Search goes underground

reprinted from October 2005

Butler County, MOSearch for Mary Lee Grobe Goes Underground

Search for Mary Lee Grobe Goes UndergroundBy: CJ Cassidy KFVS TV12
BUTLER CO., MO --More than six months after Mary Lee Grobe mysteriously disappears, investigators begin a major search behind her granddaughter's home.Police say an anonymous caller tipped them off, saying the 74-year-old's body could be found buried underneath the septic tank.
Grobe was last seen outside her Poplar Bluff home, September 27th, 2003.Police say they decided to dig after the caller reported seeing Mary Lee's son putting in a septic tank around the time she went missing.But some family members say they're even more frustrated now."Everything in this investigation has centered right here on this property," Kenny Grobe, Mary Lee's son says.
Kenny Grobe didn't think police would find anything, and about two hours into the dig, Butler County Sheriff Bill Heaton confirmed his prediction."We're down deep enough into surface that it was hard and you couldn't tell there hadn't been any previous digging as deep as went," Heaton said.
And while the Grobe family understands police have to follow up on every lead, their frustrations were still obvious, Tuesday morning."Butler County doesn't have the manpower to do anything, but then some crackpot calls in on telephone and they have to do something like this," Kenny Grobe says. "My grandmother was still here when the septic tank was dug in the first place," Amy Grobe pointed out. Most family members believe Mary Lee's still alive, but her daughter and son-in-law in Saint Louis don't seem to think so.
If you have any information, about Mary Lee, call the police nearest you. http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?s=1782904

Medic Alert Button Sharron Payne

reprinted from December 2005

As with any senseless murder, the victim’s family members are left with many unanswered questions. Why? How could he do such a thing? How can they sleep at night after what they have said and done? Today we would like to focus on just two very perplexing questions. Why would the Mary’s Public Administrator, Sharron Payne, make such a poor decision to issue Mary Lee Grobe a Medic Alert button as her only means of protection? Why have some family members and reporters been given such inaccurate information regarding the Medic Alert buttons capabilities?

When told repeatedly, Mary Lee Grobe’s life was in jeopardy; Sharron Payne did nothing to help her poor innocent client. Instead of moving her to a safe environment, Sharron issued Mary a Medic Alert button. This is a tool that is helpful if an elderly person falls and/or knows there is a danger and they can call for help. Mary Lee Grobe was legally declared incompetent and didn’t know when to push the button or what happened when she pushed the button. When a trained medical professional asked Mary what she would do if her house was on fire, Mary responded, I would call the district supervisor.” Clearly, Mary didn’t know to call fire department. Mary didn’t know whom to trust, and sometimes she didn’t recognize people from one time to the next. Mary needed help and protection—not a button.

Why would the appointed Public Administrator, Sharron Payne make such an incompetent decision? What was her motive? Who was she protecting? It was NOT Mary Grobe. Was Kenny Grobe involved in the decision? Why would Sharron value his opinion more than others? He’s not a doctor; he’s not a lawyer, he’s the one Mary was afraid of, especially when he had his temper fits.

See articles linked below:

St. Louis Post Dispatch Newspaper Article by Aisha Sulton January 04, 2004 "Why didn't she activate the medical alert button she wore around her neck?"


KFVS TV12 by CJ Cassidy http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=1465895&nav=8H3xIJoP "Something else is also bothering Grobe's family, "My mother was wearing a necklace with an emergency push button on it that would instantly dial an operator in New York if she needed help," David Grobe says. But the call for help was never made, even though the system indicates the necklace is still somewhere close to home."

Barb Grobe also said “ is also the FACT that she had on a medical alert necklace that would “activate an alarm or signal” if Mary went beyond a certain perimeter of her property.”

Where is this info coming from? It’s not a GPS, It had no tracking capabilities. Was it more misinformation by Sharron Payne and/or Kenny Grobe? Yes, just one more example.

What else have they failed to tell the truth about?

