Aliayah Lunsford

Child Left Alone Sick and Has Never Been Seen Again


From CNN

Aliayah Lunsford, 3, was last seen by her mother and sister around 6 a.m. Saturday, police say.
K-9 dogs and hundreds of volunteers have joined authorities in West Virginia to look for a missing 3-year-old girl, but a sheriff's department lieutenant said in the two days since she was last seen that "we haven't come up with anything."
Aliayah Lunsford's mother and 9-year-old sister told police they saw the girl around 6 a.m. Saturday in a bedroom in their home in Weston, West Virginia, located between Charleston and Morgantown. The mother said she returned about three hours later to see the girl -- who had been sick the night before -- and take her temperature, but Aliayah wasn't there, Lewis County Sheriff's Lt. David Parks said Monday.
By that time, the girl's stepfather had already been picked up and left for work. The mother got in her car and drove around looking for the child, at one point running out of gas, said Parks. She called police to report Aliayah missing around 11:30 a.m.
A sheriff's deputy arrived within 10 minutes and a larger crew by noon, according to Parks. About 100 volunteers were on scene by the end of the day, alongside local, state and federal law enforcement agents.

The investigation so far has included search teams diving in nearby waters, interviews with relatives and neighbors, and a door-to-door search. That's in addition to searches conducted by volunteers. A bloodhound did detect Aliayah's scent in the vicinity of a nearby river, with a dog handler saying the girl likely had been in the area in the last three to seven days.

"We are still on it right now," said Parks of the search and investigation.
According to a poster from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Aliayah was last seen in pajama bottoms featuring the TV cartoon character Dora, a pink princess sweatshirt and no shoes. The girl is white, weighs about 35 pounds, stands 3 feet tall and has brown eyes and hair. She has pierced ears and is missing her top four front teeth.

The center characterized Aliayah as "endangered missing." But no Amber Alert has been issued for her, in part because authorities do not have a name or description of a suspect who might have taken her.

Parks said there were no signs of forced entry in the home, which the girl shared with four other children, her stepfather and her mother, who is pregnant with twins. There is a screen door, which does not have a handle, and a regular door, which doesn't shut very well, the lieutenant said.

He added that authorities have checked with "just about every sex offender in the county," getting alibis for them and not having indications that any were near the girl's residence at the time she went missing.

Surveillance video shows the missing girl's mother during her apparent morning search for Aliayah, but there has been no sign yet of the girl. Some people have been interviewed as many as six times, and polygraph tests have been administered, though Parks would not say to whom.

"We are interviewing everybody," he added, noting that no one has been identified even as a "person of interest." "Everybody is a suspect right now."


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From what I can see of this case, the family left the 3 year old home alone with a fever. I do not want to seem judgemental of the family but my mother never would have done that. We were never allowed to be home alone for long and we were taught to lock all the doors up tight and never let anyone in. Not that my mother was perfect but I'm just saying. Still, my mother was lucky and married a man who came from money and they were able to pay people to be in the home at that time. She was also a nurse and she could take time off to care for us and she would just stay home. But I can see from the details of this case that this family is struggling and although not poor they are both working and trying to care for several kids in today's world. I want to say that I sympathize with that now that I have already criticized them. It's a hard world to raise kids in today. Which is part of the reason it has become so common for children to go missing. Many of them are left on their own out in the streets most the day or left to walk home from school alone or with other kids because parents either don't have the time or can't afford to pick their kids up the way my mom was able to. But, to be fair, three hours is not a very long time so this was probably ok, most of the time. But this time it was a problem.

