“I’m still hopeful that we’ll find out where he is and what happened,” said Holley, who spoke with the Herald a few days before the 3-year mark of her brother’s disappearance. “I’m working on getting the word out that I hope will help the detective on the case. Over the past three years, I’ve just kept pushing for information and tried to keep his photo and name out there.”
Havekost, who did not drive, was known to walk around Killeen and Heights in the weeks prior to his disappearance.
“I think people must have seen him walking up and down Veteran’s Memorial Boulevard,” Holley said. “The H-E-B in Heights (located at 601 Indian Trail) is one of the last places people saw him.”
After Holley’s father passed away in 2017, she moved her older brother from Indiana to Texas so he could be closer to her. Her brother has no other remaining close relatives, she said. When Havekost was laid off from his job during the pandemic, she stepped in to help. She purchased a room at the hotel, where he comfortably lived for months prior to his disappearance, according to Holley when she spoke with the Herald in 2021.
“It was weird because I’d go every Monday to pay for the next week, and he’d been there long enough that he knew the owners, I knew the owners,” she said, previously. “I went there on Sept. 7, that Monday, to pay, and he didn’t come to the door. I thought, ‘Oh, maybe he can’t hear me, he’s in the shower.’”
Holley said she paid for the week and left the hotel; but as days went by, she had a feeling something was wrong.
Most people choose a photograph of themselves (who else?) as their social media profile image. But Harker Heights resident Sarah Holley’s Facebook profile pic depicts her big brother, shown smiling
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