Another girl missing from Richmond, VA
Mary
Another girl, 17, missing from city
On Sunday, she left her home, possibly to meet Internet contact
BY JIM NOLAN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Sep 23, 2005
RELATED: Police Beat
Taylor Behl isn't the only young woman to disappear recently in Richmond.
Seventeen-year-old Monica Rose Sharp has been missing since Sunday morning.
Police said Sharp left her home in the Museum District about 10:35 a.m. to
walk her dog and didn't return. Her mother filed a missing-persons report
later in the day.
The dog showed up Monday. But by yesterday, the 5-foot-2-inch, 210-pound
Sharp had yet to return.
Police spokeswoman Kirsten Nelson said a preliminary investigation indicates
Sharp may have gone to meet someone with whom she had previously
corresponded on the Internet.
While investigators think Sharp voluntarily left her home, it has not
changed the seriousness or intensity with which detectives are pursuing the
case.
"All missing-persons cases are serious, especially those involving
juveniles," Nelson said. Richmond police have investigated roughly 100
missing-persons cases this year.
"We're doing the same things we do in all missing-persons cases," she said,
referring to Behl and Sharp.
In the case of Behl, who has been missing since Sept. 5, police are still
exploring leads, Nelson said. In Sharp's case, she said detectives have
concrete leads.
"We're working hard on both of them," she said.
Sharp's father, Nick Sharp, said, "We're really worried about our daughter.
We want her back home."
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call police at
646-0400 or 355-3059.
Contact Jim Nolan at (804) 649-6061 or jno...@timesdispatch.com
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~Mary O'Neill
She has a page at myplace.com also.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=15716313&
This site must be popular across the US. My daughter and a bunch of her
friends have pages here also. Not just friends from the area, but from
out of state also. Some that she lost contact have found her here.
Andrys Basten
~Mary O'Neill <mry...@netscape.net> wrote:
>She has a page at myplace.com also.
>http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=15716313&
>This site must be popular across the US. My daughter and a bunch of her
>friends have pages here also. Not just friends from the area, but from
>out of state also. Some that she lost contact have found her here.
I wondered at first why LE left all that up and readable.
Then I realized the links will stay active (that place is all
about links and interconnections). They can trace everyone
who has ever contacted her, from that, and probably wonder if
the person will try to enter something new there too.
- A
E/C Annie
~Mary O'Neill wrote:
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>
> She has a page at myplace.com also.
> http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=15716313&
> This site must be popular across the US. My daughter and a bunch of her
> friends have pages here also. Not just friends from the area, but from
> out of state also. Some that she lost contact have found her here.
Myspace is worldwide. My grandgirls and their friends have fallen into
myspace too. We moved from MD to VA 3 years ago and the girls are
catching up with their old friends and meeting new ones too. That's
the scary part - the new ones :( No way of knowing just who they're
hooking up with. I thought I read somewhere that Monica may have taken
off with someone she met online. That's too scary.
annie
~Mary O'Neill
It is scary. My 15 year old has met people locally. She has to have a
parent with her if she wants to meet them. They can come to our house,
or WE can go to their house to meet them and their parents/guardians.
I ask her a lot of questions. I've also talked to her about "knowing"
people over the internet. Especially when she says 'my friend', it gets
reinforced.
E/C Annie
Mary wrote:
> This one was buried on page 2 of the metro section......hmmmm.
>
> http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031785230294&path=%21news&s=1045855934842
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> Another girl, 17, missing from city
> On Sunday, she left her home, possibly to meet Internet contact
Missing teen may be with Illinois man; police release man's photo
>From NBC12 News
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Richmond Police are continuing to search for 17-year-old Monica Rose
Sharp. Police believe she is in the company of an individual she
recently met, 57-year-old Jeffery Nichols from Belleville, Illinois.
Police recently released Nichols' photo. Police say he is driving a
green, four-door, 1999 Oldsmobile Alero with Illinois tag: 6219015.
Sharp hasn't been seen since Sept. 18 when she went to walk her dog in
the Museum District, near the 3100 block of Grove Avenue.
Sharp is described as a black female, 5' 2", 212 pounds, brown
eyes, brown hair and medium complexion.
If you have seen or see Sharp, Nichols or the Oldsmobile, call Richmond
Police immediately at 911. If you have any information on the case,
call (804) 646-6764.
Police said Wednesday they don't suspect foul play, and don't think
Sharp is in harms way.