Brookley Louks Disappearance
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than others (ESmart vs. the two little black girls in Chicago, for
example)...I would pose this question: will the case reported below receive
less attention both from the police and the public/news media because the
"girl" (she is a legal adult at 19) has a slightly shady past???
"vivisectrix" <vivis...@serialkiller.zzn.com> wrote in message
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| Following is a series of articles about this missing woman from Indiana.
| I took notice of the case a couple of days ago when I saw (and posted) an
| article about a mysterious phone call her family had received. I've
| reposted that article here, since I found the url where the article
| originated.
|
| I'm very interested in this case. It occurred to me today that perhaps
| the family had faked the call to garner attention to the case. I don't
| really believe so, but if they did, it certainly worked on me.
|
| If anyone on the newsgroup lives in the area of this family and hears
| anything more, please let us know. And I'll continue searching for
| updates on the case.
|
| Vivi
|
| From: http://www.indystar.com/article.php?smissing29.html
|
| Teen's disappearance puzzles police, mom
| Girl, 19, last seen on Monday night, is described as one who keeps in
| touch.
| By Jeff Zogg
| jeff...@indystar.com
| June 29, 2002
|
| Greenwood -- Her cat was unfed.
|
| Her car was gone.
|
| She has no money, credit cards or checks.
|
| The last person to see Brookley G. Louks alive was Greenwood Police Sgt.
| Don Harris.
|
| "I pray to God she's OK," said Louks' mother, Kim Louks.
|
| "It's been so long, and it's such a mystery. I have this feeling that
| something horrible has happened."
|
| Greenwood police had four officers on the case Friday. They talked to
| relatives, friends and co-workers of Brookley Louks, 19. She was last seen
| Monday night when she reported to Harris the theft of a computer from her
| father's apartment.
|
| Louks, who works as a waitress at Primetime Grill & Bar on the
| Southeastside, is a Center Grove High School dropout who is on probation
| in Greenwood for possession of marijuana and washes school buses for
| community service.
|
| She also is on probation in Morgan County for theft but has turned her
| life around and would not leave the area without checking in, her mother
| said.
|
| Her current boyfriend, Tom Carpenter, a welder who lives in Martinsville,
| agrees.
|
| "I saw her Sunday night. She was acting normal. She called Monday night
| and acted just fine," he said.
|
| Carpenter said Louks was to drive to his house after making the police
| report. She never showed up or called.
|
| For the next two days, no one knew where she was. Wednesday, after
| noticing her daughter's cat had not been fed, Kim Louks filed a missing
| persons report.
|
| "She's 19, and obviously she can get up and leave if she wants to, and
| there isn't anything anyone can do about it," said Greenwood
| investigations Capt. David Payne. "But this one is just odd enough that we
| need to pay attention to it."
|
| Payne said police retraced Louks' whereabouts on Monday. The young woman
| took no clothes with her and no means of paying for so much as a tank of
| gas. Her family says she regularly calls to stay in touch.
|
| Carpenter, who has dated Louks for four months, said he sometimes talked
| with her two or three times a day before her disappearance.
|
| "She's not the type that would just up and leave and not talk with
| anybody," he said.
|
| Kim Louks said she's posted more than 500 fliers in Marion, Johnson and
| Morgan counties.
|
| "I've had no sleep," she said. "There is no doubt in my mind that she did
| not disappear on her own."
|
| Brookley Louks drives a blue Chevy Corsica. Anyone with any information
| about her whereabouts is requested to call the Greenwood Police at
| 1-317-882-9191 or an anonymous tip line at 1-317-865-0300.
|
|
|
| From:http://www.indystar.com/article.php?region02.html
|
| Missing teen-ager's car is searched for clues
| July 02, 2002
|
| Greenwood -- Police found notes with names and phone numbers in Brookley
| Louks' vehicle on Monday. They also took fingerprints from the car in
| their continued search for clues to the missing teen-ager's whereabouts.
|
| But police don't know whether the items they collected will lead to
| answers in this mystery.
|
| "It's too early to tell," said Capt. David Payne of the Greenwood Police
| Department. "We're taking every piece of the puzzle as we get it and
| examining it as carefully as we can."
