Missing Woman: Bambi Madden - NY - 01/11/2006

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City police search for missing woman 34-year-old last seen Jan. 11

Bambi Madden Missing

Posted: January 19, 2006
By JIM WRIGHT
Press & Sun-Bulletin

BINGHAMTON  City police detectives are seeking information regarding a 34-year-old Binghamton woman who hasn't seen since around 11 p.m. Jan. 11, when she left her residence at 29 Winding Way to go to the store.

Family members are concerned about Bambi Lyn Madden, according to her sister, Jackie Fisk.

They said it is unusual for Madden to be gone for such a period of time without any contact, said detective Lt. William P. Yeager on Wednesday.

The family is mainly concerned about the woman's welfare, Yeager said.
Madden, missing for a week, is described by her family as 5 foot 4 inches tall and 100 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. When last seen, she was wearing a South Pole brand black puffy coat with jeans and black boots, he said.

Police said she often frequented Sara's Pub or the Brass Rail, both located on Clinton Street in Binghamton.
There have been no indications of any foul play, police said.

Anyone with information on Madden's whereabouts can call Detective John Ryan at 772-7080.

HOW TO HELP

Bambi Lyn Madden is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds, family members said. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. When last seen, she was wearing a South Pole brand black puffy coat with jeans and black boots. Anyone with information about Madden's whereabouts should call Binghamton Police Bureau detectives at 772-7080.

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Family hopes for word from missing woman

Posted: February 2, 2006

By Nancy Dooling

Press & Sun-Bulletin

BINGHAMTON  City detectives will interview close friends of a missing Binghamton woman again to look for clues to her whereabouts.

Bambi Lyn Madden, 34, left her home at 29 Winding Way on foot three weeks ago about 11 p.m. to go to a store.

She hasn't been seen or heard from since, family members said Tuesday.

Police are concerned, said Detective Sgt. Arnold Nanni. Although they say there is no indication of foul play, detectives will re-interview Madden's friends and associates, Nanni said.

Family members have been waiting for a call since Jan. 11  the evening Madden, the mother of three children, disappeared.

"At least we'd know she's all right," said Madden's father, William Burns Sr. of Binghamton. "But there has been nothing."

Madden's children  ages 19, 17 and 9  are staying with Madden's husband, Burns said. Her 9-year-old son is especially distressed by his mother's disappearance, the boy's grandfather said.

Family members and friends have posted about 400 fliers with Madden's description in city businesses, as well as in Johnson City, Endicott, Vestal and Owego.

Fliers also are on display in the offices of the city's taxicab companies, Burns said. They've also checked with family relatives in Florida and Tennessee to see if Madden paid them a visit. None of the relatives has seen Madden, her father said.

Madden is friendly and has no known enemies, her father added.

Family members said it is unusual for Madden to disappear for such a long period of time. Police said Madden frequented Sara's Pub or the Brass Rail, both on Clinton Street in Binghamton. "She's never done this before  ever," her father said.

Madden's father and her mother, Phyllis Burns, are fearful that something tragic may have happened to their daughter.

"At times, it runs through my wife's and my mind," he said. "We don't like it, but it has."

HOW TO HELP

Bambi Lyn Madden is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds, family members said. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. When last seen, she was wearing a South Pole brand black puffy coat with jeans and black boots. Anyone with information about Madden's whereabouts should call Binghamton Police Bureau detectives at 772-7080.

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Bambi Madden Benefit

Family and friends of 34-year old Bambi Madden of Binghamton are still holding out hope that she's all right.

Bambi was last seen at about 11 P-M on January 8th when she left her home at 29 Winding Way to go to the store. Her family and friends held this benefit at the American Legion in Hillcrest to raise money for a reward, and to cover the cost of searching for her. William and Phyllis Burns are Bambi's parents. They believe that someone took Bambi against her will.

Phyllis Burns says, "we have gotten a lot of support from the community with donations and everything. We're just hoping that getting some money will get someone to come out and tell us something."

William and Phyllis also say they are not going to stop looking for her. If you have any information about where Bambi is you are asked to call the Binghamton Police at 772-7076.

