AL AL - Yvonne Wood Covington, adult, Fort Payne, 26 Dec 2020

[PommyMommy]

DEC 28, 2020
Centre woman missing, last seen in Fort Payne - al.com

Authorities are currently looking for a Cherokee County woman who reportedly went missing after a Christmas visit.

• Yvonne Wood Covington lives in Centre but was in Fort Payne visiting family for Christmas.
• She was last seen Saturday (Dec 26).
• Her car was later discovered by the National Park Service on the Cherokee County side of a bridge on Alabama 35.

Anyone with information is asked to call Fort Payne police at (256) 845-1414.

DEC 27, 2020
Fort Payne Police Department | Facebook

• The car she was driving was located on Saturday, Dec 26.
• UPDATE 1/9/21: There have been several searches, and drones and helicopters have been used.
• Acquaintances and and people that might have been around her at the time of her disappearance have been interviewed.

 

[mlhenn]

Cadaver dogs search for missing woman at Little River Canyon | WHNT.com

Feb 1 2021
Search and rescue teams spent hours Monday at Little River Canyon National Preserve looking for a woman who’s been missing for just over a month.

The weather was incredibly cold with blistering winds. There was even snow falling off and on in Fort Payne.

While volunteers said those are not ideal conditions for them, it is actually beneficial to the dogs themselves.


The dogs are taught to find a particular odor, that odor travels on the wind, so having wind is good for us. It also travels in the water, so we like movement of air and movement of water because that helps carry scent,” said North Alabama Search Dogs Association President Darcy Harbough.

Harbough has been working with human remains dogs for 24 years

She and her dog Beckett joined about nine other dogs, some fromSouthEastern Search Dogs to search for Yvonne Covington.

 

[PommyMommy]

Cadaver dogs search for missing woman at Little River Canyon | WHNT.com

Feb 1 2021
Search and rescue teams spent hours Monday at Little River Canyon National Preserve looking for a woman who’s been missing for just over a month.

The weather was incredibly cold with blistering winds. There was even snow falling off and on in Fort Payne.

While volunteers said those are not ideal conditions for them, it is actually beneficial to the dogs themselves.


The dogs are taught to find a particular odor, that odor travels on the wind, so having wind is good for us. It also travels in the water, so we like movement of air and movement of water because that helps carry scent,” said North Alabama Search Dogs Association President Darcy Harbough.

Harbough has been working with human remains dogs for 24 years

She and her dog Beckett joined about nine other dogs, some fromSouthEastern Search Dogs to search for Yvonne Covington.

Noting details of search:

“Probably three quarters of a mile, byt three quarters of a mile. They’ve got an area where they’re wanting us to stick to,” added Collins.

“It’s 36 degrees or so this morning. It’s dangerous for searchers if they get close to water, if something happened and they went in the water, it would be detrimental, same for dogs,” explained Grant.

 

[Sunrisenow]

Sister of missing woman from Fort Payne speaks out

 

[PommyMommy]

Sister of missing woman from Fort Payne speaks out

Thank you for the link. Noting that there is an audio interview of Yvonne's sister in the article.

From the article:

• Yvonne was last seen December 26th by her family in Fort Payne.
• “She was living with her son in Fort Payne for a few days and she asked him to use his car to go buy cigarettes and no one has seen her since,” said PS.
• Fort Payne PD found Covington’s car the night she disappeared at Little River Canyon Park.
• Covington’s cellphone was also inside the car.
• Members of the North Alabama Search Dogs Association began another sweep of the surrounding woods on Monday.
• PS said her goal is to get closure for her family and Covington’s children, while relying on prayers to keep them strong.

* I think I must have been looking at the Jan 2021 calendar when I created the thread instead of Dec where the 26th falls on a Saturday. I will request correction. Sorry about that!

 

[PommyMommy]

FEB 5, 2021
Search continues for missing woman | | times-journal.com (times-journal.com)
Local agencies are still making efforts to locate Yvonne Covington.

