Mickey Shunick 22 years old, Lafayette, LA MISSING 5/19/2012(BODY FOUND)

[Northern Rose]

Also her phone has/had been turned off. The phone apparently is not a smart phone but that is only hearsay from people here.

I saw where it said it was shut off on Sat morning.  Not sure how they know the difference between it being shut off or battery going dead.  Not good either way.  I pray for her safe return.

[Northern Rose]

Mickey Shunick: Find Mickey Now! (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTcnWwlKDMY

Can someone imbed this video please?

[Northern Rose]

Continued support for search efforts to find missing cyclist

LAFAYETTE, LA — All it will take is one key piece of evidence to give investigators a clue as to what happened to cause Mickey Shunick to go missing. Although tips continue to pour in to the devoted hotline at the Lafayette Police Department, officials say the case is still lacking evidence.

“Right now we don’t have anything concrete to go on,” Cpl. Paul Mouton, Lafayette Police Department, said about the investigation. “We’re still following up leads that have come in from the tip line, and we’ve expanded our search to include different areas of the parish based on what we feel could have happened.”

What did happen?

All we know for sure is that Shunick was last seen on Saturday, May 19 at 2:00 a.m. The now 22-year-old anthropology major at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette left a friends house and headed home on her bicycle.

No one has seen or heard from her since then.

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http://www.ketknbc.com/news/continued-support-for-search-efforts-to-find-missing-cyclist

[Northern Rose]

I am hoping the family and friends have contacted the Greek Community at UofL to get Mickey's posters and information out.  An email to all the fraternity and sororities asking them to forward to their members, elders and other chapters would be a great way to get the information out. 

If any of the family or friends is reading here the page that lists them all is http://ulgreeks.com/home and each chapter has its contact info if you follow the individual links.

[Northern Rose]

Reward in Shunick case officially increased

The reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Michaela “Mickey” Shunick has officially been increased to $25,000, on the same afternoon as an official search party continues to look for the woman who has been missing since early Saturday morning.

A volunteer search party continued the search Wednesday for 22-year-old Shunick, whose disappearance has garnered national attention.


Volunteers searched Acadiana Park for the missing woman. They also gathered at the Ryan Street home that serves as the volunteer headquarters. Businesses such as Raising Canes, Papa Johns, Winn Dixie and Office Depot have agreed to donate items to help this effort.

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http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120523/NEWS01/120523015/Reward-Shunick-case-officially-increased?odyssey=nav%7Chead

[Northern Rose]

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Here are the official details:

Mickey was reported missing Saturday, May 19, at approximately 2 a.m. She was last seen leaving  Ryan Street near downtown Lafayette at 1:45 am on a black Schwinn Madison fixed gear bicycle with glittery gold handlebars. Mickey was heading towards her home on Governor Miro Drive (near  the Ambassador Caffery /Congress intersection). She is an avid cyclist and made this trip regularly on bike.

Mickey is a Caucasian female with shoulder-length white blonde curly hair, blue eyes, and is approximately 5'1” and 115 pounds. She has a small tattoo of a bicycle on her right outer ankle and a nose ring on her left nostril. She was last seen wearing a pastel striped shirt, light wash denim skinny jeans, and silver ankle boots. She would have been carrying a light brown leather backpack, a black and yellow Vera Bradley wallet, a black Verizon slider phone (which has been turned off), and a small pink container of mace.

If you have information, contact the Lafayette Police Department at 337-291-8633, email here, or go here on Facebook.

http://www.theind.com/news/10572-bring-mickey-home

[melisb]

I see you up there CW and you are needed over here too!  I vote to make you Champion Map Making Monkey of All Time!  You make them so easy to read!  Thank you over and over!  That is, Madame Map Maker!

[Northern Rose]

Bicycle ride set to support search for missing woman

LAFAYETTE — A “solidarity ride” for missing university student Mickey Shunick is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday and will leave from Parc Sans Souci in downtown Lafayette.

Bicyclists and walkers are encouraged to meet at the Parc. They will follow the route to Shunick’s home on Governor Miro Street off Ambassador Caffery Parkway.