The charts for the time this child was left at home shows someone in or around the home who is disruptive and troublesome. If you look at the chart for 6:30 am you can see that the Moon, which co rules the chart, is in the eleventh house with Mars. They are not conjunct but they are both in the same sign, Leo, and disposed of by the Sun, in the first degree of Libra in the first house. The Sun is closely conjoined the first house ruler, Mercury, which also rules the tenth. I do not think these adults were getting along. The eleventh house shows that they were either not married or were talking about separating. They may have had an "open" marriage or one that is non-traditional. There is nothing wrong with this so don't read me as being critical, I have never married so I am not one to talk. But planets in the eleventh house often define troubles in a marriage, where the couples are either living together but apart in the same home or they are talking about divorcing or, at the least, separating. Financial problems may be the only reason they were staying together as the charts show Saturn in the second house. And since Saturn rules the fifth, I'd say that the children were a big financial burden and they were having a hard time feeding and caring for so many.




Now looking at the chart you see that Mercury, the traditional ruler of children, also rules the first and tenth, as I just pointed out, which puts the parents together with the kids. At 6:30 am, they were all together. Since I am not sure what birth order Aliayah fell into (the first, second, third or fourth child), I will use Mercury as her ruler. The fifth house ruler pertains to the oldest child. If I can assume that Aliayah is the youngest, then I would use the eleventh house ruler, the Moon, to describe the child as well and since this is also the chart co ruler, this would not be risky. So I am going to use the Moon and Mercury to track this child through these charts. And starting right off, I am seeing someone in or around the house that is a problem. Now, I am not sure this is her stepfather. It is certainly not her mother. But since Pluto is in Capricorn and is disposed of by Saturn, the fifth house ruler, this person is concerned with the children. There wasn't a sitter with the kids and no one stayed home with the little girl, so who is this person skulking around? Given that Pluto rules the third house as well, I may venture to guess that this person was outside the house and not inside. This person may even have been sitting a car (third house) outside of the home. The third is the twelfth from the fourth so he was probably hiding to remain unseen and may even have been from a vantage point behind the house.

Now, here's the thing. When I first looked at these charts for the first hour after the child was last seen I saw her being abducted almost immediately. Take a look at the next few charts and consider for yourself. The chart for 6:50 am, a scant 20 minutes since the child was last seen, you can see that the seventh house ruler, Neptune, has moved into the fifth. Mercury, as one of the markers for this child, is in the first house closely sinister to the first house cusp. And the fifth house and eleventh houses are between signs and negated. So he is near the child, moving on the child perhaps but the child is still in the home. Mercury in Virgo disposes of itself so this supports the claim that the child was left alone in the home. But looking again, only 9 minutes later, at 6:59 am, you can see that things have changed. Mercury has slipped into the twelfth, which may or may not mean that the child is asleep. Or it may or may not mean that she has been taken from her safe place in the home and is now in a hidden place. Uranus, the fifth house ruler, is in the seventh house and the eleventh house ruler, the Sun, is right at the ascendant, putting Mercury under the Sun's beams. I am of the personal belief after looking at this arrangement that the child was taken at the moment when the Sun crosses the first house cusp into the twelfth. This is the moment she "disappears". This moment occurs, in the chart, at around celestial time 7:20 am. There hasn't been much said about the father but one of my readers claims he has stated that he left that house at 7:00 AM and went to work. I am sure the police must have corroborated that testimony or he would be a suspect, right? So the child was taken shortly after the parents left, even only minutes after her father left the house..




But the factors leading up to the kidnapping are all in place beginning at 6:50 am, so this person was around that house before the father left. Who was it that picked him up? Could that person have seen someone in the neighborhood? I am sure the police have asked. I am going to continue on the assumption that the father did leave the house at the time he said he did and was gone by the time this occurred and I am also going to assume that the person I am seeing skulking around the house is not related to the father and was unknown to him at the time. If we eliminate the father in this, then we have a stranger around that house early that morning. I think it's amazing dumb luck that a stranger chose this morning to seek out this child and it just happened to be a morning when she was sick and that both parents would leave her alone. Which begs the next question. Did they often leave her alone? Was this something this kidnapper could safely bet on? These are all sticky questions for me and I await the answers. In the meantime, I will say that the kidnapper was there at the house that morning, whether or not this person will prove to be known to the father or not. I am sure the person with her father was able to testify that he went to work and that he left that house without the child. With a lot of assumptions but no real facts in this regard, I will press forward and leave the final solution to the police.




