AZ AZ - Kay Read, 62, Tucson, Feb 2008

[Anita Richman]

Not a day goes by that I don't think about Ms. Read. I check the website her family set up for her daily for updates. Her story has really touched me and I really do hope the police are closer to finding out what has happened to her so her family can at least know what happened and not keep worrying.

THANK YOU, Mrs. Norwood!

I agree. When I am in the car, I am constantly scanning, hoping (and not hoping) that I might see *something* that helps bring Ms. Read home.

 

[SuziQ]

Jeesh! LE is saying they don't think the cases are related, but I don't know. This is the 3rd woman in our area, over 60 yrs old, missing in the last 6 months!

And two that are disabled. I've only read that Gayle had handicap plates on her car, but I assume that Kay would have too. IMO, to a tweeker, that screams easy target. Three missing over the age of 60 women, at least two handicapped, in a city the size of Tucson seems hinky.

I think of Kay alot too.

 

[SuziQ]

Omg, this is so sad!
http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=8031166

Authorities are investigating whether a body found in the missing Silver Concorde belonging to Gayle Patrick could be her.
The body was discovered inside the Silver Concorde when authorities discovered the vehicle in the 2600 block of Alvernon Way Monday just after 7:30 p.m., according to authorities.
Authorities are still waiting on other key information before positively identifying the victim.
KOLD News 13 will keep you updated as the information becomes available

ETA: I'm thinking she was hidden or in the trunk if the residents of the complex didn't see her body.

 

[SuziQ]

Three missing women cases in Tucson are generating a lot of interest. 66 year old Gayle Patrick is the latest. She was last seen Tuesday night. 62 year old Kay Read hasn't been seen since Valentine's Day and 62 year old Nora Charles disappeared in mid-November. (more at link)

http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=8030933

 

[SuziQ]

More on Nora Charles and her picture is on the top right of the page.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/crime/230121

(snip)
Investigators haven't ruled out foul play in Charles' disappearance either, Richards said. She was reported missing by family members.
Her abandoned car, a cream-colored 1980 Chevrolet Caprice was found by police in the Santa Catalina Mountains.
A Pima County Sheriff's Department search team looked for Charles in the mountains and found some of her belongings but not her, Richards said.

 

[petra]

http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=8030933&nav=menu216_3

 

[Anita Richman]

Omg, this is so sad!
http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=8031166

Authorities are investigating whether a body found in the missing Silver Concorde belonging to Gayle Patrick could be her.
The body was discovered inside the Silver Concorde when authorities discovered the vehicle in the 2600 block of Alvernon Way Monday just after 7:30 p.m., according to authorities.
Authorities are still waiting on other key information before positively identifying the victim.
KOLD News 13 will keep you updated as the information becomes available

ETA: I'm thinking she was hidden or in the trunk if the residents of the complex didn't see her body.

On the news they said her body was wrapped, and she was in the back seat.

In Kay Read's case, her car was burned out (to destroy evidence, I assume) and her body has not been found. Also, someone tried to use her atm card right away. There has been no such activity with either Nora Charles, nor Gayle Patrick's case.

 

[SuziQ]

On the news they said her body was wrapped, and she was in the back seat.

In Kay Read's case, her car was burned out (to destroy evidence, I assume) and her body has not been found. Also, someone tried to use her atm card right away. There has been no such activity with either Nora Charles, nor Gayle Patrick's case.

While it's unusual, IMO, to have three women aprox the same age go missing in a town the size of Tucson, the MO's are much different. I have to wonder though, if Kay maybe had no money on her or in her home motivating the perp to risk using her card.

No official ID of Gayles body yet that I see.

 

[Anita Richman]

While it's unusual, IMO, to have three women aprox the same age go missing in a town the size of Tucson, the MO's are much different. I have to wonder though, if Kay maybe had no money on her or in her home motivating the perp to risk using her card.

No official ID of Gayles body yet that I see.

In Kay's case, there was a ten dollar bill laying on the floor, inside the door. It makes me think that the perp wanted more (perhaps she offered that up as all the cash he had) and he yanked/drug/carried her to her van to go to the bank. I think he was enraged that he was unable to any money from her acct and he beat her to death in her car.

I am curious...he only put a dollar's worth of gasoline in her car. That leads me to believe that she was nearly on empty to begin with. How far could he have gone to dump or bury her body and make it back to within a couple miles of her house? (I think he drove back that way because he lives in walking distance of her home.) Then he set the car on fire to destroy evidence. I hope they found his hair or fingerprints in her home.

I wonder why they haven't id'd Gayle's body?

 

[SuziQ]

Does a tape show him actually putting gas into her car? Maybe the perp only needed enough gas to fill up a two liter coke bottle to incinerate her car. I'm thinking Kay probably is near. I don't think tweekers are very motivated to elaborately dispose of a body. I can't even imagine them taking the time to dig a grave. Yet she hasn't been found yet. Unless there was lot's of evidence on her, KWIM?

I have to say something about Nora, she doesn't strike me as the go alone and hang out in the Catalina mountains type.

I would have thought Gayles body would have been ID'd quickly.