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http://theadvocate.com/home/2910424-125/bicycle-ride-set-to-support

[Northern Rose]

Searching Lake Martin for Mickey Shunick

A group is meeting at Lake Martin at 5:00 p.m. to search the area for Mickey Shunick. Organizers say they haven't received any sort of tip, but they feel they are just covering their bases. They're asking for anyone with a boat/canoe/kayak who can meet them out there, to do so. Those on foot can help walk around the bird sanctuaries where the boats cannot reach. Everyone is meeting at the Pack and Paddle, and they'll be going out to Lake Martin for 5:00. If you need more information, call 852-0807.

http://www.katc.com/news/searching-lake-martin-for-mickey-shunick/

[Northern Rose]

Texas firm now involved in Shunick search

A highly-regarded Texas organization that specializes in missing persons cases has now taken an interest in the Mickey Shunick case.

Tim Miller, director of the nonprofit Texas Equusearch, is heading to Lafayette from Houston this afternoon to meet with law enforcement officials and members of Shunick’s family.


“We’re going to see what resources we have that may be an asset to the search effort and what members we may need to bring there,” Miller said.

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http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120523/NEWS01/120523019/Texas-firm-now-involved-Shunick-search

[Northern Rose]

Shannell ‏@1FAN4UL
"Shunick family says @gma will be here this pm. Interview w headline news later and Skype with nancy grace tomorrow"

https://twitter.com/#!/1FAN4UL

[cw618]

if you zoom in there are parks in the area,wonder if they have been searched

Ryan Street, Lafayette, LA- to-W Governor Miro Dr, Lafayette, LA 70506
drive route
4.3 mi, 12 mins
http://g.co/maps/925xt
bike route
5.3 mi, 28 mins
http://g.co/maps/3bq2n

several pks,and on the car route,it takes you down a main troughfare
http://g.co/maps/gtsmz

[klaasend]

Looks like her facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/mickey.shunick?sk=photos

[klaasend]

[klaasend]

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-504083_162-10012389-3.html?tag=page;previous

[Northern Rose]

Michaela 'Mickey' Shunick's mom thinks daughter was 'abducted by a stranger'

Tuesday night, the mother of missing Lafayette, La. college student Michaela “Mickey” Shunick spoke out, saying she believes an opportunistic stranger kidnapped her daughter.

Nancy Rowe told Jane Velez-Mitchell during an appearance on her HLN show, “Somebody took her. Somebody knows where she is, and we want her returned alive.”

She added, “...this was not a stalking... I think she was abducted by a stranger who saw an opportunity and took her... we want to give that person money to get our daughter back.”

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http://www.examiner.com/article/michaela-mickey-shunick-s-mom-thinks-daughter-was-abducted-by-a-stranger?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

[Northern Rose]

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Her family says they can't think of any reason anybody might want to harm Shunick, and her father said although he's grateful for the search efforts, he wishes the search had started earlier.

"None of the video cameras got checked over the weekend because the managers weren't in and waited two days to check the video cameras," he told Lafayette newspaper The Advertiser. "If somebody has abducted her and taken her on the Interstate or something, they got a two-day head start."

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/mickey-shunick-disappearance-search-missing-louisiana-woman/story?id=16409728

[Northern Rose]

Donations Keep Search for Mickey Going

The amount of donations to fuel the search for Mickey Shunick continues to grow. Volunteers said they are overwhelmed by the community support that keeps them going.

Volunteer Margaret Bearb heads up the food donations; she can barely keep up with all of the donations flowing in.

"Still have things coming in, we just really appreciate all the community support, this family really needs it," said Bearb.

It's not just food and water, they receive money, supplies and basic necessities.

"We've had a dumpster delivered here, we have a porta-potty, we have toilet paper, paper towels, everything that is necessary to host the hundreds of volunteers who are showing up to participate in the search and outreach effort," said one of the volunteer coordinators, Kristen Kordecki.

Businesses are chipping in too, and not just with donations. Lamar is running more than 50 billboards in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. Officials at Lamar said they expect that the number of billboards will increase over the next few days. Walgreens is also helping by running information about Shunick on all of their marquees.

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http://www.katc.com/news/donations-keep-search-for-mickey-going/

[Northern Rose]

According to JVM there was a carnival in town that weekend

[Northern Rose]

Searching Lake Martin for clues

http://www.katc.com/news/searching-lake-martin-for-clues/