Missing Person: Angela Freeman

For as long as I can remember, I have known the name Angela Freeman and as the years have gone by I have become more and more intrigued by what happened to her. As a child, her name and picture were frequent occurrences on the local news broadcast. It was a case which never made sense at all. First thought to be a runaway teenager, dismissed by local law enforcement, the case would soon take a turn no one saw coming. By the time law enforcement became involved, rain and time had corrupted much of the evidence.

Angela’s case began on September 10th, 1993, when she called her mother to say she was on her way home from work. This was opposite to her nature as she would never leave and not tell her family where she was going. Local law enforcement immediately wrote the disappearance off as a runaway teen, telling her mother not to worry, she would come home in a day or two.

The day following her disappearance, her car was found by her uncle, who was taking a shortcut across the abandoned Manhad bridge to visit his girlfriend. Her car door was open, one of her shoes was found in the grass and the other she was found on the other side of a locked gate which led to private property. There was a large puddle evident beside the car which law enforcement dismissed as transmission fluid. This liquid would later be proved to be blood belonging to Angela.