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Helping hands reach out to missing woman's family

Bambi Madden's family says thank you for the generosity of those who helped and gave of their time and services, and the businesses and establishments that gave items and gift certificates for the benefit, making Bambi's cause a possibility.

As pastor, supporting Bambi's family during this uncertain and difficult time, I also am grateful for the many donations and helping hands that came forth and worked tirelessly to help this family.

Bless you all for your kindness and concern. Please continue to keep this family in your prayers.

Pastor Debra Wilson

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Family hopes national TV attention helps in search for woman

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. The family of a Binghamton woman who vanished more than six months ago is hoping some national T-V coverage of the case will lead to information in the case.

Details about the disappearance of 34-year-old Bambi Lyn Madden were broadcast this morning on "The Early Show" on C-B-S.

That followed the broadcast of a photo and a description of Madden during the network's "Without A Trace" program during prime time last night.

Madden's family reported her missing last January after she walked from her Binghamton home to go to a convenience store to buy beer.

While Binghamton police say they have no evidence to suggest foul play in the woman's disappearance, they haven't ruled it out.

An investigator says police have exhausted all leads in the case.

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Sunday October 8, 2006 NEWS

Families grieve long after trail has gone cold

Years-old cases lack closure

Gannett News Service

By Nancy Dooling

Press & Sun-Bulletin

Edward Tandler began his long, strange trip in 2003.

The Brooklyn resident ditched his postal service job, a wife and a child to follow his New Age dreams alone on the streets of Ithaca and in a rural neighborhood in Tioga County.

Life in the Town of Spencer was a far cry from the 45-year-old Tandler's middle-class Brooklyn roots. But in middle age, Tandler began a new life of poverty, mysticism and scrounging to get by, living in his car, said his father, Murray Tandler, a retired school administrator in Rockland County.

Tandler's upstate companions included Ithaca hippies, mystics, protesters and a man who would achieve national infamy as Ithaca's notorious Collegetown Creeper. The Creeper is an accused serial "peeping Tom" whose alleged crimes would escalate to sexual assaults against women in California before he was caught by San Diego police earlier this year.

But 15 months ago, Eddie Tandler would join another group -- one of New York's 3,424 missing persons and one of about a dozen people listed as missing from Southern Tier counties. Nationally, about 110,000 people, including both adults and children, were missing in August, the last month statistics were available, said Erin Bruno, director of case work at the National Center for Missing Adults in Phoenix, Ariz.

Slightly less than half of the 110,000 are adults, like Tandler, Bruno says. The list fluctuates as people are found and others disappear.

When children go missing, the police, the media and the public are justifiably quick to react. But adults, who can think for themselves and make their own decisions, also go missing. The National Center for Missing Adults does not keep track of what portion of missing adults don't want to be found, Bruno says. Or even what percentage ultimately are the victims of suicides or foul play, or how many of them suffer from mental disabilities.

But whatever the reason they disappear, their families suffer.

Families grieve long after trail has gone cold

BAMBI MADDEN

Bambi Madden's family is beyond guessing. They now expect the worst, her mother said.

The 34-year-old Binghamton woman walked out of her Winding Way home the night of Jan. 11 and never came home, leaving a husband and three children behind.

Madden's youngest child, 9-year-old Tommy, doesn't talk much about his mother, said Phyllis Burns, Madden's mother. The last time he mentioned her was right before school started in September when his aunt offered to take him to school on the first day.

"He said: 'But it's not the same. My mommy used to do it,'" Burns recounts. That's the only comment about his mother that he's made in months: "I think he's blocked it out."

Binghamton detectives interviewed and re-interviewed Madden's friends and family. They dredged the river, said Burns, the last person known to have spoken to Madden. On Jan. 11, Madden told her mother during a telephone conversation that she planned to walk to a Main Street convenience store to buy beer. She had $5 in her pocket, family members have said.

There are no new leads in the case, Capt. Alex J. Minor said. Police don't suspect foul play, but Minor said they can't rule it out.

Madden's family has done all the things people do when a family member goes missing. They've put up posters. They've held a candlelight vigil. They've walked the streets and railroad tracks and the banks of the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers. They've even consulted a psychic.

