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This may get uglier than it already is. Here is an article about another missing girl that may be tied to Fulk and Basham:

W.Va. officials to question suspects about Burns disappearance

By REBECCAH CANTLEY-FALK and BRYAN CHAMBERS - The Herald-Dispatch

MISSING: Samantha Burns, also called Sam, has been missing since Monday.
AGE: 19

HAIR: Brown

EYES: Hazel

HEIGHT: 5-feet-4-inches

WEIGHT: 110

LAST CONTACT: Burns called her mother at 9:46 p.m. Monday and said she was on her way home from the University Courtyard Apartments in Huntington. Burns lives in West Hamlin, Lincoln County.

HOW TO HELP: Anyone with information can call the Huntington detachment of the West Virginia State Police at (304) 528-5555.

West Virginia investigators could talk today with one of the two Kentucky fugitives accused of a multi-state crime spree about the disappearance of 19-year-old Marshall University student Samantha Burns.

Chadrick E. Fulks, 25, and Branden L. Basham, 21, escaped from Hopkins County, Ky. Jail on Nov. 4 and are suspected in the abduction of a Kentucky man and a South Carolina woman, who still is missing. Basham was arrested Sunday in Ashland, Ky., and Fulks was captured Wednesday in Goshen, Ind.

Trooper Jay Powers, spokesman for the West Virginia State Police, said Thursday investigators are considering Fulks and Basham suspects in Burns’ disappearance, but have not interviewed them. Burns has been missing since Nov. 11.

The state police’s interview with Basham, who is being held at the Boyd County Detention Center on $2 million bond, could take place today, Powers said.

"The delay is mainly because the FBI has been questioning him, and we aren’t going to cut in on their interview time," Powers said.

As for Fulks, an FBI spokesman in Charleston said the agency was trying to send a West Virginia state trooper to Indiana to interview him. Kathy Guider, spokeswoman for the FBI in Indianapolis, said Thursday that agents there were handling the questioning of Fulks.

"The other divisions that have an interest in Mr. Fulks -- South Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky -- they’re sending all their questions and the information they have here," Guider said. "The people conducting the interviews are then going with those questions."

Fulks has ties to Lincoln and Cabell counties. He was born in West Hamlin, the same town Burns is from, and later lived in Huntington. He was also arrested in Cabell County in 1997 on one felony charge and several misdemeanors.

Police also have received reports that Fulks and Basham have been in the Tri-State twice since their escape -- once around Nov. 11 and the second time Nov. 15-16. WSAZ television reported Wednesday that the fugitives stayed last weekend at the Huntington home of old friends, who didn't realize they were escapees.

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Basham was arrested Sunday in Ashland after allegedly trying to hijack a car at a mall. A Boyd County grand jury indicted Basham Thursday on attempted murder on a police officer, first-degree robbery and persistent felony charges. Basham and police exchanged fire prior to his arrest.

Fulks appeared in federal court Thursday and faced two counts of carjacking and a kidnapping charge.

Although Fulks and Basham are suspects in the Burns’ case, police haven’t established evidence that directly points to their possible involvement in her disappearance, Powers said.

"There is no way we can say right now that they are directly related to this case," he said. "Unless we find evidence to show otherwise or one of them says they had a part in her disappearance, then we don’t have anything that connects them."

Samatha Burns’ family still has hope she is alive somewhere, said her mother, Kandi Burns. Searches for Samantha Burns were to continue today, Kandi Burns said.

FBI agents in West Virginia have evidence that Samantha Burns’ ATM card was used sometime after her disappearance, Powers said. Investigators are analyzing video footage or still pictures from cameras at ATM machines, possibly in Huntington’s West End, he said. Powers did not say what the footage contained.

"It was my understanding that Burns’ ATM card was used sometime after her disappearance, but I’m not sure when," Powers said. "The state police hasn’t seen the tapes or pictures, and we haven’t received any information from the FBI yet."

Joe Ciccarelli, the FBI’s senior resident agent for the Southern District of West Virginia, declined to comment on the ATM footage.

Police have interviewed several people and have tried to recreate Samantha Burns’ actions before her disappearance. She was reportedly last seen by an aunt around 5:30 p.m. Nov. 11 at the Huntington Mall. Her car was found burned on Nov. 12 in Wayne County.

"We’ve talked to a lot of people the entire time we’ve done this investigation," Powers said. "But we still have no evidence that connects anyone to her disappearance."

The last known contact from Samantha Burns came from her cell phone at 9:46 p.m. when she called her mother and said she was on her way to their home in West Hamlin. Samantha Burns said she was visiting a friend at the University Courtyard Apartments near 6th Avenue and 20th Street, Kandi Burns said.

"She just told me she was at Brad’s at the courtyard apartments and she was going to be leaving there," she said.

Whitney Collins, also of West Hamlin, said Samantha Burns was friends with Brad Fulks, who lives at the University Courtyard Apartments. Collins said she had introduced Samantha Burns to Brad Fulks approximately three weeks before her disappearance.

Collins said she and a friend had gone to the movies with Samantha Burns and Brad Fulks on Nov. 8. A spokesman for the FBI and Trooper J. M. Parde of the Huntington detachment said Brad Fulks is not related to Chadrick Fulks.

"There is no connection that we’re aware of," Parde said.

Brad Fulks declined to comment Thursday.

Collins last saw Samantha Burns on Nov. 10, she said. The two spent several hours talking. Collins noticed nothing unusual about her friend, she said.

"(Samantha) came up to my sister’s bar and picked me up and we just went driving around for about two hours," Collins said.

Kristen Prichard, a Marshall freshman from Branchland, said she has been interviewed by state police twice. Prichard attended Guyan Valley High School with Samantha Burns and has helped distribute fliers with information about her. Samantha Burns’ friends have no explanation for her disappearance, Prichard said.

"They keep on asking us for details or where she might be, but we just don’t know," she said.

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2002/November/22/LNtop1.htm