McPhatter's friends plan Web site
McPhatter's friends plan Web site By Tonya Jameson tjameson@charlotteobserver.com Posted: Tuesday, Jun. 09, 2009 Friends of Nikki McPhatter plan to launch an Amber Alert style Web site to help keep adults safer when dating. During a news announcement today at Marshall Park, Fran Eddings, McPhatter's friend and co-worker, announced plans to launch the Web site Going Out Staying Safe. Registered users will enter information about their plans before they leave home. Users must login again within 27 hours. If the user does not login, the authorities would be alerted, Eddings said. “We're hoping such a site…will help people to stay safe and keep track of one another,” Eddings said. In McPhatter's case, the site would have alerted authorities sooner about her disappearance. She was last seen May 4, and last heard from May 6, the day she was killed. McPhatter, 30, was shot in the back of the head the afternoon of May 6. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says Theodore Roosevelt Manning IV of Gadsden shot McPhatter in the head, put her in the trunk of her car and set it on fire in rural Fairfield County. Her disappearance gained media attention two weeks later. Eddings hopes the site, which they plan to launch July 1, will help missing adults receive the same amount of attention as missing youth. “We have Amber Alerts,” she said. “When adults become missing, the resources are just not there.” http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/771565.html