Heather Teague

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www.whereisheatherteague.com

Heather Teague was abducted in broad daylight from a beach in Spottsville Kentucky where she was lieing out in the sun. A witness would come forward to say that he saw Heather being drug into the woods by a bearded man with a gun. This man who saw the abduction was seeing it through a high powered telescope from a location far from the beach. The suspect would be later identified as Marvin Dill. Before police could question Dill, he supposidly shot himself in the head. Several years later the investigation would stall and a persistent mother would obtain the autopsy report on Marvin Dill. It would show that he had no exit wounds consistent with a shotgun blast to the head. Many other questions continued to be raised as to who was involved with the disappearance of Heather Teague. Her family still continues to search for her. Please visit her website for more information. Please help find Heather

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10 Years Pass, Teague's Mom Demands Answers
Aug 26, 2005, 03:03 PM
Reporter: Shannon Samson
New Media Producer: Kerry Corum

Friday marks the ten-year anniversary of the disappearance of Heather Teague. A witness claims to have seen someone drag her from a Henderson County beach at gunpoint. She hasn't been heard from since. And to this day, her mother holds out hope she will be found, and wonders why Kentucky State Police haven't located her. She's not the only one.

Sarah Teague is moving all the mementos of her daughter into a new house, where she knows she will be much happier - that is, if the void in her heart is finally filled. She doesn't blame the new detective assigned to her daughter's missing persons case, but she thinks the initial ones were negligent and inept. It's only been in the last year that she's found out about blood stains on the inside tailgate of suspect Marty Dills' Bronco - the same Bronco investigators pulled a hair out of in 1995.

Authorities have just recently taken a saliva sample from 40-year-old Christopher Below, currently behind bars, after confessing to the murder of a young woman in Ohio. It was the investigator in the Kathern Fetzer murder case that tracked down Below in Evansville in 2003, and started asking questions about other unsolved cases in the region. He and Evansville Police Detective Brent Melton originally tried to link the western Kentucky native to five missing or murdered women. They just added Erica Lee Fraysure of Brooksville, Kentucky and Laney Gwinner of Fairfield, Ohio to that list. Fraysure disappeared in October of 1997, Gwinner vanished two months later. Her body was eventually found in the Ohio River.

Detectives say there are just too many similarities in the cases of these seven women, but won't give specifics for fear of information being leaked to Below in prison. Detective Melton says the Heather Teague case is still technically in the hands of Kentucky State Police, but if it were his investigation, he would focus more on the possibility that Dill was only an accomplice in the kidnapping. Melton says enhancement of the crime scene video shows a man he believes looks like a clean-shaven Dill sitting in the driver's seat of his Bronco, while someone else appears to be ransacking Heather's car. The most compelling evidence to him, is how Below's torso appears to be identical to the sketch of the suspect, described by the only eyewitness.

Sarah Teague is relieved that now, it's not just her questioning the investigation, and pleased that a billboard in Henderson is reminding people that Heather has been gone ten long years. She still holds out hope that she's alive, but knows it is unlikely.

Detective Tim Rascoe of the Kentucky State Police is currently in charge of the Teague investigation. He did respond to an email request for an interview, only to refer us to a community relations person for the state police in Frankfort. Even Governor Ernie Fletcher is involved in declaring August 26th, Heather Teague Day across the Commonwealth.

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Missing Adult: Heather Danyelle Teague

Teague was sunbathing at Newburgh Beach in Henderson County, Kentucky on August 26, 1995. A witness was observing the beach area through a telescope from across the Ohio River at approximately 12:45 PM. The witness told authorities that he saw a Caucasian man approach Teague at that time. The abductor allegedly grabbed Teague by the hair and dragged her into the woods off of Newburgh Beach at gunpoint. The abductor was approximately 6'0 and weighed 210 - 230 pounds. He had brown hair and a bushy brown beard. The suspect was wearing jeans and did not have shirt. He was also reported to be wearing a wig and a mosquito net at the time he reportedly abducted Teague.

