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Posted 23 May 2007 - 05:27 PM

Originally posted on 03/09/07
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HEATHER NICOLE KULLORN

Age Progression

Case Type: Lost, Injured, Missing
DOB: Mar 9, 1987
Sex: Female
Missing Date: Jul 15, 1999
Race: White
Age Now: 20
Height: 4'11" (150 cm)
Missing City: ST. LOUIS
Weight: 75 lbs (34 kg)
Missing State : MO
Hair Color: Lt. Brown
Missing Country: United States
Eye Color: Hazel

Case Number: NCMC867123

Circumstances: Heather's photo is shown age-progressed to 19 years. She was last seen while babysitting at a friend's apartment on July 15, 1999. Heather has not been seen or heard from since. She has a birthmark on her right inner thigh and her ears are pierced numerous times. Heather is mildly diabetic and may be in need of medical attention.
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Posted 23 May 2007 - 05:32 PM

Originally posted on 03/09/07
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Heather Nicole Kullorn

Heather Nicole Kullorn

Heather was staying with friends of her family, Dana Madden and Christopher Herbert, and babysitting their two-month-old infant in July 1999. She had been staying in their residence for about a week by July 15.

She was at the apartment in the 1600 block of Yale Avenue in Richmond Heights, Missouri during the overnight hours of July 15.

Madden was working the night shift for her employer and the Herbert was not at home at the time. A neighbor reported observing an unidentified man carrying a child who was Heather's age out of the apartment at approximately 2:00 a.m. that morning. The child's upper body was wrapped in a blanket.

When authorities were called to the scene at 5:00 a.m., they discovered that a white comforter with a floral design was missing from the apartment along with Heather. The baby was in the apartment and crying, and there was no sign of Heather, but a small amount of blood was found inside the residence. DNA testing linked the blood to Heather. She has never been heard from again. Heather was wearing a dark blue cut-off t-shirt with an unknown emblem and green plaid shorts at the time of her disappearance.

Authorities announced that they believed Heather was not a victim of random violence and that the attacker(s) most likely knew her family or the friends she was staying with at the time. The investigation centered on a methamphetamine ring in Missouri.

Investigators said that Heather may have witnessed illegal drug activity in the apartment's garage and was abducted and presumably murdered as a result. In March 2002, human remains were discovered that police thought were Heather's, but they turned out not to belong to her.

Investigators say they have a suspect, but there is insufficient evidence to charge the individual with anything. The suspect has not been identified publicly.

Heather's mother, Christine "Chris" Kullorn, had a verbal confrontation with Madden in April 2000, nine months after her daughter vanished. A photograph of Christine can be viewed below this case summary. She was arrested after arguing with Madden during the latter's work shift at a local 7-11 convenience store in St. Louis. Christine belives Madden and Herbert know more about her daughter's disappearance than they are telling. Herbert has given conflicting stories about his whereabouts at the time Heather disappeared; Madden was known to be at work when she vanished. Christine has been actively involved in Heather's case since the onset of the investigation and has never been considered a suspect. She says she believes her daughter will come home safe eventually.

Foul play is suspected in Heather's disappearance. Her case remains unsolved.
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Posted 23 May 2007 - 05:35 PM

Originally posted on 03/09/07
by Denise


January 23rd 2007

The Disappearance of Heather Kullorn
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The recent rescue of 15-year-old kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck provided many Americans with an increasingly rare commodity: good news. For Christine Kullorn of St. Clair, Missouri, the massive press coverage had an additional effect. Since January 12, when Hornbeck was reunited with his family, a stream of television news crews and photographers have been showing up at Kullorn's apartment.

Kullorn's 12-year-old daughter Heather disappeared in July 1999, while she was babysitting for family friends in Richmond Heights (a community about 10 miles from Kirkwood, where Hornbeck was discovered). "I'm glad they found Shawn because it keeps Heather in the public eye," says Kullorn, who just received 500 new missing posters of her daughter. She will put them up in the St. Louis area--and again, she will wait.

