Dawna Natzke ,46yr, Missing 12/21/11 in Hot Springs Village, AR (BODY FOUND)

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46 Year Old Dawna Natzke Missing Since December 21, 2011 in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2011/12/28/46-year-old-dawna-natzke-missing-since-december-21-2011-in-hot-springs-village-arkansas/




46 year old Dawna Natzka has been missing since December 21, 2011. She was last seen leaving a Christmas party in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas where she worked as a police dispatcher. Dawna is described as 5’6″ with brown hair with blonde highlights and brown eyes.

Her vehicle, a 1997 teal green Ford Escort Wagon, was found burned  abandoned in the Ouachita National Forest off Ark. Highway 298. However, the mother of three is still missing. The fact that her vehicle was found burned cannot be a good sign. Usually this is done as an effort to hide evidence.


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Arkansas Police Search for Missing Mother of 3 After Car Found Burned

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/28/arkansas-police-search-for-missing-mother-3-after-car-found-burned/

Police found the charred remains of Natzke's 1997 teal green Ford Escort Wagon three days later off Arkansas Highway 298 in the Ouachita National Forest. The vehicle has been sent to a state crime lab, according to the station.

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[texasmom]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45801910/

Police Remaining Tight-Lipped in Case of Missing Hot Springs Village Woman

KARK 4 News
updated 12/27/2011 11:15:15 PM ET

It's a good 20 minute drive from Hot Springs Village, six miles down Highway 298 and onto a rough patch of puddles and ruts before you reach the tree canopy-covered road where Dawna Natzke's charred car was discovered Sunday. Since then, people across Garland County gathered together to search the Ouachita National Forest, the area surrounding the vehicle burn site. "There's a lot of people out there who want to help her," said Natzke's best friend Patty Hathaway. Hathaway last saw her best friend for the last time as Natzke left a Village Chirstmas party around 10:30 p.m. on December 21, 2011. "She doesn't leave without giving hugs. She loves people," Hathaway said. But Natzke did that night, with her boyfriend. We spoke with him, but he declined to go on camera, only saying Natzke dropped him off at home, saying she planned to return to the party. But she never arrived. "There's no way she would just go off to get away," Hathaway said. "I know that. There's no way she would have left her mother there without a ride home." For those who know 46-year-old Dawna Natzke, it all just doesn't fit. She's a mother to three boys. "She has three wonderful grown boys. They're football players. And they worship her," Dawna's mother Doris Smith said. "It's so unlike her to leave them, over Christmas. I mean, she wouldn't do that." She worked as a dispatcher for the Hot Springs Village Police Department. "She was very dedicated to her job. She wouldn't just not show up, unless she had called ahead for vacation days, which she rarely did," Smith added. She was not the type of person to make plans but fail to follow through. "She would drive 20 minutes clear across the Village to make sure I was all right," Smith said. "I talked to her nearly every day, saw her just about every other." "She would just call, text, and drop by my work all the time. She worried about me," Hathaway said. "I miss her already, and I can't imagine life without her." "When she turned up missing it was just amazing because it was so unlike her. She's so dependable," Smith said. It's been about 144 hours, six days, and questions continue to torment those closest to her. Why did this happen? Where has she been? What's her condition? "We want her home. I want her home with her boys. I want to quit imagining where she is," Smith said. There are questions KARK continues to have for Village police as well. For two straight days, the point of contact for media at the department has failed to return our calls. So, here are the questions we have still unanswered: 1. Is this still a missing person's investigation or is it a criminal investigation? 2. Has there been any activity on Natzke's cell phone or credit cards?
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[texasmom]

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/187024/2/Dawna-Natzke-missing-car-found-burned

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Today's THV spoke with a family member who tells us police are asking them not to speak about the case at this point.

HSVP says they will be releasing more Wednesday and we will keep you updated as information becomes available.

Anyone who may have seen this vehicle late Wednesday night or Thursday early morning is asked to contact the Hot Springs Village Police at (501) 922-0011.

[texasmom]

http://crimesceneinvestigations.blogspot.com/

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Someone found Natzke's 1997 Ford Escort found burned in the Ouachita National Forest on Christmas day.  There was no one found inside the vehicle.  Her boyfriend, who was the last person seen with Natzke, says he has no idea how she went missing or why her car was found burned. 

Authorities suspended their search for the missing mother of three on Friday so officers could spend the holidays with their families. 

According to Patty Hathaway, a friend of Natzke's, authorities told her there has been no activity on Nazke's cell phone or credit cards in the last week.
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Calls to speak to someone at the Hot Springs Village police department about Natzke's disappearance were not returned.  A spokeswoman for the department said,  "We expect to have a news release out tomorrow (12-28-11) about 2 p.m." 

