Hubert and Bertha Propst looked at each other, looked at the floor and finally at their hands as they searched for the words to describe what their life has been like since their daughter, Amanda Jones, vanished nearly two years ago.
"It's kind of like a plague has come over us," said Hubert Propst, 60, as he raised his head.
It has afflicted their minds and bodies. Invaded their faith in people. Eroded their family relationships.
But the Propsts haven't given in to hopelessness.
That's why they, along with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, are trying a new way to prompt anyone who has information about their daughter to come forward. They have created a page, "Finding Amanda Jones," on the popular website
www.myspace.com hoping someone may post the clues police need to bring Jones home.
On Aug. 14, 2005, Jones, who was 26 and nine months pregnant, told her mother she was going to the Hillsboro Civic Center to meet Bryan Lee Westfall, the man she believed was the father of her unborn son. Westfall, a former college instructor, has denied being the father and told police he had left Jones where the two met, at the horse show grounds of the civic center.
Police found Jones' unlocked car, with her purse inside, at the civic center. No one has reported seeing Jones since, and no one has been charged in her disappearance
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