The Hornbeck and Kullorn cases are markedly different. When Hornbeck disappeared on a bike ride home in 2002, police had no clues or witnesses. In Heather Kullorn's case, there are clues, a witness, and plausible motives. And those close to the case believe that someone in this suburban pocket of Missouri knows what happened to Heather.

Heather Vanishes

Heather had just recently started babysitting in 1999. Her aunt, Debbie Kullorn, would pay the outgoing sixth-grader to push around her baby cousin in a stroller. Heather also loved watching the two-month-old infant of family friends Christopher Herbert and Dana Madden.

Herbert and Madden lived on Yale Avenue, a residential side street on the eastern edge of Richmond Heights. In the early morning of July 15, when Heather is believed to have disappeared, Madden was working the overnight shift at a convenience store, and Herbert told police he was out with friends. He returned home at 6 A.M. At that point he found Heather gone and his infant daughter crying but unharmed. Significant traces of Heather's blood were on the couch.

A massive search for Heather was launched by more than 60 police officers from the St. Louis area. In any abduction, the early hours of the search are crucial, but in Heather's case, the missing girl was a diabetic who required daily insulin injections. Eventually the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime would also join the investigation.

At first there were promising leads. A neighbor in the apartment building told police that when he went out to walk his dog at 2 A.M., he saw someone carrying a child's body out of Herbert's apartment. Without his glasses, the witness was legally blind. Still, he reported that the child's upper body was wrapped in a blanket, with her legs exposed. A white comforter was subsequently discovered missing from the couple's apartment.

According to Richmond Heights Police Detective Mike Brown, it quickly became clear that Herbert was involved in the local drug scene. During his initial conversation with the police, Herbert claimed to have been out with friends all night. Later he confessed that he had been manufacturing methamphetamine with a friend down by the river.

Additionally, meth paraphernalia was found in the garage used by Herbert and Mike Mason. Mason, a neighbor who lived across the street, was responsible for rehabbing apartments in the development, and often hired Herbert for handyman jobs. And on the same day that Heather disappeared, a man and a woman from Sikeston, Missouri (a city about 180 miles south of Richmond Heights) stopped by Herbert's apartment and left him a note. Brown speculates that there may have been a drug deal in the offing. But when the couple's BMW was impounded and searched by the FBI, no evidence connected them to Heather's disappearance.

Looking for Motives

Did police believe that Heather was killed because she witnessed a drug deal that night? The local media were quick to pounce on that possibility. Brown says his investigation produced no solid evidence to support that theory. But it was certainly never disproved, either. "Can I say it was drug-related?" he asks rhetorically. "Well, everyone involved here was doing drugs."

Meanwhile, Christopher Herbert was arrested on federal drug charges in 2004. He is currently serving a four-year sentence in a Florence, Colorado prison. Mike Mason, who was also interviewed extensively by police, was convicted of federal drug charges in 2005, and is serving a six-year sentence in Marion, Illinois.

Christine Kullorn has written to Herbert in prison. He responded to one of her letters, she says, but hasn't replied to a subsequent one. Still, she believes that at least half a dozen people know what happened to her daughter--starting with Herbert. "Maybe someone else was there that night and just freaked out," says Kullorn.

If Herbert knows anything, he's not talking. Brown has personally interviewed him six times, and the FBI has also interrogated him. "He continues to deny any involvement in Heather's disappearance," says Brown.

Other theories-Heather's abduction was an act of revenge against Christine or Herbert, for instance-never panned out, he says.

Still on the Trail

Back in 1999, two local businessmen offered a reward of $25,000 for any information that would help to solve the crime. Given the lack of viable leads, the offer was recently suspended. Yet the tips keep coming in: every month, Brown gets phone calls from people claiming they saw Heather or know where she is buried.

He characterizes most of these leads as "third-hand and fourth-hand rumors. It's someone calling and saying that Heather's body is in southeast Missouri, leading me to go there for four days."

Christine Kullorn, however, will not give up. She is hoping to discuss her daughter's case on America's Most Wanted, having met host John Walsh during a recent Larry King Live taping. And she stays in constant touch with Brown. "He wants to find justice for Heather," she says. "He is doing all that he can."

