'It is like she vanished': Family of missing Sullivan woman ups reward in hope of finding mother
April 14 2021
After 730 days, Tonya Miller, 39, would just simply like to know what happened to her mother.
Her mother, Betty Alexander, 69, was last seen in her downtown Sullivan home on April 10, 2019, when an employee from an area pharmacy made a delivery. Four days later, when Miller returned from her child’s track meet, she stopped by her mother’s apartment around 4:30 p.m., and Alexander, who was reportedly in the beginning stages of dementia, was gone.
In the apartment, Alexander’s Meals on Wheels delivery was sitting on the table with a glass of milk, which had warmed from being out of the refrigerator. Her apartment keys, nondriver’s license, debit card and cash were all left in her purse that was placed in the closet, where it was normally stored. Alexander’s glasses, which she always wore, were resting on the arm of her recliner. The medication she needed for her chronic back pain was left in the house.
Her family discovered that she took her medicine the night of the delivery around 7 p.m. but did not take her medicine the following day. Alexander’s disappearance has been narrowed down to after 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, 2019, and before the morning of Thursday, April 11, 2019.
This weekend, to commemorate the two-year anniversary of her mother’s disappearance, Miller announced that the family increased the monetary reward to $20,000.