Nancy Moyer -- Missing 3/6/09

More than six months have passed since Nancy Moyer vanished March 6, leaving her car, purse, wallet, credit cards and identification at her home in the 700 block of state Route 507 in Tenino.

Moyer’s sister, Sharon Wilbur, 34, said Thursday that her grandparents have added $50,000 to the reward for Nancy’s safe return, upping the total reward amount to $105,000.

Wilbur said she and the rest of the family value their privacy and in general have shied away from speaking about Nancy’s case in the media. But Wilbur said she wanted to come forward to keep her sister’s case in the public eye.

“I don’t want her forgotten,” Wilbur said.

In the time since Nancy went missing, her husband, Bill, has taken over sole responsibility for the couple’s two daughters – 12-year-old Amanda and 9-year-old Samantha. Wilbur said that about two months after Nancy disappeared, she helped move out Nancy’s belongings from her home, and a new renter has moved in.

Wilbur said that as the months have passed with no news about what happened to her sister, it has become more difficult for their parents, Verne and Sandra Hedlund of Tumwater.

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Where Is Nancy? Mother of Two Vanishes
Police Leaning Toward Washington Mother's Disappearance as Homicide 'Without the Body'

By SARAH NETTER
March 24, 2009





The television was on, and a partially consumed glass of wine sat on the table. But the Washington state mother who was waiting for her children to come home that night was gone. And she hasn't been seen since.

It has been more than two weeks since anyone last saw 36-year-old Nancy Moyer, and her family and friends are frantic.

"I think someone took her from her home," Moyer's sister, Sharon Wilbur, said Monday. "She would never leave her kids and run off on her own. That's not her."

While police haven't ruled out anything, including the possibility that Moyer ran away, Thurston County Sheriff's Lt. Chris Mealy said the evidence has him leaning toward the likelihood of foul play.

"I think something happened to her somewhere," he said Monday. "What we're basically doing is conducting a homicide investigation without the body."

The family has offered a $55,000 reward for information leading to Moyer's return but, so far, searches, complete with bloodhounds and cadaver dogs, have turned up nothing.

Moyer, a longtime financial analyst with the Washington state Department of Ecology, was last seen Friday, March 6, after dropping off a co-worker on her way home from work.

Her husband, Bill Moyer, from whom she is separated, came by her Tenino, Wash., home Sunday evening, March 8, to drop off their daughters and saw her door ajar. He then called police and reported her missing.

Mealy said Bill Moyer, who could not be reached for comment, had been questioned by police and is not considered a suspect in his wife's disappearance. The two had split amicably and had been living apart for about two years, sharing custody of their daughters, 11 and 9, through an agreement they reached outside the courts.

The house, Mealy said, looked undisturbed, with no signs of a struggle or forced entry. Moyer's purse, driver's license, credit cards, clothing and toiletries were all still at the house, and her car was parked in the driveway.

She had no history of mental problems, substance abuse or financial troubles, he said. She very rarely calls in sick to work, he said.

Beverly Poston, who has worked with Moyer for more than a decade in their Lacey, Wash., office outside Olympia, said staffers had been racking their brains to think of anything she might have said or done that could be a clue.

"It's really tough," Poston said Monday. "It's hard for people to focus. You're desperate for any type of information."

Mealy said Moyer was known to have had a few romantic relationships since her split with her husband, but no one has jumped out as a suspect.

While police continue their investigation, her friends have launched an online initiative, creating both a Web site and a Facebook page dedicated to the search for Moyer. The Facebook page has nearly 400 members so far and asks visitors to download and distribute fliers with Moyer's image and information.

The Web site emphasizes Moyer's responsible nature and includes a page that details her tattoos, including hibiscus flowers on her left hip and two cherries with the initials "A" and "S" on her right foot.

Wilbur, who lives in nearby Rochester, Wash., said she last spoke to her sister the Friday that she disappeared. The two had chatted about a recent Mary Kay party Moyer had hosted and about how she was looking forward to the weekend.