"Christine deserves to have closure and to know what happened to her child," says Marc Klaas, a California-based child-rights advocate whose own daughter Polly was abducted and murdered in 1993. According to Klaas, it's rare for a case with so many clues to remain unsolved.

A few years ago, Kullorn's sister Beth gave her a framed mural with a large photo of Heather, surrounded by pictures of other missing children. One of these was Shawn Hornbeck. Now his safe return home has given Kullorn some renewed hope. "I believe in my heart and soul that I will find her," she says. "Even if it's not good news, I know I will find her."

Anyone with information about Heather Kullorn can call Detective Mike Brown at the Richmond Heights Police Dept.: (314) 645-3000 or the Center for Missing and Exploited Children: (1-800-843-5678)

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Posted 23 May 2007 - 05:38 PM

Originally posted on 03/09/07
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Current Amber Alerts for Missouri issued by MissingKids.com

Endangered Missing: HEATHER KULLORN
(MO) 12/14/2006 02:28 AM

HEATHER KULLORN, currently age 20, missing 07/15/1999 from ST. LOUIS, MO. If you have any information about this child please contact Richmond Heights Police Department (Missouri) 1-314-645-3000.
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Posted 23 May 2007 - 05:40 PM

Originally posted on 03/09/07
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http://www.kmov.com/localnews/storie....363f5eda.html

Mothers of missing girls mark somber anniversaries

07:24 PM CST on Friday, March 9, 2007

(KMOV) -- Two local mothers are marking anniversaries this week, but what they're remembering is far from pleasant.

Both mothers have daughters who are missing.

Bianca Piper and Heather Kullorn didn't know each other, but they have something in common that will forever link them in the community.

Both are missing.

The bi-polar Bianca disappeared two years ago Saturday from her Lincoln County neighborhood while taking a walk to clear her head after an argument.

Searchers combed the area, and police interviewed every registered sex offender in the county, to no avail.

Chris Kullorn knows how Bianca’s mom feels.

It’s been nearly eight years since her daughter Heather disappeared while babysitting an infant in Richmond Heights.

Police found traces of Heather's blood and evidence of a meth lab in that apartment, but they have never found Heather.

On Friday, Kullorn released balloons on what would be Heather's 20th birthday.

She says she's never given up hope, but its hard not knowing where her daughter is.

The recovery of Shawn Hornbeck generated new leads in the Piper case, but nothing has led to Bianca.

Chris Kullorn says she's lobbying her representatives to introduce legislation giving every missing child national publicity.
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Posted 23 May 2007 - 05:42 PM

Originally posted on 03/21/07
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Good News!

Jefferson City is starting to listen! There’s another bill that will help the missing; HB 757 which will provide guidelines for Law Enforcement so they will be better able to investigate and process evidence in a missing person’s case. Thank you Brandy and "friends of Summer" for your hard work. This bill along with SB 67 (endangered/elderly alert) will make a huge difference. It can save lives and stop criminals.

Missouri, especially rural Missouri has way too many missing persons cases. It’s time something is done about it! Contact your senators and representatives and ask them to support HB 757 & SB 67. Remember they are starting to listen.


HB 757 Establishes the Summer Shipp Act which specifies that law enforcement officers cannot refuse a written report of a missing person


HB 757 - SUMMER SHIPP ACT - Pratt, Bryan

Summary of the Introduced Bill

HB 757 -- Summer Shipp Act

Sponsor: Pratt

This bill establishes the Summer Shipp Act which specifies that
law enforcement officers cannot refuse a written report of a
missing person. In accepting a written report of a missing
person, the law enforcement agency must attempt to gather
relevant information regarding the disappearance and reasonably
respond to inquiries from the person making the report, a family
member, or any other person in a position to assist the agency in
locating the missing person. The agency must determine whether
the person missing is a high-risk missing person and, if so, to
immediately notify the State Highway Patrol.