Burns calls Binghamton detectives at least once a week to check on any leads. They'll hold a second candlelight vigil for Madden at 7 p.m. Oct. 11 at the One Stop Grocery, 283 Front St., Binghamton. It's a way of keeping Madden in the public eye.

But Burns already is dreading the coming holiday season.

"We got through Mother's Day," Burns said. "I don't know how we'll get through Thanksgiving or Christmas."

The months have dragged by without any answers.

"I don't know if we are ever going to know," Burns said. "There's a possibility we never will."

It's probably the most common stress for the families of missing persons, said Erin Bruno, the case worker from Arizona who works with families on a daily basis.

"They need answers," she said. "I wish I could say that for them it gets better over time. In fact, sometimes it gets worse."

MISSING FROM THE SOUTHERN TIER

The following Southern Tier residents are classified as "missing," according to area police agencies, and missing-persons Web sites.

* James Christopher Burn went missing as a 1-year-old on April 15, 1996, from Binghamton. He may be in the company of his noncustodial mother in the Philippines. If you have information, call the Binghamton Police Bureau's detective division at 772-7080

* Bambi Lynn Madden, 31 when she vanished Jan. 11, left her Winding Way, Binghamton, home on foot and never came home. Madden left behind a husband and three children. She told family members she was going to a local convenience store to buy beer. Information: Call the Binghamton Police Bureau's detective division at 772-7080

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Vigil to be held for missing woman

Vigil to be held for missing woman

January 10, 2007

BINGHAMTON A candlelight vigil for a Binghamton woman on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance will be held tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Crossroads of Life Church, Oak Street, Binghamton.

Bambi Madden, 34, walked out of her Winding Way home on Jan. 11, 2006, to go to the store and never came back. Madden's husband and three children were left behind.

Phyllis Burns, Madden's mother, was the last person to talk to Madden. "We have no leads, nothing," Burns said. "Like she vanished off the earth."

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Vigil planned for missing Binghamton woman

By Nancy Dooling

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BINGHAMTON -- Bambi Madden's family has not given up hope that she'll return home alive, but two years after she disappeared from her Winding Way house, they have their doubts, Maddens' sister said this week.

Friends and family of the 34-year-old mother of three, who left home on foot the night of Jan. 11, 2006, to buy beer at a nearby store and never came home, will host a vigil at 7 p.m. Friday at the One Stop Grocery, 283 Front St.

"We're trying to get it back out into the open," said Amanda Burns, of her sister's disappearance. The vigil will be held to mark the two-year anniversary since Madden vanished. "We still haven't heard anything," Madden's sister said.

Neither have police, who continue to treat Madden's disappearance as a missing persons case, said Binghamton Police Bureau Detective Capt. Alex J. Minor. For two years, detectives have followed up leads that led nowhere.

"We've got nothing else to treat it any other way," Minor said. From the day after Madden disappeared, police have said they don't suspect foul play in Madden's disappearance, but they can't rule it out, Minor said.

Madden had about $5 in her pocket when she left home about 11 p.m. She told family members she was going to a convenience store on Main Street, a few blocks away. She never returned. Police questioned family and friends and searched. So did family members.

Since Madden's disappearance, her son, Scott W. Fiske at age 21 admitted stabbing another man to death during a February 2006 argument in Binghamton. He is serving five to 15 years in prison on a felony manslaughter conviction, court records show.

Amanda Burns said candles will be made available to people at her sister's vigil. "We hope she's alive, but we have our doubts," Burns said. "It's been two years."

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2 Years Since Disappearance Of Bambi Madden

Story Updated: Jan 11, 2008 at 5:40 PM EST

By Gabe Osterhout

It's been two years since a Binghamton woman disappeared.

Police have followed dozens of leads, but still nothing.

It's been a difficult time for a family that wants to know, what happened to Bambi Madden.

Two yeas ago, Bambi Madden left her apartment at 29 Winding Way.

She said she was going to a local convenience store.

Madden never came home.

Friends remain supportive of her family.

"It's been very hard for them. They wake up everyday wondering where she is and wake up everyday thinking maybe this is the day that the police will find something and tell us something. I mean they just want to bring her home," says family friend Pastor Debra Wilson.

