Phylicia Barnes 16, Monroe, NC missing Baltimore, Md 12/28/10(Found Deceased)

[MuffyBee]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-missing-teen-help-20110114,0,3040989.story?track=rss
Cummings, N.C. congressman seek help in teen's disappearance
January 14, 2011

Two congressmen are asking the public to help solve the disappearance of a North Carolina teenager who went missing while visiting relatives in Baltimore over the holidays.

Phylicia Barnes of Monroe, N.C., was last seen on Dec. 28 at her half-sister's apartment. Her 17th birthday was Wednesday.

Congressmen Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Larry Kissell of North Carolina issued a joint statement Friday asking the public to contact Baltimore police immediately with any information about Barnes' whereabouts. They say their thoughts and prayers are with Barnes' family.
Barnes is an honor student at a charter school and was on track to graduate a year early.

She was last seen leaving the apartment about 1:30 p.m. Dec. 28, apparently in search of food.

She hasn't been seen or heard from since. Her cell phone is off, she hasn't used her debit card and hasn't updated her Facebook page. Police searched Leakin Park, handed out hundreds of fliers and set up a hot line. Clear Channel donated billboard space to show her photo along city highways

[Fanny Mae]

Nancy Grace is covering Phylicia's case right now.

[MuffyBee]

Nancy Grace is covering Phylicia's case right now.

Thank you, Fanny Mae.  I'm just not seeing much movement in this case.  I really fear for Phylicia.  I hope there will be some news soon.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/15/maryland.missing.girl/
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Case of missing N.C. honor student still a mystery after 2 weeks
January 15, 2011

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n an interview with HLN's "Nancy Grace" on Friday, Barnes' mother, Janice Sallis, said she spoke with Barnes' oldest half-sister multiple times before allowing Barnes to go to Baltimore.

"She knows how protective I was as her mother. She wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend," Sallis said. "She didn't have men; we didn't have men coming in and out of our environment."

Sallis said she was "stunned" and "devastated" after learning from one of Barnes' siblings that "there was a listing of 20 different guys going in and out" of where Barnes was staying and that her daughter -- who recently turned 17 -- was allowed to drink alcohol.

A Baltimore police spokesman has said more than 100 Baltimore police, Maryland State Police troopers and FBI agents have been working on the case.

Sallis said she had encouraged Barnes to reach out to her siblings on her father's side of the family.

"I encouraged her to go on Facebook to look for them because she hadn't heard from that side of her family, from her father, in over eight years," Sallis said. "And I, as a mother, didn't want my daughter not knowing who her other side of her DNA is. I didn't want her going from man to man looking for her father in relationships, so I encouraged her to look for her half-sisters online and maybe she could find her father that way because she hadn't heard from him in over eight years."

According to police, Barnes communicated through text messages with her half sister about 12:30 p.m. the day she disappeared. The ex-boyfriend of the half-sister was moving out of the apartment and said he saw Barnes on the couch at about 1:30 p.m., but when he came back to the apartment at about 5:10 p.m., Barnes was not there. The door was reportedly unlocked, and the music in the apartment was extremely loud.

Last week, Baltimore police spokesman Anthony J. Guglielmi said the FBI did a profile on the girl and found no reason she would run away. She is a good student with no emotional disturbances in her life, he said.

"The fact set of this case is different than anything else we've seen," he said.

Sallis made an emotional statement to CNN affiliate WBFF about her daughter.

"I want my daughter back," Sallis said. "She doesn't belong to whoever she's with. She doesn't belong with them. They are not her friends, they are not her family, they don't care anything about her. If they did, she wouldn't be where she's at."

Anyone with information on Barnes' disappearance can call 855-223-0033.

[Fanny Mae]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/15/maryland.missing.girl/
video
Case of missing N.C. honor student still a mystery after 2 weeks
January 15, 2011

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n an interview with HLN's "Nancy Grace" on Friday, Barnes' mother, Janice Sallis, said she spoke with Barnes' oldest half-sister multiple times before allowing Barnes to go to Baltimore.

"She knows how protective I was as her mother. She wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend," Sallis said. "She didn't have men; we didn't have men coming in and out of our environment."

Sallis said she was "stunned" and "devastated" after learning from one of Barnes' siblings that "there was a listing of 20 different guys going in and out" of where Barnes was staying and that her daughter -- who recently turned 17 -- was allowed to drink alcohol.

A Baltimore police spokesman has said more than 100 Baltimore police, Maryland State Police troopers and FBI agents have been working on the case.

Sallis said she had encouraged Barnes to reach out to her siblings on her father's side of the family.

