TN - Gail Nowacki Palmgren, 44, Signal Mountain, 30 April 2011 *Media Links*

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Palmgren search takes investigators to Alabama
Authorities have received as many as 20 tips from people stating they have seen 44-year-old Gail Palmgren or her 2010 red Jeep Rubicon since she went missing April 30.

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"Caravan for Gail" Nowacki Palmgren

The above poster is of missing mom from Signal Mountain, TN, Gail Nowacki Palmgren, age 44, last seen on Saturday April 30, 2011. Gail dropped off her 9 and 12 year old children at the marital residence and left. She has not been seen or heard from since. She and the kids spent the prior night at the family cabin near Montgomery, AL, after police responded to a domestic related call on April 29th, not the first time. Law Enforcement also provided a few safe telephone numbers for shelter services to Gail.

(More at link.)

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A Missing Woman Investigation Leads Tennessee Police to Elmore County

Thursday, 19 May 2011 10:57 pm

A mystery surrounding a missing woman, who was seen in Elmore County just before she disappeared more than two weeks ago. She's from Tennessee and now investigators from there have arrived to search for clues.

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ECSO joins in search for woman
Posted: Friday, May 20, 2011 5:19 pm

Kevin Taylor thewetumpkaherald.com | 0 comments

Search efforts for a missing Signal Mountain, Tenn., housewife has now extended into Elmore County since her disappearance on April 30.

(More at link.)
 
Search for Gail Palmgren expands through Alabama
Gail Palmgren, a woman from Signal Mountain, Tennessee, has been missing for a few weeks now and the search for her is intensifying. She was last seen after dropping off her kids after a trip to Alabama. She was driving her red Jeep Rubicon.
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Volunteers sign up to search for missing Signal woman
Friends of missing Signal Mountain woman Gail Palmgren hope to cross her home area off the list of places she could be.
About 40 volunteers turned out Saturday to show support for Palmgren and her family and sign up to search sections of the mountain today.
Volunteers would love to find Palmgren, who was last seen April 30, but they’re focusing their efforts on tracking down her missing red Jeep Rubicon with Alabama plates reading “EAZY ST.”
Several at the Signal Plaza Shopping Center parking lot worried that when Palmgren left home, she may have been distressed and gotten in an accident somewhere nearby.
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From WDEF TV, Sunday May 22, 2011

Organizers say their main goal was to find the red jeep Palmgren was last seen driving. Searchers, along with Signal Mountain police, broke out in groups to search local streets, trails
and neighborhoods.

As of 9pm, volunteers say the search was completed and all local streets were checked. There was no sign of the Jeep on Signal Mountain. Four wheelers, cyclists, horses and hikers found nothing on local trails.

Organizers plan to continue the search, but they say the main areas have been checked.

Over 50 people in 20 to 30 cars drove all of Signal Mountain. Also areas at the foot of Signal and Dunlap were also checked.
 
ECSO joins in search for woman
Search efforts for a missing Signal Mountain, Tenn., housewife has now extended into Elmore County since her disappearance on April 30.
Gail Nowacki Palmgren, 44, last spoke to her sister Diane Nichols around 6:30 a.m. April 30, telling her sister that she was leaving her Lake Jordan home heading to her home in Signal Mountain.
So far there have been no breaks in the case according to police and Nichols.
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Alabama police join search for missing mother
Authorities in the small town of Wetumpka, Alabama, have joined in the search for the missing Signal Mountain mother, Gail Palmgren.
Palmgren and her husband Matthew own a lake house in Wetumpka, just north of Montgomery.
More... Video included...

Searchers comb Signal for missing woman
A month after the disappearance of Gail Palmgren, about 50 local volunteers crisscrossed Signal Mountain roads and trails Sunday in search of the missing woman’s crimson Jeep Rubicon — or any other clue that may lead to her.
Volunteers, most in cars, others on ATVs or horses and several on foot, scoured a 30 square-mile region.
The search came up empty but fulfilled the goal of “crossing Signal Mountain off our list, just to make sure we’ve covered our bases at home,” said search organizer and Signal Mountain resident Clive Bonnick.
More...
 
