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# Missing Since: September 4, 2003 from Aiken County, South Carolina
# Classification: Missing
# Age: 34
# Height: 5'3"
# Weight: 102 lbs.
# Hair Color: Brown
# Eye Color: Blue
# Race: White
# Gender: Female
Details of Disappearance
On September 4, about 7:15am, Shuttleworth's 14-year-old daughter spoke with her mother by telephone from a friend's home. Lisa was scheduled to pick up her son from the bus stop Thursday afternoon, but never showed up.
Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Aiken County Sheriff's Office
(800) 922-9709
PHOTO:
http://www.aikencountysheriff.org/index1.php?pagenum=44&id=5
ARTICLES:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/100903/met_237-7043.000.shtml
October 8, 2003
AIKEN - Aiken County investigators have searched two homes and four vehicles in the case of a missing Beech Island woman, but are no closer to learning her fate, authorities said Wednesday.
As recently as Monday, an acquaintance of 34-year-old Lisa Shuttleworth consented to a search of his car, said sheriff's Capt. Wallace Owens, without naming the person. All of the searches involved people who knew Ms. Shuttleworth and were conducted with consent. No search warrants were required, and no one has been identified as a hard suspect in the Sept. 5 disappearance of the mother of two.
"Everyone has cooperated 100 percent," Capt. Owens said. He said the searches "haven't revealed anything out of the ordinary. We're just covering all of our bases."
Ms. Shuttleworth was last heard from on a Thursday morning when she spoke with her 14-year-old daughter by phone. When her 9-year-old son returned to their Miller Street home from school that afternoon, he found it locked and no one home.
"I honestly don't know what happened," said Ms. Shuttleworth's mother, Lorraine Mabrey, who has assumed care of the two children. "It's just like she disappeared from her house into thin air. From everything we know, she intended to come back."
Fliers with Ms. Shuttleworth's picture have been posted at businesses. Speculation of her fate has run rampant, her mother said.
"There's been so many darn rumors going around, wasting people's time," Ms. Mabrey said. "It's ridiculous. I guess people don't have anything better to do."
Capt. Owens said his investigators and agents from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division continue to run down leads. "We're hoping we can wrap this up soon," he said.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/102603/met_237-7085.000.shtml
October 26, 2003
Missing woman's family seeks answers
Lorraine and Jerry Mabrey's 34-year-old daughter Lisa Shuttleworth has been missing for seven weeks. The family believes Ms. Shuttleworth, a divorced mother of two from Beech Island, was taken against her will.
Daughter would not leave on her own, parents say. Seven weeks have passed since Lisa Shuttleworth vanished from her Beech Island home, a pot of tea left on the stove. For her children, family and friends, the uncertainty clouding her disappearance has created a gnawing, heart-wrenching ordeal with few answers.
The 34-year-old divorced mother of two was an outgoing and independent woman who put her children first, said her parents, Lorraine and Jerry Mabrey. They can't believe that she left of her own accord, taking nothing but her purse and the clothes on her back, leaving behind her car and a home locked tight.
But they remain unsure what to think.
"Initially I would not accept that she left on her own, then after all the rumors, you think maybe there's that possibility," said Mr. Mabrey, a retired Army recruiter who lives with his wife in North Augusta. "But we know her, and we say there's no way. It's just mind-boggling. It keeps you completely off-balance. It's enough to drive anybody crazy."
Because of the lack of any sign of a break-in or struggle, Mrs. Mabrey thinks her daughter encountered someone she knew at her white-siding house on Miller Street. She and her husband believe an abduction resulted.
"Right now, today, I feel like she did not go on her own - I feel like she left against her will," Mr. Mabrey said. "She had just brewed that pot of tea. I don't think she would have done that, decided to leave and not come back."
Ms. Shuttleworth was last heard from early on the morning of Sept. 4, when she spoke by phone to her 14-year-old daughter. The girl spent the night with a friend and was to be picked up by her mother after school.
Ms. Shuttleworth was last seen about an hour after the 7 a.m. call, when an acquaintance saw her blue-green 1994 Grand Am at the Pit Stop convenience store on Pine Log Road. The witness said she appeared to be reading as she sat in the idling car, Mrs. Mabrey said.
Lisa Shuttleworth was known by many in the midlands region, where she spent all her life. She attended North Augusta Middle School and graduated from Midland Valley High in 1987. She married Jack Shuttleworth in North Augusta in 1990. Daughter Krystina was born in 1988, followed by son Ryan in 1994. The Shuttleworths divorced in 1996.
After their daughter vanished, the Mabreys took custody of the children through a mutual agreement with Mr. Shuttleworth, who retains visitation rights. Since high school, Ms. Shuttleworth worked a variety of jobs, mostly in bookkeeping or secretarial work, including stints at Dixie Clay Co. in North Augusta and the Savannah River Site. Her last job was managing Jerico's, a private club on Belvedere-Clearwater Road owned by her father.
