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Kelly Nolan, 22, missing after leaving Madison, WI bar
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288516,00.html

Missing University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Student Kelly Nolan Was Convicted of DUI Twice in Last 3 Years
Saturday, July 07, 2007


Kelly Nolan went missing in downtwon Madison after leaving her group of friends.

MADISON, Wis. — A 22-year-old college student missing for the last two weeks has been dealing with the recent deaths of her father and stepmother, and had two convictions for drunken driving.

Kelly Nolan, a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater senior, went missing after a late night of partying June 22.

Nolan was convicted of drunken driving twice in the last three years. Her driver's license is currently suspended. This spring, Nolan served 14 days in the Walworth County Jail after pleading guilty to driving under the influence as a second offense, jail officials reported.

Joel DeSpain, spokesman for the Madison Police Department, said detectives don't know if alcohol is a factor in the woman's disappearance. She called her younger sister, April, early June 23 and told her where she was, but authorities have not released details of that conversation. April Nolan also has not commented on what the two discussed.

Waunakee Police Chief Kevin Plendl said Kelly Nolan had come to the department's attention a few times for being involved in vehicle crashes. Most recently, in June 2005, she was cited for inattentive driving after a crash in Waunakee, Plendl said.

April Nolan, 20, said Kelly was recovering after the deaths of their father in 2006 and their stepmother in May, both in Illinois. She would not comment on her sister's drunken driving citations.

Nolan's family -- including her mother, Mary Jane, of Waunakee, and sisters, Candice, 25, and April -- has offered a reward for information related to her disappearance.


Comments: Maybe she wandered off and something happened to her. One never knows. Any theories anyone?
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is a very tricky, sad situation.

Basically, we are responding to the family's plea for help in locating Kelly. They don't believe she would willingly stop contacting them and become a homeless drifter. Most sensible people would agree.

She is not using her cell phone or credit cards, the police are monitoring that. She would basically have to go into hiding in someone's home, which is is indistinguishable from being kidnapped. And the worst that can happen if she is found is that she says she wanted to go into hiding and doesn't want to talk to anyone again, thank you very much, in which case everyone will know she is relatively safe, but has made her own decision.

In other words, Kelly is almost certainly in danger or dead, and she needs to be found, and the community has responded.

Now as to suspects for her disappearance, one has to look at men in her life, as they are almost always the reason a woman disappears. It was erroneously reported in national media that her ex-boss was seen where she was last seen, at a swimming pier which dive teams have searched, so it was natural to ask if he could have been an ex, and firing her was part of getting rid of her from his life.

We posed the question, and that's fair. We then followed up by reporting the sighting report was erroneous, and that she only worked briefly for the ex-boss before her job was terminated. So that answered the ex question.

Unfortunately, if you get enough people together, as happens on the larger internet sites, you'll have some who make wild accusations about anyone named in a news article. It's just a given. I witnessed it in Chandra's case. There's not a person ever mentioned that was not accused of being Chandra's murderer save her parents, unless I missed that one as well.

Getting information about missing women is what we do here on justiceforchandra.com. But the more we find, unfortunately, the more it usually points to a silent ex behind a missing woman.

But not in Kelly's case so far. And this city also has the saga of Audrey Seiler's fake disappearance to deal with. No one needs another reenactment of that. Not even Kelly Nolan.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:19 am    Post subject: A reward Reply with quote

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/8373022.html

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Family Offers Reward in Case of Missing UW-Whitewater Student
Silvia Acevedo

MADISON - The family of a missing University of Wisconsin Whitewater student announced a total of $10,000 in reward money for her safe return. The money comes in the form of two $5,000 reward funds.

Kelly Nolan, 22, of Waunakee, has been missing since June 23. She was last seen partying with friends on Madison's State Street the night before her disappearance.

Family has been tight-lipped on the last conversation with her and whether there are any new leads in the case. However, they do say they hope offering a reward will encourage anyone with information to speak up.