[...]

According to Fort Payne Police Chief David Davis, five searches have been conducted since her disappearance, and on Monday, dogs were brought by the North Alabama Search Dog Association and the SouthEastern Search Dogs K-9 Search & Rescue to continue the search.

[...]

 

[PommyMommy]

FEB 15, 2021
Missing Alabama woman's family continues search that began Dec. 26 (gadsdentimes.com)
For more than six weeks now, a Centre woman has been missing from the Fort Payne area, and despite searches on the ground and from the air, no trace of her has been found.

[...]

Her husband, QC, said it's been a difficult time since then for the family.

He said there have been a number of searches and Fort Payne police have done all they can.

"My hat's off to them," QC said. As a former law enforcement officer, he said he understands and appreciates the work they and others have put in, trying to find her by air and by ground searches and searches of the water at the falls.

[...]

The Covingtons live in Centre and Yvonne Covington worked at The Children's Place in Fort Payne.

QC said there had been concerns in that his wife might harm herself, and she was hospitalized for five days at Gadsden Regional Medical Center, prior to going missing. That has heightened his concerns for her.

When she came home, Quazzi Covington said she wanted to go stay with her son at his home in Fort Payne for a while. That was where she was last seen by family members.

[...]

Authorities and family members have contacted a Texas search group about joining in the effort to find her.

[...]

 

[YaYa_521]

FPPD replied to a comment.
Fort Payne Police Department
14 Apr 2021
...no updates, she's still missing

 

[mlhenn]

Yvonne Wood Covington


Initial Report
From WAFF48: The Fort Payne Police Department is searching for a woman that went missing on Christmas Day. Officers said Yvonne Wood Covington of Centre was visiting family in Fort Payne for the holiday when she went missing. According to officers, Covington was last seen on Saturday; the car she was driving was located by the National Park service near the Cherokee county side of the bridge of Highway 35.


Several search parties, drone flights and helicopters - no sign of Yvonne

Update 1
There have been several search parties, drone flights, and also helicopters used but so far we have not located anything. We have also talked to many acquaintances and people that might have been around her at the time of her disappearance. At this time she still listed and entered as missing.

The search continues for Yvonne Covington (02/01/21)


Update 2
The search continues for a Cherokee County woman who went missing during Christmas According to a statement posted on the Ft Payne Police Department Facebook page, Yvonne Wood Covington of Centre had been in the Ft Payne area visiting with family members over the holidays, and was last seen on Saturday, December 26th. The vehicle that she had been driving was found later that same night, by the National Park Service on the Cherokee County side of the Highway 35 Bridge. Search & Rescue teams spent several hours on Monday (February 1st, 2021), at Little River Canyon National Preserve searching nearby woods and along the river banks using cadaver dogs in an effort to locate Ms. Covington. Reportedly, she hasn’t contacted loved ones since the date of her disappearance. Ft Payne Police say at this point they’re not sure if Covington left of her own free will, and is not actually in the area at all or if something happened to her and she has died in the woods or water at Little River Canyon.

Anyone with any information on Ms. Covington’s location, should contact Ft Payne Police at (256) 845-1414. That investigation is being headed up by the Ft Payne PD with assistance being provided by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.

Little River Falls Overlook Trail

Significant Location

Little River Falls Overlook Trail, Fort Payne, AL, USA

 

[lindamichelle1]

Missing NPF - Mystery at Little River Canyon; Yvonne Wood Covington remains missing


Mystery at Little River Canyon; Yvonne Wood Covington remains missing

It’s been more than 8 months, and despite aerial and ground searches by various law enforcement entities, North Alabama Search Dog Association, the Southeastern Search Dogs K-9 Search & Rescue, and Fischer Rescue Squad – a non-profit entity out of Fort Payne, AL. – no trace of Yvonne Wood Covington has been uncovered.