Bambi was 34 at the time she disappeared.

Since opening the missing persons case, Binghamton police interviewed dozens of people.

"We've followed up on it as late as the end of November and early December of last year, 2007. Whenever leads come in, whenever we receive new information, we follow up on it," says Lt. John Shay of Binghamton Police.

None of that information has brought them any closer to finding Bambi.

It's a mystery Madden's family hopes will be solved one day.

"I think as time goes on, their hope has diminished. They hold on to the hope that she'll be found. That's what they don't want to give up on. They hold to the hope that she'll be found," says Wilson.

Bambi's family and friends will hold a candlelight vigil at the 1 Stop on Front Street in Binghamton.

The family hopes the candlelight vigil may jog someone's memory and new information about Bambi's whereabouts will come forward.

The family hopes that information will lead to Bambi coming home.

Anyone with information on the disappearance or whereabouts of Bambi Madden, can call the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at 1-866-304-TIPS, or the Binghamton Detectives at 772-7080.

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Renewed search for missing Binghamton woman

1/11/2008 10:09 PM

By: Karen Lee   

 

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Despite the brisk night, dozens gathered and lit candles on the second anniversary of Bambi Madden's disappearance. The 34-year-old was last seen two years ago when she said she was heading to a nearby store but never returned.

"She's a mother, she's a wife, she's a daughter, we need to know what happened," said Phyllis Burns, her mother.

"She was lovely. She would make sure that she would have a smile on everybody's face and that she would always be there for somebody if they need help," said Christal Griswold, her daughter.

Despite the brisk night, dozens gathered and lit candles on the second anniversary of Bambi Madden's disappearance.

"I really, really miss her, and I hope she comes home soon," said her niece.

The vigil was held at the 1-Stop here because it's at the center of the east side neighborhood where Bambi Madden, her three children, and now her grandkids, call home.

"I have one grandchild that she knows and two that I would want her to meet," said Griswold.

The purpose of the vigil was not just to remember Bambi Madden but to renew the effort in finding her.

"If anyone has any information, please feel free to contact anyone. Just say something. They can contact me certainly, and be anonymous, just come forward if you know anything," said Debra Wilson, the Comfort Ministry pastor.

"The first year I think I was in a lot of shock but the second year, to me, has been worse than the first year, because I’m not in that shock anymore.

'And now you just want answers?'

I need answers, I need answers," said Burns.

If you have any information, call Binghamton Police at 607-772-7080.

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Never stop looking for this missing woman

January 27, 2008

Walking down a street on Binghamton's West Side, I came across a tattered poster, a remnant from two years ago when Bambi Lynn Madden vanished. Mud-soaked, torn and held by a single staple to a telephone pole, it was flapping in the cold January wind.

It was two years on the 11th of this month since the evening when Bambi went out for a beer and never came home again. She had $5 in her pocket, her family said. She was headed for a Main Street convenience store. It is like a hole opened up in the universe between her apartment on Winding Way and that convenience store, and it swallowed up the slight, blond mother of three.

Just gone.

"Out of sight, out of mind," goes an old saying that shouldn't apply to human beings. But then there it was, her face, or half of it, flipping back and forth in the cold. Suddenly, for me, Bambi Lynn Madden was a real woman, a mom and a life. She was back. When I went home and looked her up, I found out that the day I came across that old flyer was two years and one day after the date of her disappearance, and a chill ran through me.

Bambi Lynn Madden had a simple life; some say it was a troubled life. This is what we know for sure: She loved her family and they loved her. People use words like "lovely" and "sweet" when they refer to her.

Madden, who was 34 years old when she disappeared, had not lived a life in any kind of spotlight. But she has now. Her rose tattoo and the one of a guitar and music notes on her right ankle have been described on national television, on "The Early Show" on CBS and on "Without a Trace." Despite her televised story and national fame, nothing has turned up. All clues led to dead ends. Her case is colder than a January gale, say the detectives who have spoken to the media.