At the time of the abduction, the seventh house ruler was Aries with Mars just entering the tenth house. Since Mars is disposed of by the Sun, which has just crossed into the twelfth, it looks like someone dashed into that house through the living room or family room area (tenth house) and snatched the child pretty quickly. This placement almost always guarantees that our abductor was male (both Sun and Mars in masculine signs). The Moon in the eleventh house shows the child to be in an area where the children stay (and play) and with Mercury in the twelfth, I would say she had fallen back asleep. Pluto at the fourth house cusp combined with Jupiter in the eighth are omens for me. All hell is about to break loose. Combined with Mercury under the Sun's beams in the twelfth house, this child is in grave danger. In danger for her life. The death pattern is emerging. The seventh house ruler, Mars, is disposed of by the Sun, which is eclipsing Mercury. There is no doubt that this person is here for the child and that her death is imminent. I am not sure she was taken in a car. She could have been but the node is in the third house, which tells us that this person planned this around the neighborhood. This person had knowledge of the neighborhood and knew how to get around in it and made a plan based on that knowledge. He knew right where to go with the baby and how to get there without being seen. When I run charts for 7:35, Pluto has just moved out of the fourth into the third and I think this is moment they left the house. Pluto is in Capricorn so I am thinking he took her on foot but if he did have a car, then it would have been a dark brown or black car. But the color and quality implications really seem to me that they traveled on the ground, on foot, to somewhere very nearby. I think that since the third house ruler, Jupiter, is in the eighth house, it is possible that he had chosen a place where he could do what he wanted with her, kill her and bury her without traveling around. Jupiter in Taurus and Pluto in Capricorn point to a woody area with lots of open ground, like a small (Taurus) public park (Capricorn). Combine this with the seventh house ruler, Mars, slowly moving through the tenth house, I would say he took her back to his home, which is in the same neighborhood. And his home is near a public park, campground, playground, etc.. which I will explore further in a moment.

Now, since Mars is in Leo, I would dare to suggest they traveled east by north. His home is somewhere east of Aliayah's home and a little north of it as well. So if you travel in this general direction and look around for markers, like the campground, public park, wildlife refuge, etc.. then you are in the general area of this person's home. If there are no established public parks or other areas mentioned, then consider an undeveloped area with lots of brush and trees with small wild animals, most especially feral cats. Moon in Leo describes this area clearly and there may be water there, as well, a small pond, for instance, with turtles and amphibian life. Overall, even with the pond or lake, this area would be overall a dry area with lots of sun exposure. The Moon in Leo, the marker for his home, is in the eleventh house, which describes a home that is outfitted for children, with toys and playthings. This makes me think that he has had other children in his home. He wants his home to be as friendly to kids as it can be. And this aspect, with Neptune in the fifth house, he has hidden children before and has a secret fetish for kids. Uranus in Aries is often a marker for outlaws or people who live outside the mainstream. Uranus in Aries was in the seventh house at the time of abduction and at the time he takes her to his home, it has moved to the sixth house. This man is mentally ill and has physical and emotional issues that make him different.




