April Beth Pitzer missing 6/28/04 Newberry Springs, CA

[MuffyBee]

I'm stopping by to light a candle for April, and check for any news or developments. 

[Bearlyhere]

Please light a candle.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=APRIL

[Edward]

I have been contacted by Gloria.

Gloria had a witness come forward.. That witness spoke to police and Gloria made sure "With a little Prodding " that the police went out to a location and searched..
In doing so..
All Hell broke lose ..  A suspect was chased and suspect injured and a police officer was injured.

Gloria needs to fill in the details..
But the Police are going back out to the site looking around for evidence in the disappearance of April Beth Pitzer.



God Bless Gloria Denton.. God Bless April Beth Pitzer

[MuffyBee]

Edward ~ thank you for posting, but now I am really wondering, what in the world happened out there?  Please let us know if you come across any other information about this that you can share.  Hopefully, we will hear from Gloria soon.  She has had such a long, long journey in her search. 

 Gloria ~I hope the witness and search helped yield some answers in April's disappearance for you and for law enforcement.  I'm keeping you, April and her girls in my thoughts and prayers. 

[Edward]

Gloria said..

To say the least, I sit in the unknown.... Sure Ticks Me Off!! 


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Apparently an officer was stabbed while serving a search warrant at a Ranch in the Barstow area desert and now there is a Arrest warrant out for the attacker 
"Attempted murder of a peace officer"
Which has lead police to the state of Arizona looking for the bad guy..s..

The "Ranch" which was the spot in which the officer was attacked 
Has had a special task force assigned looking around the property for evidence. As well as a property located in Arizona.
It may take some time before anyone knows if anything is found relative to April Beth Pitzer.

All derived from what I was told by Gloria ...   

Hang in there Gloria..

[MuffyBee]

Edward ~  thank you for sharing the information you got from Gloria.  I hope Gloria will be able to get some answers soon. 

Gloria ~  You, your daughter April and her girls continue to be in my thoughts and prayers.  You have been  in the dark for much too long. 

[Bearlyhere]

Edward ~  thank you for sharing the information you got from Gloria.  I hope Gloria will be able to get some answers soon. 

Gloria ~  You, your daughter April and her girls continue to be in my thoughts and prayers.  You have been  in the dark for much too long. 

ITA!

[MuffyBee]

Gloria ~  It's Christmas eve, and I've stopped by to light a candle and say a prayer for you, April and her girls.

[pdh3]

Edward ~  thank you for sharing the information you got from Gloria.  I hope Gloria will be able to get some answers soon. 

Gloria ~  You, your daughter April and her girls continue to be in my thoughts and prayers.  You have been  in the dark for much too long. 

Yes, thanks for the info.



 I think of Gloria and April often, and continue to hope and pray for this family.

[Bearlyhere]

Please light a candle.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=APRIL

[Bearlyhere]

Please light a candle:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=APRIL

Link:

http://www.whereisapril.org/index.html

It is time for April to be brought into the light of day.  Please Lord, give this family peace and some answers.  Amen.

[Bearlyhere]

NEXT SEARCH:
May 9-10, 2009


LOCATIONS:
Multiple abandoned mineshafts near Barstow and Newberry Springs


RALY POINT:
Peggy Sue's


MEETING TIME:
Friday @ 6:00 PM


EXPECT:
We're seeking two professional Search and Rescue teams to drop into vertical mine shafts. A cadaver dog may be on hand to assist.

http://www.whereisapril.org/search.html

[Bearlyhere]

UPDATE 011209:
A new date has been set for another search. This time the search will focus on two areas in and around Barstow. Due to the locations and the equipment requirements to access them, these explorations can only be performed by trained professionals. Civilian volunteers are encouraged to get involved in the fundraising efforts that will cover Gloria’s expenses and/or to write to their local, state and federal government representatives regarding the plight of families of missing adults.

http://www.whereisapril.org/blog.html

[MuffyBee]

Praying for April to be found and laid to rest.  God bless April and her family.

[Bearlyhere]

NEXT SEARCH:
May 9-10, 2009


LOCATIONS:
Multiple abandoned mineshafts near Barstow and Newberry Springs


RALY POINT:
Peggy Sue's


MEETING TIME:
Friday @ 6:00 PM


EXPECT:
We're seeking two professional Search and Rescue teams to drop into vertical mine shafts. A cadaver dog may be on hand to assist.

http://www.whereisapril.org/search.html

Anyone in the area, please support these efforts.  Anyone not in the area might want to consider helping in other ways.

[Bearlyhere]

NEXT SEARCH:
May 9-10, 2009


LOCATIONS:
Multiple abandoned mineshafts near Barstow and Newberry Springs


RALY POINT:
Peggy Sue's


MEETING TIME:
Friday @ 6:00 PM


EXPECT:
We're seeking two professional Search and Rescue teams to drop into vertical mine shafts. A cadaver dog may be on hand to assist.

http://www.whereisapril.org/search.html

Anyone in the area, please support these efforts.  Anyone not in the area might want to consider helping in other ways.

Looks like there has been a change:

RALY POINT:
The Barn, in Newberry Springs

[Nut44x4]

Mother, daughter of missing women to search the desert

May 3, 2009 - 8:30 AM

BARSTOW - The mother of one missing woman and the daughter of another will join forces this upcoming weekend to search for traces of their family members.

For the eighth time since 30-year-old mother of two April Beth Pitzer went missing in June of 2004, her mother, Gloria Denton, will travel to the Barstow area from Arkansas to join searchers May 9 and 10 in looking for her daughter’s body or any evidence that might explain what happened to her.