Tragedy begets tragedy. Pain can be like a flame that keeps burning. Family tragedy has followed Madden's disappearance for sure: Her son, Scott Fiske, stabbed another person to death in an argument and is serving time in prison now. On her right shoulder, Bambi Lynn Madden had another tattoo, one that seems prescient in light of her disappearance: a skull etched inside a flame.

The family ignited a different kind of flame to mark the day of her disappearance this January, a candlelight vigil. I wasn't there but I imagine everyone shivering in the cold outside the One Stop Grocery on Front Street, candles flickering. More than marking the date she vanished, the family wanted to keep her name and face in the public consciousness. "We're trying to get it back out in the open," her sister Amanda Burns said.

When a person vanishes, they leave a vacuum that fills with questions and pain. The family says that for Bambi Lynn Madden's youngest child, Tommy, now 10, it has been terrible silence where a mother had been. Anyone who has a 10-year-old can speak to how important a time of life that is for children; they need their mothers.

I did not know Bambi Lynn Madden. I did not know her neighborhood or her favorite hangouts, Sara's Pub or the Brass Rail Grill. But I know there are people who did know her and who know those places, and two years isn't that long ago.

Maybe someone, somewhere along Winding Way can remember seeing a woman on a cold January day, wearing a puffy, black-hooded jacket. I bet she had that hood up on that cold night. I bet she had her hands in her pockets. She might have seemed almost invisible in the dark, dressed as she was all in black. But she was there.

They dredged the river and walked the railroad tracks but nobody has come across a trace of her.

The last hope for Madden might be the impression she left on someone that evening, as she wended down her street to the store. Someone saw her. Someone knows. And the family deserves to know, too.

If you have any information about Bambi Lynn Madden, contact Detective John Ryan 772-7080, dial 911 or contact your local police station.

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Cold Case Graffiti

June 19, 2008

It's a disturbing discovery one Binghamton woman never expected to see from her front door.

Now, Binghamton Police are looking into details of the Bambi Madden cold case.

When Jackie Siske opened the front door of her Oak Street home Thursday morning, she found this spray painted message about her missing sister on the wall of Greater Faith and Deliverance Ministries.

Binghamton Police Capitan Alex Minor says they're still investigating the disappearance of Bambi Madden.

Bambi disappeared after she left her home to walk to a gas station back in 2006.

Siske tells NewsChannel 34 that the graffiti about her sister's disappearance is tearing her family apart.

Siske says, "Nobody seems to be able to tell us what's going on. It's been strewn all up and down Front Street, all over Valley Street Park, nobody seems to know what's going on. We just need to know what's going on, and where she is. We need to have her home."

This graffiti found on an overpass pillar along Front Street was also first noticed within the last few days, but Binghamton Police won't say whether the two are connected.

If you have any information about Bambi Madden, you're asked to call Binghamton Police Detectives at 772-7080.

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Graffiti messages a mystery

Notes about missing women popping up in Binghamton

June 20, 2008

BINGHAMTON -- "Human remains found here."

That's one of the cryptic clues about the fate of a missing Southern Tier women recently spray painted around the city's North Side.

The message appears on the pillar of a Front Street highway overpass. Above it, there's a phone number. It belongs to a car dealership formerly co-owned by Calvin Harris, whose conviction in the murder of his estranged wife was set aside by a judge. That decision is under appeal.

Below the message, there's an arrow pointing to the Chenango River. Michele Harris' body was never recovered.

Several other clues suggest city resident Bambi Madden, who vanished in 2006 while walking to a convenience store, died in police custody and the local FBI office has information about her death. Many of the messages appear near Madden's Winding Way home.

Graffiti has popped up on a Valley Street Park bathroom door, on the side of the former Magic City Ice building on Front Street and -- most recently -- on the side of a church directly across from the house where Madden's sister lives.

"We've been seeing them all over the place since Memorial Day," said Jackie Fiske, 35, the missing woman's younger sister. She lives just blocks from Madden's home.

Fiske discovered the church building graffiti Thursday morning when she stepped out on the porch of her Oak Street home to drink a cup of coffee. It read:

"Bambi Madden (29 Winding Way) arrested -- died in police custody. Statement under oath. -- witness Call FBI."