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[klaasend]

IMO, they got in a fight, she told him it was over and was going back to the party.  He got mad and killed her in a fit of rage. 

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If what I'm reading is true, this is her boyfriend's facebook.  I think he's only 27:

Kevin Duck

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002179388484&sk=wall


http://www.peekyou.com/kevin_duck/132074128

[texasmom]

IMO, they got in a fight, she told him it was over and was going back to the party.  He got mad and killed her in a fit of rage. 

I'm thinking the same.  

[klaasend]

Kevin Duck and his son

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Best friend Patty Hathaway - facebook

http://www.facebook.com/patricia.ervinhathaway

[texasmom]

Kevin Duck and his son

Her friend posted this on one of the pictures on Kevin Duck's fb.

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Patricia Ervin Hathaway i love his green eyes!!!!! it was nice hanging with u and ahhhhhhh whats her name this weekend!!! lol be safe driving back to work!!
May 31 at 12:26am

[klaasend]

Patti is Dawna's best friend, she's the one who posted that on Kevin's photo. 

I'm sticking with my gut impression of what has happened to her.  Fit of rage, not premeditated.

[texasmom]

Patti is Dawna's best friend, she's the one who posted that on Kevin's photo. 

I'm sticking with my gut impression of what has happened to her.  Fit of rage, not premeditated.

I agree.

I think whatever happened may have started before she left the party to take him home.

From what Patty said about her never leaving without giving hugs goodbye?  Or maybe that was because she knew she was coming back...since she was supposed to give her mother a ride home as well.

But why did she leave to take him home?  Maybe he was jealous or something?

Just my thoughts...

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http://www.hsvvoice.com/news/2011-12-28/Headlines/UPDATE_Police_dispatcher_remains_missing.html

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Natzke, a dispatcher since Sept. 2, 2004, left a Christmas party in the Village with her boyfriend between 10:30-11 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21. They were in Natzke’s 1997 teal-green Ford Escort wagon. She is white, 5-feet, 6-inches tall, with brown eyes, light brown hair with blonde highlights and of medium build.

The boyfriend, Kevin Duck, later told police he and Natzke went home together. He told police Natzke was watching TV when he went to bed.

At 7 p.m. last Thursday, Dec. 22, Duck reported to police he had not seen Natzke all day, Cornett said.  Duck said he awoke at 7:30 a.m. and found her vehicle gone. He assumed she had gone to work.

Cornett said Natzke had scheduled a vacation day for last Thursday.

A friend of Natzke received a “strange text message” at 8:30 p.m. last Thursday, then called Natzke’s  neighbor. Cornett said. The neighbor went next door, spoke to a family member, and found no sense of alarm at that time.

Cornett said the text message was “out of character" for Natzke.

Natzke didn’t report for duty at 6 a.m. last Friday.  At almost the same time, her son called and told police his mother hadn’t returned home. An investigation began immediately.

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[cw618]

my gut says the boyfriend did something to her
these statements arent the same,usually you say it the same way every time
you say it or, at least a lot closer than these statements,IMO

"She doesn't leave without giving hugs. She loves people," Hathaway said. But Natzke did that night, with her boyfriend. We spoke with him, but he declined to go on camera, only saying Natzke dropped him off at home, saying she planned to return to the party. But she never arrived
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45801910/

The boyfriend, Kevin Duck, later told police he and Natzke went home together. He told police Natzke was watching TV when he went to bed.
http://www.hsvvoice.com/news/2011-12-28/Headlines/UPDATE_Police_dispatcher_remains_missing.html

its only 1.8 mi to get on 298 from jessieville
party
found car
boyfriend
http://g.co/maps/jbm32

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Timeline of events at link

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/187024/2/Police-shed-some-light-on-HSV-missing-persons-case

Dawna Natzke missing, car found burned
6:19 AM, Dec 29, 2011

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Police say Natzke, a mother of three boys, was last seen late last Wednesday night by her live-in boyfriend at her home.

"His report, and I'll go no further than this, is that he went to bed at 11 O'clock and she was watching TV," Cornett said. 

"And he's not seen her since?" THV's Max Seigle asks. "That's correct," Cornett responded.

Natzke drives a 1997 teal, green Ford Escort Wagon. It's being processed now at the police department after a U-S Forest Service worker found it burned in the Ouachita National Forest last Thursday.

"We have no evidence at this point of any other crime, that's what I'm trying to say," Cornett said. 

