Re: Illinois man dies in crash; wife leaves car, vanishes

On Dec 7, 4:07 pm, Poe <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/7/2010 6:18 PM, Mick wrote:

On Dec 7, 5:51 pm, "bella"<tinydan...@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

Did you watch the video at one of the links?  The area reminded me of
Indiana, flat land as far as one could see.  As you said, farmland.  I think
you are probably right, she wandered off.  I'm surprised she can't be seen
by air though, in that bright red dress.  Unless there has been a lot of new
snow since the week-end?

A little bit of a breeze and you wouldn't need new snow.   She's fall
into the snow, not on top of it.

It has been snowing like crazy all over the Midwest for the past few
days. We got more than a foot just today in Ohio, which get the same
weather a few hours later than Indiana. She's probably just frozen under
the snow.

They're out there probing the snow drifts with poles, and using
helicopters' prop wash to move snow around...

Dozens look for Ill. mom missing since fatal crash

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-07/dozens-look-for-ill-mom-missing-since-fatal-crash.html

RANSOM, Ill. (AP) — Dozens of searchers braved frigid temperatures on
Tuesday to search a remote area in northern Illinois for a 40-year-old
mother of four who has been missing since a weekend car crash that
killed her husband.

Authorities say Tanya Shannon, of Ransom, may be dead and her body may
be buried in the snow, but that they're not ruling out that she may be
alive.

"It's just one of those weird situations," said Sergeant Jeff Whalen
of the LaSalle County Sheriff's office. "We have no idea what
happened."

The part-time waitress has been missing since Sunday, when a sheriff's
deputy found her husband, Dale Shannon, dead behind the wheel of their
car, which crashed in a rural area about 70 miles southwest of
Chicago. The couple left the holiday party sometime after midnight
Saturday. Authorities said it was snowing at the time of the crash,
which happened a few miles from the couple's home.

Authorities believe Tanya Shannon may have tried going for help. A set
of footprints was found in the snow leading away from the car, as well
as one of Tanya Shannon's slippers — she had apparently changed out of
her heels for the ride home.

"We just want her home," said Shannon's sister Corinne Johnson of
Ottawa. "I just want to find her."

Johnson said she last heard from Shannon through a text message around
9:45 p.m. Saturday. It read, "I can text ya 2morrow at dales xmas
party all dressed up."

Shannon, described as a five-foot-two, 125-pounds, with shoulder-
length strawberry blonde hair, was wearing a red dress at the party.

Johnson said she and her sister talked about the condition of the
roads before the party, and that Shannon said she wasn't afraid to
drive on them, especially since she'd lived in Illinois for twenty
years.

At first, Johnson said she thought the disappearance was due to
"something silly." But she said she changed her mind as crews searched
for a third day Tuesday without finding any clues.

"I wasn't thinking something drastic like this," Johns said. "She just
wouldn't walk away from this, this is her life."

More than 35 searchers carefully scanned the area near the crash site
on Tuesday, using poles to probe snow banks, metal detectors in
ditches and even a helicopter to blow away snow and fly over the area.

Because of the cold temperature hovering around 20 degrees, searchers
on foot only went out for an hour at a time, coming back to a command
center to warm up and get their blood pressure checked.

"It's just a continuing search, I wish we had more," Whalen said.

The couple's four children — who range in age from 4 to 15 years old —
are in the care of family.

"The kids are doing as well as expected," Johnson said.

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