IL IL - Wendy Gessing, 50, car found in Joliet, Crest Hill, 12 Jun 2021

[YaYa_521]

City of Crest Hill shared a post:
23 Jul 2021
(TOS prohibits me from sharing the photo attached to the post)
Please join friends and family of Wendy Gessing this Sunday, July 25, 2021, at 12:30 pm at St. Joe's Park (700 Theodore St.) for a prayer vigil.

 

[Filly]

An hour off for the prayer vigil. However saying one now.

Lord may they find Wendy soon.

 

[YaYa_521]

There's only enough information here to make me wonder why LE thinks Wendy is in the South Bend area.

Woman missing from Illinois believed to be in South Bend area
Jul 23, 2021
SBM
The Crest Hill Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing Illinois woman believed to be in the South Bend area.
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Approx 2 hrs to South Bend from Joliet.
Google Maps

 

[YaYa_521]

South Bend Police Department
23 Jul 2021
MISSING PERSON: The Crest Hill Police Department in Illinois is asking for your help locating Wendy Gessing. She went missing on June 12 and they believe she is in the South Bend area.
If you have any information, please call Investigator Sweeney at 815-741-5115.

 

[samsmom]

Missing Woman's Boyfriend: 'We Don't Believe She's Around Here'

 

[mlhenn]

Missing Woman's Boyfriend: 'We Don't Believe She's Around Here'

During his first interview with Joliet Patch, the owner of Crest Hill's Pizzas By Marchelloni wants to spread the word that he also established a reward in hopes of finding his missing girlfriend, Wendy Gessing.


During this week's interview on his front porch, Scott Harris told Patch he set up his own reward back in June, offering an undisclosed amount of money. Harris said the other reward, offering $2,000 cash, was put up "by her family."

"There's two of them," Gessing said of the missing person rewards. "I had mine before they had theirs."

He said that "some cop friends of his" advised him not to disclose the reward amount, that way, people won't speculate whether the reward seems too low.

Harris said he has "no idea" what happened to her or where she may be.

Harris said it's his belief that his girlfriend drove to the Motel 6 on Joliet's McDonough Street.

Harris said he has no idea why his Honda CRV ended up along the dead-end stretch of a Joliet street in the 400 block of Buell Avenue.

Harris told Joliet Patch he's certain that his girlfriend is not living on the streets in the Joliet area.

"We don't believe she's around here, in the (Joliet) area," Harris said.

 

[Acorunadepor]

Missing Woman's Boyfriend: 'We Don't Believe She's Around Here'

During his first interview with Joliet Patch, the owner of Crest Hill's Pizzas By Marchelloni wants to spread the word that he also established a reward in hopes of finding his missing girlfriend, Wendy Gessing.


During this week's interview on his front porch, Scott Harris told Patch he set up his own reward back in June, offering an undisclosed amount of money. Harris said the other reward, offering $2,000 cash, was put up "by her family."

"There's two of them," Gessing said of the missing person rewards. "I had mine before they had theirs."

He said that "some cop friends of his" advised him not to disclose the reward amount, that way, people won't speculate whether the reward seems too low.

Harris said he has "no idea" what happened to her or where she may be.

Harris said it's his belief that his girlfriend drove to the Motel 6 on Joliet's McDonough Street.

Harris said he has no idea why his Honda CRV ended up along the dead-end stretch of a Joliet street in the 400 block of Buell Avenue.

Harris told Joliet Patch he's certain that his girlfriend is not living on the streets in the Joliet area.

"We don't believe she's around here, in the (Joliet) area," Harris said.

What would make him belief she drove to the Motel? From the community there are a lot of comments about that certain motel and the crowd it attracts. But I have yet to see any statements or evidence that she returned to "old" habits. Where are you Wendy? People just don't vanish into thin air...

 

[mlhenn]

FBI Now Involved In Wendy Gessing Disappearance: Crest Hill

Just bringing this forward (from a July 1 article)

Besides the last confirmed sighting of Gessing on June 12, which was a Saturday, there have been three noteworthy developments in the case that Crest Hill police have disclosed:

1. Multiple people had told police they thought they saw Gessing inside the Joliet Motel 6 near McDonough Street and Larkin Avenue on June 16.

2. One of Gessing's vehicles, a gray Honda CRV, was found in Joliet in the 400 block of Buell Avenue the next day, June 17.

3. Gessing's cell phone was recovered a few days later in the village of Romeoville in the area of Taylor Road.

 

[mlhenn]

Missing Woman's Boyfriend: 'We Don't Believe She's Around Here'

Genuinely asking >>I’m curious why her boyfriend felt it was important to “spread the word” on the following information (during his 1st interview concerning his missing girlfriend):

During his first interview with Joliet Patch, the owner of Crest Hill's Pizzas By Marchelloni wants to spread the word that he also established a reward in hopes of finding his missing girlfriend, Wendy Gessing.

During this week's interview on his front porch, Scott Harris told Patch he set up his own reward back in June, offering an undisclosed amount of money. Harris said the other reward, offering $2,000 cash, was put up "by her family."

"There's two of them," Gessing said of the missing person rewards. "I had mine before they had theirs."

He said that "some cop friends of his" advised him not to disclose the reward amount, that way, people won't speculate whether the reward seems too low.

 

[mlhenn]

What would make him belief she drove to the Motel?

Missing Woman's Boyfriend: 'We Don't Believe She's Around Here'

The following seems to support WHY he WOULD believe she drove to the hotel, IMO:

According to Harris, he learned from his niece that Gessing said she was leaving the pizza place around 6:30 p.m. to give someone a ride.

"Someone needed a lift, an acquaintance," Harris said.