I want to try to focus on where he took Aliayah and whether or not she is still alive. We know he took her around 7:35 that morning and traveled east with a northerly drift. This is a place near a public park, a playground, a campground and likely someplace that has a government building on the property, which could include any type of building from a ranger station to an overlook to an actual office. This may be a partially undeveloped property or adjacent to undeveloped land. Moon on the tenth house cusp gives us water but not a lot of water because the other markers are in dry signs. So look for a small body of water, something like a pond or a lake or even as small as a retention pond or cesspool. And this area would have small animals that crawl that are also fond of strong sunlight, like turtles (even very large ones), snakes, lizards, salamander, frogs, and other amphibians as well as maybe armadillos. Also, feral cats. Pluto in Capricorn is on the nadir with Pluto disposed of by Saturn in Libra. He could have a two story home made of wood and natural materials that is always being repaired or unfinished. Or he could live an upper floor of an apartment complex that is made of natural materials. Ground near the home or apartment has probably been dug up and never patched over. The property may have a problem with underground animals like moles or groundhogs and the yard is a mess. Trees nearby have been struck down and there may be a lumber operation in the area or the area may be under constant construction. Look for a lumber storage yard nearby or piles on lumber laying about on unfinished properties or undeveloped patches of barren land. And remember this is not far from where the child was taken. He took her there on foot.

His marker, Mars in Leo, describes someone with a personal style that likes attention from others. There will be something unusual about this person and people will remember him or her. He would have a boisterous personality and may be charming. He is loyal and basically honest but can be unbelievably stubborn and impossible to stop once he has made up his mind. If anyone in his family was aware of his proclivities it is possible this was discussed and they have since been shunned. They may have given up after arguing about things they then realize would never change. This man is very resistant to change. He is a creature of habit. For this reason, he is easy to track down. He has probably been in the same place, doing the same thing for many years. His love for kids would be obvious, with a strong desire to mingle with kids and if there is a playground in the area, he would have been there frequently. In fact, he would act like a kid himself, no matter how old he may be. Rough housing and wrestling would be some of his favorite past times and he would readily engage in horseplay with children, whether he knows them or not. So if a man in the nearby area was known for playing with kids in this manner, then he should be looked at closely. Even if he seems unlikely in every other aspect.




And then I see a death pattern emerge completely at 8:45 am. I am pretty sure, considering this chart, that he killed her around that time, give or take. In this chart you see the first house and eighth house ruler, Venus, in the twelfth; the fourth house ruler, Saturn, just now crossing the Ascendant and moving into the twelfth; the twelfth house ruler, Mercury, in the twelfth house and all of these planets under the Sun's beams. Pretty clear if you ask me. If astrology is to be beleived, then this baby is dead. Saturn in Libra, just behind the Ascendant, rules her body. I will not read anymore into this, including how she died, out of respect for her family, who may, in some manner, hear about this post. It is bad enough I am saying the charts have their baby dead. I would wish otherwise, believe me. But now that this is what the charts are saying, I want to see if they will show us where she might be now. This so perhaps someone can go find her. Right away, we note that Saturn is in Libra, an air sign. This usually means the body is in a high place, somewhere "up in the air" which can mean on a shelf, on a roof, in a tree, on a mountainside, in some building high up on a mountain or ridge, etc.. Saturn is her body and Libra shows us the location, along with it's dispositor, Venus. Libra points to mountaintops, upstairs rooms, closets and wardrobes, as I already noted, but it also describes sawmills, outhouses, attics and inner chambers. She could very well be hi8dden in his home. His home, if the charts are to be believed, is a two story home or he lives on the second floor of a building, which was also indicated by earlier markers. The child may be hidden in an upstairs bedroom, closet, wardrobe, inner chambers, ceiling or attic. His home or apartment may be on a hillside or mountainside or part of the building may be up off the ground. If this is a flood zone, stilting is a possibility. Remember that earlier indicators described lumber yards or large areas of trees being taken down. This marker also describes sawmills. So look for someone who may have worked in this industry and consider the lunberyard or sawmill a place where the child could be hidden.