|
| Johnson County Sheriff's Deputy Mike Rogier first noticed Louks' car a
| week ago, before her family had reported the 19-year-old missing. After
| hearing a description of Louks' 1990 blue Chevrolet Corsica, Rogier drove
| back to the parking lot of Pancho and Lefty's Steakhouse, at the northwest
| corner of Ind. 37 and Ind. 144, where he first spotted it. After
| confirming it was Louks' vehicle, he called Greenwood police, Payne said.
|
| Louks' mother, Kim Louks, reported her daughter missing on June 26. Since
| then, five days of worry have taken their toll, she said.
|
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|
| From: From the Bloomington Herald Times:
| July 3, 2002
| Family of missing teen receives mysterious call
| By Michele Holtkamp
|
|
| The case of a missing Greenwood woman took a bizarre twist Tuesday when
| the woman's mother discovered a disturbing voice mail message. According
| to the Johnson County Daily Journal.
|
| The message, left at 7:17 p.m. Monday on Kim Louks' home phone in
| Speedway, sounds like a woman sobbing hysterically, then, in an extremely
| shaken, distraught voice, whimpering: "Come now." If the time stamp on the
| message was correct, the phone call - which was traced to Bethesda, Md., -
| would have been made at 8:17 p.m. Maryland time.
|
| The message continues with what sounds like uncontrollable sobbing. Most
| of the 16-second message cannot be deciphered. However, a second female
| voice, heavily accented, is heard saying: "Look ... (inaudible) ... get
| out."
|
| Greenwood police aren't sure if the message was actually left by Brookley
| Louks, the 19-year-old former Martinsville woman who's been missing for
| nine days, or if it was a prank call.
|
| Besides the contents of the message, which the Daily Journal obtained an
| audio copy of Tuesday, a couple of circumstances are unusual:
|
| Police traced the call to an area of Bethesda, Md. The Louks family can
| think of no ties to the Maryland area.
|
| The call was left on Kim Louks' home phone in Speedway. Although that
| phone number has been spread on fliers throughout central Indiana, news
| coverage of the case has not revealed Louks' home number, which is not
| listed under Kim Louks' name in telephone information. The case also has
| not been picked up by national media.
|
| Kim Louks first heard the message between 2 and 3 a.m. Tuesday, when she
| called her home to check messages. She alerted police, who recorded the
| message.
|
| Police on Tuesday were attempting to locate an address for the phone
| number the call was made from, which is unlisted, said Greenwood police
| Capt. David Payne. Greenwood investigators will then ask Maryland
| authorities to check out the residence, Payne said. Investigators in
| Bethesda had not been contacted as of Tuesday evening.
|
| The gasping sounds heard on the message could be interpreted as laughter.
|
| Kim Louks said that when her daughter was upset, she would have to ask
| Brookley if she was laughing or crying.
|
| Brookley Louks' sister, 18-year-old Mista Louks, said she has heard her
| sister sob in a manner similar to that heard on the voice mail.
|
| Greenwood police think the phone message is likely a hoax, but they will
| follow it up.
|
| For Kim Louks, the fear that her daughter is being held somewhere scared
| and hurt rips through her mind every night when she tries to rest.
|
| "What I was hearing was there (on the message), and it horrifies me," Kim
| Louks said Tuesday.
|
| If the message is a hoax and the caller intentionally left the message to
| mislead investigators or the family, authorities in Greenwood and Maryland
| could work together to prosecute the callers.
|
| Making such calls is a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by six months to
| one year in prison, said Johnson County Prosecutor Lance Hamner. Pranks
| and hoax calls under these circumstances are inhuman, he said.
|
| A former Martinsville resident, Brookley Louks, 19, divided her time
| between Greenwood and Martinsville.
|
| The family has been completely consumed with finding Brookley Louks since
| she vanished the evening of June 24, after a neighbor spotted her waiting
| on a sidewalk in front of the Yorktowne Farms apartment complex in
| Greenwood.
|
| A man pulled up in Louks' Chevrolet Corsica, Louks got in the passenger
| side, and they drove off, the neighbor told police. The driver of the
| vehicle - a young, tall, slender white man - was the same man the neighbor
| saw carrying a computer from the apartment. Brookley Louks called
| Greenwood police to report the computer stolen the same day she
| disappeared.
