Poplar Bluff Police Searching for Missing Man

Poplar Bluff, MO
Poplar Bluff Police Searching for Missing Man

JULY 25, 2006 - Posted at 11:29 a.m. CDT

POPLAR BLUFF, MO - Authorities in Poplar Bluff are looking for a missing man who reportedly walked away from the city's Regional Medical Center on July 20.
Donald Russell, 58, is described as being six feet tall and weighing about 160 pounds with salt & pepper-colored hair and a pale complexion. He has been diagnosed as being bi-polar and was being treated for several medical conditions. Russell left the hospital carrying a dark orange walking stick and was last seen wearing black pants and a dark long-sleeve shirt.
Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is urged to contact the Poplar Bluff Police Department at 573-785-5776.
KAIT TV-8
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Another Missing Missouri Woman

Piedmont, MO
Missing Wayne County, Missouri Woman
July 23, 2006, 07:59 PM

Missing Wayne County, Missouri Woman
By: CJ Cassidy
PIEDMONT, MO --How would you feel if your loved one disappeared with out a trace? Family members of a missing Southeast Missouri woman say it's agonizing.

Vicki Sue Lour's family reported her missing on the 13th of July, but family members told investigators in Wayne County, Missouri they last saw the 36-year-old on the 3rd of June.

Sheriff Phillip Burton says Lour was supposed to have been travelling from her home just outside Piedmont, with her boyfriend, to Poplar Bluff and Arkansas.

Now the sheriff wants to speak with Lour's boyfriend, Steven Huffman, because he might help explain where Lour might be. So far, police have not been able to track Huffman down.

Sheriff Burton says this is still considered a missing person case, and even though they haven't ruled out foul play, Huffman is not a suspect.

Huffman is from Morriston, Arkansas, but police say he also has a home in Butler County.

Meanwhile, Lour's father, Fred Meinhardt, says he's been trapped in a nightmare he can't seem to wake up from, ever since his daughter disappeared.

"She's always done what she wanted to do, but she always managed to call me at least once a week. It's now going on seven weeks and I've not heard anything from her," he says.

Meinhardt also has questions about Huffman.

"He told me he took her to Poplar Bluff and put her in a rehab center first," he recalls.

Meinhardt says his daughter struggled with drug addictions for years brought on by her medical problems.

So he believed she may have gone into rehab; until he heard another story, Huffman allegedly told.

"He told my granddaughter the other night he didn't put her in a rehab center, that she was supposed to sign herself in," he says.

Now while he waits anxiously for Huffman to come forward and speak with police, Meinhardt counts on family members to do their part and post fliers around town, asking for your help.

"I'm just hoping they find her and she's alright," he says tiredly.

The Sheriff believes the couple may have been travelling in a maroon or red Buick Century with Arkansas plates 768 IGW.

Please call investigators at (573) 224-3319, if you have any information that might help.
KFVS TV-12
http://www.kfvs12.com/global/story.asp?s=5186574&ClientType=Printable

We Won't Stop Searching-who were they kidding?

We Won’t Stop Searching—who were they kidding?

The Poplar Bluff Grobes put this sign up (12/03) to mislead people especially the St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter. It says “We won’t stop searching” but in reality it should have read, “We won’t start searching—we don’t want an investigation, Look the other way.”

Notice how they put their phone numbers but omitted law enforcement numbers. We wonder how many leads/tips were wasted on them rather than being followed up on by law enforcement. Those involved in this plot were: Kenny Grobe, David Grobe, Christine Grobe Collins, Amy Grobe Bridgewater, Sharron Payne, Dale & Barb Grobe.

For those who were mislead; now is the time to start searching. Find Mary Lee Grobe!

Mary Grobe still missing

Grobe . . . . A Respectable Name from the Past!

Grandpa and Grandma Grobe (Herman and Christine Grobe) worked hard to provide for their family. How sad and angry they would be if they knew how things turned out on their property.

The Look of Isolation and Control

This is what Mary Lee Grobe looked like when Kenny Grobe, Amy Grobe Bridgewater, Amanda Grobe, Christine Collins, David and Debie Grobe, and Tara Grobe Walker worked together to isolated and control her behaviors. She wasn't allowed to leave her house or have visitors. Kenny put up no-tresspassing signs and tried to have people arrested if they came out to visit her. How sad for poor Mary Lee Grobe. She loved all her children and grandchildren and was cheated out of seeing many of them. She longed for the day when they would stop this kind of harassment. Sadly once Sharron Payne, Butler County Public Administrator, took over Mary Lee Grobe still wasn't free from such abuse.