Found Deceased OK - Caitlyn Rose Case, 33, Traveling from Louisiana to Colorado, vehicle abandoned in Fort Towson, 5 Aug 2022

[angelstarr300]

Her family, loved ones or others who know her haven't said that she knew people in these areas not that I've heard anyways. Its possible of course she met someone and then it went south when in their company. Perhaps it was someone unknown to her loved ones from one of these areas. IDK, just speculating. It is a long trip she was/is undertaking, if she does this every once in a while or say often then she may know people along her route unknown to her family or loved one

4-weeks without any updates from LE. No additional sightings, no CCTV footage, no clarification of timeline.

Can’t help but feel like very little is being done to find CRC.

They are searching & asking questions, plus taking fingerprints, etc from truck , unfortunately it takes so much longer than we think.

 

[iluvmua]

Do we know where in Colorado she was traveling to?

 

[Cshark7812]

Do we know where in Colorado she was traveling to?

Black Hawk, Colorado. She had recently gotten a job as a casino technician.

 

[5W's]

One would think if someone else drove her vehicle to the river LE would have a DNA profile of who sat in her car and left it at the river by now. Unless the person isn't in a DNA database. I suppose gloves, and a hoodie could also be used to evade LE. But whoever did leave it there was careful not to implicate themselves. MOO.

 

[ashhouston]

Has anyone seen any updates by family or LE lately?

 

[angelstarr300]

One would think if someone else drove her vehicle to the river LE would have a DNA profile of who sat in her car and left it at the river by now. Unless the person isn't in a DNA database. I suppose gloves, and a hoodie could also be used to evade LE. But whoever did leave it there was careful not to implicate themselves. MOO.

The problem is that it takes alot longer than we think to get that info . I do know that they are getting all that stuff done so keep praying some info comes out and is helpful

 

[angelstarr300]

Has anyone seen any updates by family or LE lately?

Unfortunately its all about the waiting on the info from detectives, police, etc.

 

[preeder]

For those wondering why take the south/west half of the loop around Paris from 271 to FM 79 instead of the shorter east/north half of the loop...

Just north of 271, the Paris loop enters a densely populated area full of businesses and restaurants. Wal-Mart is outside the loop on East US 82 towards Clarksville. There are multiple traffic lights on the loop. Traveling up that way often (I live between Bogata and Mt. Vernon), there is always plenty of other vehicles around you when going around the loop that way.

By using the south/west half of the loop, there are no stops, no lights, and much, much less traffic.

 

[yurintroubl]

Hate how silent this has fallen. Why isn't her family shaking the tree a little more? Hopefully it's because they know LE has something and they just aren't making it public.

 

[cenazoic]

Agreed, @yurintroubl !

I check the OSBI’s Nixle feed every few days and nothin’.

Presumably Caitlyn went missing in Texas, but she’s not in the Texas Missing Persons Clearinghouse, nor the Texas Unidentified Clearinghouse.

No UIDs in Namus from Texas or Oklahoma which fit.

No updates since mid August, by anyone.

 

[WingsOverTX]

Her NAMUS is still up: #MP94363

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[Cshark7812]

One detail that I wish wasn’t so vague is the cell phone ping south of Paris after Pattonville. Would the vehicle be continuing down 271 after Pattonville to come into Paris on the southeast side of the Paris loop? Or did her vehicle enter the Paris loop from the south on Hwy 24? Even further south than that is Hwy 19 where Cooper and Lake Creek TX are. You can get there driving south from Pattonville in little time. Was the vehicle that far south? Seems far but it’s 70-75 mph on Hwy 24 and Hwy 19, you could get to Paris pretty fast from there. And there are hours that are unaccounted for. Just how far south did her vehicle (keep in mind, it was a cell signal but I’m assuming the phone was in her vehicle at that time) travel during that time? Would there be any significance as to what went on during that time window right before it traveled the loop in Paris?

