Found Deceased AR - Belva Day, 95, last seen paying her electric bill, Mountain Home, 7 Feb 2025

[mlhenn]

https://www.kark.com/news/state-news/family-of-95-year-old-missing-mountain-home-woman-react-to-authorities-finding-her-car/

Now family members are waiting for a positive identification of the body found in the car.

Belva Day’s grandson Chris Ades said the search for his missing grandmother has been a mystery from the beginning.

“She doesn’t leave Mountain Home. She’s got her routine and her life, and there’s no diverting from that,” Ades said, “None of us got to say goodbye. Not knowing why she was doing what she was doing.”

Ades said he’ll never feel closure with his grandmother’s disappearance, but he has a community to thank for the answers the family now has.

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KARK 4 News reached out to Little Rock Air Force Base to ask how she would’ve gotten on the base, and they referred us to the Jacksonville Police Department, who have not yet said how she got there.

 

[realanastasia]

I wonder if she was let in because she had military/veteran ID and the person who let her in just didn't make the connection that it was her(or just doesn't pay attention to the news to know that she was missing)? Or if she was found more along the border fence somewhere? Cause driving around it on google maps, I don't see how she could have really been inside the base on accident. There are a couple of creeks along the road that goes around the base, though I wouldn't call them ravines. Depending on what the foliage looks like at the moment, she probably could have crashed into one of those and not been spotted.

I wonder if she might’ve been the victim of a carjacking and she and her car just happened to be left in (or just outside of) the base. We don’t know whether Ms. Day was in the driver’s seat when the vehicle was discovered, or if she was in a different seat or section of the vehicle, correct?

 

[Bounceycat]

KARK 4 News reached out to Little Rock Air Force Base to ask how she would’ve gotten on the base, and they referred us to the Jacksonville Police Department, who have not yet said how she got there.

Since she was found in her car, I'm going to go out on a limb and say she drove there. JMVHO, of course.

 

[realanastasia]

Since she was found in her car, I'm going to go out on a limb and say she drove there. JMVHO, of course.

Sure, that seems just as likely as her having been found elsewhere in the car (namely, in the trunk). But IMO, given that this destination was not part of Belva’s typical patterns of travel (per her family members), and given that—with all respect to the victim—a petite elderly woman traveling alone in a car might seem to be an ideal/easy target for a criminal (and possibly even moreso if she had been spotted paying her electric bill in cash [I can’t really think of any other reason a person would opt to pay a utility bill in person, as opposed to sending payment through the mail or paying online/by phone]), I wouldn’t totally discount the possibility that she might not have been the one driving.

 

[dalsglen]

Such sad news. It's unbelievable that there wasn't further cctv/traffic cams of her car.

 

[MollyHarps]

I’m just glad she’s been found.

I just wish she stopped and asked for help along the way if she was lost I know most people would stop to help a 95 year old.

Thoughts to her family

 

[iQuill]

Godspeed Belva, there is a special spot in heaven for you. Sending Angels to comfort your loved ones.
RIP

 

[GraceG]

I’m just glad she’s been found.

I just wish she stopped and asked for help along the way if she was lost I know most people would stop to help a 95 year old.

Thoughts to her family

Yes, they would - my Dad, who was in his 90's and NEVER drove anywhere but the store a block away, took it upon himself one day to pick up a hitchhiker (a harmless college student) and drive 4 hours to Seattle, then got lost after dropping the young man off. Someone helped him get a hold of me and we got him home. I took his keys away and arranged for a licensed home health aide that could also drive him on errands or just out for a drive which he loved.

 

[#JUSTICE4WILDER]

There was a specific search around the Statesville area of Arkansas. How far away from Statesville was the car located?

 

[STLBlues]

Did you mean Batesville, AR? If so, that was the last known camera sighting of BD. From Batesville to the AFB, the shortest distance is 80 miles / 1H 21M.

 

[STLBlues]

Interesting, the longest travel route from Batesville to the AFB 1H 45M has this note in Google maps. In my previous job (13 years) I travelled via car all over the country and I've never seen that warning before. Maybe she ended up on restricted/private roads and that's why the trail went cold after Batesville.

 

[#JUSTICE4WILDER]

Yes I was don't know why I typed Statesville sorry. So she must have drove right to where she was found the day she went missing. Hurts to think about her fear and confusion. Rest peacefully Belva

 

[STLBlues]

Yes I was don't know why I typed Statesville sorry. So she must have drove right to where she was found the day she went missing. Hurts to think about her fear and confusion. Rest peacefully Belva

No worries, I asked because I thought I may have missed something.

 

[dalsglen]

Southside was the last confirmed footage of her car wasn't it?

 

[STLBlues]

Southside was the last confirmed footage of her car wasn't it?

You are correct, I somehow missed that with my last map. Here's the corrected version.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

https://www.kark.com/news/state-news/police-identify-body-of-missing-mountain-home-woman-belva-day/

Authorities said the body of Belva Day was positively identified on Wednesday after her body was found in her car on the Little Rock Air Force Base on March 5.

 

[mlhenn]

Arkansas family seeking answers after missing woman found on Little Rock Air Force Base

After 95-year-old Belva Day was missing for weeks and then found hours from her home, her family in Arkansas is still seeking answers in regards to what happened.

www.thv11.com

 

[Bounceycat]

Arkansas family seeking answers after missing woman found on Little Rock Air Force Base

After 95-year-old Belva Day was missing for weeks and then found hours from her home, her family in Arkansas is still seeking answers in regards to what happened.

www.thv11.com

I feel for her family, but I don't think there's been any hint of anything nefarious that's been released so far. I think she somehow got confused and turned around. I wish she'd had a cell phone.

 

[iamshadow21]

I feel for her family, but I don't think there's been any hint of anything nefarious that's been released so far. I think she somehow got confused and turned around. I wish she'd had a cell phone.

It may not have made a difference. We see this kind of thing happen to adults of all ages. Something goes a bit wrong in their brains, and they get very, very lost. Sometimes they're found, and sometimes, they never are. Often, they have access to a phone, but it doesn't help.

MOO