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| Vanished Kansas City woman whose remains were found by woods had ties to FBI drug probe |
| 2023-04-09 |
| [Kansas City Star] On May 23, 22-year-old Abbi Schaeffer left her Northland Kansas City home carrying her purse and her black-and-white cat Izzy. For six hours, a dark gray BMW, its windows tinted black, had been parked across the street in their quiet subdivision. Schaeffer walked out, spoke with the man in the driver’s seat, and got in. It was the last time her parents knew she was alive. On April 1, after months of searching, Belinda and Jason Schaeffer received news they long feared. Their daughter was dead. Her body lay abandoned near an expanse of hiking trails in south Kansas City. Despite the troubling signs, they had still held hope that she might come home. For months, they fielded tips from social media — some even claimed to have found her. "You get everybody calling you and messaging you. And it was like, you get this shred of hope, and then it’s not Abbi," her mother told The Star on Friday. "It was like the up and down and the roller coaster that was the worst part. The hope, and then the hope’s quashed." Since her remains were discovered, Kansas City homicide detectives have been leading a death investigation. The Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office is tasked with determining the cause and manner of her death. As of Friday, Officer Donna Drake said there had been no changes or updates. Over the past 10 months, the Schaeffers have been left to wonder what happened to the brilliant, beautiful young woman they remember her as. But they have long suspected something terrible happened to her. And on May 30, when she had been gone for several days, Belinda Schaeffer walked into Kansas City’s North Patrol station with a story to tell. Her daughter had recently told her that she had information about a fentanyl trafficking operation, she said, and that she was supposed to talk to the FBI before she disappeared. Her phone had gone silent and dropped off the map, and its last signal had come from an apartment complex in south Kansas City one week earlier. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 If you have such info, write an anonymous letter, don't sign it, use basic legal pad paper, mail it with a bunch of other stuff, to the appropriate authorities, which would likely be local LE, unless they're bought, and so maybe another source, like state police. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2023-04-09 23:32 |
| #5 /\ She had likely observed someone endangered by fentanyl, or worse. Her 'reaching out' produced a local reaction. At her age, her social network roster could not be that large. That's were I would begin. That's likely where LE have begun. The real tragedy is she was a potential drug informant who was NOT given LE surveillance and protection. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-04-09 17:34 |
| #4 I’m more with Besoeker on this one. Girl seems to have had a problem, recognized it, and was trying to ‘fix’ it but involved the wrong people somewhere. In years past I would never have suspected the FBI but they have destroyed their credibility. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2023-04-09 17:25 |
| #3 Just an innocent bright beautiful lady who also had info on a fentanyl trafficking op? One of these things is not like the other. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-04-09 11:22 |
| #2 If she was carrying her cat with her, she didn't plan on coming home. Craigslist gone bad? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2023-04-09 10:22 |
| #1 Apparently she talked to the wrong guy at the station, or apartment complex. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-04-09 09:22 |