Because all the markers are in air signs, I am reluctant to say she is buried, but she may be. And if she is, which is possible but not predictable, then she is buried in a Venetian type landscape, with flowers, birds, herbs like peppermint or violet or a rose garden. If there is an area like this within a reasonable distance from the abduction site, then look for nesting doves, rabbits, swans in a lake or pond and perhaps, again, feral cats. This might very well be the area where Aliayah is hidden and she may be buried there, although, again, I hesitate to state that she is buried. In fact, I tend to beleive that she is hidden in the home and in an area with womens' things like cosmetics, perfumes, costume jewelry, lingerie and whatnot that her abductor may be keeping or even hoarding. In fact, he may be a cross dresser. He may also have gender identity issues. In classical terms, traditional astrology describes this man as being wiry and muscular. There is a darker complexion with wiry or curly hair that is lighter in color. The eyes stand out, they are rather large and peircing. Blue eyes are common but with fire signs lighter eyes are the rule, either blue, green or hazel. There may be a stern and serious nature but the smile comes quickly none the less; good sense of humor. In nature, he tends to be cooperative with others, wanting to belong. This pereson will perform for others and enjoys admiration and appreciation. Free spirited in nature but also tends to be boastful, bragging to a painful degree. Will argue just for the sake of debate and can be mind bendingly stubborn, unwilling to concede or admit failure. Loves competition and therefor loves sports. There is a deep love for pleasure and for fun and a big price to be paid for extravagance. Look out for your nicer things because he can have sticky fingers; this placement often describes a person who takes what he wants without permission

Karen Johnson Swift

Mother Brings Daughter Home and then Disappears


From: The Huffington Post:

Police trying to solve the disappearance of Karen Johnson Swift have recovered her clothing, the woman's friend reports. Swift, a mother of four, has been missing since her car was found abandoned on a rural Tennessee road on Oct. 30.

"They found her Halloween costume in the car. Some other articles of clothing that belonged to her -- a pair of jeans and a gray zip-up -- were found in some brush not far from her car. They confirmed [the clothing items] belong to her. They took DNA from her mother and compared it to DNA on the clothes," Swift's friend Laura Jane told The Huffington Post.

The Dyer County Sheriff's Office has yet to confirm the find. Calls to the agency are directed to a voicemail for a Sheriff Jeff Boxx. The sheriff has yet to return multiple requests for comment from The Huffington Post.

Swift's vehicle, a white 2004 Nissan Murano, was found with a flat tire on the morning of Oct. 30. The car was found abandoned on the Millsfield Highway, roughly half a mile from her home in Dyersburg, a city about 77 miles northeast of Memphis.

On Friday, another friend of Swift's, Carrie Engelhardt, told The Huffington Post that Swift had picked her daughter up from a Halloween party around 1:30 a.m. that day because her daughter was not feeling well.

"She went to bed with her daughter, and when the girl woke up around 6 a.m., her mother was gone," Engelhardt said.

Authorities have conducted multiple searches in and around the area where the vehicle was recovered. Those searches continued Wednesday.

"Today they are conducting aerial searches with helicopters," Jane said. "They have brought in some topographical experts to study the lay of the land because it is very rural. They are trying to get all the help they can from outside resources because they are not as equipped as a larger area would be."

On Oct. 11, 44-year-old Swift filed for divorce from her husband, David Swift, citing irreconcilable differences. Though they were divorcing, they still lived together.

"Their relationship was pretty volatile," Jane said. "She wanted to leave with the kids and start over. She wouldn't leave her kids behind. That was the only reason she was still in that marriage. She wanted them to have a stable environment until she got all her stuff together."

"It's so bizarre," Jane added. "She filed for divorce and then disappeared. I don't believe that coincidences like that happen, but they could. You never know. Something obviously happened to her."

David Swift has been interviewed by police, and has not been called a suspect or person of interest in his wife's disappearance. He has yet to speak with the media but, according to WMC-TV, he did recently tell a friend on Facebook, "We want her home and love her very much."

Another of Karen Swift's friends, Lori Burks, told The Huffington Post that David Swift has hired an attorney.

"Her husband has [allegedly] quit talking to the authorities. He has got an attorney. This is the most recent information we have received," Burks said.

On Saturday, sheriff's deputies arrested a neighbor of the Swifts', 39-year-old John E. Hogshooter, on an outstanding felony warrant for animal cruelty. Hogshooter is accused of poisoning two dogs, including one that belonged to the Swifts.

