Found Deceased OK - Caitlyn Rose Case, 33, Traveling from Louisiana to Colorado, vehicle abandoned in Fort Towson, 5 Aug 2022

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Caitlyn - it's now one year.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

August 6, 2023

Louisiana woman still missing one year later

One year has passed since a Louisiana woman disappeared in Northeast Texas.

theparisnews.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

A report stated her cell phone registered on cell towers in Pattonville and south of Paris shortly after 7 p.m. before registering in Hugo a short time later.

At the time of her disappearance, investigators believed someone else operated her vehicle and attempted to submerge the SUV in the Kiamichi River. It was located on a riverbank with Caitlyn Case’s belongings inside, according to a press release.

“In the course of traveling toward the path of the river embankment, the vehicle became cradled in-between two small trees overhanging a 75-foot cliff,” her mother Peg Melancon Case wrote on www.findcaitlyn.com.

Louisiana woman still missing one year later

One year has passed since a Louisiana woman disappeared in Northeast Texas.

theparisnews.com

 

[Kimpossible31]

I haven't seen anyone mention the wifi ping. Does that mean she connected to wifi, attempted too? If she connected was it password protected? Who's wifi was it?

When they found the phones were they in good condition? Broken? Reset? What kind of phones? Sim cards in it?

I question this because if she had hotspot for wifi, she never wouldn't have connection issues and they'd mention more wifi pings, in my opinion. Why'd she have that random wifi ping? If she didn't know any locals it's safe to assume she found a public wifi, met someone and was given their password or someone else had her phone and it was entered by them. I find it odd it happened to be during the time there was nothing.

Makes me wonder if it was reset (Someone thinking they could reset it and take out the sim and it would factory reset/erase). Which is why I question the make and model, because the next step would be entering wifi or having cell service. They enter their wifi to make sure the phone doesnt have her info, given the have no cell service now, and either get hit with an frp lock or into the phone.

It doesn't make sense that they'd throw both phones in there though unless they were dead set on it being disposed of.

How big of a property was this? If her Dad found the car, was it in plain sight? Why didn't Home owners raise concern? What did the woman who lives there do that night she saw the cars? Why didn't she follow up? What's with the 911 calls after 10 that night? Where was the car at during the 911 calls? Why didn't the home owner think it was shady 2 cars came in and 1 left?

At first I voted towards home owners but I imagine they'd have gotten it in if they lived there and not leave it chilling or at least dispose of the phones or something? Unless they were unable to and assumed they were safe to figure it out.

Also if car was pushed in, where's the prints?

I think something happened in that time frame with the wifi ping..Maybe dude who spoke to her got scared and wanted a reason for his prints to be on the car.. Just a thought.

*Been here awhile, but never posted I don't think. So if I screwed up, don't come for me* Lol

This is a great post! I too am confused! So the property owners see 2 cars come into their gated property, and only 1 leaves.. it sounds like they attempted to call 911 about it, but…? And THEN they what.. just don’t ever go check to see what’s around after that? Considering it took a week for the car to be found, by her dad. What’s up with these property owners?

 

[vaporlass]

Makes you wonder! There is a cell tower right as you get on 109 that it could have pinged from before crossing into Oklahoma.

If someone was trying to avoid being detected and dump the car in a secluded area where nobody would find it (at least for awhile), why would they have her cellphone inside the car where it could be tracked?

Maybe that’s why LE said “cellphones” - maybe she had two with her and the person who is responsible did not know there was another phone in the vehicle when it was being disposed of in the Kiamichi River?
Paris is the area that Melissa McVey went missing in June 2011. Her vehicle was found by the Red River abandoned, she had luggage and others things left in vehicle untouched and vehicle was locked IIRC. She had been at Choctaw Casino, left with a guy from Paris Texas. (Same MO?)
Not trying to bash her character but maybe she was looking for drugs in Paris? I live near MP now but have relatives in Paris. It just feels familiar to Melissa’s disappearance and her body has never been found. No one has ever been arrested.

 

[Rush4087]

I’m confused about the 911 call that was “not dispatched”, but maybe I’ve missed something in the thread.

-Who made the call?
-Was it from one of Caitlyn’s phones?
-Was it from a family member looking for Caitlyn?
-Was it from somebody at the house in OK who saw the tail lights?
-why was it not dispatched?
-Is it true that “no location” was given (was there even a voice on the line?)?

If LE don’t believe Caitlyn was in the vehicle as it headed north into OK, and if the 911 call in question was received at 10:53 p.m, and if both of Caitlyn’s phones were later found in the vehicle, it couldn’t have been a call from Caitlyn, could it? What am I missing? Tia

Jmo

 

[Rush4087]

Re: phone pings, plate readers, distances, and times of travel (a long post):

Question: does anybody know, before the communication stopped was Caitlyn traveling up Hwy 271 (from direction of Talco), or up Hwy 37 (from the direction of Mt. Vernon) - or was she already lost somewhere west of Hwy 37 near the farms?