|
| Her 1990 ice-blue vehicle was discovered Sunday and searched by police on
| Monday. Police are working to analyze fingerprints and other evidence
| taken from the vehicle.
|
| Also on Tuesday, police obtained long-distance phone records from the
| apartment Louks had been staying at the afternoon of June 24.
| Investigators aren't revealing the details of what calls were made to or
| from the residence.
|
| A national Web site for missing people picked up on the case on Tuesday,
| profiling it along with the case of a missing Rushville woman. Project
| Safe Child can be found on the Internet at www.projectsafechild.org.
|
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| http://www.hoosiertimes.com/stories/2002/07/03/RT.new.27878.sto?PREVURI=%2
Fstories%2F2002%2F07%2F03%2Findex
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| From: http://www.indystar.com/article.php?smiss04.html
|
| Parents plead for help to find missing daughter
| By Bill McCleery
| bill.m...@indystar.com
| July 04, 2002
|
| The parents of Brookley Louks, the 19-year-old Greenwood woman who has
| been missing since June 24, made a public plea Wednesday for help in the
| search for their daughter.
|
| Monday, Kim Louks heard a recording on her telephone's answering machine
| that she hopes came from her daughter.
|
| "I hope it's her because it would mean she's still alive," Louks said. "If
| it's a prank, it's a very cruel prank."
|
| The family also hired Don Campbell, a retired detective from the
| Indianapolis Police Department, as a private investigator.
|
| "The more eyes, the more legs, the more digging the better," said Louks,
| who added she is completely satisfied with the work of the Greenwood
| Police Department.
|
| Brookley Louks was last seen when she gave a report of a stolen computer
| from her father's apartment to Greenwood Police Sgt. Don Harris. A witness
| reported the same man who walked out with a computer around 3:30 p.m.
| later that day picked up Louks in Louks' car.
|
| Scott Louks had a message for his daughter.
|
| "Come home. If you need help, we'll get it," he said. "We love you."
|
| Brookley Louks' mother believes her daughter would have come home or made
| contact by now if she were capable of doing so, she said.
|
| Most of the phone message left Monday night was inaudible, but a female
| caller could be heard sobbing. A few phrases were decipherable, such as
| "Come get me," Kim Louks said.
|
| The call came from a Maryland telephone, said Greenwood Capt. David Payne.
| Police have not yet determined what residence or possibly whose cellular
| phone the call came from, he said.
|
|
|
| From: http://www.indystar.com/article.php?slouks06.html
|
| Search team looks for missing woman
| Staff Report
| July 06, 2002
|
| A search team from Project Safe Child is helping in the search for
| Brookley Louks, the 19-year-old Greenwood woman who has been missing since
| June 24.
|
| A team of four people and two dogs were to arrive Friday night and plan to
| search today the area near where Louks' car was found near Waverly.
|
| A benefit to cover the search costs and to help pay for a private
| investigator is scheduled for 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at Primetime Grill
| and Bar in Beech Grove, where Louks worked.
|
| Donations also may be made at any branch of National City Bank.
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| --
| I wanna play with a pathetic suicidal masochist. If you qualify, or if
you're
| just curious, you might find me on IRC Dalnet in #serial-killers or
#torture.
Jane Cactus
> Police chief insists officers are doing all they can
> By Paul Bird
> paul...@indystar.com
> July 12, 2002
>
>
> Greenwood Police Chief Albert Hessman is defending his investigators'
> efforts to find a missing woman.
>
> Brookley Chantille Louks, 19, was last seen by Greenwood Police Sgt. Don
> Harris as she reported a burglary June 24 at her father's Cottonwood Court
> apartment.
>
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I thought the last time the young woman was seen was when a neighbor saw her
getting into her own car as a passenger (after the theft was reported)? (And
the car was being driven by the computer thief per reports?)
JC
Jane Cactus
> JC:
>
> >>Brookley Chantille Louks, 19, was last seen by Greenwood Police Sgt. Don
> >>Harris as she reported a burglary June 24 at her father's Cottonwood
> >>Court apartment.
