Post by Scumhunter on Jan 22, 2017 2:59:12 GMT -5
"GALESBURG - Dawn Foglesong leaves messages on her daughter's Facebook page and talks to her.
Dawn hasn't gotten an answer for almost a year.
Megan Foglesong was last seen in Alden, Kansas, in late November or early December of 2015, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs).
Megan spent most of her youth in Oneida and graduated from ROWVA High School in 2012. How she disappeared from a small town in the middle of Kansas with a population of roughly 150 is a mystery that starts with the desire to be reunited with a biological parent and includes a looming fear of an allegedly abusive boyfriend.
"I'm Megan's stepmother," Dawn explained Monday. "But she's been my daughter since she was 9 years old - that was three years after Todd (Foglesong, Megan's father) and I got married.
"Megan was an amazing person. She was always friendly. Younger kids were attracted to her. She was a great softball player and that was something she shared with her father. He coached her in ASA."
According to Megan's longtime friend Maranda Hootman, Dawn and Megan were "very close."
"I'll be honest - Dawn was Megan's mother," Maranda said. "Megan originally moved here with her father because there were problems. Dawn just loved her like one of her own."
Maranda said she and Megan became friends in late grade school and the early part of junior high.
"It's funny because I don't think we liked each other at first," Maranda said. "She knew all my dirty little secrets and I thought I knew hers. We were best friends all through high school and we stayed very close, even when she moved to Kansas the first time.
Megan's first move to Alden was in 2012, after graduation. And it came as a surprise.
"Megan was set to go to college and play softball," Dawn explained. "And then she got a chance to go visit her (biological) mother.
"And the next thing we knew, Megan said she was moving to Alden. We didn't expect that."
There are indications Megan developed personal problems in Alden. Friends admitted she started using methamphetamine while living there.
Megan also met a man in Alden who became her boyfriend.
Dawn and Maranda learned of the Megan's problems when her daughter returned to Oneida in late 2014.
Dawn said it was hard to get Megan to open about her time in Alden. Maranda heard some of the story.
"Megan came back to get away from (her mother) and to get away from (her boyfriend). She told me that," Maranda said. "I know she was being abused by her boyfriend and she got help from a woman in Alden.
"That woman drove her halfway home, and Megan's father drove the other half and brought her back."
According to Maranda, Megan found happiness back in Oneida. She got a job and started dating Maranda's brother.
"We were all back together," Maranda said. "She did say she was scared of her boyfriend. She was afraid of him and glad to be out of (Alden). I thought things were going well here.
"Megan never told me about any plans to leave - and never said anything about going back to Kansas."
Dawn said in June 2015 Megan returned to Alden and her biological mother.
Rest of article available at following link: gm1-lgwebvarnish.newscyclecloud.com/news/20161003/kansas-authorities-suspect-foul-play-in-womans-disappearance
Thoughts? Sorry for cutting the article short but my phone wouldn't let me copy and paste the rest of it. An article just came out that there was a candlelight vigil held a few days ago for what would have been Megan's 23rd birthday: wqad.com/2017/01/20/candlelight-vigil-held-on-birthday-of-missing-woman-from-knox-county/
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