Teague was last seen wearing a red plaid bathing suit. Authorities searched the Newburgh Beach area later in the day and discovered part of her suit near the alleged abduction site. Additional evidence was also located, but nothing investigators found could lead them to Teague's location. She has never been heard from again.
Marty Dill, a resident of Henderson County, Kentucky, had been pulled over during a routine traffic stop by police in February 1995, six months prior to Teague's disappearance. Dill matched the description of Teague's abductor and also drove a red Ford Bronco, which was identical to a vehicle a witness reported was parked next to Teague's car on Newburgh Beach. Authorities discovered two guns, two knives, duct tape, rubber gloves and rope in Dill's vehicle at the time of his February 1995 traffic stop. Investigators received several tips connecting Dill to Teague's case in August 1995 and arrived at his home to question him. Dill reportedly told his wife to leave their residence after becoming alerted to law enforcement's presence. He then committed suicide before officers could enter his home.

Prosecutors compiled available evidence against Dill after his death and brought the information before a grand jury. Dill's wife was called as a witness during the grand jury phase, but she invoked her Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer any questions about Teague's abduction. Teague's disappearance remains unsolved. Foul play is suspected due to the circumstances involved in her case.

Contact Information

Kentucky State Police 270-826-3312
National Center for Missing Adults 800-690-FIND
Case Updates

04-AUG-05 Fletcher Declares "Heather Teague Day"
--(WFIE-TV)
27-FEB-05 Sleuth casts a wide Net for the missing

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Reporter: Shannon Samson
Web Producer: Amber Griswold
There is a new development in a story we've been reporting exclusively on Newswatch.
Detectives executed a search warrant in an Evansville home last week that may have implications in the nine year old Heather Teague missing persons case.
Last Wednesday, Detective Scott Thomas from the Medina, Ohio Police Department joined Evansville Police in the execution of a search warrant at a home on Sorenson Avenue on the city's west side. It's where the fiancee of Chris Below is living.
Investigators were looking for a lock box containing material that connects Below to some cases of missing or murdered women, including Heather Teague.
Thirty-nine-year-old western Kentucky native, Christopher Below, is currently serving time in prison after confessing to the 1991 murder of his former lover, Kathern Fetzer in Medina, Ohio. He never told authorities where to find her body.
In the search warrant affidavit for Below's fiancee's home, detectives say they believe Below is possibly involved in the 1995 disappearance and assumed murder of Heather Teague.
They say Below was living in the Henderson area at the time and abruptly moved away right after Teague disappeared. They say Below had been living near the original suspect in the case, Marty Dill, who committed suicide before police could question him.
The only witness in the case, Tim Walthall, maintains to this day that it was Marty Dill he saw through a telescope, drag Teague off the beach at gunpoint.
But detectives say in the affidavit that Walthall has identified Below in three different photographic line-ups as the person he possibly saw on the beach that day. The document also mentions evidence relating to Below's shoe size and his distinctive posture.
Besides the Teague case, investigators searched for evidence linking below to the unsolved murder of Andrea Hendrix-Steinert, a 28-year-old Evansville woman with a history of prostitution. She was found nude and strangled in a Gibson County ditch in 1997.
The affidavit also mentions a missing persons case in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Earlier this month, Newswatch confirmed that it's the case of Kristina Porco, a teenager who made a phone call from a supermarket pay phone in 1986 and was never seen again.
And now, Piqua, Ohio Detectives say they're trying to connect Below to the missing persons case of Shaylene Farrell. The 18-year-old disappeared in 1994, after leaving the house to run an errand. Her car was found in the parking lot of a supermarket where she worked.
Detectives find it interesting that the victims all resemble each other and are in the same age group. They say they can place Below at some of the crime scenes and speculate his travels as a truck driver may have put him at the others.
Chris Below's sisters were the ones who had told detectives they had seen him with a lock box full of information about missing females. Investigators say it's common for kidnappers or mass murderers to keep such things to serve as trophies. The search warrant executed last week did not turn up a lock box, but investigators were able to find evidence they say is helping them build a case against Below.
Of all those women, Andrea Hendrix is the only one whose body has been found. Detectives only think Below was involved in this case because Hendrix looks like the other victims. Luckily, there is DNA evidence that will either rule him out or implicate him. It will be tested soon.