Caroline Gaddis.Photo: Texas EquuSearch
A Texas family is searching for answers after a woman allegedly sent a text to her workplace saying she would be out sick on March 21 and then apparently disappeared.
Caroline, 39, is a counselor who was last seen leaving her Galveston office three days earlier, on March 18, a Friday, according to the volunteer search-and-rescue organizationTexas EquuSearch.
On Tuesday, March 22, the day she was expected back in the office, Caroline’s parents received a phone call from their daughter’s workplace.
“I got a call from her office, from her work, and they said, ‘You know, she’s not here yet, your daughter is not here yet, do you know where she is?'” said her father, Bob Gaddis, reports KHOU. “I have no idea.”
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Caroline’s concerned parents were at her apartment in League City when police arrived for a requested welfare check and found no signs of foul play.
But Caroline’s father says he saw worrisome signs.
“It looked lived in, but from my perspective, it looked like she left … behind things that if you’re planning to go somewhere you would not leave it home,” he said. “She had a packed overnight bag with clothes in it, cosmetics, her hairdryer, her brush, things that as a woman you don’t typically leave behind, no matter how big of a rush you’re in.”
Her dark blue, 2018 Nissan Rogue — with Texas license plate MBZ-7403 — was missing, and her family reported that her cell phone appears to be turned off.
“For (Caroline) to not go (to work) for three or four days for no reason, didn’t call anybody, is really suspicious,” said her father, reportsKTRK.
League City police did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. But on aFacebook page devoted to the searchfor Caroline, a family friend on Monday night posted: “The family received an email from the detective tonight. ‘We believe her vehicle to have last been seen inLindale, Texas, 12 miles northwest of Tyler on Friday, March 18 at 7:50PM.'”
Caroline is described as 5-foot 5-inches tall, weighing 240 pounds, with brown hair, hazel eyes and a fair complexion.
Anyone with information is asked to call League City police at (281) 332-2566 orTexas EquuSearchat (281) 309-9500.
source: people.com
