A recent article about Stepha's disappearance:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5388473
Parents of missing BK woman travel to Miami
(Miami - WABC, June 12, 2007) - The parents of a young woman from Brooklyn, missing for the past two weeks, are on a desperate search to find their daughter.
Twenty two-year-old Stepha Henry was last seen leaving a nightclub over Memorial Day weekend. Her parents say they are worried, but trying to remain optimistic.
Eyewitness News reporter Kemberly Richardson traveled to Miami to speak with Henry's parents on their painful odyssey.
Sylvia Henry spent Monday in Miami, reaching out to missing persons organizations nationwide, trying to get the word out. She believes her daughter Stepha is in some kind of trouble.
The 22-year-old left Brooklyn and headed to Miami for what was supposed to be a relaxing weekend. That was 14 days ago.
"My family, we just booked everything for Miami, we just pick up our suitcases and came here," Sylvia said.
Sylvia and Steve Henry couldn't stand it anymore, waiting in Brooklyn as investigators in Miami search for their missing daughter. So the couple headed to south Florida with a message for Stepha.
"Stepha, I love you very much, and you know I need you home," Sylvia said. "And I would like you to please, if you could even talk, wherever you are, tell someone to call your mother or call someone and we'll come get you."
Stepha was last seen two weeks ago at her aunt's home in Miami Gardens. The 22-year-old graduate of John Jay College was heading to a club in Fort Lauderdale and left her aunt's home at about 1:00 a.m. May 29. She was seen getting into a black car with a male friend.
"She was last seen outside there in this vehicle," Miami-Dade police Detective Toy Rutland said. "Again, it's a four-door Acura Integra."
They did make it to the club, seen in footage captured from video camera taken inside the club. Detectives also say she checked her cell phone voice mail three hours later, at 4:13 a.m. That was the last activity on her cell.
Now, it just rings to voice mail.
"Every time the phone rings, I'm thinking, every time the door opens, I'm thinking it's someone coming to say they found her and brought her home," Sylvia said.
Relatives in Brooklyn held a vigil for Stepha last week. She was in Miami for an annual Memorial Day getaway, also celebrating her sister's 16th birthday. Stepha was a woman who one day dreamed of becoming an attorney, a woman family members say would never simply disappear. Police reportedly spoke with that male friend of Stepha's. They say he told them that they separated at the club. Police are also still looking for that black car.
