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Flashback: | MOLLY DATTILO
Missing Indiana woman's family hasn't lost hope
WHAT WE KNEW
After six months with no solid leads, the Madison, Ind., family of missing 23-year-old Molly Dattilo was still hoping last January for a miracle, or an explanation. Dattilo, a scholarship runner at Eastern Kentucky University and singer with her sights set on American Idol, disappeared July 6, 2004, in Indianapolis, where she was living for the summer.
WHAT'S NEW
"Who says we've given up?" Molly's sister, Kendra Skidmore, said last week, even though there have been no new leads in the case. "Somebody stopped her in her tracks. She was trying to achieve her goals and someone stopped her in her tracks.
Who was this?"
Last March, an anonymous donor offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to Dattilo's discovery and the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance. The family hopes someone will speak up before the reward offer expires March 31.
"It's very difficult to have hope that she's still alive somewhere," Skidmore said. "This is someone who has always been in touch with her mother."
The family was hit hard again Dec. 14 with the death of Dattilo's father, Fred.
"He was just about ready to go to Indianapolis himself and go searching," Skidmore said.
"Though he had been in ill health for some time, I think that, in part, he died of grief," said his son, Ben Dattilo. "At his funeral, we hung a picture of Dad holding Molly, his baby girl, when she was a little toddler."