Post by Scumhunter on Mar 20, 2016 15:58:38 GMT -5
(Above: Tyler, circa 2010 photo credit: National Center For Missing And Exploited Children website)
Missing Person Profile as of March 20th, 2016: (Based on Charley Project, missingkids.com profile)
Full Name: Tyler Marie Thomas
Missing Since: December 3, 2010 from Peru, Nebraska
Date of Birth: September 7, 1991
Age (at time of disappearance): 19 years old
Height and Weight: 5'5, 140 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Thomas's ears, lip and right eyebrow are pierced. Her nickname is Ty.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A teal long-sleeved shirt, dark green sweatpants, earmuffs and a black scarf.
TIPS: Anyone having information should contact 1-800-THE-LOST or the Nemaha County Sheriff's Office (Nebraska) at 1-402-274-3139
From The Charley Project:
Thomas was last seen near 5th and Nebraska Streets in Peru, Nebraska on December 3, 2010. She had left a party off-campus and was walking towards her dormitory room at Peru State College. She was last seen near the town water tower, only a few hundred feet from her dormitory, but she apparently never made it inside. Right before she disappeared, Tyler sent a text message to a friend saying she didn't know where she was. She has never been heard from again. She was reported missing at 3:00 a.m., an hour and a half after he was last seen. The temperature outside that night was in the teens and Thomas wasn't wearing a coat. She had drunk beer and several shots of tequila at the party.
Within days, fellow Peru student Joshua Keadle was named as a person of interest in Thomas's disappearance. They had gone on a date once, but Thomas didn't like Keadle and told others she wanted to avoid him. On December 9, six days after she went missing, he was arrested for evidence tampering and providing false information to the police. A photo of Keadle is posted below this case summary. Several days later, he was charged with felony rape and false imprisonment after another woman told police he had sexually assaulted her three times on October 31, a month before Thomas disappeared.
Another teenage girl came forward and claimed that in April 2008, when she was fifteen years old, Keadle had raped her while she was spending the night on the campus of Midland Lutheran College, now Midland University. Keadle was a student at the college at the time. He was charged with first-degree sexual assault of a minor in that case. In addition, authorities in Madison County, Nebraska charged him with indecent exposure; he allegedly exposed himself to a woman in Norfolk, Nebraska in April 2010.
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Keadle, a junior sports management major from South Carolina who had studied at several other colleges in Nebraska, at first told the police that he'd seen Thomas walking down the street on the night of her disappearance but didn't speak to her. Later he said she'd gotten in his car, he drove her to the Peru Boat Dock on the Missouri River, they had a consensual sexual encounter and then she accused him of raping her. He said they had a verbal and physical argument and then he left her on the dock at 2:00 a.m., returned to his dormitory room and took a shower. The dock by the river is the same place where the alleged October 31 rape started, and both the October incident and Thomas's disappearance happened in the early hours of the morning. After Keadle gave his second statement about Thomas, authorities checked the dock and found tire tracks, consistent with Keadle's 1996 Ford Explorer, near the riverbank. There were also drag marks leading from the tire tracks down the bank to the river's edge.
In March 2012, Keadle was found guilty of the 2008 rape. He was sentenced to 15 to 20 years in prison, significantly less than the maximum of 50 years. He is still awaiting trial for the alleged indecent exposure in Madison County. Authorities stated they expected to charge him in Thomas's case. In 2012, her mother filed a wrongful death suit against both Keadle and Peru State College. In August 2015, a judge dismissed the suit against Peru State College, ruling they could not have foreseen that Keadle would abduct and killed Thomas. The judge did allow the suit against Keadle to proceed, however, and it will go to trial at a later date.
Thomas's loved ones never believed she left of her own accord, because she left behind her purse and coat and she was not having any problems in her life. She was happy at college and had joined the dance team. She lived in Bellevue, Nebraska when she was not at school. Although he has not faced charges in Thomas's disappearance, Keadle remains the primary focus of the investigation. Thomas's disappearance is unsolved and foul play is suspected.
www.charleyproject.org/cases/t/thomas_tyler.html
NCMEC link: www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMC/1161374/1
Thoughts?
(Pictured: Above: Joshua Keadle Photo Credit: Charley Project)
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