Authorities have been purposely vague when asked whether she was seeing anyone at the time of her disappearance. Her parents say they weren't aware of anyone in her life when she vanished.
They have heard names mentioned, but decline to elaborate in order to protect the investigation.
Aiken County sheriff's investigators acknowledge they have questioned several people and been granted permission to search at least two cars and two houses, but won't name those people.
"They have been working on this," Mrs. Mabrey said. "I think they're working on something right now."
Wallace Owens, chief investigator for the Aiken County Sheriff's Office, says his investigators have "some leads we are running down. We got a ton of leads in this thing, it's just taking us some time to run them down. Every day we're working 10 and 11 hours on this. It takes a lot of time."
Capt. Owens won't talk specifics, but indicates some theories are emerging about the case.
"We've got some things we just aren't prepared to go public with," he said. "We're just seeing what these next couple weeks lead to."
For the Mabreys, no break in the case seems imminent as the two-month mark approaches.
They try to fill the void left in their grandchildren's lives and make life "as normal as possible" for them, Mrs. Mabrey said. Krystina refuses to talk about her mother's disappearance. Ryan tells them he "just tries not to think about his mama."
"Somebody out there somewhere knows something," Mr. Mabrey said. "This is a small area and I just don't understand why word hasn't leaked out."
"They have no idea what we're going through," Mrs. Mabrey said. "It's heart-wrenching."
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/062104/met_1231728.shtml
June 20, 2004
By Stephen Gurr | Staff Writer
AIKEN - A heartsick Ryan Shuttleworth left a note at his grandparents' North Augusta home one recent afternoon, scrawled in his 9-year-old handwriting.
"He said he wanted to go look for his mama and he wasn't going to come back until he found her," Lorraine Mabrey recalled.
It has been nine months since Lisa Shuttleworth, the 34-year-old single mother of Ryan and his 14-year-old sister Krystina, vanished from her Beech Island home. Like so many disappearances before hers, the case has confounded investigators who are short on clues and resigned to chasing down rumors.
"We've searched places, dug up places, but they turned out to be nothing but rumors," said Capt. Wallace Owens, the chief investigator with the Aiken County Sheriff's Office. "But even if it's a rumor, we'll pursue it."
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# Missing Since: September 4, 2003 from Aiken County, South Carolina
# Classification: Missing
# Age: 34
# Height: 5'3"
# Weight: 102 lbs.
# Hair Color: Brown
# Eye Color: Blue
# Race: White
# Gender: Female
Details of Disappearance
On September 4, about 7:15am, Shuttleworth's 14-year-old daughter spoke with her mother by telephone from a friend's home. Lisa was scheduled to pick up her son from the bus stop Thursday afternoon, but never showed up.
Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Aiken County Sheriff's Office
(800) 922-9709
PHOTO:
http://www.aikencountysheriff.org/index1.php?pagenum=44&id=5
ARTICLES:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/100903/met_237-7043.000.shtml
October 8, 2003
AIKEN - Aiken County investigators have searched two homes and four vehicles in the case of a missing Beech Island woman, but are no closer to learning her fate, authorities said Wednesday.
As recently as Monday, an acquaintance of 34-year-old Lisa Shuttleworth consented to a search of his car, said sheriff's Capt. Wallace Owens, without naming the person. All of the searches involved people who knew Ms. Shuttleworth and were conducted with consent. No search warrants were required, and no one has been identified as a hard suspect in the Sept. 5 disappearance of the mother of two.
"Everyone has cooperated 100 percent," Capt. Owens said. He said the searches "haven't revealed anything out of the ordinary. We're just covering all of our bases."
Ms. Shuttleworth was last heard from on a Thursday morning when she spoke with her 14-year-old daughter by phone. When her 9-year-old son returned to their Miller Street home from school that afternoon, he found it locked and no one home.
"I honestly don't know what happened," said Ms. Shuttleworth's mother, Lorraine Mabrey, who has assumed care of the two children. "It's just like she disappeared from her house into thin air. From everything we know, she intended to come back."
Fliers with Ms. Shuttleworth's picture have been posted at businesses. Speculation of her fate has run rampant, her mother said.
"There's been so many darn rumors going around, wasting people's time," Ms. Mabrey said. "It's ridiculous. I guess people don't have anything better to do."
Capt. Owens said his investigators and agents from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division continue to run down leads. "We're hoping we can wrap this up soon," he said.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/102603/met_237-7085.000.shtml
October 26, 2003
Missing woman's family seeks answers
Lorraine and Jerry Mabrey's 34-year-old daughter Lisa Shuttleworth has been missing for seven weeks. The family believes Ms. Shuttleworth, a divorced mother of two from Beech Island, was taken against her will.
