KY KY - Andrea Knabel, 36, mother of two, Audubon Park, Louisville, 13 Aug 2019

[Steph8angels]

Anyone with information can contact the LMPD crime time hotline at 502-574-5673. Leonard and Washington can be reached at 502-618-9337 and 502-722-8181, respectively.

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

wow, umm, some of this is really odd but I agree, @Steph8angels, that this needs to be taken more seriously by those close to her, and all of those not so close to her also. Here's hoping for some good news for her kiddos (and everyone who loves Andrea) today.

 

[Razz]

Did she have a boyfriend that was pestering her or an ex?

 

[sloane7777]

Louisville mom who volunteered for Missing in America is still missing

Now, 10 days missing, Louisville Metro Police have an open case to help find 37-year-old Andrea Knabel, but it’s the organization she’s worked with for several years, Missing in America, that seems to be most concerned that she hasn’t returned home.
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Added private investigator and friend Tracy Leonard: “Here she is helping to locate people and she comes up missing herself.”

Leonard told WAVE 3 News that Knabel was last seen between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. on Aug. 13, leaving a relative’s home on foot in the 4000 block Fincastle Road in Audubon Park.
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Leonard said Knabel has helped him in several searches for missing adults and children. Maricia Kidd, who’s known Knabel for 30 years, said Knabel had a recent round of bad luck which included being laid off from her job and her car getting totaled in a hit and run. Knabel used her phone minutes after leaving the house the morning of her disappearance, but hasn’t been heard from since. Friends also said she was too trusting.

“She was upset and she needed a ride,” Maricia Kidd said. “Obviously she was trying to get ahold of people, maybe she got in the car with the wrong person.”
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Some of the national Missing in America representatives are headed to Louisville to help look for her. Knabel is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weights around 190 pounds.

Louisville mom who volunteered for Missing in America is still missing

BBM it seems to be a huge contradiction for someone that volunteers for the missing ...just saying!

 

[soap mama]

I’m gonna go back over to the fb page and poke around
I seem to remember that one recent live, then asking about business security cameras?
It’s been TWO WEEKS!!

 

[jULIA_bEE]

I’m gonna go back over to the fb page and poke around
I seem to remember that one recent live, then asking about business security cameras?
It’s been TWO WEEKS!!

I was watching the PI’s livestream last night and he mentioned residential and business security cameras. I think a lot of the problem is nobody is certain exactly how far she got, if she made it to poplar level. They also haven’t been clear about sightings of her afterward. Louisville is a big place and I’ve read on their official page that they were looking into a few different areas she may have been seen in. Poplar Level is a long road with a lot of businesses so I’m hoping people are checking their cams even if they aren’t in close proximity to Fincastle.
Poplar Level is also connected to even busier and more populated roads.

 

[jULIA_bEE]

In every case, there’s a backstory. Sometimes, they don’t want that to get out.

That’s so true. I think sometimes it’s important for family or investigators to keep control of the narrative bc people can be really critical about a victims backstory- almost to the point of dehumanizing the victims. I’ve been invested in Savannah Spurlock’s story since she went missing so she’s the first to pop in my head as an example. Once people found out a little about her history, she was eviscerated online and in forums. It’s sad and takes away from what’s actually happening. It’s starting to happen in Andrea’s case in certain groups on SM too.

 

[CluelessWonder]

This one is intriguing. I have to say this: Having followed hundreds of cases on here, I am acutely aware that disappearing is always an option. I am aware that there are ways to vanish, either to live a new life or to end the only one I've ever known. I don't think about it often. But it's there somewhere in my psyche. And I wonder if that was the case for Andrea, too.

 

[bears10]

I did a search but didn’t find Andrea in namus. I am very surprised that considering how involved Missing In America seems to be with this case that they haven’t added Andrea to namus.

 

[bears10]

This is her FB
https://www.facebook.com/andrea.knabel

Andrea K-Louisville

This is another (older) Facebook of hers

 

[PastTense]

Andrea Knabel Missing: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

 

[Sillybilly]

Hey everyone,

Please leave the FB drama over at FB. It is not allowed here.

The only info you can discuss from the FB page is what is posted by an Admin of that page. Other comments are considered rumor and are off-limits (If someone is not an Admin of that page, you may not discuss what they say, only something along the lines of "interesting post by XYZ at 10:00 am Tuesday. No discussion of the comment itself is allowed here at Websleuths).