"I encouraged her to go on Facebook to look for them because she hadn't heard from that side of her family, from her father, in over eight years," Sallis said. "And I, as a mother, didn't want my daughter not knowing who her other side of her DNA is. I didn't want her going from man to man looking for her father in relationships, so I encouraged her to look for her half-sisters online and maybe she could find her father that way because she hadn't heard from him in over eight years."

According to police, Barnes communicated through text messages with her half sister about 12:30 p.m. the day she disappeared. The ex-boyfriend of the half-sister was moving out of the apartment and said he saw Barnes on the couch at about 1:30 p.m., but when he came back to the apartment at about 5:10 p.m., Barnes was not there. The door was reportedly unlocked, and the music in the apartment was extremely loud.

Last week, Baltimore police spokesman Anthony J. Guglielmi said the FBI did a profile on the girl and found no reason she would run away. She is a good student with no emotional disturbances in her life, he said.

"The fact set of this case is different than anything else we've seen," he said.

Sallis made an emotional statement to CNN affiliate WBFF about her daughter.

"I want my daughter back," Sallis said. "She doesn't belong to whoever she's with. She doesn't belong with them. They are not her friends, they are not her family, they don't care anything about her. If they did, she wouldn't be where she's at."

Anyone with information on Barnes' disappearance can call 855-223-0033.

I wonder if the sisters were jealous of  Phylicia?

[SuzieQ]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/15/maryland.missing.girl/
video
Case of missing N.C. honor student still a mystery after 2 weeks
January 15, 2011

(snipped)
n an interview with HLN's "Nancy Grace" on Friday, Barnes' mother, Janice Sallis, said she spoke with Barnes' oldest half-sister multiple times before allowing Barnes to go to Baltimore.

"She knows how protective I was as her mother. She wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend," Sallis said. "She didn't have men; we didn't have men coming in and out of our environment."

Sallis said she was "stunned" and "devastated" after learning from one of Barnes' siblings that "there was a listing of 20 different guys going in and out" of where Barnes was staying and that her daughter -- who recently turned 17 -- was allowed to drink alcohol.

A Baltimore police spokesman has said more than 100 Baltimore police, Maryland State Police troopers and FBI agents have been working on the case.

Sallis said she had encouraged Barnes to reach out to her siblings on her father's side of the family.

"I encouraged her to go on Facebook to look for them because she hadn't heard from that side of her family, from her father, in over eight years," Sallis said. "And I, as a mother, didn't want my daughter not knowing who her other side of her DNA is. I didn't want her going from man to man looking for her father in relationships, so I encouraged her to look for her half-sisters online and maybe she could find her father that way because she hadn't heard from him in over eight years."

According to police, Barnes communicated through text messages with her half sister about 12:30 p.m. the day she disappeared. The ex-boyfriend of the half-sister was moving out of the apartment and said he saw Barnes on the couch at about 1:30 p.m., but when he came back to the apartment at about 5:10 p.m., Barnes was not there. The door was reportedly unlocked, and the music in the apartment was extremely loud.
Last week, Baltimore police spokesman Anthony J. Guglielmi said the FBI did a profile on the girl and found no reason she would run away. She is a good student with no emotional disturbances in her life, he said.

"The fact set of this case is different than anything else we've seen," he said.

Sallis made an emotional statement to CNN affiliate WBFF about her daughter.

"I want my daughter back," Sallis said. "She doesn't belong to whoever she's with. She doesn't belong with them. They are not her friends, they are not her family, they don't care anything about her. If they did, she wouldn't be where she's at."

Anyone with information on Barnes' disappearance can call 855-223-0033.

I wonder if the sisters were jealous of  Phylicia?

I wonder if they are investigating this ex-boy friend of her sister? If he was just moving out, there may have been some anger there.

[MuffyBee]

http://radioamber.net/?p=4051
Phylicia Barnes Still Missing Despite Efforts
January 16, 2011

Phylicia Barnes is still missing despite efforts put forth by authorities and the media. Authorities have involved more than 100 local, state and federal law enforcement officers. Search dogs, helicopters and dive teams have been dispatched in the search. Thousands of flyers were posted in Baltimore and billboards featuring her photo went up, but no sitings of Phylicia have been reported. Authorities have no physical evidence to go on and are dependent on tips from the public to find leads.

Both local and national news media have reported on the case but Phylicia Barnes seems to have disappeared without a trace. Authorities are begining to fear the worse. They are again asking for the public’s help. Congressmen Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Larry Kissell of North Carolina issued a joint statement asking for the public to contact the Baltimore Police with any information they may have on to assist the search.

Baltimore spokesman Anthony Gugliemi said. “Somebody out there knows something.”