"[Hogshooter's] arrest was based solely on the outstanding aggravated animal cruelty warrant and that is a felony," Sheriff Box told the Dyersburg State Gazette. "We basically waited on the lab results to come back from the TBI on the poisoning and they confirmed it."

Because Hogshooter allegedly poisoned Swift's dog and lives in close proximity to her residence, investigators impounded his vehicle and searched his home after she went missing. Authorities did not find any items connecting him to Swift's disappearance and do not consider him a suspect.

Hogshooter was released from jail Monday on a $2,500 bond.

Meanwhile, Karen Swift's friends are anxious for answers and hopeful she will be found soon.

"I understand [the sheriff's office] is trying but it’s frustrating," Jane said. "This is like 'The Twilight Zone' here. We just want her to be found. It's probably not going to be the outcome anyone wants, but just so long as she can be recovered in whatever shape or form so her kids can have answers."

The Swifts' oldest children, Dustin, 18 and Preston, 21, did not immediately reply to a request for comment from The Huffington Post.

Swift is described as a white female, 5'5" tall, 138 lbs., with blonde hair and green eyes. Anyone with information in the case is asked to contact the Dyer County Sheriff's Office at 731-285-2802.

From: ABC NEWS :

Dec. 13, 2011
A missing person investigation became a murder investigation when authorities confirmed that a body discovered near a Tennessee highway was that of Karen Johnson Swift, the mother of four who disappeared on Oct. 30.

"She had been there some time," Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box told ABC News' Western Tennessee affiliate WBBJ-TV. "The body had been concealed by vegetation."

Swift's body was in an area covered in vines and that there were no indications that she was killed in a different location, according to the sheriff. The place where the body was recovered is about three miles from where Swift's abandoned car, a white 2004 Nissan Murano, was found with a flat tire.

Box said items recovered from her car could be key to the investigation, but would not elaborate on what the items were.

Swift, 44, was last seen by her husband at her home in Dyersburg at approximately 1:30 a.m. and her care was only about a mile away from her home. Dyersburg is about 75 miles northeast of Memphis.

Box said the remains were found near a private cemetery by a passerby and that the death has been ruled a homicide.

"There were some apparent injuries to the body," Box told WBBJ. "We're going to wait to let the medical examiner's final report tell us the extent of those injuries."

The sheriff said it could be two weeks before a Memphis coroner releases the final autopsy report. Police are now focusing on finding Swift's killer.

"At this time we haven't named any suspects and you won't see us name suspects until we're sure it's going to be beneficial to the investigation," Box said.

The sheriff said that no one has been ruled out as a suspect yet.

Swift's father Gary Johnson, 67, told ABCNews.com when Swift disappeared that her four children—two boys and two girls—were devastated.

"She had never missed a day since they can remember that she wasn't there to wake them up at 6 a.m.," Johnson said.

Swift's two sons are in college and her daughters are 7 and 9 years old. Johnson said his youngest granddaughter "just cries" and "won't hardly eat."

Swift had been in the process of getting divorced and police say her husband has been cooperative with the investigation.

"No one wanted to see it end this way and all our prayers go out to her family," Box said.

Swift grew up in Arkansas and her close friend from high school Janet Ross told ABC News' Jonesboro affiliate KAIT-TV that she learned of her friend's death when Swift's mother called her Sunday night.

"As soon as I answered, she said, 'It's her,'" Ross said. "Her mother told me last night, she said, 'Okay, we found my daughter. Now I want to know who did this to my baby.'"

Ross said Swift never would have left her children voluntarily.

"I definitely don't think Karen wandered away from her vehicle three miles down the road and stumbled into some weeds and died," Ross told KAIT. "I want to know who it was and I want to prosecute."

