missing but not forgotten
Eva DeBruhl, age-progression, 2006.
CUE Joins Search in One of SC’s Oldest Missing Persons Cases
Age progression image and more aid search for Eva DeBruhl, missing since 1977
Wilmington, N.C. – Fifteen-year old Eva had been mowing the lawn at her Rock Hill-area home on June 29, 1977, when she went inside to prepare a glass of iced tea and run a bath. The glass of ice (the tea had not yet been poured) was later found untouched, as was the bath, and she was nowhere to be found. A recliner was stretched out and the television left on. She has not been seen or heard from since.
It was later determined that she went missing between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. that day, while her mother was sleeping after working the third shift at a local mill. Her parents reported that Eva never left to visit friends or anything without telling them. Eva’s disappearance has haunted her family ever since. Even up to one week before her father died in 1997, he was at the local sheriff's department trying to get answers into his daughter's disappearance.
Last year, Eva’s family requested help from the Community United Effort (CUE) Center for Missing Persons, and since then, CUE founder Monica Caison has pulling out all the stops to end the family’s 30-year nightmare. Since CUE became involved, Eva has been featured on a national road tour; her case was aired on the television show “Miissing,” and; she is now listed with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and other agencies nationwide. Last March, law enforcement officials entered Eva in CODIS and released an age progression photo of her.
“Much more is planned for the case,” Mrs. Caison said. “The fact that it’s been 30 years since she disappeared makes the search considerably harder, but Eva’s case is no less deserving of our time, and no less important than any of our other cases. We will do whatever we can to help this family.”
Mrs. Caison arrived in South Carolina late Thursday, and will remain in Rock Hill over the weekend, promoting Eva's case, meeting with law enforcement officials and working with the family on setting new case goals. Along with additional CUE volunteers, she will join Eva’s family Saturday in Rock Hill, where they will conduct a poster distribution campaign in an effort to gain information on what is believed to be one of the oldest open cases of a child missing from South Carolina.
Next week would mark Eva’s 45th birthday.
Anyone with information about Eva DeBruhl is asked to call the York County Sheriff’s Office at (803) 628-3059, any local law enforcement agency, or the CUE Center for Missing Persons’ confidential tip line at (910) 232-1687