Daughter would not leave on her own, parents say. Seven weeks have passed since Lisa Shuttleworth vanished from her Beech Island home, a pot of tea left on the stove. For her children, family and friends, the uncertainty clouding her disappearance has created a gnawing, heart-wrenching ordeal with few answers.
The 34-year-old divorced mother of two was an outgoing and independent woman who put her children first, said her parents, Lorraine and Jerry Mabrey. They can't believe that she left of her own accord, taking nothing but her purse and the clothes on her back, leaving behind her car and a home locked tight.
But they remain unsure what to think.
"Initially I would not accept that she left on her own, then after all the rumors, you think maybe there's that possibility," said Mr. Mabrey, a retired Army recruiter who lives with his wife in North Augusta. "But we know her, and we say there's no way. It's just mind-boggling. It keeps you completely off-balance. It's enough to drive anybody crazy."
Because of the lack of any sign of a break-in or struggle, Mrs. Mabrey thinks her daughter encountered someone she knew at her white-siding house on Miller Street. She and her husband believe an abduction resulted.
"Right now, today, I feel like she did not go on her own - I feel like she left against her will," Mr. Mabrey said. "She had just brewed that pot of tea. I don't think she would have done that, decided to leave and not come back."
Ms. Shuttleworth was last heard from early on the morning of Sept. 4, when she spoke by phone to her 14-year-old daughter. The girl spent the night with a friend and was to be picked up by her mother after school.
Ms. Shuttleworth was last seen about an hour after the 7 a.m. call, when an acquaintance saw her blue-green 1994 Grand Am at the Pit Stop convenience store on Pine Log Road. The witness said she appeared to be reading as she sat in the idling car, Mrs. Mabrey said.
Lisa Shuttleworth was known by many in the midlands region, where she spent all her life. She attended North Augusta Middle School and graduated from Midland Valley High in 1987. She married Jack Shuttleworth in North Augusta in 1990. Daughter Krystina was born in 1988, followed by son Ryan in 1994. The Shuttleworths divorced in 1996.
After their daughter vanished, the Mabreys took custody of the children through a mutual agreement with Mr. Shuttleworth, who retains visitation rights. Since high school, Ms. Shuttleworth worked a variety of jobs, mostly in bookkeeping or secretarial work, including stints at Dixie Clay Co. in North Augusta and the Savannah River Site. Her last job was managing Jerico's, a private club on Belvedere-Clearwater Road owned by her father.
Authorities have been purposely vague when asked whether she was seeing anyone at the time of her disappearance. Her parents say they weren't aware of anyone in her life when she vanished.
They have heard names mentioned, but decline to elaborate in order to protect the investigation.
Aiken County sheriff's investigators acknowledge they have questioned several people and been granted permission to search at least two cars and two houses, but won't name those people.
"They have been working on this," Mrs. Mabrey said. "I think they're working on something right now."
Wallace Owens, chief investigator for the Aiken County Sheriff's Office, says his investigators have "some leads we are running down. We got a ton of leads in this thing, it's just taking us some time to run them down. Every day we're working 10 and 11 hours on this. It takes a lot of time."
Capt. Owens won't talk specifics, but indicates some theories are emerging about the case.
"We've got some things we just aren't prepared to go public with," he said. "We're just seeing what these next couple weeks lead to."
For the Mabreys, no break in the case seems imminent as the two-month mark approaches.
They try to fill the void left in their grandchildren's lives and make life "as normal as possible" for them, Mrs. Mabrey said. Krystina refuses to talk about her mother's disappearance. Ryan tells them he "just tries not to think about his mama."
"Somebody out there somewhere knows something," Mr. Mabrey said. "This is a small area and I just don't understand why word hasn't leaked out."
"They have no idea what we're going through," Mrs. Mabrey said. "It's heart-wrenching."
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/062104/met_1231728.shtml
June 20, 2004
By Stephen Gurr | Staff Writer
AIKEN - A heartsick Ryan Shuttleworth left a note at his grandparents' North Augusta home one recent afternoon, scrawled in his 9-year-old handwriting.
"He said he wanted to go look for his mama and he wasn't going to come back until he found her," Lorraine Mabrey recalled.
It has been nine months since Lisa Shuttleworth, the 34-year-old single mother of Ryan and his 14-year-old sister Krystina, vanished from her Beech Island home. Like so many disappearances before hers, the case has confounded investigators who are short on clues and resigned to chasing down rumors.
"We've searched places, dug up places, but they turned out to be nothing but rumors," said Capt. Wallace Owens, the chief investigator with the Aiken County Sheriff's Office. "But even if it's a rumor, we'll pursue it."
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