Lesley Smith - 38 - missing since 1/26/04

[Doyle]

It's been more than 150 days of waiting and wondering for Gary and Marilyn Anderson.

"Everybody thinks as time goes by -- I thought as time went by -- that it would get easier," Marilyn Anderson said. "It doesn't get easier. It gets harder because it's just one more day that she's not here, that we have no word."

Marilyn Anderson's only child, 38-year-old Lesley Smith, disappeared Jan. 26 from the couple's west Lawrence home.

"I went to bed about 10:45 p.m.," Marilyn Anderson said. "Les and I said our goodnights and ‘I love yous' as we did every night."

But when the couple awoke the next morning, their daughter was gone. Her bed hadn't been slept in. Her purse with her driver's license, credit cards and much-needed asthma medication sat untouched on her dresser.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/crime_fire/story/174170

[Love_Mama]

"Under a recent federal law, hospitals won't confirm whether Lesley is a patient, so the two have driven to every hospital in Kansas and Missouri, looking for the van in the hospital parking lots".


Whether this missing woman is 38 or 18..............this family want's to know where she is and I think they have a right to.

The above law..............where hospital's can no long confirm if there daughter is there or not is the most rediculous law ever enacted. Here in San Diego if you're son or daughter (my son is 37 and was having surgery) is admited to a hospital they ask him at the front desk to sign the "privacy law" paper. I looked at the woman at the counter and told my son to NOT SIGN IT! If he had I would not have been able to call the hospital and see how he was!~ IT simply outrageous. The girl at the desk looked at me like I was nuts. Amazing isn't it...........that someone else has an opinion............has read the privacy act and refused to sign it. MOST people do sign it and have no idea what they're getting into.

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I'll say a prayer for this family.
MAMA