Thank you for sharing your insight as a local. Has this been covered in your local mainstream media? If so, have they given any indication as to what kind of licensed professional she called? That statement just strikes me as very odd. One might say she called a counselor, attorney, plumber etc, but to say she "called a licensed professional" makes no sense to me.
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Hi flute!
Media has been typical for the area---not at all what you will see in some cases. Commerce is not
that far from DFW (hour and 15 maybe?) but it's also not close enough to draw a lot of media attention. If you are aware of the Michael Chambers case, he disappeared from the same county but I believe his media attention has been a bit more extensive because of his link to DFD. Plus, where he disappeared from is a tiny bit closer to the Metroplex.
Having said that....Sabrina has not received any media coverage that I am personally aware of except posts on our local scanner pages and an article in the Herald Banner (Greenville edition). Pretty normal for the area I would say, given the information that has been released. Where I live, we are a "bigger" city, within driving distance to Commerce to attend classes but closer to DFW. Our local paper has not run Sabrina's story. I hope that helps answer your question?!
FYI: Commerce is really quite small and known for being a small college town. The college there used to be known as East Texas State University but now is called Texas A&M Commerce which makes it more well known since it's a part of the Texas A&M system. So, buildings are being updated yearly and it's becoming more of a "typical" college town than it used to be. I'm still in grad school there so I get school text alerts when things happen in the area and I would say it's a relatively safe area. But, it's still a small enough college where it's possible to run into people you know quite easily on campus. VERY different from a college like UT or SMU. And, I'm putting this out there to show that it really is small enough to recognize someone you had a class with once when you see their picture on a missing person flyer.
No, nothing has been said about what kind of licensed professional she called. When news first broke about her disappearance, San Angelo was not mentioned. A friend posted her photo with a flyer and I recognized her from one of my classes so I started looking into it. A day later, information was updated to let people know that she had been seen in San Angelo and spoken to a "friend" and abruptly hung up. Someone posted that the person at the tire shop said she seemed confused and/or disoriented. Then, Commerce PD released information on their FB page and this was the first time we heard more about that incident. I have not heard or seen what kind of a professional it was. But, that is NOT from a lack of trying to find out, I promise you. I've scoured Facebook and friends of friends of friends to no avail.
Like I said, for some reason....if people are talking, they are talking privately. I wish we had more information to better understand how to help or where to focus our attention. However, I noticed that when people asked questions on public FB posts, it was not accepted well. Not that the people were necessarily rude to questions but a little defensive of all they had done for Sabrina up to that point. As if the questions were suggesting they weren't doing the right thing(s). Which I feel is understandable. Her friends and loved ones seem to be doing all they can. But, I think they don't really realize that they need to take advantage of people asking questions and being focused on her. The lack of information is concerning because many want to help but aren't sure where to focus their efforts. I think this has kept it from being picked up from DFW media honestly because not many are discussing the case as much as I'd like.
I did see that mainstream media in San Angelo has been running Sabrina's story.