Posted on 05/13/2010 3:02:14 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
I am writing comments here, because the comments at the link deal mostly with the resolution to the case.
Nancy Salas, was a 22 year old UCLA college student. Yesterday morning she came up missing during her early morning jog through the Chevy Chase Canyon area of Glendale, California.
Hours after she normally should have returned home, Nancy's relatives called the Glendale police, and filed a missing persons report.
Officers were pulled off other cases around Glendale, and a door to door was initiated. Volunteers helped with the search. All up and down the canyon, and the way to it from her home, Nancy was the focus of a massive search.
Every nook and cranny was investigated. Every seeming strange object was investigated. The nearby hillsides and trails were looked at. The bushes, shrubs, and weeds were checked, each person afraid they might find the young woman's remains at any second.
This is how it went yesterday into last night.
Now this...
Nancy has been found and is in the custody of the Merced, Calfornia police department.
It seems Nancy was actually a former UCLA student and she isn't about to graduate, as her family had thought.
Today it was revealed that Nancy hasn't attended UCLA since 2008. She has been lying to her folks since then. And evidently their plan to host a big party celebrating her graduation, prompted her to bolt.
Film at eleven.
Thank GOD she was found alive.
Lies pile up and cause bigger problems than the truth.
I’m sure her parents are so relieved she’s ok that they’ll get over the whole lying thing.
Did this just break? The last report I saw was on Noon news, with the mom crying, but the sound was down. I did not hear what was being said.
More here:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/13/missing-california-woman-safe-disappearance-remains-mystery/
Wow. I don’t recall that this kind of thing happened all that much in the past, but perhaps I am wrong.
Trust Fund Baby?
I don’t know. But if her folks were working their fingers to the bone getting her through college, she’s in some DEEP doo-doo.
Wasn’t there a case a few years ago where the husband lied to his wife and family about getting accepted to medical school out of state. Around the time he should have left to go to the school, he snapped and killed his wife. I think they found her body in a garbage dump. I might be fuzzy on some of the details...
Glad she’s okay, but what a rotten deal for mom & dad.
A lot of middle class college students think they are, but really they aren't. .. There are a lot of old adolescents, if you get my drift.
I think that story came from Provo.
If she were my daughter, I’d first give her a big hug and a kiss, then kick her behind.
You can be arrested for not going to college?
I agree. Death allows for no reconciliation. This wasn’t the first girl to get caught up in something like this. She caused everyone including herself a lot of grief.
Exactly right.
Yes, I got my KFI640 alert at 2:43 pm PDT.
Thank you.
I’m not sure Trisham. It also calls to question where the tuition was going. This may be very very rare, or more common than we know.
Yeah, that’s the one! Thanks.
Re: your memory of the case where the husband killed the wife because he wasn't really graduating. I was just going to bring that up. That happened near Salt Lake City, as I remember. Tragic story. He lied to everyone in the run up to the murder. After he killed her, he folded her body into their mattress and dumped it in the land fill. I think he was convicted and is in prison now. I don't remember the sentence. (Life or death)
No, you’re absolutely right. There was a similar case here in Massachusetts.
If an APB has been filed for a missing person, the authorities may be able to take that person into custody for safe keeping.
This girl is probably a danger to herself until she has talked to her folks. She may have turned herself in, or perhaps someone knew of her story and alerted the police.
There’s not much to be gained by avoidance, although if I were the police I’d probably conduct a meeting or two before this ‘adult’ is returned to the household.
There’s going to be some relieved and still furious adults in that household.
I feel sorry for the parents. Their joy at being reunited with their daughter must be affected by their fear of who this person is that could have done this to them.
Typical brat.
Mark Hacking received a sentence of 6 years to life for the murders of his wife and unborn child. This is the strongest sentence Utah’s “indeterminate sentencing” rules allow for a first-degree felony committed with a weapon. How long Hacking spends in prison is up to the state parole board. Prosecutors said they did not have evidence to charge him with a capital crime, which could have resulted in the death penalty.
Didn’t have the evidence? How about that he admitted it to his brother, to his cellmate, and in court?
Yep - your memory is right on. This case reminded me of that as well.
I share your thoughts on this.
That being said, I can see how this took place.
The kid may have gotten behind, she decided to drop out, and then put off telling her parents. Every day that passed, it became more impossible to tell them.
While I think the young woman really screwed up here, and there may have been some financial shenanigans going on as well, I do see how someone could sucker for going down this road.
That certainly doesn’t excuse it.
I feel sorry for the parents, and I actually feel sorry for her for the mess she got herself into. Young adults screw up. Young males more often than females IMO.
I'm guessing that tuition was going to the school in some form. IIRC, the laws these days state that parents are not entitled to see college grade reports unless the student (child) approves, so the parents have to take the child's word that they have been attending class.
Probably so. It’s a real mess now, to be sure.
So what does she do, continue to register and not attend?
Ouch.
Tell you what, if my kid wanted my continued financial support, I would be seeing progress reports. No tickey, no londley.
The parents probably blame themselves. Family therapy may be of use. We all make mistakes. This was a rather serious one.
If she lives in Chevy Chase - that means she went to Glendale High School. For this Hoover grad -that explains EVERYTHING. Go Tornadoes!
She’s not a brat. She in desperate need of help. She’s gone through a great deception — her parents were probably paying or helping her pay her tuition, which hovers around $15,000. The planned graduation party probably triggered her panic flight. I’m sure her parents are glad that she’s well — but I suspect she went through this ruse because it’s a hard school to get into and she wanted something that she could be proud of — I feel so awful for her. Have a little compassion Mr. or Mrs. Perfect.
I’m a UCLA Grad student MFA in Theater, Film, Television and Digital Media — believe you me. I’m paying my own way. But it’s an exclusive school.
Hey! ;-) I’m thinking this is proof positive she at least took some courses at Hoover. Poor kid.
I agree. And it’s a lot easier for me to talk about this with no connection, that it’s going to be for them being in the thick of it. No doubt about it.
Of course ten years of indentured servitude cures a lot of ills. ;-)
Completely agree. Been there, done that, and had to take the hard road.
I hear you. :) If I were her mother, I would be beside myself.
Thanks Ken things turned out good for everyone concerned.
No doubt. You’re instantly relieved, and almost as quickly furious. ;-)
You have remembered correctly. When the wife began calling the college to arrange for housing for them she learned he had not been accepted.
He murdered her.
A really good friend’s son attended Colorado University.
He didn’t bother to tell them he wasn’t graduating until the entire family flew out there for the celebration.
He couldn’t pass his algebra requirement despite four years of trying.
Shocking but given the kid, not really surprising.
Lots of pressure from the father. Tooo much pressure.
Thank God she was found alive?... WHAT? This biatch caused a diversion from other SERIOUS cases. Selfish, lying little POS she is.
That was something that I was thinking about in the instance of this girl. We don’t know the pressures at home. I do want to take caution with that regard, because the on the record information at this point, leaves it clear this girl screwed up. We just don’t know anything about the family yet.
In time that may play in. Parents do put a lot of pressure on kids, but there are plenty of instances where it is self-imposed too, and improperly so.
Kids often fail to realize that their parents are human, have been there done that.
Still, some parents are real task masters. You just never know.
I wonder if Glendale will make her foot the bill for the cost of the search.
That is the 600 pound gorilla in the room isn’t it.
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