Search continues for Mississippi woman last seen boating on Tallahatchie River on New Year’s Day
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"According to Sheriff Jimmy Edwards with the Union County Sheriff’s Office, Jessica’s boyfriend, Jerry Wayne Baggett, told law enforcement officials that he and Jessica had launched a boat into the river near the County Road 46 bridge in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day.
They were on the water for a couple of hours when Jessica reportedly got out of the boat and made her way toward the north river bank in the direction of State Highway 30, Baggett told the sheriff’s office."
Jessica Stacks missing ten days; Sheriff says “not ready to quit looking for her”
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"It was Friday, Jan.1, early New Year’s Day morning, when Stacks is said to have been in a boat on the Tallahatchie River with Jerry Wayne Baggett. However, the Union County Sheriff’s Department was not informed until 10:15 p.m. Friday night that Stacks was missing."
"Baggett told law enforcement officers he and Stacks put a boat without a motor into the river near the County Road 46 bridge early Friday.
Baggett said they had floated only a short distance down the river when Stacks said she wanted to get out of the boat and walk out of the river bottom toward State Highway 30."
So, the story changes. Now, the newly-revised account tells us, it seems that they had floated only a short distance -- not for a couple of hours, as Baggett had originally reported. Well, this gives him even more time to float leisurely down the river without her, before eventually reporting her as missing at 10:15 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2021.
Which is it? He should know. He had a phone with him in the boat.