WRCB Video: Alabama Police Join Search Part One

Video Transcription (some is paraphrased, most is quoted verbatim)

Callie Starnes reporting: For the first time her story made local headlines in Wetumpka.

Arlene Durham, friend, says every store in Wetumpka has her picture now.

Sherriff Bill Franklin, Elmore County AL: "Anywhere between Tennessee and here where she stayed . . . along that route there's probably going to be BOLOs that are put out."

Arlene Durham: "This is her territory too, where she might feel comfortable if she did leave. She could be anywhere!"

Starnes: Signal Mt. and Hamilton County police are now looking to the Lake House for answers. Thursday, they searched the home. They won't say what or if clues were found, but Alabama authorities have been asked to keep an eye on the property.

Sherriff Franklin: "Anything odd. Anything unique. Anything that's changed."

Starnes: Officers have been advised to be on the lookout for Gail Palmgren, but Franklin says Tenn. authorities are staying tight-lipped about their investigation.

Sherriff Franklin: I'm sure they're going to hold close to the vest as far as what they're working on and what they're going to share with us."

Arlene Durham: I have to face reality, and the reality is the more she's gone and the more we don't find her vehicle, she's not alive. And that bothers me.

Callie Starnes: Investigators in both TN and AL say they are still treating this as a missing persons case. We have learned though from multiple sources that a helicopter crew and dive team will be combing parts of Hamilton County this week.
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Part Two Hightlights:

Callie Starnes: The weekend she went missing, the morning of April 30th, Gail abruptly packed up and returned to Tennessee, not calling to cancel plans with Durham.

Arlene Durham: "And I said, okay, and you could tell something was bothering her."

Starnes: Durham says she was helping Gail begin the divorce process and each week Gail would send her documents to hold on to. (Showing Arlene Durham holding documents).

Arlene Durham: "She knew if I had it, it was safe."

Starnes: Durham received a letter from Gail's husband, Matthew Palmgren, demanding that all items belonging to the family be returned and banning her from the Palmgren's lakefront property. She says she has also been asked not to "complicate" the search for Gail.

Letter from Matt Palmgren to Arlene Durham:

May 17 (date fuzzy on video) , 2011

RE: Return of Property
Via: Hand Delivery
Arlene: It is my understanding that you are in possession of a Security System DVR that you picked up from Best Buy in Pratville, AL, on May 2, 2011. This is my property. Please give this DVR Mike Mathis, who is the private investigator whom I have hired on my behalf. I have asked Mr. Mathis to deliver this letter to you.

Further, if you should have any other property that belongs to me or to Gail, please give the same to Mike Mathis as well.

Sincerely, Matthew Palmgren

Arlene Durham: "If anybody's missing, it doesn't matter who they are, the more people out there looking for her right away, the better chance you have of finding her."

Starnes: Police search efforts have now expanded into Alabama. Durham says she will continue looking for her friend but fears the worst.
 
Times Free Press ~ Searchers Comb Signal for Missing Woman

The last signal from Palmgren’s cell phone was reported near Mountain Creek Road two days after she went missing.

(Note: Mountain Creek Road is at the bottom of the W-Road.)


WRCB: River Search for Missing Woman's Jeep Turns Up Nothing (with Video)

Each year, vehicles are pulled from a portion of the Tennessee River referred to as Suck Creek. It sits at the foot of Signal Mountain, where Palmgren was last seen, so investigators say it was worth searching.

"We didn't see anything we could dive for," said dive team member John Scruggs, "if there was anything here we hadn't seen in the past we would dive it, but right now we're just looking at wet rock."

Crews used highly accurate side-scan sonar to navigate the 50 foot waters Tuesday morning. The search lasted two hours and covered a quarter mile stretch of the river. Electronic images returned parts of vehicles, some 30 years old, but not Palmgren's Jeep Rubicon.
 
Divers look in Tenn. River, don't find Jeep of missing Signal Mountain woman
* THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
* First Posted: May 25, 2011 - 2:05 pm
Last Updated: May 25, 2011 - 2:05 pm


CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A search of the area where Suck Creek flows into the Tennessee River has failed to turn up a missing woman's vehicle.

