08-25-2012, 10:14 AM
I've been following this case and was hoping she'd be found, but it's been a week. The mother went to work at 3 am to finish up some work, when she returned at 7, Gabrielle was gone. Only Gabrielle's phone is missing. I don't know how usual it was for the mother to go back to work. The mother has hired a PI.
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FBI joins search
Missing Poster
Aunt: You don't know how to cope
Gabbiee's mother Elvia says she returned to her Tamara Way home from work around 7 a.m. Saturday to Gabbiee's alarm clock going off, but no Gabbiee.
"I didn't see her in her bed. I panicked. I froze for a moment," Elvia said.
Elvia says her daughter would never run away from home. She didn't take her keys or her purse.
Investigators say the only thing missing from the home is Gabbiee's cell phone. They have not said if that phone or its signal has been located.
Since the teenager vanished Elvia Swainson has filed a police report, hired a private investigator, and continued to search on her own.
According to the Richland County Sheriff's Department, the FBI has now volunteered to assist with the investigation.
Thursday was supposed to be Swainson's first day of school, but she was noticeably absent....
Something interesting from the aunt story - Gabrielle's alarm was set to go off at 5:25 am the Saturday she went missing. What teen gets up at that hour when they don't have to? As the aunt said, maybe she was just getting her sleep schedule on track for the start of school. But I wonder if she had been sneaking out of the house to meet someone in the neighborhood.
...Gabrielle’s alarm clock continues to go off at the same time every morning – 5:25 a.m. – as it first did when her mother entered her room last Saturday and found her bed empty.
Having not been able to figure out how to turn it off completely, Swainson, who has been staying in the room across the hall, turns it off every morning.
She wonders why her niece would have set it in the first place, thinking maybe the rising sophomore was getting ready little by little for when school started back at Ridge View High School on Thursday – something she was looking forward to....
FBI joins search
Missing Poster
Aunt: You don't know how to cope
Gabbiee's mother Elvia says she returned to her Tamara Way home from work around 7 a.m. Saturday to Gabbiee's alarm clock going off, but no Gabbiee.
"I didn't see her in her bed. I panicked. I froze for a moment," Elvia said.
Elvia says her daughter would never run away from home. She didn't take her keys or her purse.
Investigators say the only thing missing from the home is Gabbiee's cell phone. They have not said if that phone or its signal has been located.
Since the teenager vanished Elvia Swainson has filed a police report, hired a private investigator, and continued to search on her own.
According to the Richland County Sheriff's Department, the FBI has now volunteered to assist with the investigation.
Thursday was supposed to be Swainson's first day of school, but she was noticeably absent....
Something interesting from the aunt story - Gabrielle's alarm was set to go off at 5:25 am the Saturday she went missing. What teen gets up at that hour when they don't have to? As the aunt said, maybe she was just getting her sleep schedule on track for the start of school. But I wonder if she had been sneaking out of the house to meet someone in the neighborhood.
...Gabrielle’s alarm clock continues to go off at the same time every morning – 5:25 a.m. – as it first did when her mother entered her room last Saturday and found her bed empty.
Having not been able to figure out how to turn it off completely, Swainson, who has been staying in the room across the hall, turns it off every morning.
She wonders why her niece would have set it in the first place, thinking maybe the rising sophomore was getting ready little by little for when school started back at Ridge View High School on Thursday – something she was looking forward to....