OK OK - Lisa Bollaert, veteran, walked away from NY facility, hitch hiked to OK, last seen Sand Springs shelter, body found plastic bag, Tulsa, Apr’09

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“Lisa was originally from New York and had walked away from a mental health facility in New York and started hitch hiking her way across the U.S. and ended up here in Oklahoma where she essentially ended up running out of money,” said Lt. Brandon Watkins.

Investigators say Lisa was a bit of a wanderer who also struggle with mental health issues.

She spent some time serving in the U.S. military prior to being diagnosed, and according to Tulsa Police, had spoken with recruiters in Tulsa before she went missing.

Officers say at one point, she ended up at a women’s shelter in Sand Springs and was last seen walking along the roadway.

“The next thing you know, they found her body wrapped in garbage trash sacks and bound up with tape at 81st and Elwood in a yard,” said Watkins.

Investigators believe Lisa was killed at another location and that her body was later dumped in south Tulsa in the front yard of a home.

“We had gotten called by the owners of the yard. They had called and it looked like this body had been wrapped up in this paper or this plastic. For a few days, they were running news stories to try and determine who she was, and the women’s shelter reached out and said that she had walked away from there,” said Watkins.

Bill Satterfield owns the famous, White House mansion which sits just around the corner from where Lisa’s body was found and says he remembers that dreadful day.

“All I recall is hearing the address where there was a body found on the radio and I tried to drive by. There was police tape, and it was around the corner from me,” said Satterfield.

‘It’s such a tragedy and for it to happen in such an unusual and safe place and it just seemed as the radio said as I recall that it appeared to just be randomly dumped in this location and that the crime scene was elsewhere,” said Satterfield.

Investigators ran DNA on the trash sacks and tape that bound Lisa’s body, but to this day, they have yet to get a solid lead on a suspect.

“There are so many disturbing elements to this murder that you know it definitely sticks in the minds of all the detectives that were here at the time and have come in since,” said Watkins.

If you have any information about the death of Lisa Bollaert, you are asked to contact the Tulsa Police Department’s homicide unit 918-596-9135 or e-mail [email protected].

 
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From your link @imstilla.grandma, they have DNA but haven't been able to get a lead on it to date; I wonder if they've attempted Forensic Geneology yet?

The intersection of the yard she was found at (81st and Elwood) is a straight shot down I85, exit onto 81st to Elwood. Just past that is the White House Mansion, then the airport.

When I look at the map, I get the hinckey feeling that she was picked up by a trucker. Perhaps one doing an airport run to one of the bulk business' located there and who knew that 81st/Elwood was essentially at the end of the housing and less populated area of town.

 
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Aug 25, 2023
Cold Case Files: Lisa Bollaert

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''Her husband, James Bollaert, said he doesn't want his wife to be known as the woman found in a bag. Before she hitchhiked from upstate New York to Tulsa, he was trying to get her help so they could raise their daughter together.

"Oh I loved her. We loved each other. I mean we were so close. We had a really good marriage until it came on really quickly. I can remember the first time she came and said something about ghosts," he said.

“It's just that Lisa was vulnerable with her mental illness that she had, and we did everything we could to try and get help for her, and somebody preyed on it," said her first husband, Frank Willis.

Battling bipolar disorder, the mother of two checked into Tulsa's Salvation Army shelter on April 27, 2009. Eight days later police found the 37-year-old's body beaten and wrapped in a trash bag. Her feet and mouth were taped.

"They have a man of interest. We don't have a name, we just have a picture. He was last seen with her like a day before of her disappearing and dying," Bollaert said.

Police said in five years they have gotten one tip, a grainy image that Willis said haunts Lisa’s 14-year-old son.''
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Cold Case Files: Lisa Bollaert

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''Her husband, James Bollaert, said he doesn't want his wife to be known as the woman found in a bag. Before she hitchhiked from upstate New York to Tulsa, he was trying to get her help so they could raise their daughter together.

"Oh I loved her. We loved each other. I mean we were so close. We had a really good marriage until it came on really quickly. I can remember the first time she came and said something about ghosts," he said.

“It's just that Lisa was vulnerable with her mental illness that she had, and we did everything we could to try and get help for her, and somebody preyed on it," said her first husband, Frank Willis.

Battling bipolar disorder, the mother of two checked into Tulsa's Salvation Army shelter on April 27, 2009. Eight days later police found the 37-year-old's body beaten and wrapped in a trash bag. Her feet and mouth were taped.

"They have a man of interest. We don't have a name, we just have a picture. He was last seen with her like a day before of her disappearing and dying," Bollaert said.

Police said in five years they have gotten one tip, a grainy image that Willis said haunts Lisa’s 14-year-old son.''
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Interesting that when I quote your post dotr, I see a photo of the suspect in profile that I can't see in your post above or in the article (attachment 443218).

This bit of the article sticks out to me:

Lisa's widower and ex-husband are in Tulsa visiting the places where she was seen; from the FBI office where surveillance cameras captured her picture to the site where her body was dumped. They are in Tulsa passing out flyers and begging the public for answers.

Apparently she was last seen at an FBI office if I am reading ths correctly.
 
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rbbm 2009
''Lisa Bollaert hitchhiked from New York state to Tulsa with nothing but the clothes on her back, not even a cell phone.

She checked into the Salvation Army shelter April 27th and 28th, then moved to a Sand Springs women's shelter on the 29th.

On April 30th, surveillance video shot outside Tulsa's FBI office shows Lisa and a man who had given her a ride. She wanted to see if the FBI had any information on her before she went to an Army recruiting office to re-enlist.

"She was having some mental health issues. There's no crime against that, but some of her actions were a little bit out of the ordinary," said Sgt. Mike Huff, Tulsa Police Major Crimes Unit.

Tulsa Police believe the same man drove her to the military recruiting office.''

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''TULSA, OK -- Detectives with the Tulsa Police Department are looking for a man who they say was with 37-year-old Lisa Bollaert a couple of days before her death.

Detectives need help identifying the man.

Police say Bollaert, from Syracuse, N.Y., was found dumped in a yard in the 7900 block of South Elwood Avenue. Bollaert, a wife and mother of an infant, hitchhiked to Tulsa and had been staying in Sand Springs.''
 
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That explains it!! Thank you!
 
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It is so shocking and sad that anyone, but especially this young woman who served, can be visibly in distress with apparently no personal items on her and just sent along on her way for any predator to pounce on. I don’t know what the answer is, or what I would have done if I was one of who knows how many that encountered her, but it bothers me. I am glad you are at peace, Lisa.
 
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Lisa Bollaert​

UNSOLVED CRIME
On May 6, 2009 the victim was found wrapped in garbage bags and duct tape in front of 7923 S. Elwood. The victim sustained several lacerations to her body.
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