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I started this case by running a chart for the time she was last seen. We know, from eyewitness reports, that she picked up her daughter at 1:30 am at a Halloween party. I have recently been told that her daughter was 9 years old. The daughter also claimed that Karen laid down to sleep with her when they got home but when she awoke later Karen was gone. From all accounts, Karen Swift has never been seen again. But they did find her car and then her body, as well, so we know she is dead. What I am going to use the charts for is to discover what she did in the hours between going to bed with her daughter and when her car was found. So I start with the time she was last seen to see if the charts are viable.




Right away, we can see that the chart for 1:30 am is viable. Here, she is picking up her daughter at the party and you can see that Leo rules the first house, which makes the Sun her marker. The Sun is in the third house, showing her in a car, traveling. Notice also that the Sun is disposed of by Pluto, which is in the fifth house. This shows us that her purpose was to go to a party. So here she is, picking up her daughter. The third house ruler is Venus, which traditionally describes a bluish white color, so this is close. Her car was said to be white. Also, Venus is Scorpio, which describes a brownish color but I do not know about the interior or trim but somebody who does know this can make comparisons. At the same time, the Moon is also in the fifth house, disposed of by Jupiter, the fifth house ruler, in the ninth. This was a Halloween party and the ninth house rules holidays. These markers tell me that the chart is working with the known facts and because of this, it is viable. Now, take a look at the seventh house. This is ruled by Aquarius with Uranus in the eighth house. This is an omen. When you see that the Sun is also disposed of by Mars in the twelfth house, there appears to be a hidden agenda in this event. Neptune is in the seventh house. I am starting to wonder if Karen Swift didn't have a secret life. This person she is about to meet, shown by the seventh house, is a criminal. Uranus in Aries shows us outlaws, a person who lives a renegade life, who lives "on the edge". Uranus in the eighth house shows us a criminal, a dangerous person, who can do unexpected, outrageous things. Uranus is also disposed of by Mars in the twelfth. Does this show a secret meeting with Karen Swift? You tell me.

Neptune in the seventh house points to someone who is a secret, a person no one else knows about. But it also points to drugs and alcohol. Did Karen Swift use drugs? Did she, like so many Americans, use Marijuana or other substances? Or did she know someone who did? If Karen did not use drugs and this is a known fact, then this may be a person in her life who has a drug problem that is being kept secret from everyone else and whom Karen is meeting with for any reason, such as to help or to rescue. Could she have gotten a late night call from a relative or friend who needed help? Someone who might have been in jail before? This would explain the criminal markers. But there is no doubt, from this chart, that she will be meeting up with a criminal at some point later on that morning and that this meeting might involve drugs.




Now, we know she disappeared at some time between 2 am and 6 am. She went to bed with her daughter on getting home that morning, so are assuming she was at home at 2 am. But her daughter awoke at 6 am and discovered her gone. So I ran a charts for every 15 minutes after 2 am to see when she left the house. In the chart for 2 am, you can see that the Moon has moved from the fifth to the fourth house, showing their arrival at the home. There is so much activity in the third house from here on that I move my marker to the Moon in order to track Karen. The third house activity may have to do with any of several things. There could have been a lot of phone activity, calls coming in or going out. Or it could relate to the actual home, which may have been a short term rental, a trailer, a mobile home or a seasonal home. Or someone could have been on the computer sending email, reading a book or ebook, writing letters, etc... So because of this activity, which dominates the charts while she is at home, I use the Moon to track her. It enters the third house at 4:05 am. Between 2 am and this hour, the Moon has remained in the fourth house with Pluto. Pluto, by the way, disposes of her marker, Mercury, in the third. This shows her activity up until this hour to be focused in the home. But the Moon enters the third house at 4:05 am and is now disposed of by Jupiter in the eighth house. The seventh house ruler is Neptune and it has moved into the fifth. This shows someone partying, using substances such as drugs or alcohol. Neptune, the marker, is in Aquarius and is disposed of by Uranus in Aries. Uranus is right at the seventh house cusp. As noted before, this placement describes outlaws and people who live on the edge. Her Moon being disposed of by Jupiter in the eighth gives the impression of illegal activity but with both the eighth and fifth houses engaged, it could also be sexual and / or romantic. Notice how her marker, Mercury, is disposed of by Mars in the eleventh. She is apparently either visiting a friend or a lover. Mars opposes Neptune so I am pretty sure this was a secret alliance, one that she told no one about.




