Photo: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
A sketch of “Kathy Johnson” at the time of the kidnapping.National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The next day, police found a 1973 Chevrolet Vega she’d stolen at a rest stop near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, says Sgt. Jonathan Wear, Public Information Officer for the Van Buren Police Department.
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Police have spent the ensuing years searching for Johnson, who has a tattoo of a unicorn on her left arm,“Kathy” with a ribbon above it tattooed on her right arm, and a green-and-yellow star tattooed on her chest. Police say Johnson also has a long scar on the back of her right shoulder.
“Anytime we get a lead, we follow up on it,” Wear says. “But none of our leads have panned out.”
Age-progressed photo of what Matthew Crocker might look like now.National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Which has left his big sister Elizabeth with many unanswered questions.
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“I just wonder, what’s he like?” says Elizabeth, 38, a stay-at-home mom. “I don’t know if he has kids, and do they look like mine? And do I look like him? Do we have similar personality traits? …. I wonder so many things.”
She believes that her brother is out there and she hopes to meet him again.
“We want to find him so bad…Even though he didn’t get to be a part of our family, hopefully he was loved and had a normal, happy life,” Elizabeth says. “I just feel that he is alive, and I feel like we will find him.”
source: people.com
