A Missouri mom has been missing since she vanished from her home on Mother’s Day — and her family has vowed that they’re “never going to stop fighting” to find her.
Echo Lloyd, 47, was reported missing after her daughter, Kelsey Smith, went to deliver a Mother’s Day card and flowers May 10 and didn’t find her at her home in Edwards, NBC’s “Dateline” reported.
“Her car wasn’t in the driveway and the door was locked,” Smith told the program.
“So I left the card and flowers on the back porch and wrote her a note telling her to call me.”
She tried to contact her mother the following day when she hadn’t heard from her, but the calls to her cell and home phone kept going straight to voicemail.
“It was just odd,” Kelsey said. “When the house phone went to voicemail, I knew something wasn’t right.”
Kelsey went back over to the house, where she broke one of the windows to get inside.
“I could tell someone else had been there – someone, but not my mother,” Kelsey said.
“It wasn’t ransacked, but there was a pile of trash… and food with mold. That’s not like my mother at all. She’s OCD. She wouldn’t have left the house like this.”
Her car was there this time along with her mother’s purse, wallet and ID — but other items were nowhere to be found, Dateline reported.
“What I couldn’t find was my mom’s cell phone, her medications, her pistol and her car keys,” Kelsey told the program.
A reward has been increased to up to $7,000 for information that leads to the whereabouts of Echo Michelle Lloyd FacebookShe called authorities, who determined there had been no activity on her cell phone or bank account, news station KY3 reported.
“She’s on several medications that she does not have with her,” Benton County Sheriff Eric Knox told the outlet.
“Nor does she have her billfold or her car. She is absolutely missing without a trace.”
Now that months have gone without answers, Kelsey said the family fears that foul play was involved in her mother’s disappearance.
“She wouldn’t just walk away from her family,” Kelsey said.
They’re now offering a $7,000 reward for any information about her whereabouts.
“You want to hold on to hope that she is safe,” Kelsey said. “But after so many months, it’s really hard to keep that hope alive. But we’re never going to stop fighting for her.”