Binghamton Police Lt. John Chapman said the information isn't true. A message left at the number provided for the local FBI office wasn't returned Thursday.

Fiske doesn't believe the messages provide information that will help close her sister's case. Most just contain her sister's name and the FBI telephone number.

The graffiti also don't shake Fiske's belief her sister is alive somewhere. Missing posters are taped to the back window of Fiske's car. Saturday is Madden's 37th birthday.

"They're torturing us," said Fiske, who is caring for Madden's youngest son Tommy, 12, this week while his father -- Madden's husband -- travels for business.

City police said similar graffiti has been popping up for a couple of years but haven't led to new leads in Madden's disappearance. References to the FBI are puzzling, said Binghamton Police Lt. John Chapman.

"I don't know why they're putting that on there," Chapman said. "Any law enforcement agency would have an interest in it, but it's primarily being handled by our department."

Madden was 34 when she vanished Jan. 11, 2006 while on her way to buy beer on Main Street. Police investigate any new information that comes up in her case, but that happens less frequently more than two years after she disappeared.

"We just stay on it," Chapman said. "Every so often, we'll pull it out and re-contact some of the people who may have been close to the case just to see if anything new has come up."

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Part-time dancer one of three women in Broome County still reported missing

By Nancy Dooling • Press & Sun-Bulletin • August 11, 2008

Binghamton detectives believe a part-time dancer recently reported missing may be in the Pine Street area of the city, although she hadn't been located Monday.

"We do have some unconfirmed sightings in the area," Detective Captain Alex J. Minor said.

Susan Davies worked as a part-time dancer at different clubs between Binghamton and Baltimore, Md., Minor said. He declined to say what type of clubs employ Davies.

The 27-year-old city woman's last known address is 12 Crandall St., Binghamton, detectives said. Davies has red hair and is 5 feet, 4 inches tall. She may have dyed her hair blond, detectives said. She weighs 145 pounds.

Davies also has the word "shorty" tattooed on her upper right arm, police said.

Davies hasn't been in contact with family members since March. The family reported her missing to Binghamton police on July 25, the captain said. He couldn't say why they waited so long to report her missing.

Police have no reason to suspect foul play, but they can't rule it out.

Another Binghamton woman vanished in January 2006 after leaving on foot to go to a nearby convenience store to buy beer. Bambi Madden, then 34, never returned to her Winding Way residence. There are no substantial new developments in the missing person investigation into Madden's disappearance, Minor said.

Madden had three children.

Nor are there recent developments in the case of a third missing woman from Broome County -- Bethanie Dougherty, said Broome County Sheriff's Detective Lt. Patrick Isenburg. Dougherty, a mother of three, went missing April 1. She was last seen at 10:30 p.m. by her 18-year-old son at their Town of Lisle residence.

Neighbors said they heard a woman scream around 3 a.m. April 2, but police found nothing when they responded to a 911 call.

"We continue to follow up on leads," Isenburg said. "But they've slowed down to some extent."

Dougherty's family is offering a $15,000 reward for her safe return.

* Dougherty is 40, with blue eyes and red hair. She is 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds.

* Madden is 37, with blue eyes and blond hair. She is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds.

Anyone with information about Davies or Madden can call Binghamton police at 607-772-7077. Individuals with information about Dougherty can call Broome County sheriff's detectives at 607-778-1911.

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Bambi Madden's family to mark third year since her disappearance

By Nancy Dooling • ndooling@gannett.com • Staff Writer • January 9, 2009

Three years ago Sunday, Bambi Madden walked out the door of her Binghamton house and vanished without a trace.

As they've done since her disappearance on Jan. 11, 2006, her family and friends will hold a candlelight vigil to remember the petite blond and mother of three.

Hope never dies, but Phyllis Burns, Bambi's mother, said she has less hope that her daughter will ever be found.

"It's difficult," the Binghamton woman said.

Madden, who was married and lived on Winding Way, had $5 in her pocket when she left home on foot to buy beer that night, said Burns, who spoke to Madden on the telephone just minutes before she left around 11 p.m.

Madden, 34, never made it home.

Binghamton detectives have run down leads on Madden's disappearance over the past three years, but none of them has panned out, Detective Capt. Alex J. Minor said.

