DiDi in Kansas
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Sarah has been gone 9 years on Saturday. Please help bring her home!!
Since Sarah would have reached majority now, I will post this.
Just after school let out in 2001, I saw Sarah in Greenville, Texas. Some of the postings here list Greenville as a "Dallas area" place. In 2001, although many Greenvillites had aspirations of the town being something to Dallas, I'd wager most in DFW wouldn't have been able to tell you where it was if they even knew it existed. The truth was closer to "a tiny town with pretensions about 45 miles from the edge of the Dallas metroplex". At that time, if I stopped into a burger joint drive thru for my lunch, I fully expected either my parents or spouse, if not both, to have heard from at least 3 people they saw me there by the time I got off work at 5pm. That's how small the town was and probably still is.
To get back to Sarah, I saw her walking out of the local Wal-Mart, where practically everyone shopped because by that time they'd put all the local places out of business that might have carried household goods. Due to frequent volunteering at the middle school, I knew Sarah by sight, and I pointed her out to my daughter. My daughter also knew Sarah and confirmed it was her. Sarah saw us gesturing in her direction and spoke to those with her. It seemed to me at the time they moved over a row to be further from us, and got into an older pickup truck in the row they moved to. It may be they just moved over because their vehicle was there, though. While I can't give the exact date, it was early June 2001. Sarah's hair was a little different than in the picture in the flyer, a little shorter, but not newly cut at all. It was also slightly darker, but did not appear to have been dyed. Rather, I'd have guessed it had previously been lightened and that had now grown out. The overall appearance was of the changes you might expect in actual appearance verses a school picture taken the previous fall, which is what I thought the picture I'd seen of Sarah was.
I started reaching for my cell phone to call someone and report I'd seen Sarah, but my daughter stopped me. She stated a certain member of Sarah's family knew exactly where she was, but I don't recall whom at this time, despite searching my memory. It would have had to have been someone close, such as her grandparents or aunt. My daughter said there was a bad home situation about to be made worse by Sarah's condition and the people that needed to knew Sarah was taken care of. She said Sarah was living out in the county in or near Quinlan, she thought. I made the decision not to call anyone at that moment because I just couldn't conceive of the concept of someone missing going waltzing around the local Wal-mart, where she was obviously going to be seen by at least several people who recognized her and maybe more what with the fliers from PTA going to all students and parents at the local school.
Sarah was clearly not under any duress. During the time we were viewing her, she even waved at another girl and her mother in the parking lot. The people she was with did not particularly look like her relatives, but they did look like a father and son. I would have said the son looked to be perhaps 15. I read on a different website an 18-year-old guy was interviewed by Greenville police and confessed to having a sexual relationship with Sarah prior to her going missing. It was reported as 'consentual, but Sarah was not of the age to give legal consent'. Neither of the people I saw her with looked to be 18 years of age. I'd have guessed the younger no more than 15 and the elder to be late 30s to early 40s. They had darker hair than Sarah, and the vehicle was a dirty blue pickup. At no time did I have an opportunity to view the vehicle's license plate. The pickup wasn't extended cab. They sat three across to travel in it. Other than that, I do not recall details.
In 2010, I came across a website post listing Sarah as still missing and pointing to a way of contacting the family. Sarah's mother replied when I sent in what information I had, and told me this would have been approximately the timeframe when Sarah was video taped in the Exxon station beside the Wal-mart in Greenville. She stated she had a good idea who the people Sarah was with probably were. I do not personally know Sarah's family other than I would recognize her parents if I saw them on the street. I have no idea if what my daughter told me may have simply been gossip, although my daughter stated at the time and still recalls it as information provided by one of Sarah's close girlfriends at the school. I asked my daughter before posting this. She thinks Sarah has had contact over the years with her close friends back in Greenville online, but has not spoken with her personally. She says Sarah has a profile on several of the social networking sites with a different name, she thinks.
The eleventh anniversary of the disappearance of 14-year-old Sarah Elizabeth Kinslow is a painful reminder for her mother.