>
> >her getting into her own car as a passenger (after the theft was
> >reported)? (And the car was being driven by the computer thief per
> >reports?)
>
> about the bizarre phone call, reported:
>
> |A man pulled up in Louks' Chevrolet Corsica, Louks got in the passenger
> |side, and they drove off, the neighbor told police. The driver of the
> |vehicle - a young, tall, slender white man - was the same man the
neighbor
> |saw carrying a computer from the apartment. Brookley Louks called
> |Greenwood police to report the computer stolen the same day she
> |disappeared.
>
> they'd like it to be... something like, "Well, I saw someone waiting out
> there and get into the passenger seat of a car like hers, and I think the
> guy driving was the same guy I saw coming down her stairs with a
> computer..." rather than an absolutely certain sighting, which the police
> officer's would have been.
>
> Vivi
Hard to know what to believe. Whatever is going on, too bad the PD hasn't
established a good relationship with the family.
JC
JC
> From: http://www.indystar.com/article.php?slouks16.html
>
> Dad urges mayor to pressure police
> Man's letter asks all parties to work together to help find missing
> 19-year-old
> By Paul Bird
> paul...@indystar.com
> July 16, 2002
>
> Horrible thoughts are in the forefront of Scott Louks' mind.
>
> His daughter, 19-year-old Brookley Chantille Louks, has been missing since
> June 24.
>
> Scott Louks' first police-initiated contact was Monday afternoon.
>
> "I am crazy," Louks said Monday morning. "I'm having a terrible day. I
> keep thinking that maybe somebody murdered Brookley, but then I think
> there's still hope that she will be found alive."
>
> Louks wrote a letter Monday to Greenwood Mayor Charles Henderson urging
> police to be more forthcoming about the investigation.
>
> The family hired Donald Campbell, a private investigator and retired
> Indianapolis Police Department homicide investigator, to assist in the
> probe.
>
> The letter was written in the spirit of seeking cooperation among police
> investigators, reporters and the missing woman's family and Campbell,
> Louks said.
>
> "If the Greenwood Police Department will not speak to me, please demand
> they do a daily briefing for reporters and family members," Louks wrote to
> Henderson.
>
> "Let's keep her face out there and keep the pressure on the suspects, and
> let's work side by side with Don Campbell and stop this: Our business is
> nobody's business attitude."
>
> Louks reminded Henderson that Greenwood police are only as good as the
> people who give them information.
>
> The letter also said Louks had only spoken with police twice before Monday
> and that both contacts were ones he initiated.
>
> The last known person to see Brookley Louks was Greenwood Police Sgt. Don
> Harris as she reported a June 24 burglary at her father's Cottonwood Court
> apartment.
>
> The missing woman's car was found July 1 on a restaurant parking lot near
> Ind. 37 and Ind. 144.
Welcome back, Viv. Thx for update.
JC
formica63
"vivisectrix" <vivis...@serialkiller.zzn.com> wrote in message:
> Louks suspect faces gun charge
> Man's arrest comes as police try to link him to disappearance of
> 19-year-old girl.
> By Paul Bird
> paul...@indystar.com
> July 26, 2002
> Police said Nowicki's fingerprint was on one of the seized firearms. By
> law, convicted felons are not allowed to possess firearms.
>
> Nowicki's wife, Janet, told police the rifles, shotguns and a .22-caliber
> handgun found in the home belonged to her and that her husband cleaned the
> weapons for her.
Oh, please.
> Early this week, police directed Louks' mother, Kim Louks, her father,
> Scott Louks and sister, Mista Louks, to a Greenwood laboratory to provide
> blood samples.
>
> Police will use the groups' blood to determine if the blood they collected
> at Nowicki's home matches Brookley Louks'.
>
> Among the last people to see Brookley Louks was a Greenwood police
> officer. The teen-ager reported a burglary June 24 at her father's
> apartment.
>
> Witnesses said the teen-ager left with a young man who was driving her
> car.
>
> Louks was reported missing June 26.
>
> Her car was found June 30 on a restaurant parking lot at Ind. 144 and Ind.
> 37.
Thanks for these updates.