City detectives have said they don't suspect foul play in Madden's disappearance but they can't rule it out.

Madden was arrested on misdemeanor drug charges before her disappearance, court records show. She didn't have any known enemies, her mother said.

Two other area women also are missing.

Bethany Dougherty, 40, a mother of three, vanished April 1 from her Town of Lisle house. Neighbors said they heard a scream but police found nothing when they responded to a 911 call. Michele Harris, 35, of the Town of Spencer, Tioga County, disappeared Sept. 11, 2001. Her husband, charged with her murder, faces a second trial in February. Her body was never found. She has four children.

The vigil for Bambi Madden will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday at the One Stop Grocery, 283 Front St., Binghamton. Friends, family and members of the community are invited, Burns said.

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Missing woman's parents cling to hope after 3 years

Madden disappeared in city in Jan. 2006

By Nancy Dooling • Staff Writer • January 10, 2009

As they've done since her disappearance on Jan. 11, 2006, her family and friends will hold a candlelight vigil to remember the petite blond and mother of three.

Hope never dies, but Phyllis Burns, Bambi's mother, said she has less hope that her daughter will ever be found.

"It's difficult," the Binghamton woman said.

Madden, who was married and lived on Winding Way, had $5 in her pocket when she left home on foot to buy beer that night, said Burns, who spoke to Madden on the telephone just minutes before she left around 11 p.m.

Madden, 34, never returned.

Binghamton detectives have run down leads on Madden's disappearance over the past three years, but none of them has panned out, Detective Capt. Alex J. Minor said.

City detectives have said they don't suspect foul play in Madden's disappearance but they can't rule it out.

Madden was arrested on misdemeanor drug charges before her disappearance, court records show. She didn't have any known enemies, her mother said.

Two other area women also are missing.

Bethany Dougherty, 40, a mother of three, vanished April 1 from her Town of Lisle house. Neighbors said they heard a scream but police found nothing when they responded to a 911 call.

Michele Harris, 35, of the Town of Spencer, Tioga County, disappeared Sept. 11, 2001. Her husband, charged with her murder, faces a second trial in February. Her body was never found. She has four children.

The vigil for Bambi Madden will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday at the One Stop Grocery, 283 Front St., Binghamton. Friends, family and members of the community are invited, Burns said.

[Guest LINDA]

http://www.wbng.com/news/local/37422474.html

Bambi Madden Vigil

Jan 11, 2009

A candle light vigil marks the three year anniversary of Bambi Madden's disappearance.

Friends and family of the Binghamton woman came together at One Stop Grocery on Front street.

They read poems and recited prayers.

Bambi Madden was 34 when she went missing.

She left her apartment and was heading to the One Stop Grocery, but never came home.

Binghamton Police Detectives have pursued the case, but the disappearance has remained a mystery.

The family isn't giving up hope.

"Maybe if she's out there to see that we care and we want here home. And that her family misses her a lot," said David Ladue, Bambi Madden's son-in-law.

More than 20 people were at the vigil.

[Jenn]

http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20100111/NEWS01/100111021/1112/Vigil-planned-tonight-for-missing-woman

Vigil planned tonight for missing woman

January 11, 2010, 9:02 am

Family and friends of Bambi Madden, a Binghamton woman who disappeared four years ago, will hold a candlelight vigil at 7 p.m. Monday at the One Stop Grocery, 283 Front St., Binghamton.

Madden, a mother of three, disappeared Jan. 11, 2006, after leaving her Winding Way residence about 11 p.m. for a walk to a local convenience store to buy beer. Madden, 34, vanished without a trace.

The vigil is held every year on the anniversary of Madden's disappearance.

[Jenn]

Family website for Bambi: http://bambi.4ourangel.com/

Charley Project Profile for Bambi: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/madden_bambi.html

[Jenn]

http://www.wbng.com/news/local/81197457.html

Hope for Missing Madden

By WBNG News

Story Created: Jan 11, 2010 at 10:45 PM EST Story Updated: Jan 12, 2010 at 12:10 AM EST

Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) It's been four years since Bambi Madden went missing at the age of 34.. As Action News Reporter Rachael Hidalgo tells us, Madden's family refuses to give up hope.

