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JAN 30, 2015
Police still looking for missing GC woman after 20 years
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Rachel’s brother had set a rollaway mattress on fire in the basement. It had been removed but the basement still smelled of smoke. Ramirez walked into the house and asked where Rachel was, saying she hoped she was not sleeping in the basement with the smoke. Rachel’s brother told her he had fallen asleep as he watched “The Swiss Family Robinson” with Rachel.
“When I went downstairs, everything of hers was there except her jacket that I had got her for school,” Ramirez recalled. “She never took her contacts out, her license or even her Social Security card. She took nothing.”
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Police investigations indicated that Rachel’s siblings and her stepfather were in the house when she disappeared. There were no signs that indicated she had been abducted.
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The pregnancy had rattled the family. Ramirez said she had forced her daughter to reveal how it had happened, and Rachel gave her the name of a local boy, who was 18 years old at the time, as the person responsible.
“We went to his home and we talked to his dad. His mother was not there, but when we got back to our house his mother called and basically called my daughter a liar, that it wasn’t her son’s responsibility,” Ramirez said. “I took the phone away from my daughter and said my daughter doesn’t need to hear this.”
Rachel recorded a statement with police shortly afterward, according to Ramirez.
“A few weeks after that, the boy went to the police department and wrote his statement, so he didn’t deny it,” Ramirez said, adding that after Rachel went missing, the boyfriend always said he didn’t know anything about the disappearance.
Garden City police Capt. Mike Utz said an aggravated indecent liberties with a child case was reported to the department on Dec. 31, 1994, about two weeks before Rachel disappeared. When she went missing, the case was dropped since she, as the primary witness, was not available.
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“We don’t know if she’s alive. We suspect foul play, but there’s nothing definitive to show what happened to her,” he said. “We have talked to the boyfriend on occasion. We cannot rule him out, but we cannot say he is involved because we are still trying to find out if she left on her own accord.”
Utz added: “We know that either a former boyfriend or a former friend, someone out there in this community knows something and we would encourage them, no matter how minute it is they know, to call the police department and ask to speak to a detective.”
Missing person cases usually are solved not by law enforcement alone; community help is considered vital, according to Utz. He acknowledged the department does not believe they have spoken to all of Pratt’s friends, but they have talked to everybody that they knew was associated with her.
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Police still looking for missing GC woman after 20 years
[...]
Rachel’s brother had set a rollaway mattress on fire in the basement. It had been removed but the basement still smelled of smoke. Ramirez walked into the house and asked where Rachel was, saying she hoped she was not sleeping in the basement with the smoke. Rachel’s brother told her he had fallen asleep as he watched “The Swiss Family Robinson” with Rachel.
“When I went downstairs, everything of hers was there except her jacket that I had got her for school,” Ramirez recalled. “She never took her contacts out, her license or even her Social Security card. She took nothing.”
[...]
Police investigations indicated that Rachel’s siblings and her stepfather were in the house when she disappeared. There were no signs that indicated she had been abducted.
[...]
The pregnancy had rattled the family. Ramirez said she had forced her daughter to reveal how it had happened, and Rachel gave her the name of a local boy, who was 18 years old at the time, as the person responsible.
“We went to his home and we talked to his dad. His mother was not there, but when we got back to our house his mother called and basically called my daughter a liar, that it wasn’t her son’s responsibility,” Ramirez said. “I took the phone away from my daughter and said my daughter doesn’t need to hear this.”
Rachel recorded a statement with police shortly afterward, according to Ramirez.
“A few weeks after that, the boy went to the police department and wrote his statement, so he didn’t deny it,” Ramirez said, adding that after Rachel went missing, the boyfriend always said he didn’t know anything about the disappearance.
Garden City police Capt. Mike Utz said an aggravated indecent liberties with a child case was reported to the department on Dec. 31, 1994, about two weeks before Rachel disappeared. When she went missing, the case was dropped since she, as the primary witness, was not available.
[...]
“We don’t know if she’s alive. We suspect foul play, but there’s nothing definitive to show what happened to her,” he said. “We have talked to the boyfriend on occasion. We cannot rule him out, but we cannot say he is involved because we are still trying to find out if she left on her own accord.”
Utz added: “We know that either a former boyfriend or a former friend, someone out there in this community knows something and we would encourage them, no matter how minute it is they know, to call the police department and ask to speak to a detective.”
Missing person cases usually are solved not by law enforcement alone; community help is considered vital, according to Utz. He acknowledged the department does not believe they have spoken to all of Pratt’s friends, but they have talked to everybody that they knew was associated with her.
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