Wilbur wondered if someone grabbed her sister from her front porch where she often goes to smoke. Her house, Mealy said, is located right off a major highway. Wilbur said her greatest hope is that whoever took Moyer will let her go.

Wilbur described her only sister as a social butterfly who loved to laugh. "She'll make friends with anybody," she said.

Poston said, "The word that everybody keeps using is 'sweet.'"

Moyer's daughters have been living full-time with their father since Moyer's disappearance, Wilbur said, and have been kept busy with activities, including sleepovers and camping trips.

"They're just trying to keep their lives normal," Wilbur said. "I'm not sure they realize how severe it is at this point."

Poston said Moyer had seemed particularly upbeat lately, grateful to have a job in the tough economy and in good spirits about her daughters and her friendship with her husband. "She was always in a good mood," she said.

For now, police said they'll keep interviewing and reinterviewing anyone who may have had a relationship with Nancy Moyer or interacted with her. And they're hoping that one day the phone will ring and it will be her.

"We're kind of stumped," Mealy said

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7151744&page=1

Can you solve this Thurston County cold case?

Posted by Casey McNerthney
March 5, 2010 7:16 p.m.

 

There were no signs of a fight, no obvious clues why Nancy Moyer, a 37-year-old mother of two, would vanish from Tenino.

March 6 marks a year since her disappearance. Moyer's family and police in Thurston County are hoping maybe now they'll get a break that could provide answers.

Moyer's case is featured this weekend on "Washington's Most Wanted," the Q13 Fox show that has helped capture 108 fugitives. Former Louisiana reserve police officer and current Q13 Fox weather forecaster Parella Lewis spoke with Moyer's husband and Thurston County Detective David Haller, the lead investigator.

"With all the information that we've developed in this case, it's been a very deep, extensive investigation," Haller told Lewis. "I feel that there's a 10 percent possibility that she's alive somewhere, and 90 percent that she's not."

Nancy and her husband, Bill, were separated when she went missing, but shared time with their two daughters. The last Sunday she was seen alive, Moyer's husband told Lewis she wasn't there when he went to drop off their children.

"It was just completely unheard of for her not to be there when I dropped the kids off," he told Q13. "So, very unusual right off the bat."

When Haller went into Nancy Moyer's home, the lights in the living room and kitchen were on. Here shoes and purse were there. Her car wasn't moved.

"The keys to her car were hanging where she always hung them," he told Lewis. "The house itself didn't appear to be disturbed, or look like there was an altercation or struggle."

A Tenino police officer saw Moyer about 6:45 p.m., leaving from an Olympia grocery store where she'd gone after work. No one has seen her since, though a neighbor reported hearing her voice later that night.

Haller has gathered DNA from Nancy's parents and kids, creating a profile for her, and she's in a national database that can help identify remains that may be found.

Moyer was 4-foot-11, about 120 pounds with black and brown hair and brown eyes. She had a butterfly tattoo on her lower back, a hibiscus flower image on her left hip and starts, hearts and flowers on her upper right arm. She also has other tattoos.

Her family is offering a $105,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect. Anyone with information, including those who want to give anonymous tips, can call Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound at 1-800-222-TIPS.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/archives/196809.asp

This is sad, gone without a trace. She's adorable and looks so much younger than she is. And she's so tiny, 4' 11", I doubt she'd have much of a chance fighting off an abductor. I hope some new leads come forth.

As I was reading the details.. I was not at all surprised to read....

"Her husband, Bill Moyer, from whom she is separated, came by her Tenino, Wash., home Sunday evening, March 8, to drop off their daughters and saw her door ajar. He then called police and reported her missing."

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Hate to wonder...but always hate to see that the one who makes the discovery is the x ..returning the children!
JMO

The same thought went through my mind as well, AJ.

This is so puzzling - i wish there were some clue - its' been over a yr now with seemingly no leads
how does someone just vanish??
Did they interview the SO's living in her area? I hope they checked all that.

Latest up-date I could find. STILL MISSING
3/9/13
http://www.examiner.com/article/nancy-moyer-pi-looking-into-case-of-washington-woman-missing-for-four-years