Phylicia hasn’t been seen since about 1:30 p.m. Dec. 28 2010 when she left to go to the store.

Authorities have set up a special tip line. Anyone with information on Phylicia Barnes’ disappearance should call 855-223-0033.

[texasmom]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/15/maryland.missing.girl/
video
Case of missing N.C. honor student still a mystery after 2 weeks
January 15, 2011

(snipped)
n an interview with HLN's "Nancy Grace" on Friday, Barnes' mother, Janice Sallis, said she spoke with Barnes' oldest half-sister multiple times before allowing Barnes to go to Baltimore.

"She knows how protective I was as her mother. She wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend," Sallis said. "She didn't have men; we didn't have men coming in and out of our environment."

Sallis said she was "stunned" and "devastated" after learning from one of Barnes' siblings that "there was a listing of 20 different guys going in and out" of where Barnes was staying and that her daughter -- who recently turned 17 -- was allowed to drink alcohol.

A Baltimore police spokesman has said more than 100 Baltimore police, Maryland State Police troopers and FBI agents have been working on the case.

Sallis said she had encouraged Barnes to reach out to her siblings on her father's side of the family.

"I encouraged her to go on Facebook to look for them because she hadn't heard from that side of her family, from her father, in over eight years," Sallis said. "And I, as a mother, didn't want my daughter not knowing who her other side of her DNA is. I didn't want her going from man to man looking for her father in relationships, so I encouraged her to look for her half-sisters online and maybe she could find her father that way because she hadn't heard from him in over eight years."

According to police, Barnes communicated through text messages with her half sister about 12:30 p.m. the day she disappeared. The ex-boyfriend of the half-sister was moving out of the apartment and said he saw Barnes on the couch at about 1:30 p.m., but when he came back to the apartment at about 5:10 p.m., Barnes was not there. The door was reportedly unlocked, and the music in the apartment was extremely loud.
Last week, Baltimore police spokesman Anthony J. Guglielmi said the FBI did a profile on the girl and found no reason she would run away. She is a good student with no emotional disturbances in her life, he said.

"The fact set of this case is different than anything else we've seen," he said.

Sallis made an emotional statement to CNN affiliate WBFF about her daughter.

"I want my daughter back," Sallis said. "She doesn't belong to whoever she's with. She doesn't belong with them. They are not her friends, they are not her family, they don't care anything about her. If they did, she wouldn't be where she's at."

Anyone with information on Barnes' disappearance can call 855-223-0033.

I wonder if the sisters were jealous of  Phylicia?

I wonder if they are investigating this ex-boy friend of her sister? If he was just moving out, there may have been some anger there.

I've been wondering the same. 

[cookie]

me too! Texasmom...

[melisb]

Why, why, why are they not jumping all over this ex moving out at almost the same time she is missing?!!!!???  All I have to say is WTF!  Now, we know they could secretly be all over this man but we wouldn't know should they be doing their job the right way.  Hopefully this is what is going on. Wait a min, did her cell ping outside of the apartment?  Was there movement or do we know.  Guess my dumb a** could go back and look, duh!  I do believe she is dead and I am so sorry!

[cookie]

Why, why, why are they not jumping all over this ex moving out at almost the same time she is missing?!!!!???  All I have to say is WTF!  Now, we know they could secretly be all over this man but we wouldn't know should they be doing their job the right way.  Hopefully this is what is going on. Wait a min, did her cell ping outside of the apartment?  Was there movement or do we know.  Guess my dumb a** could go back and look, duh!  I do believe she is dead and I am so sorry!

I think that she has passed as well..she was/is such a good girl and someone who would not want her mother to worry over her..if she was able to call her mother, I think that she would..
this is so sad for their whole family.

[Fanny Mae]

The police are probably investigating the ex-boyfriend from can to can't. I am still thinking one or all of the sisters may be complicit in Phylicia's disappearance. After hearing the mother's story the other night about how they didn't even know these girls until a couple of years ago when the mother encouraged Phylicia to find her half siblings and get to know them. She felt she should know her father's other children.

 I think there was jealousy there for some reason. They admitted to giving Phylicia drugs and alcohol. The mom says she had kept Phylicia very close, was a country girl, and didn't even have a boyfriend. I guess they were showing her the high life. She was not prepared for the life they threw her in. I am thinking drug or alcohol overdose and maybe worse. The thought of all the men in that apartment gives me the creeps.

[cookie]

The police are probably investigating the ex-boyfriend from can to can't. I am still thinking one or all of the sisters may be complicit in Phylicia's disappearance. After hearing the mother's story the other night about how they didn't even know these girls until a couple of years ago when the mother encouraged Phylicia to find her half siblings and get to know them. She felt she should know her father's other children.

