After 22 years, Lone Jack MO family finds slain sister in Ohio
Posted by GSDispatch Editor in GSD Online, source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, MO.: The last time Stephanie Clack saw older sister Paula Beverly Davis they were sharing a pizza at a Kansas City-area restaurant and talking about getting tickets to a Bon Jovi concert.
Later that night, she heard from a friend that Davis had gone missing.
That was 22 years ago. Now, thanks to a television show, a Web site, and two little tattoos — one of a unicorn and another of a rose — Clack knows more: Her sister was strangled and her body dumped in Ohio. And the cast and crew of the The Forgotten — a TV show about amateur detectives who investigate the deaths of John and Jane Doe victims — have agreed to help pay to have her remains brought back to Missouri.
It’s not the happy ending Clack once hoped for. But it’s much more than she has had for the last two decades.
”My mother had a nervous breakdown after Paula went missing,” Clack said Thursday. ”We just never knew.”
The story of what happened to 21-year-old Davis began unfolding for Clack in October when a relative called her after watching an episode of The Forgottenand seeing a public service announcement for the Web site NamUs, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. The Department of Justice recently launched the Web site that’s a repository for unidentified remains and missing persons.
Clack, 36, punched in some of her sister’s information and came up with about 10 possible matches.
”I was looking for characteristics she had that nobody else would know,” she said. ”Then I saw the one with the rose and the unicorn, and I knew we had found her.”
”I was shaking and crying.” …
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