“It’s been a rollercoaster ride and I’m hurting,” Cathy told Dateline. I know it.” Sheriff Edwards told Dateline that they “do not have any evidence that points to foul play at this time.” He added that they are following every lead and encourage anyone with information to call the sheriff’s office. “She didn’t just walk away and if she was hurt, we would’ve found her,” Cathy’s mother told Dateline. Jessica’s mother Cathy believes there’s foul play involved in her daughter’s disappearance. Jessica’s family and friends have also formed search parties and started their own investigations, hoping to find some answers. “It’s important to us that we find her - and we aren’t giving up.” “We’re exhausting all options in order to find her,” Sheriff Edwards said. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has also aided in the search. Other law enforcement agencies, including personnel from Mississippi Wildlife and Fisheries, Union County Search and Rescue, Mississippi Highway Patrol have searched the river and river bottom on foot, using ATV vehicles and boats. Two cadaver dogs from Huntsville, Alabama, and their handlers also searched the river over the weekend. On January 9, after the flooring had subsided, six divers entered the 42-degree waters, but found nothing. It is not known what else she was wearing that day. Heavy brush on the river banks were searched and Sheriff Edwards told Dateline that a coat they believe Jessica had been wearing was found.
A Mississippi Highway Patrol helicopter searched the river and river bottom downstream from County Road 46. Instead, drones with thermal imaging cameras searched the river bottom between the Tallahatchie and Highway 30. He’s autistic and doesn’t understand why she’s not here.” Sheriff Edwards told Dateline that search and rescue teams were deployed, but because the river had flooded from heavy rain that pounded the area at the end of December, divers were not immediately able to go in the water. “They are very close… she would never, never miss his birthday. “January 2 was her brother’s 15th birthday,” Cathy explained tearfully. When January 2 came and went without any sign of her daughter, Cathy knew something was wrong. Hours felt like days for Jessica’s mother, Cathy, who said she couldn’t sleep as she waited to hear from authorities. that evening that the Union County Sheriff’s Department was informed of her disappearance, Sheriff Edwards told Dateline. Sheriff Edwards told Dateline that Jessica’s cell phone was later turned in by an individual who stated that he had it because Jessica and Baggett had planned to call him on it to be picked up at the end of their boating trip that day.
Her purse and car keys were left behind, he confirmed.
They were on the water for a couple of hours when Jessica reportedly got out of the boat and made her way toward the north river bank in the direction of State Highway 30, Baggett told the sheriff’s office. According to Sheriff Jimmy Edwards with the Union County Sheriff’s Office, Jessica’s boyfriend, Jerry Wayne Baggett, told law enforcement officials that he and Jessica had launched a boat into the river near the County Road 46 bridge in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. Right now, I don’t have a good feeling at all.” Jessica Nicole Stacks Jessica, of New Albany, Mississippi, was last seen on Friday, January 1, 2021. “My soul is telling me that something is very, very wrong,” Jessica’s mother, Cathy Story, told Dateline. It’s been 10 days since 28-year-old Jessica Nicole Stacks disappeared somewhere along the Tallahatchie River in Union County, Mississippi, and her family fears the worst. Jessica remains missing in somewhere in/near the Little Tallahatchie River, on the boundary of Holly Springs National Forest. A phone was turned in by a man who said he had Jessica's phone because the couple was supposed to call him when they were ready to be picked up.ĭive teams, cadaver dogs, drones with thermal imaging equipment and a helicopter from MHP have assisted in the search efforts no indication of Jessica has been found as of this date. From public reports, there is no mention of Jessica's state of mind, or of her intentions. Local Sheriff's office does not believe there is any evidence of foul play, and footprints were visible in the area. Jessica Nicole Stacks and her boyfriend, Jerry Wayne Baggett, launched a boat into the Tallahatchie River on New Year’s Day near a bridge on County Road 46.īaggett said that Stacks exited the boat and began walking along the riverbank toward Highway 30.
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