Year Later, Police Still Searching For Missing Beaver County Woman

POSTED: 1:50 pm EDT March 12, 2008
UPDATED: 6:02 pm EDT March 12, 2008

INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- The family of Karen Adams, who has been missing for a year, said Wednesday that she would never have left on her and they want answers.

Pittsburgh-area police and the FBI have searched by ground, air and by water but still have found no trace of the Independence Township, Beaver County, woman.

Adams, 55, vanished on March 12, 2007.

"I realize today's been the first year, and it's been pretty hard actually," said her brother, John Adams. "This last week's been rough on me."

Adams said his sister's disappearance has been rough on the whole family, too. At first, family members circulated and distributed fliers all over the country but got no leads.

Those fliers are now part of a police file 10 inches thick.

The police file still has a still photo from a surveillance camera showing Karen Adams leaving Mountaineer Casino just after 3 a.m. the night of her disappearance.

"We have no leads, no evidence, no nothing on anyone seeing her, talking to her after she left the casino," said Chief Robert Baron of the Independence Township Police Department.

Karen Adams' maroon, four-door sedan is still missing, too, police said.

John Adams said he's convinced now his sister was murdered, and it gives him nightmares.

"My bad dreams have been basically that they're finding her, and they find out she was alive for a while, and they tortured her, and that's getting to me," he said. "It works on you after a while. It works on you after a while wondering where she could possibly be. I always told my brothers, my one brother, that as long as she's not found, I'd be all right with it because, in a way, there's always a chance that she might just walk in the door. But I'm done with that. I just want to know now."

Anyone with information on Karen Adams is asked to contact police.

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