members say a witness spotted her getting into a stranger's car, but they don't buy that story. Now they're searching for evidence and offering a reward.
Monday night police searched a cousin’s house in the neighborhood where she went missing at South Grand and Wheeler. Police removed some evidence from the home, but won’t say what they found.
Family members say Bianco calls them regularly, but they haven’t got a single call from her in days.
Monday they were busy putting up flyers with Michelle’s picture on it. They’re also offering a $2,000 reward for anyone who can help them find her.
“She's my little sister. She's the youngest one in the family and we all love her and want her back home,” said sister Debbie Gardner.
Gardner says her sister would have never gotten in a car with a stranger that's why this doesn't make sense.
The family plans to search the neighborhood where she went missing Wednesday night.

If you have any information on the case call Sangamon County Crimestoppers at 788-8427

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[Joe]

Shelly is my aunt and we need to get her found right away. If anyone can help in our seaches please e-mail me at centralstate@insightbb.com. I can keep you informed on where they will be looking.

We have no idea if she got into a car. She would never get into a car with someone she did not trust. She always keeps in touch with the family and has never just up and left. She has all her family in Springfield and the surrounding areas and not one family member has heard or seen her since 4/5/08.

My family is asking for any help or info in this case.

Thank you,
Joe

[Grande]

[Grande]

City woman missing since weekend
By JAYETTE BOLINSKI
STAFF WRITER
Published Friday, April 11, 2008

Authorities searching for a Springfield woman who hasn’t been heard from since the weekend said Thursday they want her to call her family if she is OK.

Michelle “Shelly” Bianco, 43, last spoke to her boyfriend by phone about 7:30 p.m. Saturday and said she was at her cousin’s house near South Grand and Wheeler avenues. He said Bianco sounded fine and told him she was going to call her son for a ride home.

That was the last he heard from her.

Her boyfriend was out of town hunting turkeys at the time but said he called the cousin’s house looking for her, so he knows that’s where she was when they spoke.

Bianco’s boyfriend said he called her home Sunday morning to check in with her again, but no one answered the phone. He thought she was probably at her son’s home and would return later, but when he got to the residence about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, he realized she hadn’t been there.

Bianco’s son said he had not heard from her, so her family called police about 6 p.m. Information about Bianco and her description was aired to area police officers on Monday, and the boyfriend filed a formal missing person’s report on Tuesday.

Detectives with the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office have been trying to track down Bianco. They would not say if they suspect foul play, only that they are searching for a missing adult.

“We have interviewed numerous people in order to help us locate Miss Bianco,” said sheriff’s Capt. Tom Hendrickson, adding, “If she’s out there, she ought to call home.”

Bianco did not have a vehicle or a cell phone. She is described as 5-foot-7, 110 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes. Her boyfriend checked her closets and believes she probably was wearing blue jeans and a blue sweater, black shoes with short heels on them and possibly a blue coat. She lives in the Lincoln Place Mobile Home Park off Old Route 36.

Anyone with information about Bianco’s whereabouts should call the sheriff’s office at 753-6840 or urge her to call her family.

Jayette Bolinski can be reached at 788-1530.

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[Faith]

Originally Posted by Joe

Shelly is my aunt and we need to get her found right away. If anyone can help in our seaches please e-mail me at centralstate@insightbb.com. I can keep you informed on where they will be looking.

We have no idea if she got into a car. She would never get into a car with someone she did not trust. She always keeps in touch with the family and has never just up and left. She has all her family in Springfield and the surrounding areas and not one family member has heard or seen her since 4/5/08.

My family is asking for any help or info in this case.

Thank you,
Joe

Hi Joe, welcome. Thank you for joining us. We are here to help in every way we can.

[Grande]

Joe,

Any idea at this point in what capacity she left? Meaning, did she leave on foot according to the relatives at the home near S. Grand & Wheeler?

My heart's with you buddy!

Let me know if there's anything I can do from here.

[Joe]

Originally Posted by Grande

Joe,

Any idea at this point in what capacity she left? Meaning, did she leave on foot according to the relatives at the home near S. Grand & Wheeler?

My heart's with you buddy!

Let me know if there's anything I can do from here.

It is said that she left on foot and was seen getting into a black car, we do not know anyone that she hangs around with that drives a black car.
We are conducting a search in the area where she was last seen Wed. afternoon 4/16/08. If anyone can help, we are going door to door passing out a flyer with her pic. and reward info on it. Everyone is meeting at the corner of Wheeler & S. Grand at 6:00pm. Law inforcement will be in the area to make sure everyone is safe and the informational search can be done without any problems.
The more people we have the better.

Please pray for my aunts safe return.
Thank you, Joe

[Grande]

Joe, I will keep her and her family, including yourself, in my prayers.

[OldFart]

Originally Posted by Joe

It is said that she left on foot and was seen getting into a black car, we do not know anyone that she hangs around with that drives a black car.
We are conducting a search in the area where she was last seen Wed. afternoon 4/16/08. If anyone can help, we are going door to door passing out a flyer with her pic. and reward info on it. Everyone is meeting at the corner of Wheeler & S. Grand at 6:00pm. Law inforcement will be in the area to make sure everyone is safe and the informational search can be done without any problems.
The more people we have the better.

Please pray for my aunts safe return.
Thank you, Joe

Joe
Sent you and e-mail and hope to be able to show up Wednesday.
If she was not the type to just start hitching a ride... she may have called someone from the cousins house.. Even if the cousin does not know who she called the Police should be able to get records on calls made.

I think there are several businesses in the area... I would hope that the police have asked for any and all camera coverage that might exist.

If you go to maps.live.com and plug in
'church 1800 south grand ave east springfield il' under Businesses you get about 10 in the general area. I would contact them for I expect most locals attend one of them.

Praying for Michelle and her family
OldFart

[Justme38]

Originally Posted by Joe

It is said that she left on foot and was seen getting into a black car, we do not know anyone that she hangs around with that drives a black car.
We are conducting a search in the area where she was last seen Wed. afternoon 4/16/08. If anyone can help, we are going door to door passing out a flyer with her pic. and reward info on it. Everyone is meeting at the corner of Wheeler & S. Grand at 6:00pm. Law inforcement will be in the area to make sure everyone is safe and the informational search can be done without any problems.
The more people we have the better.

Please pray for my aunts safe return.
Thank you, Joe

Joe, your Aunt is in my thoughts and Prayers at this time.

I am a local also, and have been following this. My co-workers and I were talking about it today, and wondered if anyone has looked outside of town, or on the edge of town in all of the wooded areas. I know there is a lot of woods on the east side, close to I-55.