Nichole Alloway, 20 Missing June 2009 NC-OH
Missing N.C. Woman Linked to Portsmouth, Ohio Posted: 8:36 PM Jun 26, 2009 Last Updated: 8:43 PM Jun 26, 2009 Reporter: Randy Yohe Email Address: randy.yohe@wsaz.com 42 comments PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (WSAZ) -- A potential long distance romance that started on the Internet now has a family fearing the worst and local police working hard to find a missing 20-year-old North Carolina woman. Nichole Alloway has been missing for more than two weeks. Her family thinks she has been abducted, and drugs are likely involved. While police said it's too early to tell, they're wondering what might have happened to the North Carolina woman who fell in with the wrong crowd and then disappeared. In mid-May, Alloway, a single mother left her two young children and her home near Raleigh, N.C., and traveled to Portsmouth. Her family said she had spent six months chatting on the Internet with a Portsmouth man . She traveled to meet him, but that lasted less than two weeks. Then, she met another Portsmouth man who was later arrested and found with stolen property that belonged to Alloway. Police, however, said that neither man is suspected of wrongdoing. Both were interviewed and not determined to be suspects. Alloway's family said they sent Nichole, who went to a homeless shelter, a bus ticket to return home, but she didn't use it. Then, her grandmother wired her some money by Western Union to the Kroger in Portsmouth. Western Union clerks there said Alloway checked several times and got angry when the money did not arrive. When it did, she left the store, and that's the last place she was seen. After that, there were reports of people spotting Alloway at the 14th Steet Community Center and the Farley Square Housing Complex, according to police, but they all came up empty. The family has hired a private investigator to help find the young mother. Investigators said they're still following every good lead. If you know anything about where Alloway might be, you're asked to call the Portsmouth Police. http://www.wsaz.com/home/headlines/49254822.html

Detectives: Body Identity Top Priority by Frank Lewis After first saying they were not looking to determine if a body found Sunday was that of a North Carolina woman missing from Portsmouth, the Scioto County Sheriff’s Office is now saying that is their first priority. Nichole Alloway, 20, had, according to her grandmother, Diane Dille, come to Portsmouth to meet a man she met on the Internet. After Alloway was seen on a surveillance camera picking up money at Western Union in the Portsmouth Kroger Store, she apparently vanished. Scioto County Sheriff Marty V. Donini said his office had received a call at approximately 5 p.m. Sunday from a married couple that had come across the skeletal remains of what appears to be a white female in the Otway area of Little Bear Creek. In the original conversation with the sheriff’s office the question, “Are you looking into this as possibly being Nichole Alloway?” The Portsmouth Daily Times was told, “no.” Now it turns out, according to one detective, to have been the original focus of the investigation. “I can tell you that for sure,” Scioto County Sheriff’s Detective Denver Triggs told the Times. “We are trying to identify a body. She’s the only girl that we know is missing. And we know she is not from here, but she is listed as missing from here. That’s automatic protocol, anybody we have missing, we automatically call and get their dental records or DNA, and send that up to BCI&I (Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation) to be compared to her DNA. Or in the case of dental, you’d send that to Montgomery County, where a forensic dentist would compare it.” Scioto County Coroner Dr. Terry Johnson ordered the remains to be sent to the Montgomery County Forensic Center. “They will compare hers, and there will be surrounding agencies who will call us and ask us what we’ve found, if they have someone missing,” Triggs said. “They will be wondering if that is their missing person. With that information they can send dental records as well, especially if our first instinct would be incorrect. If it would turn out that it wouldn’t be that young lady from the North Carolina area, then we would have to identify who it is, and that’s when we would check missing records from other counties, and/or states surrounding us.” Despite rumors about the remains, Triggs said details, such as conditions surrounding how the body was found, are not released to the public, because only the killer would know that kind of detail. Meanwhile, Scioto County Sheriff Marty V. Donini said anyone with information on this case may contact Detective Matt Spencer at (740) 354-7566. All calls will be kept confidential. FRANK LEWIS may be reached at (740) 353-3101, ext. 232. http://portsmouth-dailytimes.com/bookmark/2982043