 I think there was jealousy there for some reason. They admitted to giving Phylicia drugs and alcohol. The mom says she had kept Phylicia very close, was a country girl, and didn't even have a boyfriend. I guess they were showing her the high life. She was not prepared for the life they threw her in. I am thinking drug or alcohol overdose and maybe worse. The thought of all the men in that apartment gives me the creeps.

agreed Fanny...

[melisb]

The police are probably investigating the ex-boyfriend from can to can't. I am still thinking one or all of the sisters may be complicit in Phylicia's disappearance. After hearing the mother's story the other night about how they didn't even know these girls until a couple of years ago when the mother encouraged Phylicia to find her half siblings and get to know them. She felt she should know her father's other children.

 I think there was jealousy there for some reason. They admitted to giving Phylicia drugs and alcohol. The mom says she had kept Phylicia very close, was a country girl, and didn't even have a boyfriend. I guess they were showing her the high life. She was not prepared for the life they threw her in. I am thinking drug or alcohol overdose and maybe worse. The thought of all the men in that apartment gives me the creeps.

agreed Fanny...

I second that...

[MuffyBee]

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/mom-of-missing-teen-810151.html
Mom of missing teen moves to Atlanta for family support
January 20, 2011

Janice Sallis said she moved back to Atlanta from Monroe, N.C., at her family’s urging.

Her teenage daughter, Phylicia Barnes, disappeared while visiting a half-sister in northwest Baltimore last month. Sallis went to Baltimore on Dec. 30, two days after Barnes’ disappearance, but then came to Georgia because her family didn’t want her to be alone.

“In times like this they won’t let me stay by myself,” Sallis told the AJC.

Barnes turned 17 last week. She vanished without a trace from her half-sister’s apartment on Dec. 28.

Sallis is a nurse and said she can’t go to work right now. She plans to remain in Georgia “when (Barnes) is returned to me.”

“I have more family support here,” she told the AJC.

Baltimore police at one time had half of its homicide force trying to find Barnes. Authorities from the FBI, the National Center for Missing Children and the Maryland State Police continue to search for her.

“Her case is very unlike anything we’ve seen here,” Baltimore Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.

Baltimore police worked about 360 missing persons’ cases in 2010, and all but four were solved, he said.

About 70 tips have come into the nationwide tip line -- 1-855-223-0033 – but none of those led to anything. Guglielmi said some of the tips came in from out of state and investigators continue to pursue those.

“We’ve checked every hospital, every Dumpster, every homeless shelter, most of the vacant buildings,” he said.

Investigators now are re-interviewing people who last saw Barnes alive and really focusing on the timeline of that day, trying to account for every second as best as they can, Guglielmi said.

“We believe strongly that something terrible happened to Phylicia, and whether she’s in Baltimore, Kansas or Connecticut, we don’t know because we don’t have any physical evidence to guide us,” he said. “We base our findings on evidence, and we don’t really give a lot of credit or ammunition to opinion. Right now it’s all opinion, and we’re not going to put much weight behind that.”

Sallis said she isn’t scared, and she doesn’t stare at the clock and count the minutes that her daughter has been gone. On good days, Sallis said she laughs more and talks on the phone or goes shopping at a thrift store with her sister.

On the bad days, Sallis said she isolates herself, going into a room and closing the door. She grieves, prays and talks to God but doesn’t question why this is happening to her.

“It reminds me that I am in a valley, and God is carrying me, although I don’t realize it,” Sallis told the AJC. “I’ve experienced tragedy before, and I thought it was too hard, but God was carrying me.”

Sallis talks to Baltimore police investigators almost every day. She also talks to the media.

She doesn’t talk to Barnes’ father, Russell Barnes of Riverdale. Their daughter’s disappearance reopened old family wounds. Sallis also is angry and feels betrayed by her daughter’s half-sister because she let Barnes drink alcohol and be in “a certain environment that I did not want her around.”

“I felt that she was disrespectful to me as a mother, and I didn’t appreciate that,” Sallis said.

Sallis is unapologetically protective of her daughter, calling herself “old-fashioned” in the way that she raised Barnes.

Her daughter is an honor student, ready to graduate from high school a year early and wants to be a psychiatrist – a career choice that is the latest in a list that included “astronomer,” “ob-gyn” and “pediatrician,” Sallis said.

Barnes already was accepted to some colleges. She was focused on attending a school in Maryland.

Sallis said she wasn’t going to let her daughter go to school out of state, at least not right away. Barnes didn’t know that, Sallis said.