If the person is missing for a period of 30 days, the agency must
attempt to obtain DNA samples from family members, an
authorization to release dental or skeletal x-rays, additional
photographs, dental information, and x-rays or fingerprints of
the missing person.
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Posted 09 March 2008 - 03:20 PM

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Birthday Sunday For Missing Heaather Kullorn  

Last Edited: Sunday, 09 Mar 2008, 5:57 PM CDT 
Created: Saturday, 08 Mar 2008, 10:02 PM CST 

(KTVI -- MyFOXstl.com)  -- 

Sunday marks the birthday of Heather Kullorn, the 12 year old who went missing while she was babysitting in Richmond Heights.

The disappearance happened in July of 1999.

Heather would be 21 years old Sunday.

Since the incident happened, police have developed few leads.

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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: July 15, 1999 from Richmond Heights, Missouri
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: March 9, 1987
Age at Disappearance: 12 years old
Height and Weight: 4'10, 87 pounds

Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Heather has a birthmark on her inner right thigh. Her ears are pierced multiple times. Heather shaved her eyebrows prior to her July 1999 disappearance.

Clothing/Jewelry Description: Green plaid shorts and a dark blue cut-off t-shirt with an emblem.

Medical Conditions: Heather is a mild diabetic and requires daily insulin injections to regulate her condition. She needs to test her blood sugar four times day. Sugared foods and water may sustain her for a short period if she does not have her insulin, but if she does not get medical assistance, eventually Heather will fall into a diabetic coma.



Details of Disappearance

Heather was staying with friends of her family, Dana Madden and Christopher Herbert, and babysitting their two-month-old infant in July 1999. She had been staying in their residence for about a week by July 15. She was at the apartment in the 1600 block of Yale Avenue in Richmond Heights, Missouri during the overnight hours of July 15. Madden was working the night shift for her employer and the Herbert was not at home at the time. A neighbor reported observing an unidentified man carrying a child who was Heather's age out of the apartment at approximately 2:00 a.m. that morning. The child's upper body was wrapped in a blanket. When authorities were called to the scene at 5:00 a.m., they discovered that a white comforter with a floral design was missing from the apartment along with Heather. The baby was in the apartment and crying, and there was no sign of Heather, but a small amount of blood was found inside the residence. DNA testing linked the blood to Heather. She has never been heard from again.

Authorities announced that they believed Heather was not a victim of random violence and that the attacker(s) most likely knew her family or the friends she was staying with at the time. The investigation centered on a methamphetamine ring in Missouri. Evidence of a methamphetamine manufacturing lab was found in the Madden/Herbert apartment. Investigators said that Heather may have witnessed illegal drug activity in the apartment's garage and was abducted and presumably murdered as a result. In March 2002, human remains were discovered that police thought were Heather's, but they turned out not to belong to her. Investigators say they have a suspect, but there is insufficient evidence to charge the individual with anything connected to Heather's case. The suspect has not been identified publicly.

Heather's mother, Christine Kullorn, had a verbal confrontation with Madden in April 2000, nine months after her daughter vanished. She was arrested after arguing with Madden during the latter's work shift at a local 7-11 convenience store in St. Louis. Christine believes Madden and Herbert know more about her daughter's disappearance than they are telling. Herbert has given conflicting stories about his whereabouts at the time Heather disappeared; Madden was known to be at work when she vanished. Christine has been actively involved in Heather's case since the onset of the investigation and has never been considered a suspect. She says she believes her daughter will come home safe eventually.

Foul play is suspected in Heather's disappearance. She was a student at Blow Middle School in south St. Louis, Missouri at the time of her disappearance. Her case remains unsolved.

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Posted 29 August 2008 - 06:17 PM

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Nationwide Missing Person Tour Comes to St. Louis

KSDK -- A nationwide tour called attention to missing person cases in the St. Louis area on Friday.

This was a chance to raise hope and awareness about missing person cases that remain unsolved. Several families gathered Friday morning at the Jefferson County Sherrif's Department.

They released close to a dozen balloons, each of them representing a person who went missing.

It's been more than three years since 26-year-old Amanda Jones disappeared from Hillsboro in 2005. The mother of Heather Kullorn also tried to keep hope alive for her daughter, who went missing while babysitting in 1999. Those families said they would not give up hope.

