Kara Nichols, 19, Missing Since October 9, 2012. Colorado Springs, CO

Kara Nichols Missing: Police say Colo. teen's disappearance is suspicious


Kara Nichols
El Paso County Sheriff's Office

November 21, 2012 3:03 PM
By Crimesider Staff

(CBS) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Police are calling the disappearance of a 19-year-old Colo. girl who has been missing for more than a month suspicious, reports CBS affiliate KREX.

Kara Nichols was last seen in Colorado Springs on October 9.

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Investigators say before her disappearance she told her roommate she might go to Denver, but left behind her purse and money, KREX reports. Nichols spent most of Oct. 9 with an unknown woman, who police have not yet located.

Investigators reportedly say that although Nichols was active on social media and frequently used her cellphone, she has not been using either since she went missing.

Read more:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57553253-504083/kara-nichols-missing-police-say-colo-teens-disappearance-is-suspicious/

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Kara Nichols, Lingerie Model, Missing In Colorado

Posted: 11/15/2012 3:45 pm EST
By David Lohr



Authorities in Colorado are trying to determine what happened to a young, blonde lingerie model who has been missing for more than a month.

According to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, 19-year-old Kara Nichols was last seen in Colorado Springs on Oct. 9, the same day as the last call from her cellphone at 11:45 p.m.

Police said Nichols was traveling to Denver for work, but it appears she never arrived and her current whereabouts are a mystery.

"What causes us concern is that it is really uncharacteristic of her not to be in contact with her friends and family," Sgt. Joe Roybal told The Huffington Post.

More photos at link.

Read more:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/kara-nichols-missing_n_2138836.html

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Police hunt two women after 19-year-old model vanishes and is 'feared to have been abducted'

•Kara Nichols vanished on October 9 on her way to work in Denver
•Officers are searching for two unnamed brunettes who were among the last seen with the teen
•They believe she's been targeted by crime group that exploits wanna-be models
•Ms Nichols hasn't used social media or her cell phone since she disappeared, which police say is 'uncharacteristic'

By Kerry Mcdermott and Helen Pow
PUBLISHED: 18:51 EST, 21 November 2012 | UPDATED: 09:16 EST, 22 November 2012


Missing: Police are hunting two women they think may be linked to the disappearance of model Kara Nichols, pictured, who vanished last month


Person of interest: Police are searching for an unnamed brunette, pictured, who was last seen with Ms Nichols

Police are hunting two women they think may be linked to the disappearance of an aspiring teen model who vanished last month.

Kara Nichols, 19, went missing after leaving her Colorado Springs home on October 9 and was last seen with a brown-haired woman who detectives believe may have information about the young woman's whereabouts.

On Tuesday, El Paso County Sheriff's Office called the case suspicious, adding that Ms Nichols may have been exploited by an individual or group claiming they could further her modelling career.

'Even if this young lady has no information, just the simple fact that she could tell us how they parted, what her parting words might have been, could be huge,' El Paso County Sheriff's Detective Cliff Porter told ABC News.

Video/Photos at link.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236603/Kara-Nichols-missing-Police-hunt-women-case-missing-model-19-believe-abducted-organised-crime-group.html

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Kara Nichols Missing: Police, family to hold press conference Tuesday as search for Colo. teen continues

November 19, 2012 2:45 PM
By Crimesider Staff

(CBS) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The family of a 19-year-old Colo. girl who has been missing for more than a month plan to attend a news conference Tuesday afternoon about the case, reports CBS affiliate KKTV.

Kara Nichols, 19, was last seen in Colorado Springs on October 9. The El Paso County Sheriff's Office, who will be leading Tuesday's news conference, has called her disappearance "suspicious."

Read more:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57551971-504083/kara-nichols-missing-police-family-to-hold-press-conference-tuesday-as-search-for-colo-teen-continues/

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Parents of missing woman plead for help

Posted: Nov 20, 2012 3:00 PM by Andy Koen
Updated: Nov 20, 2012 9:34 PM



Link to Video: http://www.koaa.com/news/person-of-interest-sought-in-disappearance-of-local-teen/#!prettyPhoto/0/

COLORADO SPRINGS - The parents of a missing Colorado Springs woman are pleading for help in locating their daughter. At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Paul Nichols asked the community to share any information, no matter how small, about his daughter Kara that could help investigators locate her.

"This is a girl of Colorado Springs, of Rockrimmon, of Briargate, neighborhoods that we know; people know us, they know Kara," Nichols said. "Please think about this and any information you might have, it would be very, very helpful."

Read more:

http://www.koaa.com/news/parents-of-missing-woman-plead-for-help/

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What happened to Kara Nichols?



Published on Nov 20, 2012 by FOX21NewsColorado

The search continues for a missing Colorado Springs woman. Tuesday her parents spoke out about their daughter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilVeGs-0Brc

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What happened to Kara Nichols?

by Rachel Welte
Posted: 11.20.2012 at 9:26 PM

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FOX21 found several pictures of Kara on the website Model Mayhem, but those too have not been updated for weeks.