Harris said it's his belief that his girlfriend drove to the Motel 6 on Joliet's McDonough Street. He said several witnesses saw the couple's Honda CRV in the Motel 6 parking lot that weekend.

But then, in the same interview he makes statements that seem to support WHY he DOES NOT believe she drove to the hotel, IMO:

On the other hand, Harris said the supposed sightings of Gessing on the Joliet Motel 6's outside video surveillance cameras do not appear to be legitimate. Harris said he told Crest Hill police several weeks ago that he did not believe the woman seen on the Motel 6 video cameras was his missing girlfriend.

Harris said the woman on the Motel 6 video cameras looked to be around 20 years old.

Gessing turned 50 years old this year.

IMO, that doesn’t make sense; statements within this part of the interview seem to contradict each other...again IMO.

 

[Acorunadepor]

@mlhenn thank you for that info. Giving someone a ride could of course mean she was never around or in the Motel. I mean it is stated that she gave someone a ride, not that she accompanied that person to the Motel.


The injected Motel thread along with her phone being "found" by an addiction program gives me a too familiar pattern emerging, IMO.

 

[bykerladi]

I hope above all hope that Gessing knows what his girlfriend looks like. Although I think his thoughts add more mystery to this case. If it WASNT her in the video, who was it? And when did this mystery woman take possession of Wendy's car? I think that would lead us to where Wendy may be. Did anyone ever make a timeline of where she was affirmatively seen and when?

 

[Unsolved]

2. One of Gessing's vehicles, a gray Honda CRV, was found in Joliet in the 400 block of Buell Avenue the next day, June 17.

<snipped>

Here's an article about finding her car on Buell Avenue:

Buell Ave. Remains Big Part Of Wendy Gessing Mystery

 

[bykerladi]

So I finally looked up all these places on a map The motel and her car are about 2 miles apart, and almost on the same road. The cell phone however is all the way out far away. I'm thinking someone threw it there to get rid of it.

 

[lindamichelle1]

Wendy Gessing's Boyfriend Waits For Answers From Police

Wendy Gessing's Boyfriend Waits For Answers From Police

 

[mlhenn]

Wendy Gessing's Boyfriend Waits For Answers From Police

Wendy Gessing's Boyfriend Waits For Answers From Police

To Note:
Patch asked whether Crest Hill police have provided him with any noteworthy updates on their progress toward locating Gessing.

"Not that I've heard," Harris remarked. "I think they are at a standstill. But, I know they are still talking to people.

"I understand that they need to keep things quiet, I guess. I don't know what they all know. I just wish the DNA (test results) would get here."

Harris told Joliet Patch it's his understanding the police are still awaiting the laboratory results from DNA tests conducted on one of their vehicles.

 

[mlhenn]

Wendy Gessing's Boyfriend Waits For Answers From Police

To Note:
•Harris recalled he drove the Honda CRV to work that Saturday morning, June 12, and it had less than a quarter tank of gas.
•Harris said he worked that Saturday morning and afternoon. He was not at the restaurant at the time of her disappearance or at any point later that night.
•On the night of his girlfriend's disappearance, Harris said he went to the Lockport Moose Club.
•Gessing came into work around 4 p.m. and was set to work until at least 10 p.m., if not later.
•He believes his girlfriend left work sometime around 6:30 p.m. and that she never returned to work.
•He learned from his niece that Gessing said she was leaving the pizza place around 6:30 p.m. to give someone (an acquaintance) a ride.
•Few days later Gessing's phone turned up in Romeoville along Taylor Road. Harris said it may have been found in a parking lot, but he is not certain.
•The gray Honda CRV parked across the street on Buell Avenue for at least three or four days
•Gessing's boyfriend had provided police with his phone, and the download of the Ring doorbell from the couple's house.
•A few weeks ago, Chief Clark told Patch that investigators had obtained a number of search warrants in regard to Gessing's disappearance. •LE did not want to disclose the nature of the search warrants or what type of evidence was being sought.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

On Tuesday evening, Crest Hill Police Chief Ed Clark spoke with Joliet Patch's editor to let people know that Gessing's disappearance remains a "very active investigation."

Her case is being worked on regularly and "there has been a lot of technical information and data" to sort through," Clark said.
Wendy Gessing Case A 'Very Active Investigation': Crest Hill PD

 

[mlhenn]

Wendy Gessing Case A 'Very Active Investigation': Crest Hill PD

•Gessing's disappearance remains a "very active investigation."
•several recent searches in the Joliet and Crest Hill area have been done to attempt to find Gessing.
•Clark declined to say whether detectives are treating her disappearance as a homicide.
•LE also declined to say whether detectives have found any physical evidence, such as clothing, as a result of the searches.
•LE confirmed there still has been no bank account activity or social media use by Gessing since she disappeared
•Clark told Patch that he is not saying whether anybody has been cleared in connection with Gessing's disappearance.
•When asked whether Crest Hill now know with certainty the very last place where Gessing was positively spotted by someone, Clark told Patch, "Let's just say we're making some progress on that."

 

[mlhenn]

Found this article from December

Wendy Gessing Missing 6 Months: Crest Hill Police Have No Updates

Besides the last confirmed sighting of Gessing on June 12, which was a Saturday, there have been three noteworthy developments in the case that Crest Hill police have disclosed:

• Multiple people had told police they thought they saw Gessing inside the Joliet Motel 6 near McDonough Street and Larkin Avenue on June 16.
• One of Gessing's vehicles, a gray Honda CRV, was found in Joliet in the 400 block of Buell Avenue the next day, June 17.
• Gessing's cell phone was recovered a few days later in the village of Romeoville in the area of Taylor Road.

The distance from where Gessing's car was found on Buell Avenue in Joliet to Taylor Road in Romeoville is roughly 9 miles.