Law enforcement officials who were present did not release any new information about those cases.

The group responsible for the event, the Community United Effort - Center for Missing Persons, was based in Wilmington, North Carolina, and was visiting Missouri as part of a nationwide tour.

Meanwhile, family and friends of Bianca Piper made an extra effort to help police solve her disappearance.

The 'On the Road to Remember Tour' started Thursday in Foley, Missouri.

Piper was walking along a dirt road near her home when she disappeared, on March 10, 2005. She was 13-years-old at the time of her disappearance.


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Posted 29 August 2008 - 06:18 PM

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Families still looking for tips about missing daughters

August 29, 2008 | 2:08 p.m. CDT
BY The Associated Press

HILLSBORO — Informational fliers and photos are being distributed outside the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department to renew attention on two separate missing persons cases that have confounded eastern Missouri.

Family members of Amanda Jones and Heather Kullorn attended an event Friday that asked the public for tips to help them learn what happened to their loved ones.

Jones disappeared in 2005 from the Jefferson County community of Hillsboro. She was 26 at the time and days away from giving birth to a son. Kullorn went missing in 1999 while she was baby-sitting a 2-month-old infant in the St. Louis suburb of Richmond Heights. She was 12 at the time.

Detectives in both cases say they are interested in tips and do follow up on them.


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Posted 30 August 2008 - 07:39 AM

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Event is reminder that search goes on for missing persons

By Betsy Taylor
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08/30/2008

HILLSBORO — Nine years after a 12-year-old girl was reported missing and three years after a pregnant mother vanished, their families took part in a gathering Friday to renew public interest in their separate cases.

Informational fliers and photos were distributed outside the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department to renew attention on the cases of Heather Kullorn and Amanda Jones.

Their family members attended the event, saying they still seek the public's help with information to help them learn what happened to their loved ones.

Kullorn, who was then 4 feet 10 inches and weighed 75 pounds, was reported missing while baby-sitting a 2-month-old infant in Richmond Heights on July 14, 1999.

Investigators found a small amount of Heather's blood in the apartment, Richmond Heights Police Detective Sgt. Douglas Schaeffler said. They were also told at the time of Heather's disappearance that a comforter was missing from the apartment.

The poster about Heather's disappearance distributed at the Jefferson County event says a neighbor "saw a child, believed to be Heather," wrapped in a comforter and being carried out of the apartment by an unknown white male about 2 a.m. July 15. Schaeffler said the neighbor was legally blind.

Heather's mother, Christine Kullorn, 43, said Heather was "a good girl," who had been baby-sitting to save money for Christmas gifts. "She had her life taken away very early," Christine Kullorn said.

She believes some peace would come to her if she knew where her daughter's body is, allowing her "to bring her home to me, put her where she deserves to be," Kullorn said.

Meanwhile, Amanda Jones' family has not given up hope that she may still be alive and reunited with them.

Jones was 26 and just days away from giving birth to a son when she disappeared on Aug. 14, 2005. Jones had told her mother that she was going to the Hillsboro Civic Center to meet the man she called the baby's father, Bryan Westfall.

Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer said Westfall was the last known person Jones had talked to, but he said the department had no evidence linking him to Jones' disappearance.

Boyer said efforts continued each and every day to solve the case.

"To the individual or individuals involved, every night when they lay their head on the pillow, I want them to know we get a little closer every day," he said.

Jones' 7-year-old daughter, Hannah, from a previous marriage, now lives with Jones' parents, Hubert and Bertha Propst of Festus, after Hannah's father died.

The Propsts said Hannah knew that her mother was missing, and often kissed her picture. The child has also remarked about the "missing" signs about her mother.

"She notices some of the pictures have been taken down from some of the stores," Hubert Propst said.

The event at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department was held with the Community United Effort's Center for Missing Persons, based in Wilmington, N.C. The center is conducting a tour of several communities to draw attention to cases that remain unsolved.