Gail Palmgren of Signal Mountain was last seen April 30, driving her crimson Jeep Rubicon with a vanity tag that reads "EASY ST."

(More at link.)
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Divers check river for missing Signal Mountain woman's Jeep
published Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

There was a 30- to 40-year-old car resting on the muddy river bottom. The bed of an extremely old pickup was spotted.

But there were no signs of a missing Signal Mountain woman’s crimson-red 2010 Rubicon Jeep under the surface of the Tennessee River near the Suck Creek boat ramp.

(More at link.)

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Friends and family plan another search for Gail Palmgren

Posted: May 25, 2011 2:13 PM CDT Updated: May 25, 2011 2:31 PM CDT

CHATTANOOGA (WRCB) -- Friends and family of Gail Palmgren are putting another call out for volunteers.

The mother of two from Signal Mountain hasn't been seen since April 30 when she dropped off her kids and drove off in her red Jeep Rubicon.

Over the weekend, teams of volunteers searched Signal Mountain and the surrounding area but found nothing.

On Tuesday, a search of the Tennessee River at the Suck Creek boat launch didn't turn up Palmgren's car. Now agencies say they're planning an air search for that red Jeep Rubicon.

Friends and family are organizing another search party. They're asking for people with ATVs to help search more trails this weekend.

You can find more information on the "Bring Gail Home Now" Facebook page.
 
New Search Planned:

Chatt.Times-Free-Press: Search Planned Sunday June 5th

About 10 ATVs, several hikers and cyclists will search Signal Mountain trails for missing local Gail Palmgren on Sunday afternoon.

Searchers hope to find signs of Palmgren’s red Jeep, which went missing along with her on April 30.

Volunteers will form search parties at Pruett’s on Signal Mountain at 2 p.m. Sunday.
 
WDEF Story: Weekend Search Efforts

This time searchers are focusing their efforts on the trails along Signal Mountain, especially on the Sequatchie County side.

Search organizers used a dozen ATVs to search the mountain, Sunday. They also used bike riders, hikers and horses.

Search organizers want to take their efforts into Riverbend*. They also plan to collect money to act as a reward for positive leads on Gail's whereabouts.

(My note: *Riverbend is Chattanooga's big summer music festival downtown)
 
Bombshell: Matt Palmgren has been fired by Blue Cross for skipping a work conference in Pennsylvania along with a female employee who met up with him there while on a work-related trip the week before Gail disappeared.

At the same time, Sheriff Jim Hammond has made a statement that it is "highly unusual" that Gail's red Jeep hasn't been discovered.

Chattanoogan 6/7/2011 ~ Husband of Missing Signal Mt. Woman is Fired by Blue Cross

Attorney Bryan Hoss confirmed that Matthew C. Palmgren, Pharm D., received a termination letter on Monday afternoon.

(snip)

Sources said about a week prior to the disappearance of Gail Palmgren that Matt Palmgren flew to Pennsylvania to attend an insurance conference.

Sources said he left the conference without attending any of the sessions and joined a female BlueCross employee at another location, then they drove back to Chattanooga together after she allegedly bought a car there.

BlueCross officials said they could not confirm reports that the female BlueCross official has also been terminated.
 
The latest news story in the Free Press mentions the girlfriend by name for the first time in the MSM, so we are out of rumor territory.

She also has hired a defense attorney.

Matthew Palmgren, co-worker terminated at BlueCross

"BlueCross also cited misuse of company equipment and inappropriate email use..."

Confirmed:
  • Name: Tammy Helton, manager of government product development for BlueCross
  • She was "let go for similar reasons"
  • Her divorce was finalized in February
  • Her defense attorney is named David Barrow
  • She now lives in Batesville, Mississippi

Before Gail Palmgren disappeared, she gave several hotel invoices to a friend. They show that Matthew Palmgren paid cash for hotel rooms locally at the Double Tree and Hampton Inn. Another hotel invoice places Matthew Palmgren at a hotel in Batesville, Miss., and shows that he also paid cash there
 
Police sent a threatening text message
As the family of Gail Palmgren continue their search, Gail's neighbor and friend, Arlene Durham, alleges Signal Mountain Police told her to not to infer with their case.
She says 30 days after Palmgren went missing, she drove to Mississippi and Florida asking questions on the disappearance.
Soon after, she received a text message.
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Signal Mountain woman's marriage was crumbling before she vanished
Just before Signal Mountain's Gail Palmgren and her crimson red Jeep Rubicon vanished from the face of the earth her marriage was crumbling around her.
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I was about to post that the trail sighting was an unconfirmed rumor, then saw this!!!