The reward has several conditions. It will go to anyone who provides "information resulting in the safe return of Kelly Nolan or the arrest and conviction of a perpetrator involved in a violent crime or homicide," said Kelly's mother, Mary Jane Nolan.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:27 am    Post subject: Just the facts/ new information Reply with quote

http://www.chippewa.com/articles/2007/07/08/ap-state-wi/d8q87em84.txt

Just some more facts to add to the case while typing is difficult to keep it updated.

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Also on Saturday, a Madison cafe owner said an employee reported seeing Nolan early on June 23, the morning she was last seen. The employee walked Nolan toward her home until they ran into another man who said he knew Nolan, according to Tom Paras, the owner of Amy's Cafe.

The employee left Nolan with the other man. Two days later, when he learned of Nolan's disappearance, the employee called police with the information, Paras said.


Police have released few details, saying they don't want to jeopardize the investigation. They have searched through the surveillance tapes of a bar where she was reportedly seen but Nolan wasn't on those tapes, police said.

Family members have been advised not to discuss details of the case.

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Comments: Might be a few leads here they are looking into here they are keeping hush hush. When I meant she wandered off, you know some of these kids have been known to drink and get lost and fall somewhere too. But, now two men have been found who may shed light on this case.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow, what kind of shape was Kelly in for this other guy to say he knew her, versus her indicating she knew him.

This is getting closer to a Natalee Hollaway situation now.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:09 pm    Post subject: A body found Reply with quote

A body has been found.

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http://www.channel3000.com/news/13644473/detail.html

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Police: Body Found During Search Along Highway 14
Investigators Not Confirming That Of Missing Student

POSTED: 8:16 am CDT July 9, 2007
UPDATED: 10:18 am CDT July 9, 2007

MADISON, Wis. -- Police said they found a body at 9 a.m. Monday along Highway 14 in the village of Oregon during a search related to the Kelly Nolan missing person case. Police would not confirm if the body is that of Nolan.

According to police spokesman Joel Despain, the search is now being called a homicide investigation and that hundreds of searchers are still on the scene near the intersection of Highway 14 and MM, WISC-TV reported.

Despain said FBI agents were assisting local authorities into the search of a three-square mile area for evidence into the disappearance.

It's been two weeks since the 22-year-old Nolan disappeared from downtown Madison.

Nolan is a senior at UW-Whitewater. She had been partying with friends in Madison on the night of June 22 and was last heard from later that morning.

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Comments: No confirmation yet but looks like it can be Kelly. Just have to wait.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:20 pm    Post subject: Fox News BroadCast Reply with quote

Just stated the body was found in a rural town. No confirmation but they are indicating it is Kelly.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wouldn't doubt she was drugged so that she didn't know what was going on, if so, by the guy who "knew her".

Where in the world do these insane men come from?

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Like I said....water....

You know, I honestly think that there are things in our past that have been catching up to us, such as medications that we were given as a child and such.....preservatives in the foods that mess with our natural hormones and chemicals.

I'm not making excuses, do not get me wrong, but I firmly believe that there are no "theories of crime" that can make this many wackos out there work.......I think it might be something a little deeper and less known.....
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder whether there are that many more, or is it just that with the internet and with more true crime shows on TV (maybe more of an interest in solving old and current cases because of new methodology) we are hearing about more of these cases? In the past, you would only hear about nearby cases (and not always even those).
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:20 pm    Post subject: Comments Reply with quote

I didn't hear the news conference but heard earlier a bit on Fox (do not know the time) that cell phone pings lead them to investigate.

They did say this was a murder and have a suspect in mind.

That is all till news broadcasts tonight or further links have more details.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haven't done my search for links yet today but probably will later on.

IF anyone has any news on Kelly, please post. I assime it is her and my thoughts go out to her family/friends and that such a young woman is gone.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This am, the news said it was Kelly Nolan- they are sure. I can't find an article to support that, but that was what I heard.

