Message from missing woman likely a hoax
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Message from missing woman likely a hoax
Web posting claims to be from Audrey May Herron
FREEHOLD, March 4
By BILL LAMBDIN
It's been two and a half years since Audrey May Herron vanished,
leaving behind three young children and a husband. An Internet posting
with her name on it would have been a major breakthrough. But all
indications are the message was a cruel hoax.
The message popped up in October on a Web site dedicated to the search
for Herron. Since then authorities have been trying to trace it. They
know it came from a Canadian Internet service provider, but have been
unable to learn the name of the computer user.
"Well, they might eventually find out who sent the message, but as
far as anything to do with Audrey, I don't believe it's going to prove
anything to me," said Herron's father, Ray Turk.
Not only has Turk lost his daughter, he says he no longer is allowed to
see her three small children. Turk and some of Herron's friends have
many questions about her husband Jeff Herron's reaction to her
disappearance. That seems to have driven a wedge among those who knew
the 31-year-old licensed practical nurse.
Herron worked a shift at the Columbia Greene Long Term Health Care
Facility in Catskill in August 2002, but then apparently never made it
home. Police don't think she ran away.
"Her kids were her life. Her family was her life," the missing
woman's friend Marie Parker said.
That's why this message, which purports to have been written by Mrs.
Herron in Miami, seems so strange. It told people to stop looking and
said she'd come home soon unless the searching continued.
The Canadian ISP won't reveal to New York investigators the identity of
the person who registered the sending computer - leaving Mrs.
Herron's searchers frustrated.
"If it was one of their daughters up there missing and it happened
down here, see how they'd feel," Turk said.
Since her disappearance in 2002 police have investigated this as if it
were a murder, but have not been able to make a case against anyone.
There is some possibility that Canada may yet cooperate and produce the
name of the Canadian Internet subscriber. However, it has already been
five months since the message was sent.