On Jan. 23, 2024, Vessigault made an appointment with the Department of Motor Vehicles, but she missed it.
“What we were told was that she got back to the apartment and rearranged a few things, left some things behind, got in her car and left,” Sorenson said.
Among the things Vessigault left behind were her phone and license as she drove off in her Toyota Camry. Her friends say there was every indication she planned to come back.
The Elk Grove Police Department posted a photo of her car, which was spotted on a surveillance camera driving through town.
Nobody has seen or heard from Vessigault since.
“We’ve had people scouring every single parking lot they could possibly think of, especially the mental health hospitals (and) Walmart shopping centers because she was known to sleep in her car quite a bit when she was on the road,” Worden said.
“She slept in her car many nights,” Graves said. “It was odd. We always thought she was in danger [then], and she gets to a home with an apartment, and all of a sudden, that’s the time she goes missing.”
Friends worried there may have been a trigger that caused Vessigault to take a little time away by herself. The day she disappeared was around the fourth anniversary of the tragic death of her friend’s son, Nathan, who died in a plane crash.
Julie Vessigault was known at airshows across the country, where people asked for her photo and autograph.
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