Form
JC
"formica63" <form...@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:OM619.46592$Hj3.1...@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
Me too, all informative articles. That was a great letter the grandfather
wrote. The Nowicki lead sounds promising. With the prospects of drugs, these
investigations get so messy, and seem to get easily sidetracked. Wonder if
that dispatcher still has a job.
JC
JC
> From: http://www.indystar.com/article.php?wlouks30.html
>
> Hearing continued for Louks suspect
> Both prosecution, defense are unhappy with bond amount set for Joe
> Nowicki.
> By Paul Bird
> paul...@indystar.com
> July 30, 2002
>
> A bond reduction hearing for Joe Nowicki -- a suspect in the disappearance
> of Brookley Louks -- was continued to Friday by Johnson Circuit Judge Mark
> Loyd.
>
> Nowicki, 53, was charged Thursday with being a serious violent felon in
> possession of a firearm and being a habitual offender.
>
> The trial has been set for Oct. 29, with a pretrial hearing at 1:30 p.m.
> Sept. 26.
>
> Nowicki, of Greenwood, is being held in Johnson County Jail, with his bail
> set at $150,000. He has not been charged in the Louks case, although
> Greenwood police describe him as the primary suspect.
>
> Louks, 19, often did odd jobs at the home of Nowicki, a family friend. She
> has been missing since June 24. Her car was found June 30 near Ind. 144
> and Ind. 37.
>
> Louks was on her way to see her boyfriend, Tom Carpenter of Martinsville,
> when she disappeared.
>
> Police searched Nowicki's home July 17, seeking links to Louks. Police
> officers said they found firearms in a gun cabinet, weapons they allege
> Nowicki possessed in violation of state law.
>
> However, in court Monday, Janet Nowicki, the defendant's wife, testified
> the guns were hers and told police her husband cleaned them for her.
>
> Greenwood Police Detective Eric Klinkowski also testified. He described
> Nowicki as cooperative in the Louks investigation, but said Nowicki was
> being treated as the primary suspect.
>
> In an unusual move, Johnson County Deputy Prosecutor Rob Seet asked the
> court to have defense attorney George "Jay" Hoffman step aside.
>
> Seet alleges Hoffman is a potential witness to statements Nowicki made at
> Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis about cleaning his wife's guns
> and would be called to testify.
>
> Hoffman said Seet's request was a ruse.
>
> "They just don't want me on the case because I work hard and they know I
> will talk to everyone involved in this case," Hoffman said.
>
> Hoffman told Loyd the information was available from police officers
> present when Nowicki's statements were made, as well as Wishard employees.
> He told Loyd he did not plan to contest the statement.
>
> Seet conceded police overheard the statements. Hoffman remained on the
> case.
>
> After the morning hearing, Seet said he intended to request Nowicki's bail
> be increased because of his criminal history and potential flight risk.
>
> Nowicki has past convictions in the shooting death of a man, in a robbery
> as the result of a rape investigation and the shootings of his sister and
> her husband when he was 16. His sister and brother-in-law survived.
>
> Hoffman scoffed at the statement that Nowicki was a continued threat to
> society. Nowicki, 53, is in poor health, and July 12 was the third
> anniversary of a heart transplant Nowicki underwent. Hoffman said his
> client's body was rejecting the heart.
>
> "You should see his back," Hoffman said. "His liver is swollen."
>
> Hoffman also filed a request for a test jury and a change of venue. He
> believes pretrial publicity will make it impossible for Nowicki to receive
> a fair trial.
>
> "I think a test jury -- bring a dozen people in and question them about
> what they have heard or know about this case -- saves the county money
> because they don't have to bring in a pool of 100 or more potential jurors
> to find out the same thing," he said.
>
> Hoffman said Nowicki's bail was extremely high.
>
> "We want it set at the standard $20,000," Hoffman said.
>
> Hoffman told Loyd he anticipates charges against Nowicki in the Louks
> case.
>
> But Seet said no request for additional charges has been brought to his
> office.
>
> "You'd have to ask Greenwood police about it," he said.
This guy had a heart transplant?! Oh well, guess they wouldn't check a
patient's suitability vis a vis criminality. Never thought about that
before. How wouldya like to know your close relative's heart went to this
guy?
JC