"At this point anything we can get to point us in another direction is extremely important," Maketa said.

"People might think 'Gosh this sort of thing does not happen to me,' but the truth of the matter is it can," Paul Nichols said.

Sheriff Maketa said his team has ruled out the possibility Kara ran away.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call the El Paso County Sheriff's Office at 719-390-5555.

Read more:

http://www.coloradoconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=828115#.UK0reaN5mK0

48 Hours

Teen model missing in Colorado


Kara Nichols
1 of 15 Pictures

Police are asking the public for help locating 19-year-old model Kara Nichols, who was last seen Oct. 9, 2012, in the Colorado Springs area. She was believed to be going to the Denver area for work reasons. On her Facebook page, she lists Beautiful Distractions Models as her employer. Nichols is seen here in an undated modeling photo provided by Beautiful Distractions Modeling studio.

Author: Casey Glynn, Edecio Martinez

Credit: JAnthony Garnica/Beautiful Distractions Models

Photo Gallery:

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-504083_162-10014567.html

Authorities trying to find 2 women last seen with Kara Nichols, 19, missing aspiring model

Sheriff: Women considered witnesses, not suspects



Posted: 11/20/2012
Last Updated: 2 days ago

By Alan Gathright

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Law enforcement investigators are trying to identify two brunette women who were the last people seen with 19-year-old Kara Nichols, an aspiring model from Colorado Springs, on the day she vanished last month.

El Paso County sheriff's officials said in a Tuesday statement that the teenager's eagerness to break into the modeling business may have "caused Kara to fall prey to a subculture of modeling business fronts that many times involve illicit drugs and prostitution."

Read more:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/colorado-springs-area/authorities-trying-to-find-2-women-last-seen-with-kara-nichols-19-missing-springs-lingerie-model

Search for missing aspiring model

By Richard Dool
updated 7:27 PM EST, Tue November 20, 2012

•Kara Nichols, 19-years-old, was last seen on Oct 9th
•She left her home in Colorado Springs heading to Denver



Jane Velez-Mitchell spoke to Kara’s parents to get the latest on the search.

http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/11/20/search-missing-aspiring-model

Search for aspiring model exposes Denver's dark problem of sex trafficking and exploitation

Expert: Trafficking is happening in "plain sight"

Posted: 11/26/2012
Last Updated: 3 days ago
Don Champion



DENVER - Investigators confirm to 7NEWS they are following up on new leads in the search for Kara Nichols, an aspiring model from Colorado Springs.

El Paso County Sheriff's investigators wouldn't say what the leads were, but the developments come nearly a week after the 19-year-old's family came forward pleading for the public's help finding their daughter.

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One aspect of the investigation is a fear Nichols may have fallen victim to what investigators call a dangerous subculture in Denver. It is one that involves luring potential victims with promises of jobs and other opportunities. Perpetrators only have intentions of turning the victims into a world of sexual exploitation and trafficking.

Read more:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/search-for-aspiring-model-exposes-denvers-dark-problem-of-sex-trafficking-and-exploitation

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Missing Colorado teen's photo turns up in Las Vegas escort ad

Posted: 11/28/2012 09:20:46 PM MST
Updated: 11/28/2012 09:56:39 PM MST
By Joey Bunch
The Denver Post

A photo of Colorado Springs teen Kara Nichols turned up on a Las Vegas website offering escorts, but it was not posted by the missing 19-year-old, the El Paso County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday evening.

"We have no confirmation that she is in Vegas." El Paso County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Joe Roybal told the Colorado Springs Gazette.

The picture of the aspiring model used on the adult services website was previously available on the Internet, officials said.

Read more:

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22086905/missing-colorado-teens-photo-turns-up-las-vegas

New developments in search for Kara Nichols



Published on Nov 28, 2012 by FOX21NewsColorado

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWtFxKeXLOM

January 11, 2014, 7:49 am

Colorado Springs lingerie model vanishes on photo shoot trip to Denver

The Denver Post - Denver, CO



Kara Nichols


On the night that part-time model Kara Nichols disappeared, she was scurrying to put makeup on and get ready for a modeling appointment with a Denver photographer.

Nichols, 19, lived in a small Colorado Springs home with three men she was renting a room from. Two of the men, who were in their mid to late 20s and worked on road construction crews, were on a trip out of town. Tara told the youngest of her roommates that a girlfriend was going to pick her up for the modeling gig.

Minutes later he saw a dark sedan pulling away from the home and assumed that Kara’s ride had arrived.

That was on Oct. 9, 2012. Kara has not been seen since then. Investigators suspect someone posing as a photographer may have harmed her.

Her mother, Julia Nichols, who lives in Chicago, says her normally very social daughter, who had been calling her twice a week before she vanished, has not contacted her or any of her friends since that day.

Read 7 page article here:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2014/01/11/aspiring-colorado-springs-model-vanishes-during-denver-photo-shoot-trip/7785/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zu7He5ytLA
YouTube -- Help Us Find Kara Nichols's

Published on Dec 17, 2013