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| Kelly, Karen 07/22/08; Staten Island, NY | |
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| burnsjl2003 | Jul 25 2008, 02:33 PM Post #1 |
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Search is on for missing Staten Island woman by Staten Island Advance Wednesday July 23, 2008, 1:06 PM Karen Kelly has been missing since yesterday. Police are asking for the public's assistance in locating a Staten Island woman with special needs who has been missing since yesterday. Karen Kelly, 55, was last seen yesterday before she was was supposed to board a bus to spend the day at a program at Community Resources on Victory Boulevard, said Genevieve Benoit, the executive director of A Very Special Place, Inc., which provides services to special-needs individuals and operates Ms. Kelly's group home. But Ms. Kelly either never got on the bus, or was somehow detoured before she arrived at her destination, Ms. Benoit said. The North Shore's 120th precinct is currently investigating the case. Last seen wearing a lime green shirt, multi-color floral print pants and white sneakers, Ms. Kelly may have traveled by bus on Victory Boulevard near Clove Road and Richmond Avenue. A white female, she is 5-foot-3 tall and weighs 170 pounds. She has wavy reddish brown hair, blue eyes and wears eyeglasses. Anyone with information regarding Ms. Kelly's disappearance should call the 120th precinct at (718) 876-8500 or A Very Special Place at (718) 987-1234 or (917) 757-1466. -- Contributed by Michael Bechek http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/...sing_state.html |
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| burnsjl2003 | Jul 25 2008, 02:34 PM Post #2 |
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Desperate search for missing woman Friday, July 25, 2008 By DEBORAH YOUNG STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Family and friends who know Karen Kelly are frantic to find her. The 55-year-old woman with blue eyes, glasses, wavy auburn hair and an easy smile disappeared Tuesday, after boarding the S62 bus near Victory Boulevard and Clove Road at about 8:15 a.m. Despite being developmentally disabled, the 5-foot, 3-inch, 170-pound Ms. Kelly has, for years, used public transportation to shuttle between her group residence and a day program in Travis. Inexplicably, on Tuesday, she took the bus going in the wrong direction and ended up near Victory Boulevard and Bay Street. MTA records show her MetroCard was then used to transfer to the S76, her family said. She was wearing a lime green shirt, multicolor floral-print pants and white sneakers and had $5 and a MetroCard in her wallet. That is the last anybody knows. "This is so not typical of her," said her sister-in-law, Barbara Kelly. "We're worried and we want her home." Nearly 20 family members fanned out Wednesday night to scour neighborhoods along the two bus routes. They plastered hundreds of fliers on lampposts and bulletin boards, spoke with business owners and questioned passersby. They also posted fliers with her photo around the Concord home where she grew up and the Grant City condominium where Ms. Kelly lived with her father until moving into the supervised living situation five years ago. "We're hoping there was no foul play; there are too many options," said her brother, John Kelly, who had seen his sister just the previous week. His sister, who enjoys doing arts and crafts and loves animals, especially cats, had seemed content and was eagerly looking forward to a vacation, he said. "She's very capable of traveling on her own; she's able to communicate, certainly she would know to call 911," said Genevieve Benoit, executive director of A Very Special Place, which operates Ms. Kelly's group residence. "She's never done this before. We're all very concerned about her." Anybody with information regarding Ms. Kelly's disappearance should call the North Shore's 120th Precinct at 718-876-8500 or contact A Very Special Place at 718-987-1234 or 917-757-1466. Deborah Young is a news reporter for the Advance. She may be reached at young@siadvance.com. http://www.silive.com/siadvance/stories/in...2660.xml&coll=1 |
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| burnsjl2003 | Jul 25 2008, 02:34 PM Post #3 |
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| wv171 | Jul 27 2008, 09:10 AM Post #4 |
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Missing woman returns Karen Kelly's mysterious disappearance prompted an outpouring of SI support Sunday, July 27, 2008 By DEBORAH YOUNG STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The developmentally disabled 55-year-old woman whose mysterious disappearance Tuesday inspired hundreds of offers of assistance from concerned Staten Islanders, returned yesterday to her Sunnyside group home -- exhausted but unharmed. Karen Kelly walked into the residence run by A Very Special Place at a little after 7:30 a.m. after spending nearly 100 hours hiding out in the Concord neighborhood where she had grown up, said Diane Buglioli, deputy executive director of A Very Special Place. "She is in very good shape; her clothes were a little wet, dirtier than she is used to, and she was hungry, but she had been eating," Ms. Buglioli said. "We were so relieved to see her." Apparently Ms. Kelly had been feeling upset, and planned to visit with a friend from her childhood neighborhood, taking along some extra money, food and water for an extended stay. But the elderly woman Ms. Kelly sought out apparently was not home. So Ms. Kelly -- a short and sturdy woman with blue eyes, glasses and a fondness for cats -- remained in the woman's backyard, finding a way into the cellar when the harsh weather moved in, said Ms. Buglioni. Family members and staff at A Very Special Place will continue to gently coax details about the sojourn that triggered Ms. Kelly's sudden behavior change from a woman, who for years, took public transportation and kept to her routines. "We'll keep talking with her and putting all the pieces together," said Ms. Buglioni. "This was a very scary experience for her." The experience was also frightening for Ms. Kelly's family and friends. Every night since she was last seen near Victory Boulevard and Clove Road, where she boarded the S 62 bus, an informal search party of more than 20 people gathered at her brother's Sunnyside home. They, along with other volunteers, distributed more than 20,000 flyers in neighborhoods where police from the North Shore's 120th Precinct thought Ms. Kelly might turn up, based on her history and travel patterns. "The range of emotions you go through when somebody is gone like that; it's the worst thing," said her brother John Kelly. "I was so relieved when I heard she was back. She was quiet and she gave us hugs. We asked her if she's okay. We said please never do that again." Kelly said he has spoken with A Very Special Place about monitoring his sister more closely in upcoming months and about accompanying her when she travels. "We'll be assisting her through this transition time," said Ms. Buglioni, adding everybody was steeled in the search by an enormous outpouring of support. "I want to thank so many who people called, wanting to know if she was found, asking if there's something they can do," she said. "It represents the best of what Staten Island can be. People band together; it's a small town." Deborah Young is a news reporter for the Advance. She may be reached at young@siadvance.com. http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.s...9720.xml&coll=1 |
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