“I didn’t think she was ready to leave the state on her own,” Sallis told the AJC.

The Barnes’ side of the family was one that Sallis said she encouraged her daughter to reconnect with three years ago. Sallis said she told Barnes to use Facebook to find her half-sisters and the contact her father.

Sallis said Barnes’ stepfather had raised her since she was 3 years old but that that wasn’t enough.

“I tried to explain to him that ‘although you’ve been in her life, it’s not the same, she wants to know who her biological father is and where she came from,’” Sallis told the AJC.

Barnes’ December visit to Baltimore was the fourth time she had gone to visit her half-sister, Sallis said.

Sallis, whose rules include “children should be home at a certain hour,” said her daughter was probably enjoying her new-found freedom. She also said her daughter is naïve.

“I tell her, ‘baby, you can’t trust every smile that appears in front of you,’” Sallis said. “She’s a ‘people’ person, and she thought everybody was like her. She’s too trusting.”

Sallis said she had an “uncomfortable” feeling around 8 or 9 p.m. the day Barnes disappeared and immediately called her daughter’s cell phone. It went directly to voice mail.

She tried again, and the same thing happened.

Then, Sallis said she called Barnes’ half-sister who said Barnes was missing.

“I said, ‘what do you mean she’s missing? She’s been missing since 1:30, and no one has called me.’”

She has been critical of the Baltimore police’s response.

The first week in a missing-person’s case is critical, Guglielmi said. During the first 24 hours, police officers are doing a character assessment of the person.

“I can’t begin to tell you how many calls this city gets from people who have gone missing,” he said. “There has to be a small window of time to figure out what you’re dealing with.”

That includes trying to make sure, for example, the person didn’t go hang out at a local college for the night, drive off with an acquaintance from Facebook, or head up to Atlantic City to blow off some steam. In those cases, usually the “missing” person comes back.

“After the first day, we immediately started expecting something else,” Guglielmi said. “The day after she missed her flight home, it was full throttle, and the police commissioner said there’s suspected foul play. We’ve been at that some point ever since.”

[Nut44x4]

Police comb woods, turn up nothing in search for missing N.C. girl
1.20.11

City police on Thursday night searched the woods behind a Southwest Baltimore apartment building as part of their investigation into a missing 16-year-old girl.

Authorities had concentrated the search on what they described as a well near a shed on a property in the 400 block of North Bend Road, south of Edmonson Avenue in the Westgate community near the Baltimore County line.

After draining the well, at about 10:30 p.m., police said that nothing was found as a result of the search.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that the search was one of about three dozen leads that detectives have investigated over the past 24 days in the search for 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes.

Barnes, from Monroe, N.C., had been visiting her half-sister in an apartment near the Reisterstown Road Shopping Center in Northwest Baltimore. The 16-year-old honor-student had planned on moving to Baltimore and attending Towson University after graduating early from high school.

She was last seen by her sister's boyfriend as he left the apartment on the afternoon of Dec. 28. She was asleep on the couch. Police and family members have said she sent text messages to her sister indicating she was leaving to find lunch.

Barnes never returned and police said they found no trace of her whereabouts. She never used her debit card, her cell phone had either been turned off or broken and there were no sightings of her.

Police deployed half the homicide unit, flooded the neighborhood with posters and sought national television exposure, saying they believed she was the victim of foul play or had been abducted and taken out of state.

The girl's father has visited Baltimore from Atlanta and led searches with volunteers, and the FBI flew over the city two helicopters with special heat-seaking equipment designed to pinpoint heat signatures given off by decaying bodies. Nothing was found. Police also searched a portion of Leakin Park, located south of the sister's apartment and a notorious dumping ground for bodies, but found nothing.

Detectives inteviewed more than a dozen people who had been in and out of the apartment and searched their homes and other property. But police said the stories were consistent and no evidence was found during the searches. They also said there is nothing in Barnes' past to indicate she was involved in any criminal or questionable activity.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-barnes-well-search-20110120,0,4664606.story?track=rss

[Nut44x4]

Here is a headline from the Baltimore Sun.....but the article does not mention a body.....

Police investigate whether body is that of missing N.C. girl

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-01-20/news/bs-md-barnes-well-search-20110120_1_police-comb-woods-search-northwest-baltimore

perhaps they have not posted or updated the story to match the headline yet?

[Nut44x4]

the headline is from a google search

[Nut44x4]

Still nothing on a body find. I have noticed it around the web, but everything points back to http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-01-20/news/bs-md-barnes-well-search-20110120_1_police-comb-woods-search-northwest-baltimore

[Tracygirl]

Nutt I am confused, did they find a body?