Chattanoogan: Witness Says She Saw Gail Palmgren On Remote Signal Trail At Time She Disappeared

Carol Coppinger said she was in a distinctive new red Jeep and had a female passenger, who looked away each time they passed them on the isolated Big Fork Road.

*snip*

She said they saw the red Jeep and the two women three times on the afternoon and evening of Saturday, April 30.

*snip*

Ms. Coppinger said she never saw the face of the female passenger. She said she appeared to be from 5'7"-5'9" and weigh 120-140 pounds.

*snip*

Ms. Coppinger said she gave a phone interview to a Signal Mountain officer. Then last Wednesday she took a Signal Mountain detective and two county detectives to Big Fork Road. She showed them the first two places they had seen the Jeep, then took them to Insurance Bluff and the spot at the bottom of the hill where she saw it last.

She said the detectives checked out the bottom of Insurance Bluff and found some dead dogs and old cars, but no sign of Gail Palmgren or the red Jeep Rubicon.

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WDEF: New Possible Sighting and Interview with C.

Carol says, "The car stuck out because it was new, just not a normal vehicle that you would see in that area."
The witness from Marion County only wanted to be known by her first name, Carol.
She recognized Palmgren's picture on the TV, and called the authorities.
Carol says she saw Palmgren and another woman driving in a jeep, but that their reactions were very strange.
Carol says, "She'd slow down very slow, and instead of glancing at us like a normal person would, she was looking directly at us. So, that we would see her whole face."
Carol says Palmgren looked dazed like a doe in the headlights, and like she wanted to say something but didn't.
The other woman with Palmgren, Carol says would look away from them the three times they passed.
 
Sheriff's Office Says Working Hard On Gail Palmgren Case

"This is an active and on-going joint missing person investigation involving investigators from both the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division and the Signal Mountain Police Department. Every lead or tip received from either the public or family members of Ms. Palmgren is exhaustively investigated by law enforcement.

We do welcome the assistance from the media in continuing to show Ms. Palmgrens picture as well as the picture of her vehicle. Also to disseminate telephone numbers (423 209-8940 or 423 622-0022) for anyone with information pertaining to this missing person case. An email address is available as well for persons with any information at investigations@hcsheriff.gov

"Please direct all future information requests to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Office."
 
Saturday, June 18 ~ Chatt Times Free Press Story: Palmgren consents to property searches
. . . The consent order was drafted by Palmgren's defense attorneys, Lee Davis and Bryan Hoss.
Hoss said Friday that Palmgren offered to allow the search shortly after his wife last was seen.
"We reached out to them early, early on in the case," Hoss said, noting that police did not immediately accept the offer.

The agreement is being coordinated through the Hamilton County district attorney's office.

Chattanoogan: Attorney Says Palmgren Property Has Been Available For Search From The Start
Says Gail Palmgren Had "Psychotic Episode" Week Before She Disappeared

Attorney Davis said, "I told Signal Mountain (Police) in the first 15 minutes of talking to them about the case that they were welcome to search any of Matt Palmgren's property."

He said about 10 days ago a formal order was signed by himself and Neal Pinkston of the district attorney's office allowing permission of a search of the Palmgren home in the St. Ives subdivision, of the family's lake house northeast of Montgomery, Ala., and of their storage shed.

(Attorney Davis) also said he spoke to a couple in Hoover, Ala., who said Ms. Palmgren "had a psychotic episode" while at their house a week before she disappeared.

Attorney Davis said Ms. Palmgren "showed up uninvited" and spent two nights with the family friends. He said the husband, an attorney, told him, "Gail was flat f----- up. She was out of her mind."

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