WELD COUNTY, Colo. — More than 10 years have passed since a girl from Mead disappeared, with no leads within the case.
Nicole Silvers would have turned 27 in late June. Her disappearance, and the next chilly case, is “maddening,” a lead investigator mentioned.
Nicole was final seen going into her good friend’s home on Sundown Road in Longmont, throughout from Loomiller Park, round 3:30 a.m. on April 9, 2014. She was simply 16 years outdated.
Her sister Jessica Silvers was the final individual to see her.
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“I picked her up from her good friend Dana’s home in Longmont,” Jessica remembered. “It was most likely midnight after I picked her up. We went to Wendy’s and drove round and talked. Once I dropped her again off at a good friend’s home, I watched her stroll inside and this was most likely shut to 3 within the morning.”
As we speak, she performs these conversations time and again in her thoughts, questioning if her sister had hinted at one thing that she missed on the time.
“However she genuinely appeared happier than I’d seen her in a very long time,” Jessica mentioned.
At first, the household thought Nicole ran away, mentioned her mom Barbara Silvers.
“She’d been staying with a good friend as a result of we would been having some points — principally typical teenage points blown out of proportion,” Barbara mentioned.
Whereas members of the family mentioned they hope Nicole remains to be alive, they’ve grimly accepted that additionally they must be lifelike.
“We have saved that hope in our hearts yearly and on daily basis primarily, hoping the cellphone will ring or the doorbell will ring and there she’ll be,” Nicole’s father Kevin Silvers mentioned.
Weld County Chilly Case Detective Byron Kastilahn mentioned the investigation has not uncover any leads or motives. Household and associates contacted the sheriff’s workplace after Nicole didn’t present as much as work at Mead Pizza Plus or seize her paycheck, they usually couldn’t attain her.
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She left her favourite blanket and e book in her room, he mentioned.
“It is simply maddening what the probabilities could possibly be,” Kastilahn mentioned. “I’ve by no means even heard of a case much like this, the place you realize it seems to be like each: It might have been an abduction or runaway. Thirty-two of my instances — I both know who did it (however) I can not show it, or I do know who did it however I am by no means going to get a confession.”
He mentioned Nicole had a boyfriend on the time, however he was in Mississippi on the time. He informed investigators that she hitchhiked usually, they usually discovered that after she was reported lacking, her cellphone pinged one time within the Del Camino space, south of Mead.
Investigators had been in a position to pull her cellular phone data, however all of the numbers she had not too long ago communicated together with her accounted for, he mentioned.
“There wasn’t an odd quantity, like ‘Who is that this?’” Kastilahn mentioned.
Nicole mentioned she wished keep round for Kyle, her youthful brother, Barbara mentioned.
“However we by no means heard from her once more and as time goes on, we surprise if one thing occurred to her,” she mentioned.
As Nicole’s sister and the final individual to see her, Jessica mentioned she feels a way of duty, and suffered from guilt for a very long time.
“However when it comes all the way down to it, there’s nothing I might’ve carried out about it,” she mentioned.
She mentioned she can be comfortable to even obtain a cellphone name from Nicole saying, “Hey, I by no means need to see you once more however I am OK,” Jessica mentioned.
“Simply so we all know,” Kevin mentioned. “Inform everyone that you just love that you just love them since you by no means know what tomorrow goes to carry.”
Nothing that can cease the Silvers from sharing Nicole’s story.
“If she’s on the market and she or he’s in a state of affairs she does not need to be in, she wants any person to assist her. So, everybody’s gotta maintain their eyes open,” Barbara mentioned.
Kastilahn shared the beneath age development images of Nicole, exhibiting what she might seem like at 21 and 23 years outdated.
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When you’ve got any leads or know the place Nicole is, contact the Weld County Sheriff’s Workplace at 970-400-2827.
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