Thank you.

ETA: Also stop posting rumors. If you cannot link to MSM or LE that supports what you state as fact, you can't post it here.

 

[Gardener1850]

Andrea Knabel Missing: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Some quotes from that link:

Knabel’s phone pinged last between 1:30-2:00 a.m. when she began calling friends for a ride home. The pings emanated from Louisville’s Audubon Park neighborhood where she last seen. According to Missing in America, Knabel attempted to Facetime someone at 2:12 a.m. but the person was sleeping and missed the call. Her phone has been shut off since then and all calls have gone directly to voicemail.

There were reports of a Lyft driver in the area that didn’t pan out and nobody knows if she got a ride from a stranger. “She was upset and she needed a ride,” Maricia Kidd said. “Obviously she was trying to get ahold of people, maybe she got in the car with the wrong person,” she told WAVE-TV.

According to Leonard, there have been several possible sightings of Knabel since her disappearance, but none are confirmed. He said they are also looking at the most logical route Andrea would have taken to get back home.

According to friends, Knabel has been going through a difficult time. She’d recently been laid off her job and lost her car. The vehicle had broken down on the highway at night and she was forced to leave it on the side of the road. When Knabel went to retrieve it the following day, she discovered the car had been hit, then pushed into a ditch.

“The car is a total loss,” Schaefer and friend wrote on a GoFundMe page the two started to help Knabel, who was using the car to earn money at various
delivery jobs.

“We are heading now on week three of no car and no work… things are starting to pile up… please donate before it’s too late …can I get 20 people to donate at least $10 today?” Schaefer wrote in February.

How would a Lyft driver "not pan out"? Can the driver accept a ride and then cancel?
Could she have gotten in a car she thought was her Lyft but it wasn't? Or could a Lyft driver have picked her up and then canceled and said he never picked her up?

MOO

 

[jULIA_bEE]

Some quotes from that link:





How would a Lyft driver "not pan out"? Can the driver accept a ride and then cancel?
Could she have gotten in a car she thought was her Lyft but it wasn't? Or could a Lyft driver have picked her up and then canceled and said he never picked her up?

MOO

I know you can cancel a lyft ride yourself but they charge a fee. The drivers can also cancel rides, or mark them as no shows. Since they haven’t said much about it, other than the guy was cooperative, I’m not sure what they mean by “didn’t pan out.” Unless maybe they just mean it led to nowhere. I saw where her sister had commented that she frequently used lyft since her car had been totaled last winter.

 

[soap mama]

Some quotes from that link:





How would a Lyft driver "not pan out"? Can the driver accept a ride and then cancel?
Could she have gotten in a car she thought was her Lyft but it wasn't? Or could a Lyft driver have picked her up and then canceled and said he never picked her up?

MOO

“Not planning out” is such an informal way of saying something
Weird weird weird

 

[iluvmua]

I bet someone stopped and asked if she needed a ride.

Jmo

 

[justme11]

"Any father would jump through anything to find their daughter and help their family," said Michael Knabel, Andrea's father.

SBM

Family members searching for Louisville mother missing for 2 weeks

 

[imstilla.grandma]

'Very Special' Single Mom of 2 Who Helped Search for Missing Persons Disappears

 

[jULIA_bEE]

Hopefully they’re passing fliers out at TARC stops. That’s the public transit system and they’ll take you all over the county, and into Bullitt co and southern Indiana. If she really was seen in any of the areas people mentioned on the other family’s page for her, I doubt she would’ve actually walked that far. She would’ve probably gotten a ride from someone, and the bus doesn’t cost much. It had stopped running by the time she was last seen, but it starts back up early in the morning. There are some places a long poplar level that she are open 24 hours. There’s a decent size hospital campus about 20-30 mins walking distance from Fincastle that could provide somewhere for her to hang out she decompress until she was able to secure a ride somewhere. Louisville really isn’t a small place, and I’d imagine it’d be a pretty hopeless feeling not knowing where to look.

 

[Steph8angels]

If you have any information that could help investigators, you're urged to call the anonymous tip at 574-LMPD.

They are even asking for anonymous tips.
A lot of boots on the ground.
Case is picking up in all MSM's. And social media sites starting to heat up.
Thank you @jULIA_bEE for the location info.