IVY DAWN MERCK-24 yo-Athens Clark County GA

Camden native reported missing

08/29/2012


BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — BocaNewsNow.com has learned that a
woman missing from Georgia — 24 year old Ivy Dawn Merck — may be
Deerfield Beach. Friends of the young woman emailed us to share local
news reports that her cell phone reportedly pinged off a tower in Boca
Raton.

She was last seen August 23rd in Kingsland, Georgia, which is roughly 30 miles north of Jacksonville.

The Broward County Sheriff's Office just released this update:

Broward Sheriff's Office missing persons detectives are
helping Georgia law enforcement look for a missing woman whose vehicle
was found Wednesday night in Deerfield Beach. Ivy Dawn Merck , 24, was
last seen August 23 in Kingsland, Ga. Her dark green 2008 Honda CRV was
found around 10 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of a Marshalls store
at 3850 W. Hillsboro Blvd., Deerfield Beach.

Merck is 5-foot-1 and weighs 115 pounds. She has brown eyes and light
brown hair. Anyone with information about Merck can report it to BSO
Det. Chris Blankenship, who is working with the Kingsland (Ga.) Police
Department, at (954) 321-4268 or anonymously report information to Crime
Stoppers of Broward County at (954) 493-TIPS (9477) or online at
www.browardcrimestoppers.org
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08/31/2012
Woman's disappearance remains a mystery24-year-old Kingsland woman last seen at animal clinic Aug. 23



KINGSLAND, Ga. -

Investigators
and the family of a missing 24-year-old Kingsland woman are very
concerned that she hasn't been seen or heard from in eight days.

Ivy Merck didn't show up for work in Athens on Aug. 23, and her family says it's unlike her to just disappear.
Camden
County deputies said Merck was last seen in Kingsland at Laurel Oaks
Animal Hospital near Interstate 95. Her car was found in South Florida
two days ago, but there was no sign of her.
At least four different agencies in two states are trying to solve the mystery and bring Merck home safe.
"She
always showed up when she said she would, and she was just a beautiful,
conscientious young lady, and for her to just go missing is very
strange," said Deputy William Terrel, of the Camden County Sheriff's
Office.
That's why detectives are so concerned about Merck, a University of Georgia graduate who grew up in Kingsland.
"We have to assume that there may be something wrong," Terrel said. "It would be unsafe and unwise to assume otherwise."

Investigators
said people started to notice something may be wrong when Merck didn't
show up for work last week at a vet clinic in Athens. Her roommate
didn't know where she went.
Investigators
said Merck went to the animal hospital in Kingsland to board her dog.
The owner of the clinic didn't want to comment Friday.
Deputies in Broward County, Fla., found Merck's SUV at a shopping center in Deerfield Beach on Wednesday.
"We
don't want to talk about what was in the car," Terrel said. "Some of
her belongings were in the car. It was clearly her vehicle. She had been
in it."
Merck's
father, who lives in Kingsland, told detectives he could not imagine
who his daughter could be with. He said he's called her friends and
nobody knows what happened to her. And he told investigators he doesn't
know of anyone that his daughter may have ongoing problems with.
So for now, police from many different agencies continue to search for the young woman, hoping she'll turn up safe and sound.
"We're
doing everything we can to find her, trying to understand what
happened, the sequence of events, who spoke to her last, and try to work
backwards," Terrel said.
Merck is described as being 5 feet 1 inch tall and about 115 pounds, with brown eyes and dark blonde to brown hair.
Anyone
with information on Merck's whereabouts should call the Camden County
Sheriff's Office at 912-729-1442 or the Broward Sheriff's Office at
954-321-4268.
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