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Posted 30 August 2008 - 07:52 AM

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Two Missouri families still look for missing relatives

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HILLSBORO, Mo. | Nine years after a 12-year-old girl went missing and three years after a pregnant mother vanished, their families took part in a gathering Friday to renew public interest in their cases.

Fliers and photos were distributed outside the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department in eastern Missouri to renew attention to the cases of Heather Kullorn and Amanda Jones.

Relatives attended the event and said they still need the public’s help to learn what happened to their loved ones.

Heather, who was then 4 feet 10 inches and weighed 75 pounds, went missing while baby-sitting a 2-month-old infant in the St. Louis suburb of Richmond Heights on July 14, 1999.

Investigators found a small amount of Heather’s blood in the apartment, Police Sgt. Douglas Schaeffler said.

The poster about Heather’s disappearance distributed at the Jefferson County event says a neighbor “saw a child, believed to be Heather,” wrapped in a comforter and being carried out of the apartment by an unknown white male around 2 a.m. July 15. Schaeffler said the neighbor is legally blind.

Amanda Jones’ family has not given up hope that she may still be alive and reunited with them.

Jones was 26 and just days away from giving birth to a son when she disappeared on Aug. 14, 2005.

Jones had told her mother that she was going to the Hillsboro Civic Center to meet the man she called the baby’s father, Bryan Westfall.

Sheriff Glenn Boyer said Westfall is the last known person Jones talked to, but he said the department does not have evidence linking him to Jones’ disappearance.



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Posted 07 September 2008 - 12:54 PM

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Disappearance continues to haunt woman's family
Amanda Jones still missing after three years


By TERESA RESSEL
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Sunday, September 07, 2008

Three years have passed since a Pevely woman, nine months pregnant, went missing.

Amanda Jones disappeared on Aug. 14, 2005, just days before she was going to give birth to a baby boy she had named Hayden Lucas.

Police still don’t have much to  go on.

Jefferson County Lt. Dave Marshak said they do still get leads and they follow up on every lead whether they believe it credible. He said they get calls from people who thought they “saw her here or there.” They check businesses’ video surveillance tapes to make sure it wasn’t her.

One recent bogus lead was an anonymous letter that turned out to have been written by a woman with “mental health issues.”

Marshak said no one has given them a solid lead.

A week ago, the department held a rally to bring attention to her disappearance and other missing people like Heather Kullorn, a 12-year-old girl who disappeared from Richmond Heights in 1999.

The rally stimulated interest and tips but unfortunately, not many legitimate tips. As late as Thursday, they received a call about a supposed sighting of Jones.

“We’re kind of at a standstill,” Marshak said. “There’s not a lot we can do right now.”

Even the MySpace page, http://www.myspace.c...dingamandajones, is updated less often with mainly friends and other missing persons’ family members leaving messages.

Police had focused on Bryan Westfall, who the Jones’ family says is the baby’s father. Police searched his property twice early on but never named him as a suspect. They say he has worked with police through his attorney. His girlfriend reportedly talked to police through her attorney, as well.

The day she went missing, she left her 4-year-old daughter with her family to meet Westfall at the Hillsboro Civic Center. He is the last known person to see her.

Her mother, Bertha Propst of Festus, said her daughter received a phone call from Westfall that morning requesting a meeting at 1 p.m. at the Hillsboro Civic Center, where the two had met and he volunteered.

Bertha has said her daughter just wanted to know if Westfall wanted to have anything to do with raising her son. Her parents, Bertha and Hubert — who were born and raised in Park Hills — and friends called Westfall when she didn’t return and got different stories.

The Propst family called the sheriff's department at about 9 that night to report her missing. Later on, her car was found unlocked in the parking lot, with her purse inside.

Police have found no physical evidence in the case. Anyone with information is asked to call the department at 636-797-5000.

Police describe Jones as 5-foot-8 and about 220 pounds. She has blue eyes, brown hair with blond highlights, and a dolphin tattoo on her left upper torso. She was last seen wearing a pink sleeveless shirt, a pink- and white-flowered skirt and pink sandals.