From everything I have read, communication actually stoped while her vehicle was on Hwy 271. If so,

The first unexplained gap in the timeline might be from 5:16 pm (ping on 271, headed northwest towards Paris) and 6:11 p.m. (eye witness sighting in a driveway southeast of Cunningham, near CR 17300/17360).

Fifty five minutes to travel the approx 11 miles from Pattonville (271) down Farm Road 196. Yiu’d have to add 6-10 miles to that if the vehicle had just left Bogata and still had to travel up to Pattonville on 271 before heading south on Farm Road 196).

The distance is 16 miles if coming from the other direction (south from (of) Bogata on Hwy 37, then west on Farm Road 196).

LE has not stated the source, but I think there may have been another ping or cctv or plate reader identification made on 271 just north of Bogata (but still south of Pattonville) not long after the communication stoped with her father, as I have not read anywhere that the 5:16 p.m. Ping was north of Bogata.

But maybe the 5:16 ping was north of Bogata. I’ve just read differing accounts: one suggests communication with her father stopped “At approximately 5 pm … according to Wi-Fi/gmail, Caitlyn was located 5 miles southwest of Bogata, TX”, another suggests communication with her father stopped “as she was going through Bogata”, and then there is the 5:16 p.m ping (“on 271 headed northwest towards Paris”).

Back to the 6:10 p.m. driveway sighting (near 17300/17360 “). I have yet to find a house on an aerial map near that intersection, and have counted only about a dozen houses on 17300 itself. That whole area looks pretty rough.

I can’t imagine anybody getting lost down there (after traveling on 37 or 271) - as again, it seems the only way to get there is by coming south from 271 in Pattonville, or coming west from Hwy 37 (south of Bogata) - both on Farm Road 196. Either way, I think you would know that you were not in the right place long before you got to the solar farm.

If traveling northwest up 271 from south of Bogata, it seems a stretch to think one could mistake Hwy 37 (in Bogata) - or Farm Road 196 in Pattonville - for the 286 loop, but I’ve never been to either intersection.

I think the second odd gap in the time line is between the 6:10 p.m eye witness sighting in the driveway at 17300/17360 (southeast of Cunningham) and when “OSBI mapping” has her vehicle “leaving Cunningham” at 6:59 p.m. (forty eight minutes)

I guess it’s possible, but to me the only logical explanation for this would be if the vehicle was parked somewhere in or near the farm for 30-40 minutes. You could probably circle 17300 twice in that amount of time (it’s basically a loop around the solar farm). Also, wouldn’t the man in the driveway have given Caitlyn directions back to Hwy 271?

Idk, maybe the OSBI’s “mapping” time of 6:59 p.m for “leaving Cunningham”, and the “just after 7 pm” cell phones pings (at two or more cell towers located near Pattonville and “south of Paris”) are one and the same. Otherwise, at around 7 pm we have the vehicle both leaving Cunningham and being in Pattonville at the same time.

Then the third odd gap, from “just after 7” (near Pattonville, south of Paris) until 9 (at southeast 286 loop). Two hours to travel just 7 miles.

From the August 19, 2022 OSBI fb update:

“Shortly after 7:00 pm on August 5, Case’s cellphones registered on cell towers at Pattonville, TX, and a tower located south of Paris.”

“At approximately 9:00 p.m. on August 5, 2022 Case’s vehicle travelled around the south loop of Hwy 286 in Paris to FM 79 where it proceeded in a northwesterly direction away from Paris.”
Also, note cellphones and cell towers. Plural. I read that 2 phones were found inside Caitlyn’s SUV

Were the 7 p.m. pings (at two or more towers) the ONLY cell tower pings prior to the vehicle being spotted by the plate reader at southeast loop 286 at approx 9 p.m.?

Were both phones perhaps turned off at approx. 7:00 p.m.? Maybe the vehicle was parked in or near Pattonville for a an hour and a half. Surely LE has analyzed data on both phones (as well as checked for prints and dna).

How far north of Pattonville was the “cell tower south of Paris”? Would that tower have registered a ping from one or both cell phones even if the vehicle was still in or near Pattonville at the time?

If the two phones registered separately on two or more different cell towers (speculation), does this imply that the two phones were perhaps using different carriers? I don’t know much about cell phone towers - does each carrier typically have their own network towers?

Was anyone who knew Caitlyn surprised to learn that she had two phones?

Hope to post more (questions, mostly..) about the timeline after vehicle left the west 286 loop

All jmo

 

[TwinkieDefense]

Wow @Rush4087. Your post is quite fascinating and well researched. Helps us to visualize the area and almost see the possible routes she may have driven.