 

[5W's]

No word from LE or family. Its so quiet. I really hope they are just keeping it to themselves for the investigation.

 

[Cshark7812]

This Is something that’s stuck out to me for a while now:

It’s assumed that the stillshot of Caitlyn and her vehicle next to a gas pump is from a fuel station in Gainesville TX. It’s speculated that her being present there was between sundown and sunrise, the background suggested sometime during sundown. Unless there’s a contrast issue with the lighting and it was actually daylight. I can only guess it was dark at the time.

OSBI reported that Grayson County was assisting in investigating. Leads me to believe there’s reason to consider she traveled from Gainesville TX to Paris TX through Grayson County.

That would imply she traveled down Hwy 82 through Paris TX going eastward. How would an appearance around 5 pm in Bogata make sense, if it was dark in Gainesville TX (a time before sunrise) and Bogata TX (at 5pm, a difference of 10 hours or so.)

I know she wasn’t suggested to drive like someone on the clock to get to her destination, but that’s a lot of time between Gainesville TX and Bogata TX, if that’s how her vehicle traveled.

I still can’t understand how Mount Pleasant TX comes into play….

I know the integrity to preserving a case to solve it is important, as much as I can anyways. But no reports by any agency in over 2 months makes me….want to understand, why? Does it still stand that officials don’t believe Caitlyn Rose Case ever physically entered Oklahoma?

 

[WingsOverTX]

This Is something that’s stuck out to me for a while now:

It’s assumed that the stillshot of Caitlyn and her vehicle next to a gas pump is from a fuel station in Gainesville TX. It’s speculated that her being present there was between sundown and sunrise, the background suggested sometime during sundown. Unless there’s a contrast issue with the lighting and it was actually daylight. I can only guess it was dark at the time.

OSBI reported that Grayson County was assisting in investigating. Leads me to believe there’s reason to consider she traveled from Gainesville TX to Paris TX through Grayson County.

That would imply she traveled down Hwy 82 through Paris TX going eastward. How would an appearance around 5 pm in Bogata make sense, if it was dark in Gainesville TX (a time before sunrise) and Bogata TX (at 5pm, a difference of 10 hours or so.)

I know she wasn’t suggested to drive like someone on the clock to get to her destination, but that’s a lot of time between Gainesville TX and Bogata TX, if that’s how her vehicle traveled.

I still can’t understand how Mount Pleasant TX comes into play….

I know the integrity to preserving a case to solve it is important, as much as I can anyways. But no reports by any agency in over 2 months makes me….want to understand, why? Does it still stand that officials don’t believe Caitlyn Rose Case ever physically entered Oklahoma?

I agree that the silence from LE is very concerning at this point. Too many unknowns - including how Mt Pleasant fits into the timeline - leave sleuthers like us unable to contribute much.

I am hoping that as in another case (Steve & Wendy Reid), evidence is being gathered & the person or persons responsible for her disappearance will be arrested in due time. The Reids were murdered in April & even with great detective work, the suspect was not fully ID'd until September due too the use of aliases. He is now awaiting trial.

Other cases I have followed here took six months or more for LE to announce they have a cause of death but a crime, if any, is still an open investigation. So we wait for LE to say more (if they ever do).

It must be extremely difficult for Caitlyn's family to wait for answers & justice. I think they have a clearer understanding of what occurred but aren't saying more at OSBI's request.

Perhaps our patience will pay off in this case as it has in others. I don't think the silence means the investigation is stalled. But I, too, am impatient for LE to say something.

#JusticeforCaitlynRose

 

[mimilisa123]

This Is something that’s stuck out to me for a while now:

It’s assumed that the stillshot of Caitlyn and her vehicle next to a gas pump is from a fuel station in Gainesville TX. It’s speculated that her being present there was between sundown and sunrise, the background suggested sometime during sundown. Unless there’s a contrast issue with the lighting and it was actually daylight. I can only guess it was dark at the time.