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Posted 29 August 2010 - 10:17 AM

https://www.findthem...g/cases/6275/0/
NamUs profile for Heather Kullorn - Case 6275

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#16 Lori Davis

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Posted 01 January 2012 - 07:38 PM

Missing children remembered - Missing children from Missouri

Written by Mary Rupert
Wednesday, 25 May 2011 15:00

Kenny Carter sang "Among the Missing" at the National Missing Children's Day event May 25 at Kansas City, Kansas, City Hall. (Staff photo by Mary Rupert)

Missing children from Missouri:

[Excerpt..]

HEATHER KULLON 1999

Read more: http://www.wyandotte...embered?start=3

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Posted 15 May 2013 - 04:51 PM

http://fox2now.com/2...-missouri-kids/

Cold Cases: Police Still Searching For Missing Missouri Kids

Posted on: 5:12 pm, May 7, 2013
updated on: 05:16pm, May 7, 2013

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – Forty-six people are on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s website in Missouri.

Some of the notable cases include:

Gina Dawn Brooks who disappeared August 5, 1989 from Fredricktown. She was last seen riding her bicycle, it was later found abandoned on High Street.

Arlin Henderson was last seen July 25, 1991 in Moscow Mills riding his bike.

Christian Ferguson, disappeared June 11, 2003 in St. Louis when he was 9 years old.

Bianca Piper left for a walk from her Foley, Missouri home March 10, 2005 and never returned.

Heather Kullorn was a prominent missing child case. She disappeared on July 15th, 1999.

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Posted 05 September 2015 - 11:39 AM

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Mother of girl missing from Richmond Heights still waits for justice after 15 years

 

July 15, 2014 12:00 am  •  By Bailey Otto botto@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8021

 

Heather Kullorn was 12 years old when she went missing 15 years ago. She was a spitfire adolescent and she loved kids.

 

Christine Kullorn said she often thinks of what her daughter, Heather, would be like today: outspoken and independent, matured from that cheeky adolescent attitude. She thinks Heather, who would be 27 years old now, would have made a great mom. Her daughter had always loved babies.

 

“She was just a riot,” her mom said, laughing softly. “And she was cheated out of a lot of things. I miss her dearly.”

 

Heather disappeared while baby-sitting for family friends Dana Madden and Christopher Herbert on July 15, 1999. Madden was working overnight, and Herbert told police he was partying with a friend by the river that night. He said he came home after 4 a.m. to find their 2-month-old daughter unharmed but alone in the apartment in the 1600 block of Yale Avenue in Richmond Heights. No Heather.

 

Police said Herbert called Madden, who was working at a convenience store in Ferguson. Madden called the police, and authorities showed up to the apartment about 5 a.m.

 

Police have theorized that Heather could have witnessed illegal activity and was subsequently killed. Richmond Heights Detective Mike Brown said that drug paraphernalia was found in the basement of the apartment complex. A neighbor said that when he was taking his dog out about 2 a.m., he saw a man carry a child out of the apartment in a comforter.

 

Despite police efforts, the case is unsolved, but Brown said it is still active.

 

“I’ve had several tips over the last five years,” Brown said. “And I pursue each, whether they seem valid or not.”

 

Police have monitored a group of people in connection to Heather’s disappearance, but no one has been charged. Brown declined to give more information on those people.

 

Kullorn said she doesn’t think police have done enough in searching for answers to what happened to Heather.

 

Kullorn said she sometimes had a troubled relationship with Heather, who despite her young age was rebelling and had been caught smoking. Just before Heather went missing, she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and Kullorn said it brought her and her daughter closer.

 

Kullorn still posts fliers, some with photos adjusted to what Heather might look like today. But she has found what many families discover: As time passes, community efforts to find missing children dwindle. The family doesn’t host big events anymore. Kullorn said keeping her daughter in the minds of folks is hard, because remembering can hurt.

 

“I just try to keep her out there, even if I’m just talking about her with someone,” she said. “I feel like I’m doing something then. Some days it’s hard. Some days I give up. But I do it because Heather deserves justice.”

 

If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Richmond Heights Police Department at 314-645-3000. 


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