WAZINEH SULEIMAN - 30 yo - Bartow Co (E of Macon) GA

Wazineh Suleiman left her five kids at their Bartow County, Ga., home to
rent a movie and never returned. "I have already thought of every
single possibility of what could go wrong and I have no idea," her
husband, Abed Suleiman, said.
Police Tuesday found Wazineh Suleiman's abandoned SUV in an empty
parking lot 12 miles from the Walmart where, her husband said, she went
to rent a movie Friday night.
He had gone to Kentucky Friday on a hunting trip with a friend but
returned to Georgia when he realized he'd confused the dates for when
hunting season begins, he said.
"I pulled into the driveway and my buddy said, 'Hey, your wife's truck
is not there.' I look over and my jaw just dropped," Suleiman said. "I
was in shock. That doesn't make sense. She just doesn't leave without
telling me."
He said he found his kids watching television. The eldest child, he
said, told him that Wazineh Suleiman, 30, had left to rent a movie at
Walmart.
Bartow County law enforcement officials are treating the case as that of a missing endangered person.
"We're still treating it as a missing endangered persons case ... she
might have left on her own," County Sheriff Clark Millsap said. "We hope
that's what happened but until we can substantiate that, then we have
to look at it as it may have escalated on up to something beside a
missing endangered person."
Millsap said that in his personal law enforcement opinion, he doesn't
believe that Suleiman left on her own.
"It's dealing with a 30-year-old woman that kind of stepped away from
five kids and then we found her vehicle abandoned yesterday so it
escalates a little bit more than just a missing endangered person," he
said.
Police are pulling surveillance video to see whether Suleiman ever
entered the Walmart or whether her car was ever parked in its lot.
"There are too many questions that we've got to answer and we're going
to take every avenue that we can to try to get our answers," Millsap
said.
Abed Suleiman told police that he and his wife had exchanged heated text
messages the day of her disappearance. In one text message, Wazineh
Suleiman threatened to throw her phone out the window, Abed Suleiman
told police.
"That was his statement about one text message that he had received,"
Millsap said. "We're looking into that to see if we can corroborate that
and substantiate it and just to see what the exact content of all the
text messages were that night."
Abed Suleiman is not a suspect in his wife's disappearance, police said.
"We don't have any evidence to show that at this time," Millsap said.
"He's not a suspect. He's not a person of interest. ... If we come
across something like that, of course, we will pursue it."
Wazineh Suleiman is a devout Muslim who usually wears a head scarf. Her
husband has used images of her with no headscarf in missing person
posters, hoping someone will recognize her. He said she would not have
left on her own.
"There is no way," he said. "Anybody that know us, a lot of people look
at us and say these guys are a perfect couple and a perfect family."
Police said they hope to talk today to the couple's five children and
the friend who accompanied Abed Suleiman on the hunting trip to
Kentucky.
There is no history of domestic violence between the couple while
they've lived in Bartow County, police said. The couple moved from
Florida to Georgia about two years ago, police said.

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Missing Georgia Mom Wazineh Suleiman Found Alive



Missing Georgia woman Wazineh Suleiman, the mother of five young children who disappeared nearly a week ago, has been found safe and is hiding in an undisclosed location, police told ABC News today.
She is alive and well," Bartow County Sheriff Clark Millsap. "I received a phone call from a sheriff here in the state of Georgia. At her request I will not tell you where she is."
The sheriff's statement indicates that Suleiman, 30, ran away.
"She does not want anyone to know where she is. We are not going to divulge her location at her request," Millsap said.
The sheriff said investigators are interviewing the woman. She was with a friend, police said. The friend called her husband, Abed Suleiman, police said.
Sources told ABC News that Wazineh Suleiman is extremely afraid of her husband.
Before Wazineh Suleiman surfaced, her husband, Abed Suleiman, was questioned for three hours Wednesday night by police.
"I was a suspect ... and they wanted to totally rule me out. They kind of already did that. They just wanted to iron out all the wrinkles and they did that," Abed Suleiman told ABC Affiliate WSBTV as he left the sheriff's office Wednesday night.
Abed Suleiman claimed that his wife had left Friday night to rent a movie from Walmart and never returned. Surveillance video showed that Wazineh Suleiman never entered the Walmart.
Abed had just returned from a canceled hunting trip in Kentucky when he found his wife had disappeared, he claimed.
The two exchanged heated text messages following her disappearance, Abed Suleiman claimed. In the text messages, Wazineh Suleiman cursed at her husband and threatened to throw the phone out the window. "There were two text messages where there was profanity used. We are very religious, very religious...Wazineh would never, ever, ever...talk to me like that or text me like that. She never has and I was saying something is not right," Abed Suleiman said Wednesday.

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