Missing Person Day in Missouri

Missing Person Day
DAR Newspaper
Poplar Bluff Missouri
June 17, 2008

Missing Persons Day
2 area women to be recalled at ceremony
By DONNA FARLEY
Staff Writer

Two area women will be featured this afternoon in Jefferson City on Missouri’s first ever Missing and Unidentified
Persons Awareness Day.
Mary Grobe was 74 when she went missing Sept. 27, 2003 from her Poplar Bluff home. Teresa Butler disappeared from her Risco home Jan. 25, 2006, leaving behind two young sons.
Grobe’s daughter, Joyce Caldwell, will be present for today’s ceremony in the Missouri
State Capitol first floor Rotunda.
She will join other family members of the missing and law enforcement officials to honor all of the missing and unidentified
persons in Missouri.
“The average person has no idea what it is like to go through something like this. The average person doesn’t know how many cases there are in the state and, quite honestly, how little is being done,” said Caldwell, a St. Louis resident. “We are really trying to increase awareness.”
As of June 1, there were 1,462 missing persons and at least 48
unidentified bodies in Missouri,
according to the National Crime Information Center.
Missouri Missing, a Jefferson
City-based not for profit, asked
Gov. Matt Blunt in April to declare June 17 as official Missing and Unidentified Persons
Awareness Day for the state.
Information about the missing and unidentified will be
made available to those at a ceremony this afternoon in the Capitol building. Missouri Missing also plans to offer adult
identification kits, including a
living will for the missing, DNA swabs, fingerprinting and information booklets.
Caldwell helped pass a bill that expanded the Amber Alert to include adults who go missing under mysterious circumstances. She is currently working with
state officials to pass a bill that
would prevent law enforcement from refusing to take a missing persons report and give families of the missing the opportunity to donate DNA to a database used for reference when trying identify bodies.
There are as many as 40,000
unidentified bodies nationwide,
according to the National Institute of Justice. DNA from only a small portion of those victims has been entered in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database.
“Investigators have sent me pictures of corpses and asked if it is my mother,” Caldwell said. “That is very emotional. I have to say it is not my mother, but I also have to think, ‘Who does she belong to?’”
“Science has made tremendous advances, but these are not being utilized,” she continued. “Hopefully, we can get a law passed that would make (voluntary) DNA collection a routine part of a missing persons case, like in other states.”
It has been five years since
Caldwell has seen her mother. She used to have nightmares about where her mother was, but said she has come to accept her mother isn’t in pain anymore. Caldwell takes comfort now in helping others.
“My mom made me a strong person,” Caldwell said. “I try to look at the big picture. Even if my mom’s case is not solved, it really is healing to know I can help others if they should be so unfortunate as to be in this position.”
Missouri Missing was created in 2007 by the mothers of two missing women. The organization seeks to educate families of the missing on procedure and resources available, educate the public about the plight of the missing and the families left behind and assist law enforcement by providing information, according to the organization.
Information and photos of Missouri missing persons, including Mary Grobe and Teresa Butler, can be found at their web site, www.missourimissing.org.

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Again we ask SHARRON PAYNE, Where is Mary Lee Grobe?

Family, Oh but he is family

Family

Only if you you knew how many times I heard "Oh, He s family, He would never hurt a family member"
Again we ask SHARRON PAYNE and the Poplar Bluff Grobe's, WHERE IS MARY LEE GROBE ?
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BURLINGTON, Vt. - A body found Wednesday is believed to be that of a missing 12-year-old whose uncle allegedly planned to force her into a sex ring, Vermont State Police said.
Col. James Baker said Brooke Bennett's body was found in Randolph, where the uncle lives, about 4:45 p.m. Wednesday.
She was last seen alive with the uncle, Michael Jacques, 42, at a convenience store a week ago.


And to make it worst a another family member, Raymond Gagnon, appeared in federal court Wednesday on an obstruction of justice charge in the case. He was denied bail and was held pending another hearing on Monday.

My heart and prayers go out to the families of Brooke Bennett.

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