Elaine Shaw, Kimberly’s mother, holds out hope but fears the worst for her only daughter. Gillespie has five children and Shaw takes care of the oldest.
“It’s all bad; they said there is nothing I can do,” Shaw told the Mountain Democrat. “They think she is still in there but they can’t find her body.”
Gillespie and her boyfriend were in the woods together, Shaw explained, but said only he came out.
“Her (Kimberly) and her boyfriend are both deaf. They went out there and went for a walk and neither of them could find their way back,” the worried mother said. “He said they were dehydrated with no food. He came back a day later and she didn’t.”
Kimberly wasn’t reported missing by her boyfriend until several days later, according to Shaw, who resides in Apple Valley.
