OCT 15, 2020
Missing Vivian woman's family spends her birthday in search of answers
The family of a Vivian woman missing for nearly nine months is still searching for answers -- and hope -- on what would be her 41st birthday.
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Investigators say McCathran's husband returned home to find her missing.
"She was cooking dinner," MM says. "There's food on the stove where she was cutting up okra and cooking okra. And then when her husband got home she was gone. Her purse was there. Her driver's license, everything. And she was missing."
Her vehicle was disabled. It's believed she either walked away or was picked up. Though MM says a search of the five acre property near Vivian's airport, where the couple lived, did turn up some of her belongings.
"They found some jewelry and they found a hat and a scarf in the woods. But that's all that was found," MM says.
She says she talked to her daughter on the phone the day before she disappeared. MM says McCathran was upset about not being able to come to Shreveport to see her daughter on her sixth birthday.
"She cried some on the phone," MM says. "But then she settled down and got excited about coming for the birthday party (the following Saturday.) And she was going to come do a camp with [
minor's name redacted] that next morning. She was very excited. And then the next day she's gone."
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