 

[Googlebutts]

Come on now. If I saw two cars on my property, through a gate and speeding, hen only one car left, I wouldn’t just say ‘oh well, maybe I’ll check it out next month’. I’d be out there in that minute figuring out what was going on. The father didn’t find the car h til a week or two later? Then the son canceled the search and said no more? I’m honestly wondering if this doesn’t have something to do with small amounts own drug dealing. Not her dealing, but somehow she got mixed up in it. This is just waaaay too fishy. Why wouldn’t OSBI get a search warrant and search the property anyways. Is the address published in MSM anywhere? This is all IMO of course

 

[cenazoic]

Asked Meghan to add Caitlyn to Charley Project, no news otherwise.

The father didn’t find the car h til a week or two later? Then the son canceled the search and said no more?

To clarify, Caitlyn’s father found her car a week later. The owners of the property on which her car was found disallowed the search.

 

[fridaybaker]

Place holding…

 

[ralyla]

Caitlyn's father wrote a song for her:

 

[cenazoic]

Not normally Nancy Grace fan, but she’s covering Caitlyn’s case here:

Louisiana’s Caitlyn Rose DISAPPEARS, Nav System Goes Dead With Dad on Phone - Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

33-year-old Caitlyn Rose Case is a Louisiana native who recently moved to Colorado to live with her brother. Caitlyn made arrangements to buy a 2006 black GMC Envoy, so she takes a flight to Houma Louisiana, buys the vehicle, She's in constant contact with her parents throughout her travels...

omny.fm

Interviews her parents, among others.

 

[DeDee]

From Nancy Grace Crime Stories - notes but not a complete list of high points as those can be found on the family's website linked below

Her vehicle was wiped down so only two of her fingerprints remained.

The pants Caitlyn had been wearing were turned inside out and placed across the console.

After her father found his daughter's vehicle on private gated property, the owner refused a search the next day even tho they had a team of dogs ready to go.

Her vehicle was being pushed into the Kiamichi River when it became stuck between trees suspended over a 75' cliff at 11:46pm.

She was at a Dollar Gen in Bogata, TX around 5:30pm. Father believes she did not drive her vehicle to Paris.

#FindCaitlyn – IT TAKES A VILLAGE…LET’S BRING CAITLYN ROSE CASE HOME Timeline

They are running out of money to help search for their daughter, Caitlyn.
If you have any information at all about CAITLYN…please email/call/text us: (985) 236-2558

 

[vereb]

After her father found his daughter's vehicle on private gated property, the owner refused a search the next day even tho they had a team of dogs ready to go.

If I understood correctly, her father was also saying that the same owner(s) own property in the area where they believe she ran into trouble. So there might be a connection there, perhaps an acquaintance or a (former) employee of the owner, maybe a loose or distant family connection (I'd assume if you abduct or kill someone, you're not going to dump their vehicle on your own property, but of course stranger things have happened).

 

[cenazoic]

Small points that stuck out to me:

- Caitlyn left Houma on 4 August. She goes missing on the 5th. Nancy specifically asks about any stops she may have made along the way, hotels, etc, and they don’t mention any overnight stays. There was speculation(?) early on that she’d spent the night in Shreveport.

- her dad mentions talking to her around 1pm on the 5th from Gilmer, TX. “A couple hours” later, she’s in Mt.Pleasant, and by 5 she’s near Bogata, where she’s last heard from. Bogata is only an hour from Gilmer. What was happening/what was she doing for those 4 hours?

- what to make of the early reports from OSBI which said she had been in Lewisville and Gainesville TX? Those cities are far west (north/NW of Dallas) of the Hwy 271 route she was on as early as 1pm on the 5th.

- her father believes whatever happened, happened somewhere between Bogata and Jennings (solar fields) TX.

- names George Harrington as property-owner where her car was found. Will Harrington, son, and wife live on the property.

- WH’s story changed over time about number of vehicles which entered the property- from 2, to 1, to none, according to Gordon Case (father).

- car was found in stuck in trees on an embankment from the only spot on the property where it could have been launched into the river.

 

[cenazoic]

If I understood correctly, her father was also saying that the same owner(s) own property in the area where they believe she ran into trouble.

Yes, from the transcript, her father says:

…it seems really odd that in between Cummingham and Jennings is property owned by the same people where her vehicle was found.

From what her father says, they’ve gotten little to no help from Paris PD, Lamar county Sheriff, or OSBI. OSBI suggested to Peggy Case that maybe Caitlyn got out of the vehicle and was ‘torn apart and eaten’ by wild hogs.

 

[Tony1902]

‘wild hogs’ who turn her pants inside out and place them and tennis shoes back in the truck? Since when do wild hogs have opposable thumbs?

 

[ralyla]

Wow, glad this is getting more coverage. We need to bring Caitlyn home.

I reviewed the timeline I made last December, I believe everything in the Nancy Grace interview is still correct, please let me know if not: Caitlyn Rose Case - Google My Maps

 

[imstilla.grandma]

#FindCaitlyn – IT TAKES A VILLAGE…LET’S BRING CAITLYN ROSE CASE HOME

findcaitlyn.com