GUILTY AK - Mindy Schloss, 52, abducted & murdered, Anchorage, 3 Aug 2007

I wonder if she has had any problems with a ex-husband or boyfriend recently?
 
I wonder if she has had any problems with a ex-husband or boyfriend recently?

I was suspicious of that comment that a friend made that if she was going to the airport her "significant other" would take her and yet there is no mention of her significant other in the article. Our press is VERY tight lipped up here and if he was a serious suspect, the police would ask them not to mention him and they would aquiesce.
 
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Police strongly suspect foul play after they found her abandoned car last week. Friends say it's just not like Schloss to go away without telling anyone. They're now planning a search team. The FBI has now joined the case.

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Authorities are searching the area between her house on Cutty Sark and the Air Cargo buildings on the Airport Frontage Road where Schloss' car was found. But her friends want to do more.

http://www.ktva.com/topstory/ci_6615989
 
FOUL PLAY? Federal involvement shows seriousness of disappearance.

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Schloss goes often to Stevens International Airport to take flights to Fairbanks, where she works. But she never drives to the airport, preferring to leave her car home and take a cab, a close friend said last week.

Such circumstances have police and Schloss' friends alarmed. The FBI's entry into the case is a strong indication police believe Schloss to be in some danger.

Police are not releasing to the public all they know for fear of jeopardizing their investigation, said police spokeswoman Anita Shell said. "There's a lot of stuff going on," she said.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/9219172p-9135325c.html
 
I was just panicking because I saw an article where a body was found this AM on turnagain arm - less than 10 miles from mindys house and the airport (http://www.adn.com/front/story/9219386p-9135496c.html ) -but the body is that of a man.

I did a quick google earth - Mindy lives within five minutes of the airport - right near me. Her home is near some undeveloped land with a lake right there. That would be the first place I'd check. And then..the turnagain arm -the tides are huge and a body could easily be lost forever if someone could manage to get it in the water at the right time.

I keep seeing that the friends want to search for her, but I haven't heard any info about organized searches.
 
I was just panicking because I saw an article where a body was found this AM on turnagain arm - less than 10 miles from mindys house and the airport ...

Not to ask a stupid question, but what is a turnagain arm?? I'm completely landlocked in the midwest and I'm confident we don't have those. :blushing:
 
AJ, from what the article says it sounds like an area of water by the highway. I wonder why it's named that though as it's an interesting name!
 
The Turnagain Arm is the body of bay water near Anchorage. Its an arm because its long and thin, I think and reaches far inland. It has incredible tides.

I've gotten in touch with her friends and I am encouraging them to put together a search of the woods near her home. I'll be there to help if we manage to get enough people together.
 
Investigators will bring in specially trained dogs later this week to search for Schloss by her home. The 52-year old is described as 5-feet and 6-inches tall, she has brown hair and grey-blue eyes.

http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/local/9162051.html

Great.
This is where I'd look for her - she lives on cutty sark st - right near a large body of water and some woods - thats where I'd concentrate:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...spn=0.00709,0.019956&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1
 
NO SPECIFICS: Police look in Kincaid Park.

The search for an Anchorage psychiatric nurse missing for almost two weeks has turned to the wooded areas of Stevens International Airport and Kincaid Park, police said Wednesday.

Investigators, who include FBI agents, have no specific information that connects 52-year-old Mindy Schloss with the park or the airport's forested periphery, said spokeswoman Anita Shell.

But Schloss lives on Cutty Sark Street off Raspberry Road, close to both the airport and the park, Shell said. She was last seen in her house at 7 p.m. Aug. 3.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/9224358p-9140333c.html
 
The search for a missing woman intensifies in Anchorage. The Anchorage Police Department (APD) is in Kincaid Park right now, with search dogs looking for anything connected to her suspicious disappearance two weeks ago.

Police are in Kincaid Park because the missing woman lives near there off or Raspberry, close to the airport where her car was found last week. Tree teams of K-9 police dogs are combing through Kincaid Park this Thursday afternoon – searching in a grid pattern, for any clues that might lead them to the whereabouts of 52-year old Mindy Schloss.

http://www.aksuperstation.com/news/local/9207262.html

Never heard of "tree teams" so its probably a typo and should be "three teams"....I sure hope something is found to lead the investigation to the right area.
 
There is so much wilderness here it would be pretty easy to locate a body within 10 miles of anchorage and have it not found for a long time.
 
This is an interesting case. I intend to keep follow it as much as possible. Please keep posting any news that comes up about it. I hope things turn out well.
Thank you
 
Investigators searching for an Anchorage psychiatric nurse missing for more than two weeks questioned at least two of her neighbors at police headquarters Saturday.

Anchorage police took two, possibly three neighbors to the station because all parties wanted privacy from news cameras waiting outside Mindy Schloss' home near Stevens International Airport, said Paul Honeman, police department spokesman.

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Police and the FBI, who have been combing the woods at Kincaid Park near her home, returned to her residence on Cutty Sark Street off Raspberry Road on Saturday to find items that search dogs can use to pick up her scent and to talk to more neighbors.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/9234553p-9150185c.html
 
EXPANDED SEARCH: Dogs, divers search the depths for Schloss.

More than two weeks after she vanished, the hunt for missing nurse Mindy Schloss moved to the water Sunday.

Volunteer searchers, FBI agents and Anchorage police and firefighters spent the day searching around Raspberry Road and Kincaid Park. By early afternoon they seemed focused on DeLong Lake, just across Raspberry from Schloss' home on Cutty Sark Street.

About 6 p.m., Anchorage Fire Department divers went into the lake, looking for a body. By 9 p.m., they had found nothing but beer cans and fishing poles and were packing up their gear.

much more at link

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/9236837p-9152469c.html
 

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