Found Deceased KS - Joan 'Joanie' Rebar, 70, Meriden, 25 Sept 2015

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Joanie's daughter is very active on Joanie's FB and has posted a lot of information. My heart breaks for her and for what may have become of her mother. Joanie seems like such an amazing woman, some one I would LOVE to meet!
 
Apprehended man is ex-tenant of missing Jackson County woman
Man was on most wanted list for felony DUI
October 7, 2015 - 5:38pm
Twen Barton, Rebar’s daughter, said Curlee and Rebar lived together for seven years, although Curlee was in and out of jail for much of that time.

In August, Rebar kicked Curlee out.

Curlee had been on Jackson County’s Most Wanted list since Aug. 20 in connection with a felony DUI. He was out on bond on that charge and being monitored by an electronic ankle bracelet that officials said he removed.

photo of Curlee and more at link.
 
Sheriff asks property owners to check for missing Jackson County woman's vehicle
Last cellphone ping showed Joan Rebar, 70, may have been near Meriden
Posted: October 13, 2015
http://cjonline.com/news/2015-10-13...s-check-missing-jackson-county-womans-vehicle
A Silver Alert issued for Rebar remains in effect.

“Currently there are no persons of interest in her disappearance,” Morse said Tuesday. Authorities haven’t determined whether foul play is suspected.
Jerry Dean “Papa Smurf” Curlee, 57, remained incarcerated in a Missouri jail as of Tuesday afternoon and was awaiting extradition back to Jackson County in Kansas.

Officials said that before his capture, Curlee had been out of jail on bond and was being monitored by an electronic ankle bracelet, which he removed before leaving the area.

Morse said Curlee wasn’t a person of interest in Rebar’s disappearance, as he had been staying at a homeless shelter that had bed-check records and video footage of him staying there.

more at link.
 
Case Information
Status Missing
First name Joan
Middle name Marie
Last name Rebar
Nickname/Alias Joanie
Date last seen September 26, 2015 01:50
Date entered 10/01/2015
Age last seen 70 to 70 years old
Age now 70 years old
Race Native American
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Height (inches) 66.0
Weight (pounds) 230.0
Dental Status: Dental information / charting is currently not available
DNA Status: Sample is currently not available
Fingerprint Information Status: Fingerprint information is available elsewhere
https://findthemissing.org/en/cases/show/30442
 
Thank you to anyone posting any information regarding Joanie. I am one of her step-daughters. Today is November 18th, and she is still missing. There have been numerous searches in the areas between her home and the VFW where she was last seen. The last air search was about two weeks ago. The first thoughts when it was discovered that she was missing was that she'd had an accident on her way home. The area in which she was driving is very rural, most of the roads are through farmland, but there is a lot of timber lined areas, creeks and ravines along many of the routes she could have taken. All suspect areas have been searched by professional and civilian searchers, law enforcement, dog teams, drone searches of inaccessible areas (ravines), etc., all to no avail. Her car is also missing, a 2005 Chrysler Pacifica, silver in color. I know there are cases where a vehicle has been so well covered by trees and brush that they were overlooked or missed in areas searched several times. While that may be the case here, many of us now don't feel so strongly that's what happened and that foul play has to be looked at as a very real possibility. She said goodnight to the friends she was with at the VFW at about 1:50 am, based on surveillance video from inside the building.There were no known witnesses to her leaving, once outside of the VFW building, getting in her car and exiting the parking lot of the VFW. There were no outside surveillance cameras at the VFW building. There were no nearby surveillance cameras that she would have passed by on her expected way home as again, it was mostly rural/farm/residential all the way between her home and the VFW on almost every route she would or could have taken. She didn't try to call or text anyone after leaving the building. Her cell phone was pinged off of a cell tower located approximately one mile south of the VFW later that Saturday afternoon at 4:26 pm. There was no additional information available from her cell phone records as far as I know and information from I-Phone's "Find My Phone" app did not provide any additional information either. It appears she never returned home as she has a small dog that is her "baby" that she never would have just left there alone, and it appears that the dog had been there several days with no food/water, etc., house was in order- nothing out of place as if there was a struggle there or anyone ransacked it - her medicines were also found at her home. There has been no activity on her phone, or her bank account. This VFW is a place where she went frequently, and had been going there to socialize for many years (15 years or more) so she knew the area well, and many people that also frequented the establishment. At first it was thought that a former housemate of hers may have had something to do with her disappearance but he was found, interviewed by law enforcement and found to have no knowledge of Joanie's missing status, and had an alibi to his whereabouts at the time she went missing (staying in a homeless shelter with check-in records and video of his presence there). We are all at a loss as to where to turn now, where else to look, etc. Law enforcement has formed a multi-jurisdictional task force to investigate her disappearance. With the possibility she may have been taken from the area, we feel we have to keep information flowing and keep her picture and story out there in hopes of any information that can bring her home. There is a facebook page dedicated to search information entitled "Joanie Rebar- Missing/Search Info" ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/findjoanierebar/ ). Any assistance, information, prayers, etc. is much appreciated.
 
KSNT News Special Report: Gone Without A Trace

http://ksnt.com/investigative-story/ksnt-news-special-report-gone-without-a-trace/

There is quite a bit of information in the article, most notably is Mark Fitzgerald is a POI.

Article from today ( missing two years): http://cjonline.com/news/local/2017...ins-mystery-two-years-after-she-was-last-seen


Disappearance of Joan Rebar remains a mystery two years after she was last seen in Meriden

Law enforcement, family hope for closure
<p>Joan M. Rebar was last seen Sept. 26, 2015 when she left the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Meriden. Her disappearance remains unsolved two years later, leaving her family without closure. (Submitted) </p>
Joan M. Rebar was last seen Sept. 26, 2015 when she left the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Meriden. Her disappearance remains unsolved two years later, leaving her family without closure. (Submitted)
Tuesday marks two years since Joan M. Rebar disappeared. While her daughter, Twen Barton, has accepted that her mother won’t be back, she still hopes for closure.

More at link.


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From today: http://www.wibw.com/content/news/Na...n-for-missing-Jackson-Co-woman-453449333.html

woman, Joan Rebar, who disappeared more than two years ago.

Police have triangulated a more narrow location to look for Rebar, and police are asking folks living in that area to check their land for her body or clues.

If you live in the area just south of Meridan from about 74th street to 46th street and the surrounding area--law enforcement is asking that property owners, hunters, and the general public search their land for any evidence that could be related to Rebar’s disappearance.

Rebar's cell phone was last detected on the Meriden, cell phone tower located on 74th street later the same morning of her disappearance.


More at link.
 
Car of missing Jackson County woman found in pond

MERIDEN, Kan. (KSNT) - The car of a missing Jackson County woman was found in a pond in rural Meriden.
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Joan Rebar was last seen leaving the VFW in Meriden on September 25, 2015.

[...]

Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Herrig said it was confirmed by relatives that the license plate of the vehicle in the pond belongs to Rebar.

Herrig said a property owner was mowing the lawn when he saw a vehicle in the pond.

KSNT News has a crew on the way to the scene and will update with information as it becomes available.

http://www.ksnt.com/news/local-news/car-of-missing-jackson-county-woman-found-in-pond/1155596014
 
Wonder if there is anything/ anyone IN the vehicle?
 

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