Where's Teresa Butler?

Where's Teresa Butler?

It is Valentine's Day 2008. It has been 750 days since Teresa disappeared. 750 days. I cannot believe that it has been that long and no one has helped us find her. No one has helped us to bring her home. I hope and pray that I am not back on here 750 days from now saying this. Someone obviously does not care that we are all suffering because we do not know what happened to her. They will stand in judgement one of these days and I would surely hate to be in their shoes when they meet their maker.

I have not updated the site in quite some time. That is because there is nothing new to tell. There have been several "stories" going around about dragging Two Ditch and found items but none of this has been on the news and I have not talked with anyone that could verify this to me, so I have not posted it. I am under the assumption that it is just more rumors. I hope and pray that it might be true but if so, nothing must have come of it because this was several months ago and still no news stories about any breaks or new leads in the case.

Please continue to pray for our dear Teresa. Pray for all the missing. They all have families and friends who are hurting and struggling, left behind to search for answers and to grieve the unknown.

Teresa Lynn Butler disappeared from her home on January 25, 2006. A video camera, play station with games, digital camera, car stereo, Teresa's purse and cell phone are missing, also. Her boys were found in the morning hours of January 25, home alone by their father after he came home from work. There was no forced entry but the missing items and no sightings or communication with Teresa since her disappearance make this case very suspicious. If you or anyone you know, thinks that you have seen Teresa or has information about her disappearance or the missing items, PLEASE contact the New Madrid County Sheriff's office at 573-748-2516.

Teresa's church has started a reward fund for the SUCCESSFUL prosecution of the person or persons responsible for her disappearance. Right now, the fund stands near the $2,200 mark. We can add to this fund by sending donations to:

Teresa Butler Reward/Scholarship Fund

Sun Security Bank

121 Front Street

P.O. Box 16

Risco, MO, 63874.

Tax Deductible Donations can be made at the following address.

Teresa Butler Reward/Scholarship Fund

Risco First Baptist Church

P.O. Box 228

Risco, MO, 63874.

This fund will be in place as a reward fund for 3 years. If no one is SUCCESSFULLY prosecuted, it will then become a scholarship fund. I still hope that someone will develop a conscience and tell us where she is. They can go to a payphone and make an anonymous phone call. But let us bring her home where she belongs. She deserves that. Here is a link to the article about this new reward fund.

http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/865/public/news712377.html

Someone started an online petition to get signatures so that maybe we can get someone else looking into her case. Here is the link. Please go and sign it. I don't know that it will help but it can't hurt.

Someone somewhere knows something. If you do, please call Sheriff Terry Stevens at 573-748-2516 or the MO State Highway Patrol at 573-840-9500.

You can make copies of Teresa's missing poster to distribute in your area. Here is the link for her poster at the National Center Missing Adults website.

There is now a Myspace profile for Teresa. I encourage all who read this page to go there and add her to your friends list if you use Myspace. It is my hope that her face will make it all the way around the world. We are doing pretty good getting friends, most of which are also pages featuring missing persons. Add those pages, too. The more friends these missing person's profiles has, the more people will see their faces and you never know where the next tip might come from. Here is the link for Teresa's myspace profile.

The Carole Sund Carrington Foundation is offering the $5,000 reward. This is good news. Maybe people will start talking. Money talks, they say.

$5,000 Reward for Teresa's safe return.

Teresa Butler-photo edited by BrandonB from GA

Teresa is 5ft. 7 in. & weighs approx. 110 lbs. She has dark brown/black hair and brown eyes.

The picture below was taken in Modesto, CA, at the Vigil of Hope, sponsored by the Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Foundation, on March 11, 2006. In the picture you will see Sharon Roche holding a poster of Mary Lee Grobe, a missing woman also from the bootheel area. Holding the picture of Teresa Butler is Mary Grobe's daughter, Joyce Caldwell. I am so thankful that Joyce Caldwell also took along a missing poster of Teresa.

Teresa's parents and sons.

Teresa's parents, Donald and Linda Buchanan, find comfort spending time with Teresa's sons.

Someone somewhere knows something.

If you do, please call Sheriff Terry Stevens at 573-748-2516.