Stephanie Thompson, whose mother, Catherine “Cathy” Lique, disappeared from Barstow in November 2003 at age 44, joined in the search for Pitzer last year, hoping at the same time to find some trace of her mother. This year is the first time that the search will officially be for both women.

Thompson said Friday she and Denton found out just recently that Lique and Pitzer had met before, at the home of a woman in Yermo with whom Lique was staying for a while, and who also knew Pitzer’s boyfriend at the time.

Denton said Pitzer went to Newberry Springs in 2003 on what was intended to be a short trip after her marriage fell apart. Instead, she ended up stranded there, homeless and associated with unsavory people, Denton said. However, before Pitzer disappeared, Denton said she was planning to come home to start fresh with her estranged husband and two daughters, then three and five years old.

Lique was a truck stop prostitute who drifted around Barstow, Thompson said. Although Thompson had moved to Oregon with her father after her parents divorced, she tried to keep track of her mother. When her brother told her that no one had heard from Lique in a while, and then no one reported seeing her for another week, Thompson filed a missing person’s report.

Lique’s boyfriend at the time said she had left one morning with nothing but a red San Francisco 49ers jacket and never showed back up, Thompson said. Authorities may have initially assumed that Lique had just skipped town, she said.

“My mom wasn’t some pretty young girl who just crazily went missing,” she said.

Search for April Pitzer and Catherine “Cathy” Lique:
When: Saturday May 9, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday May 10, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: Meet both days at The Barn in Newberry Springs, 44560 National Trails Highway. Search will cover area around Interstate 15 and around a mine in Ludlow where some of Pitzer’s clothes were found in December 2005.
Bring: snacks/lunch, water (organizers will provide water as well), large stick in case of encountering snakes
Off-road vehicles are also needed for the search
Burgers and hot dogs to be provided after the search Saturday
For more information, call 479-774-2410.


Still, Thompson said her mother would have eventually contacted the family if she had been able to, especially when Lique’s own mother died.

Thompson got in touch with Denton about a year and a half ago, after hearing a rumor that Lique had been killed and her body dumped in Newberry Springs, which led her to wonder if the case was connected to Pitzer’s disappearance. The two women have stayed in contact ever since.

“I get very discouraged a lot, and having Gloria on my side, she has definitely been a godsend,” Thompson said.

Barstow police never named a suspect in Lique’s disappearance. Pitzer’s case has also stalled, Det. Steve Pennington with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department homicide unit said. Some of Pitzer’s clothing was found in a mine shaft in Ludlow in December 2005. A message on the wall of a truck stop in Oregon discovered in September 2004 read, “Want to find missing girl from Arkansas? I-15 3 miles east of Barstow.”

However, the leads came to dead ends.

“There’s people out there that have information, but they’re just not coming forward,” Pennington said.

To report information relating to Pitzer’s disappearance, call the Barstow sheriff’s station at 760-256-4123. To report information on the Lique case, call the Barstow Police Department at 760-256-2211. To remain anonymous, call WE-TIP at 1-800-78-CRIME.

http://www.desertdispatch.com/news/search-5997-barstow-weekend.html

[Edward]

Gloria Denton sent me an email and wanted this posted..

Fox news will be going along this time..

Fox news Reporter, Mika..
Mika's child was abducted when he was only 10 years old and his lifeless body was found 8 days later.. After he was found, Mika started writing letters to news media to bring awareness,  Later she became an advocate for the missing and now works for Fox News.

This will be filmed as part of a Documentary called.. "Docu Mysteries" Lost and missing in the desert..

[MuffyBee]

Thank you for bringing Gloria's message, Edward. 

[Edward]

Muffybee and others here is the rest of the note from Gloria..
NEW Info..


from Gloria :
 It has been relayed to me that a "Minister" has come forth and stated a woman came to him crying..he asked her how he could help her and what was wrong....She said to him, "My friend..my good friend was murdered".  This minister asked her if she would tell him who her friend was...it is said that this woman replied.."April..April Pitzer" the missing woman that everybody has been looking for"!!

The minister said that this woman was at the location where April and when April was murdered...She claims April was brutally murdered and then put in a burning barrel and sat on fire...afterwards the barrel was cast down a mineshaft..she says she knows "WHERE".  The Minister has spoken to the detective...the woman will be speaking to him later.
 
Now...how do I feel??? How am I suppose to feel? I have heard so many, many things..Could this be the real deal? Supposedly April was sat on fire after the man seen her feet sticking out of the barrel.....his life has been threatened we believe. he told two other people he found April in the barrel. Now this woman says he was there and he found her body and that is why she was sat on fire??? Could this be the truth? could it be a partial truth?  It is these stories I am told and repeat to those of you who care...  If this was your child, would you follow through with such information or just blow it off?

END


This is my note to Gloria..
.. It is reasonable to assume this info is creditable..
First the woman claims the murder happened at a ranch which detectives have already visited. "Suspect"
The feet sticking out of a barrel is also a claim of yet another witness, which brought detectives to said ranch in the first place.
The only part that does not fit is the Mine Shaft as this woman claims the body was put into the barrel and it was set on fire and THEN the barrel was put inside the mine shaft.. How could the other witness SEE feet sticking out of a barrel if that barrel was deep into a mineshaft..

But in the very beginning OTHER witness stated the body was in a mineshaft.. This is why mine shafts were being searched in the first place.

So anyways, like with all cases information comes in and it all has to be checked out..
There is always confusing information in ALL cases.. There always is..
That is the buisness of detectives and attorneys, to sort through it all.