OSBI reported that Grayson County was assisting in investigating. Leads me to believe there’s reason to consider she traveled from Gainesville TX to Paris TX through Grayson County.

That would imply she traveled down Hwy 82 through Paris TX going eastward. How would an appearance around 5 pm in Bogata make sense, if it was dark in Gainesville TX (a time before sunrise) and Bogata TX (at 5pm, a difference of 10 hours or so.)

I know she wasn’t suggested to drive like someone on the clock to get to her destination, but that’s a lot of time between Gainesville TX and Bogata TX, if that’s how her vehicle traveled.

I still can’t understand how Mount Pleasant TX comes into play….

I know the integrity to preserving a case to solve it is important, as much as I can anyways. But no reports by any agency in over 2 months makes me….want to understand, why? Does it still stand that officials don’t believe Caitlyn Rose Case ever physically entered Oklahoma?

I think there was a 2 day window there, and they might think she was in that area around Gainsville on August 4 in the evening. Rurned back east then. She went missing Aug 5 right? I'm from Sherman

 

[WingsOverTX]

I think there was a 2 day window there, and they might think she was in that area around Gainsville on August 4 in the evening. Rurned back east then. She went missing Aug 5 right? I'm from Sherman

We just have no way of knowing "where & when" beyond the report of her going missing near Bogata.

OSBI has never issued a timeline saying where she was and when on either day other than Bogata on Sunday afternoon before her car was traveling without her, according to their Aug. 19 news release.

Great sleuthing here likely pinpointed the station in Gainesville where the shared video still was captured. We have absolutely no LE confirmation of it being at that location or at what time.

 

[Cshark7812]

For what it’s worth, August 4th and 5th (when she traveled) were on a Thursday and Friday. August 12th (when her vehicle was discovered) was on a Friday, in the evening from what I understand.

 

[SimplyCass]

A major issue I have with any theory is the distance. Presuming that Caitlyn got into trouble/foul play in Bogata...I cannot recall a case where the the perp(s) abandoned the car 50 miles away, and the missing person was nowhere to be found. That would require a second car and a two-person team, one to follow the other.

The general area where the car was found doesn't really make sense either, as the river flow isn't very fast, and was found within a week.

In other cases, the perp drives the vehicle (or pays someone) to a chop shop of some kind to get rid of it. (like the Toni Sharpless case, someone mailed a letter to the P.I alleging that he/she was paid $5,000 to drive to a chop shop.)

If the perp felt rushed or panicked, I could seem them hastily abandoning the car in a nearby location and poorly covered. Driving such a distance, however, would suggest there was a plan? but what kind of plan.

All speculative/opinion.

 

[5W's]

A major issue I have with any theory is the distance. Presuming that Caitlyn got into trouble/foul play in Bogata...I cannot recall a case where the the perp(s) abandoned the car 50 miles away, and the missing person was nowhere to be found. That would require a second car and a two-person team, one to follow the other.

The general area where the car was found doesn't really make sense either, as the river flow isn't very fast, and was found within a week.

In other cases, the perp drives the vehicle (or pays someone) to a chop shop of some kind to get rid of it. (like the Toni Sharpless case, someone mailed a letter to the P.I alleging that he/she was paid $5,000 to drive to a chop shop.)

If the perp felt rushed or panicked, I could seem them hastily abandoning the car in a nearby location and poorly covered. Driving such a distance, however, would suggest there was a plan? but what kind of plan.

All speculative/opinion.

I know we've all been questioning why the vehicle was found where it was and I agree since its in the middle of no where basically, could it be that the perp just abandoned it and walked off into the woods? Although it makes sense that since its abandoned that another person would have to drive the perp back. Wasn't it stated where the vehicle was found was near private land that was gated and locked. Maybe the perp broke the lock or damaged the gate with a tool? I'm suspecting the owner of the land was cleared.