IL IL - Michelle Bianco, 44, Springfield, 5 April 2008

[hoppyfrog]

http://illinoishomepage.net/content/fulltext/?cid=78521

6 April 09

A missing Riverton woman's family says more needs to be done to find her.

44-year-old Michelle Bianco has been missing for a year.

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Bianco was last seen at South Grand and Wheeler in April of last year. A witness claims a man pushed her into a car and no one's seen her since.

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The family is offering at $10,000 reward for any information leading to Bianco. If you have a tip call Crimestoppers at 217-788-8427.

more at link; video at link

 

[summer_breeze]

The Charley Project
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/bianco_michelle.html

North American Missing Persons Network
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/bianco_michelle.html

Project Jason
http://www.projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=2719.0

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Not a week has gone by in the past five years that Butch Miles hasn’t thought about his missing sister, Michelle Bianco.

The last time anybody heard from the Springfield woman was about 7:30 p.m. on April 5, 2008. Bianco called her boyfriend and told him she was going to call her son for a ride home from her cousin’s house near Wheeler and South Grand avenues.

More than five years later, nobody has heard from Bianco, who was 43 years old when she went missing.

“It gets harder as each year goes by, but I still have hope,” Miles, 64, says. “You just keep wondering what could have happened.”

Bianco’s disappearance is one of a number of cases in Sangamon County that have puzzled investigators for years.

http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x18...-missing-persons-reason-to-hope#axzz2YYmd4uZC

 

[CKN]

Any updates on this?

 

[CKN]

Is there a possibility she accepted a ride from someone?

 

[tlcya]

human remains found in Rochester IL, very close to Riverton. Coroner states most likely white female. No estimated TOD as yet.

http://wics.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_18259.shtml

Shelly (as she is known to her friends) disappeared from Springfield IL. Rochester is a small bedroom community just outside Springfield.

She went missing from the area of Wheeler Ave and South Grand Ave East. The body was found 16 minutes away in Rochester, 8.5 miles from there.

I really think this might be her.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/N+W...0aa5bbeda928e1!2m2!1d-89.5328595!2d39.7507467

 

[tlcya]

http://www.springfieldleaks.com/?p=3043



The remains were located at 309 Park St. in Rochester Illinois.

http://www.sj-r.com/article/20140721/NEWS/140729936

http://www.foxillinois.com/news/fea...ries/human-remains-found-rochester-1715.shtml

 

[tlcya]

Michelle “Shelly” Bianco, also known as Michelle Bradley or Michelle Miles, was last seen getting into a car driven by a man with short, dark hair.


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Bianco, 43 years old when she disappeared, is white with shoulder-length blond hair and blue eyes. She is 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs 112 pounds and might have been wearing a blue jean jacket, blue sweater, blue jeans, black shoes and carrying a black purse.​

Read more: http://www.sj-r.com/article/20111107/News/311079900#ixzz38FHG66v6

 

[tlcya]

Rochester is still reeling from the discovery of human remains in a shed behind a family home. Now, new updates to the case have community members even more concerned. ABC NewsChannel 20 learned Wednesday investigators believe the woman was a victim of homicide.

Evidence suggests the body was moved to the neighborhood. Cause of death is not yet being released, but we do know the Illinois State Police crime lab is processing a DNA test to identify the body.

SNIP

The victim is believed to be a white female between 20 and 50 years old

http://www.wics.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_18285.shtml

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.sj-r.com/article/20140724/NEWS/140729673

The skeletal remains found in Rochester last week are not those of a 43-year-old former Springfield woman who has been missing for the past six years, the Sangamon County coroner’s office said Thursday...

Coroner Cinda Edwards said Thursday that her office was able to rule out Bianco through an examination of dental records.

 

[tlcya]

And so Shelly's family continues to wait and wonder. Where is Shelly Bianco?

 

[KateB]

Status Missing
First name Michelle
Middle name Renee
Last name Bianco
Nickname/Alias Shelley
Date last seen April 05, 2008 00:00
Date entered 07/29/2011
Age last seen 42 to 42 years old
Age now 50 years old
Race White
Ethnicity
Sex Female
Height (inches) 67.0
Weight (pounds) 110.0
Dental Status: Dental information / charting is currently not available
DNA Status: Sample is currently not available
Fingerprint Information Status: Fingerprint information is currently not available
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/11825/

Shelly has been missing for 7 years today.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Mysterious 2008 disappearance of Michelle 'Shelly' Bianco is featured cold case

http://www.sj-r.com/news/20160714/mysterious-2008-disappearance-of-michelle-shelly-bianco-is-featured-cold-case

Eight years after she disappeared without a trace, the whereabouts of 43-year-old Michelle “Shelly” Bianco of Springfield remain a mystery. Sangamon County sheriff’s detectives say they have few leads in the case.

Capt. Jerry Felts of the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office describes it as a suspicious missing-person case. He added that since that night, family members have not heard from Bianco and all of her banking activity has stopped.

“There are no signs of life that we can find,” Felts said.

To help generate new leads, Crime Stoppers of Sangamon and Menard Counties is featuring the Bianco disappearance in its cold case homicide program, which offers an enhanced reward of $5,000 for information that enables investigators to solve the case.

 

[hec60504]

I cannot find any evidence that this woman may still be alive - anyone have anything new?

 

[folieadeuxnola]

Search for Michelle Bianco reaches 10-year mark

http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180404/search-for-michelle-bianco-reaches-10-year-mark

Ten years ago Thursday, Springfield resident Michelle “Shelly” Bianco disappeared.

Since then, deputies from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office have spent countless hours looking for her, but so far, they haven’t gotten that one big break to solve the case.

[/B]Bianco, who would be 53 years old now, was last seen about 11 p.m. April 5, 2008, near South Grand and Wheeler avenues. She and her cousin were walking in the area, and a man driving a black Pontiac offered Bianco a ride home. She had been trying to find a ride for hours, and the cousin told deputies that the man in the Pontiac called her by name.

Bianco willingly got into the car and was never heard from again.

 

[Lynetta]

Updating The Charley Project link. The one upthread doesn't work anymore.

Michelle Renee Bianco – The Charley Project

 

[sammyed]

Michelle/Shelly Bianco remains missing 13 years today.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Michelle Renee Bianco – The Charley Project

 

[dotr]

Sheriff: Remains discovered while investigating Springfield cold case

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Skeletal human remains were discovered at a house in Springfield, according to Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell.

www.wandtv.com

• Apr 15, 2024 rbbm
• 'SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Skeletal human remains were discovered at a house in Springfield, according to Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell.
  
  The SCSO was called to a house in the 2100 block of South Grand Avenue East on Sunday afternoon after the homeowner found property that may have belonged to Michelle Bianco, who has been missing since 2008.'

'There has been no identification of the remains, but the coroner will investigate on Tuesday.'

Michelle Bianco
via Sangamon County

 

[imstilla.grandma]

In a 2018 SJ-R story, then-Sgt. Anthony Mayfield, who was in the sheriff’s detective bureau in 2008, remembered how he thought the bureau was "going to jump on this and find her by the end of the shift. We knew there was more to it after that first 24 to 48 hours.”

The family eventually offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to her being found, to no avail

Here's everything we know about the Michelle Bianco missing persons case in Springfield

Personal items linked to Michelle Bianco on Monday near the home where she was last seen alive in 2008. Here's everything to know about her case.

www.sj-r.com