"I'm having faith in them, I'm trying to have faith in the police," Patty Hathaway said.

Patty Hathaway is a good friend of Natzke. She last saw her a week ago at a holiday party.

"She was down, she seemed to be down, I tried talking to her but she really didn't say anything," Hathaway said.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/29/authorities-search-two-counties-for-missing-arkansas-police-dispatcher/?test=latestnews
Authorities Search Two Counties for Missing Arkansas Mother
December 29, 2011

Searchers on horseback are scouring a wooded area Thursday morning for any sign of a missing Arkansas police dispatcher who disappeared more than a week ago, police sources told FoxNews.com.
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On Thursday, a police spokeswoman told FoxNews.com that search teams are looking for Natzke in two counties.

Hot Springs Village Police Director A.L. Cornett said Natzke's disappearance is currently being treated as a "missing person" case.

"At this point, we do not have a case to be prosecuted," Cornett told Fox affiliate KLRT-TV.
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[grace-land]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gX0Rl9XbCnqL8HHA6rX1twcqp1kA?docId=f7d8d2867c024643b8cedeaf2f51b9c0

Police perplexed after Arkansas mom disappears
By JEANNIE NUSS, Associated Press – 1 hour ago 

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Dawna Natzke planned to have her family over for Christmas to open gifts and feast on steaks.

Yet, five days after the holiday, the presents in Natzke's home remain untouched.

Her family and friends haven't been able to embrace the holidays since Natzke, a police dispatcher in a gated community in central Arkansas, vanished last week. Instead, they fear that the mother of three is dead after someone found her station wagon burned in a forest not far from her Hot Springs Village home.

"It's been too long and no word, no clues, no anything," Natzke's mother, Doris Smith, told The Associated Press.

Natzke, 46, was last seen the night of a holiday party on Dec. 21. Searchers on horses and in a helicopter weren't able to find her by Friday. More planned to scour the tree-studded hills in four-wheelers during the weekend.

"Still, investigators have been hesitant to describe Natzke as a victim of foul play, even though her torched car turned up miles from her home in a remote part of the Ouachita National Forest that abuts the community.
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Natzke's boyfriend, Kevin Duck of Jessieville, told police the couple returned to her house following the party and that she was gone by the next morning, according to the timeline. Although there are security gates at each of the town's entrances, there are no video cameras that would have recorded her leaving the community of 13,000 that caters to retirees. The west entrance, which is closer to the spot where Natzke's car was found, always has someone at the gate. The east entrance is not manned between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
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By all accounts, Natzke is a loyal and giving woman: to her three sons, to her parents, to her family at the police station. She gave a kidney to her ill father, who likely would have died without the transplant. She built her life around her sons. The younger two — a junior and senior in high school — live with her; her oldest boy lives nearby. She had recently separated from her husband, who also didn't return calls Friday.

"She was a very loving person," Smith told the AP. The mother then paused and corrected herself: "She is a very loving person."

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46 Year Old Dawna Natzke Missing Since December 21, 2011 in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas (UPDATE: Body Found, No Positive ID Yet)

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2011/12/28/46-year-old-dawna-natzke-missing-since-december-21-2011-in-hot-springs-village-arkansas/

UPDATE I: Body Found During Search for Missing Arkansas Woman Dawna Natzke.

Although there has been no positive identification, it is hard to believe that the body found is not that of missing Dawna Natzke. How many woman are missing, especially in such close proximity to her home.

Arkansas authorities say searchers looking for a police dispatcher who has been missing for over a week have found a body several miles from her home.

Hot Springs Village police dispatcher Bill Scarcella says searchers found the body Saturday morning near Jessieville. He declined to say whether investigators believe the body is that of fellow dispatcher Dawna Natzke and said the body had not yet been positively identified.

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ipgEOx29piDRKV93bMcsVIUy0RLw?docId=5e356288ad0541ec84c98b6265d3c53e

AP Exclusive: Body found in Ark. woman's search
By JEANNIE NUSS, Associated Press – 6 minutes ago 

HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, Ark. (AP) — Searchers looking for a missing police dispatcher found a body Saturday in the wilderness several miles from her home, and while police wouldn't confirm it was the missing woman's body, they told her family of the find.

Debbie Shingler, whose 46-year-old sister Dawna Natzke was last seen leaving a Dec. 21 Christmas party with her boyfriend, told The Associated Press that police notified her family that searchers found a body in a wilderness area about five miles from her home in Hot Springs Village and about five miles from where her burned-out car was found.

"They told us yes, they found a body, but it's not confirmed to be Dawna, but we all know," Shingler said.
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