My heart sunk- such a sweet girl with so much life pain. Her sister said she took the death of her father and step mother very hard.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here are some forensic details of the crime scene. Some info on the GPS technology was posted recently in Theresa Parker's case. It didn't help find her, but both thankfully and sadly it helped find Kelly.

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from www.foxnews.com (fair use)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288775,00.html

Investigators Study Body Believed to Be Missing College Student
Associated Press
July 10, 2007

MADISON, Wis. — Investigators worked Tuesday to identify a decomposed body found in rural Wisconsin that is believed to be a missing college student and to gather evidence that could lead to her killer.

A team of experts on the scene included a forensic entomologist who was trying to determine how long the body had been there by studying insects on it, Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain said.

A forensic dentist and a forensic anthropologist were working to identify the body, which police said Monday was probably that of missing University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student Kelly Nolan, 22.

While the forensic experts worked, a team of police officers were on their hands and knees searching the grassy areas near the body for evidence, DeSpain said.

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Police said cell-phone technology led them to mount Monday's massive search in a wooded area 10 miles south of Madison with more than 100 officers and canines trained to recognize Nolan's scent.

The discovery of the body in a wooded area on private property transformed the case from a search for Nolan to a hunt for who murdered her. Police have no suspects so far.

"Hopefully this forensic information coupled together with the tips that are coming in will lead us to a suspect," DeSpain said.

Dane County Coroner John Stanley has said the body was in the wooded area "for an extended period of time" and remained there Tuesday. The body could be taken to a morgue later Tuesday for an autopsy, DeSpain said.

Aric Dutelle, a former death investigator who teaches forensic investigation courses at UW-Platteville, said outdoor crime scenes are tremendously more complex, take longer to process and make bodies harder to identify.

"Insects, scavengers, the environment, those all play heavily into the complexity," he said. "And the general clutter — undergrowth and overgrowth. You don't have that in a living room or a bedroom or a kitchen."

The condition of the body means that authorities will have to match dental records or perform "some sort of test" to make a positive identification, DeSpain said.

Dutelle said the forensic anthropologist could help by establishing a biological profile of the person, including the sex, height, weight, hair color and other identifying features.

"They are brought in when identification of the deceased is very difficult because of its advanced state of decomposition," he said. "In a high humidity environment such as Wisconsin, decomposition occurs rapidly. It's often difficult to judge the sex or race of an individual."

He said the entomologist may be able to establish an approximate time of death and whether the body had been transported from somewhere else by studying the insects around the body. Flies, beetles and other bugs inhabit a decomposing body at different times, he said.

"You get a timeline for how long they have been involved in the decomposition process and whether or not those insects present are indigenous to that area," he said.

Some forensic evidence has already been sent to the state crime lab for testing, which Madison police asked to be expedited, DeSpain said.

Nolan's family, including her mother and two sisters, asked the media Tuesday to refrain from contacting them. The family had pleaded with the public for information on Nolan's whereabouts and offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to her return.

The body was found 110 feet outside of Fitchburg in the Township of Dunn, according to Lt. Todd Stetzer of the Fitchburg police.

FOXNews.com's Adam Riback contributed to this story

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:05 pm    Post subject: Body (positive ID) Reply with quote

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288878,00.html

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Body Is Missing University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Senior Kelly Nolan, Coroner Confirms
Wednesday, July 11, 2007


Kelly Nolan
MADISON, Wis. — A decomposed body found in a densely wooded area is that of a college student who vanished last month, a coroner confirmed late Tuesday.

The body found Monday morning was identified as Kelly Nolan, a 22-year-old University of Wisconsin-Whitewater student, Dane County Coroner John Stanley said in a statement.

Additional forensics tests were expected to continue for several weeks. Stanley said no ruling would be made on the cause of death until then. Officials have said previously they were treating the case as a possible homicide

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