"It's been four long year since my daughter's been missing... I can't read it, I can't..."

Bambi Madden's mother, Phyllis, can't even read the words she prepared.

She's pleading for help to find her missing daughter.

Madden disappeared on January 11, 2006, while on her way to the One Stop on Front Street in Binghamton.

Four years later her family still searches for answers.

"Somebody knows answers, somebody has to sometime or another come forward," says Phyllis Burns.

"We're just hoping that we can find some answers as to what happened or even where's she's at. Just something just to bring her home, even if it's just to give her a proper funeral, then so be it," says her sister Amanda Barry.

Bambi left behind her husband, three children and four grandchildren.

Her relatives don't believe she left willingly.

"We just know she'd be here if she could, we just know that," says Burns.

Phyllis says she continues to call the Binghamton police for updates on the case.

Police have executed a series of search warrants over the last year but the leads didn't turn up any new information.

"It's still a very active case. Whenever any information becomes available we immediately go out and follow up on it. But to this point we just haven't gotten that one piece of information that would lead us in a definite direction," says Binghamton Police Captain Alex Minor.

Even with the constant efforts from police, the family still holds onto hope for a reunion.

"Well I'm hoping and praying to God that she's still alive. But I don't think she is, I think she's gone," says Patricia Burns.

For everyone at the vigil, it's the memory of Bambi that keeps their search alive.

If you have any information about Madden's whereabouts, call Binghamton Police at 607-772-7080.

Or you can also leave tips online on her Facebook and Myspace pages. Just search the name Bambi Madden.

[Jenn]

http://www.wicz.com/news2005/viewarticle.asp?a=12251

4 Years Later All Missing Woman's Family Wants are Answers

Four years after a Binghamton woman went missing her friends and family are still holding out hope that someone will come forward with clues about her disappearance.

Thirty-four-year-old Bambi Madden vanished in 2006 after leaving her home to go to the One Stop Grocery store on Front Street.

A vigil is held for Madden each year on January 11th -- the day she went missing.

Those who loved Madden say they're not expecting a happy ending, they just want answers.

"Somebody has to know something. We need them to come forward. It's been four long years. It's been 5 birthdays, five holidays. I don't care if they just write a letter. Send it to the newspaper, send it to the news. Don't sign it," said Bambi Madden's mother, Phyllis Burns.

Madden left behind a daughter, two sons, and a granddaughter.

[LoriDavis]

http://www.wbng.com/news/local/Remembering-Bambi-Madden-113116094.html

Remembering Bambi Madden

Updated Jan 7, 2011 at 10:40 PM EST

By WBNG News

Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) - It has been five long years for the family of a missing Binghamton woman.

Tonight they're remembering her with a candlelight vigil.

Bambi Madden was last seen five years ago when she never returned after going to the One Stop on Front Street in Binghamton.

Tonight friends and family gathered at the Blessed Hope Church in Binghamton in her memory.

"They really can't say goodbye to Bambi because we don't know where she is so there's that stumbling block. They're grieving, but they can't go to that next step of letting go and having a service for her so these prayer vigils are their way of remembering her and encouraging one another and just holding onto that glimpse of hope that one day she's going to be found," said Pastor Debra Wilson from Comfort Ministry.

"Somebody knows something. We don't know who, but somebody knows something. Maybe they'll see this and say maybe we need to help that family and tell them what we know," said Phyllis Burns, Bambi's mother.

Anyone with information about Bambi Madden is urged to call Binghamton Police at 607-772-7080.

[Jenn]

NamUs Profile for Bambi: https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/694/0/

[LoriDavis]

Search continues for missing Tier women

Dougherty family continues looking for answers

6:27 PM, Aug. 20, 2011

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The case of another woman, Bambi Madden, who was last seen in January 2006, also remains unsolved.

Madden, who was 34 years old at the time of her disappearance, had left her house on Winding Way in Binghamton to get beer at a nearby convenience store, but hasn't been seen thereafter.

Both women are listed in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Read more: http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20110820/NEWS01/108200338/Search-continues-missing-Tier-women