BIANCA PIPER - 13 yo (2005) - Lincoln County MO

The family of missing teen Bianca Piper is hoping for a miracle like
the one the families of Shawn Hornbeck and Jaycee Lee Dugard got.
Five years ago today, 13-year-old Bianca disappeared from her
neighborhood in Lincoln County after her mother, Shannon Tanner, drove
her to a bridge down the street from their home and let her out of the
car.
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Tanner thought walking back to their home on the gravel road would
give Bianca a chance to calm down after a quarrel over chores. The girl
suffers from bipolar and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, and
the walks were recommended by her therapist, Tanner said.
After weeks of searching, police said they believed that Bianca was a victim of foul play.
Lincoln County Detective Chris Bartlett, who has worked on Bianca’s case from the beginning, said the story remains a cold case.
“There’s nothing really new to report unfortunately,” he said.
“We’ve been surveying other cases across the United States trying to
find some similar connection, but there’s just been no success there.”
In the past year, a lot of things have changed for Bianca’s family,
said Carol Young, Bianca’s grandmother. Bianca’s father, David Piper,
51, died of a heart attack in the fall.
“I’m sure that the stress from worrying about his daughter probably
had a lot to do with it because every time I talked to him he just
dwelled on to it,” Young said. “He did let it get him down.”
Bianca’s mother moved away from her Foley home to an apartment in St. Charles.
“She stayed in that house for a long time, but she recently moved
into an apartment, and she had to pack up all of Bianca’s belongings
and that was rough,” Young said.
In addition, Bianca’s older sister had a baby girl, so Bianca’s got a niece she’s never seen, Young said.
Bianca would be 18 now, and Young said it is strange to think of her as a grown up.
“You kind of wonder if she would be into the same kind of music and
clothes that her sisters are into,” she said. “When she disappeared she
was into horses and Barbies; she was still a little girl at heart.”
Young said Tanner and her friends will be handing out fliers today,
like they have the past four years at the stop signs at Winfield and
Foley.
“If Bianca’s still out there, we have a lot of catching up to do,
and if she’s not, I wish somebody would come forward and say this is
what we know, and let us get on with our lives.”
Anyone with information about Bianca is urged to call the Criminal
Investigations Division of the Lincoln County’s Sheriff’s Department at
636-528-8546.

More than five years have passed since a Lincoln County family
started the search for their missing daughter.

Bianca Piper disappeared in March 2005. Her mother, Shannon Tanner, said
she dropped off her then 13-year-old daughter about a mile from her
home - hoping to calm her down after an argument.

Since Bianca's disappearance, authorities have followed up on hundreds
of leads... but there is still no sign of the teen.

Tuesday is National Missing Children's Day. It's a day set aside to
bring awareness to the public about the growing problem of missing
children.

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