In the chart for 4:05 am, which shows her leaving the house, I also see a death pattern developing. Jupiter rules the fourth house from the eighth. Pluto is in the fourth and it disposes of the first house ruler. The twelfth house ruler, Sun in Scorpio, is disposed of by the eighth house ruler, Mars in Leo. Eighth house ruler is square to the eighth house ruler. Pluto angular in the fourth house is disposed of by Saturn rising in the first. This is not good. The charts look like she is going to another party, perhaps to rescue someone or perhaps to join in? It's hard to tell from this so I go to the fixed stars for enlightenment. Right off, I can see that the Moon is sinister to a conjunction with Sinistra, a fixed star that describes lust, sexual attack and rape. I do not know if Karen was raped but the sexual theme is already present in the charts. The dynamic marker in this chart, for me, is the exact conjunction of the north node in Sagittarius to the fixed star, Ras Algethi, which describes a devious plot. The node relates, as well, to plotting and scheming and, with this combination, it feels like Karen was the victim of a ruse. She may have been called away over a problem she felt she could solve only to face her killer. Did someone in her life use drugs? This is key. If not, was there anyone who had been in jail? This is also key. Find this person and you will find the person who drew her into a web where she ended up dead. Neptune is nothing if not deceptive and there may well have been a lie involved here. Here are two more interesting markers: The Moon in Sagittarius is disposed of by Jupiter in Taurus in the eighth house while Jupiter is sinister to a conjunction with the fixed star Schedir. This while rising Saturn in the first house is conjoined to Spica. Schedir describes an escape or a feeling of being set free. Spica describes a rescue, a brightness and positive energy. She went there to help someone, this is what the charts seem to be saying, and was trapped by a ruse. She was purposely led to this place and then she was killed. The death pattern emerges as she is leaving the house and the markers with the node show the scheme.




Now, who was it that led her there and killed her? The markers show that the abductor is defined by Uranus in Aries. This is shown by the seventh house ruler being Uranus at the time she was last seen, then became Neptune, disposed of by Uranus, at the time of leaving her home and then, as time went by, became Aries with Uranus at the seventh cusp. As I've said before, a basic description for this placement is an outlaw, a person with a weapon, a person who lives on the edge and does not play by the rules. Traditional markers give the physical body height and thinness. So this person is tall and thin. There will be color in the skin, perhaps even florid, dark or reddish from the sun. Dark hair with reddish or auburn streaks, such as you might get in sunlight. The typical trait is dark hair with red but this person could also have red or strawberry colored hair. This person would be known for having peculiar traits. This person would be difficult to understand, original and inventive but also eccentric. This person would have a lot of reversals in their life and would be needy for others to help. Their situation would also be tenuous, hence, "living on the edge". No stability or constancy. Not a loyal type, either. There would be a fondness for machinery or electrical devices, especially old stuff. A love for vintage computers, for instance. I cannot say from this whether this is a man or a woman so I have to leave that open.

Other personality markers would be a love for travel. This person would have a hard time staying in one place and would move around a lot. Hyperactive with too much nervous energy. This person is very aggressive and can be hard to control. Does not obey orders very well. This person has a hard time holding a job and probably has a violent temper. Rash and impulsive behavior. This person would be blunt and even radical in speech and would be known as being a trouble maker. Radical speech is noticed by almost everyone so this is a clue to who this person is. This person is likely not married and if he or she has been married, there has been a divorce. If they are the marrying kind, which is unlikely, there will be many short marriages with an equal number of divorces. They simply make horrible marriage mates and most people won't put up with this behavior for long.