 

[Anita Richman]

Does a tape show him actually putting gas into her car? Maybe the perp only needed enough gas to fill up a two liter coke bottle to incinerate her car. I'm thinking Kay probably is near. I don't think tweekers are very motivated to elaborately dispose of a body. I can't even imagine them taking the time to dig a grave. Yet she hasn't been found yet. Unless there was lot's of evidence on her, KWIM?

I have to say something about Nora, she doesn't strike me as the go alone and hang out in the Catalina mountains type.

I would have thought Gayles body would have been ID'd quickly.

I am not sure why I thought he put a dollar's worth of gas in her car, nor why I though there was a 10 dollar bill left on the floor of her home. (Possibly heard it on one of the newscasts. Or maybe I dreamt it?! J/K)

I agree about Nora. The first time I heard of her missing was on a flier posted at the community center in Summerhaven. It made it seem like she had actually been spotted on Mt. Lemmon (when it was just her vehicle which had been found there.) I thought it was odd for a number of reasons, most notably that she was older and would definitely stick out if she was wandering around the village or the ski area up there.

SuzieQ, I agree with all that you've written, especially about elderly ladies with handicapped license plates being "easy targets" for tweekers. This is so heartbreaking and frustrating! I feel so bad for all of the families involved.

 

[SuziQ]

Good video at the below link about disabled women being sitting ducks for crime. There is a mention that the ME is still running tests to see if the body found in her car is Gayle's. That seems odd to me. Dentals should show something. Unless she had dentures and they are missing? Sheesh, my imagination is going with this case.

http://www.kgun9.com/NewsArticle/tabid/1112/xmid/19965/Default.aspx

 

[Anita Richman]

Good video at the below link about disabled women being sitting ducks for crime. There is a mention that the ME is still running tests to see if the body found in her car is Gayle's. That seems odd to me. Dentals should show something. Unless she had dentures and they are missing? Sheesh, my imagination is going with this case.

http://www.kgun9.com/NewsArticle/tabid/1112/xmid/19965/Default.aspx

Mine, too. When I heard she hasn't been id'd yet, the first I thought was that she was beaten so severely she was unrecognizable and her teeth were gone. I wonder if she was so badly decomposed that it's causing this delay? This whole thing is really odd!

 

[SuziQ]

Mine, too. When I heard she hasn't been id'd yet, the first I thought was that she was beaten so severely she was unrecognizable and her teeth were gone. I wonder if she was so badly decomposed that it's causing this delay? This whole thing is really odd!

And still no ID. I read somewhere this morning, that the autopsy wasn't being done till today. But I got the impression it had already been done and the ME was waiting for test results. JC, her poor family must be going nuts.

 

[SuziQ]

I also thought about the possibility that the body is actually the perps and they died from a drug od while sleeping in the car. But then I realized that Gayle's dentals would at least show it wasn't her, right? So puzzling.

 

[SuziQ]

http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=8042750

Authorities say a body found in a car Monday is that of Gayle Patrick.
Patrick who was 66 years old was last seen alive at her church on Old Spanish Trail and Irvington.

 

[SuziQ]

Here are links to Gayle's thread at WS and an article that states that Gayle was shot.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62008&highlight=gayle+patrick

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/230547

 

[Anita Richman]

Bump for Ms. Read.

 

[jodierenee]

Kay's family and loved ones need YOUR assistance in finding her. Kay was abducted from her home on Marigold Circle in Tucson Arizona sometime between 10:30 pm February 14th 2008 and early Friday morning February 15th. Her van, a turquoise 1996 Dodge Caravan, was found Friday morning at the intersection of Kolb and Golf Links on fire.

Police are looking for information on a "Person of Interest" last seen in the Kolb and Golf Links area on Friday February 15th. If you know, have seen or see this person PLEASE contact the police by calling 911 or 88CRIME. You may also email any information to [email protected]

Website:
http://www.findkayread.com/
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[jodierenee]

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/byauthor/228592

The family of a missing Tucson woman is holding a candle-light prayer gathering at an East Side church Friday night, hopeful she might still be found alive.

Kay Frances Read, 62, has been missing since Feb. 14, and police suspect foul play.

Her family, 88-CRIME and Tucson Medical Center recently offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.

On Thursday, Read's family members again pleaded with the public to come forward with information that might help track her down.
"We still have hope that somehow the individual that took her may have kept her alive," said her brother Wes Read.

But he said keeping up hope is difficult. Wes Read said he has scoured washes and alleys near where Kay Read lived, and more recently searched under freeway overpasses after police got a tip her body might be there.
Kay Read went missing from her home in the 7300 block of East Marigold Circle near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Though Read cannot walk without crutches, they were left at the house along with her glasses.
Read's van was found less than two miles away from her home, and it had been set ablaze.

Police later obtained grainy surveillance video and records showing a man buying gasoline for Read's van at the Conoco station south of the intersection of Golf Links and Kolb roads.
There is also evidence that the man, who is being sought by police as a person of interest in the case, tried unsuccessfully to use her credit card to get money from an ATM at the Wells Fargo bank north of the intersection.


Photos of the person of interest are at www.findkayread.com.

Anyone with information about Read's disappearance is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME, the anonymous tip line of the Pima County Attorney's Office.