Six years. That’s how long six families have waited for answers about their mothers, daughters, sisters and friends who went missing from Chillicothe.
“With her being gone this long and not getting in touch with me, it scares me," Yvonne Boggs told 3News. She's the mother of Charlotte Trego, one of the missing women.
"It scares me that she is gone, that she is one of these victims."
Now, a podcast is looking back at the disappearances that have haunted Chillicothe since 2014. "True Crime Chronicles," a podcast by VAULT Studios, talked with reporters from 3News and 10TV in Columbus who extensively covered the searches for the missing women. The episode about the disappearances will be available Monday.
You can download and subscribe to "True Crime Chronicles" on any podcast platform, including Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher and Apple Podcasts. You also can listen to the latest episode in the player below when it is released on Monday.
The disappearances started on May 3, 2014, when Trego went missing. She was a 27-year-old mother of two when she vanished.
Boggs reported Trego missing after not seeing her for two weeks. According to the police report, Trego left home on foot after her roommate evicted her.
Tameka Lynch vanished a few weeks later. Lynch, 30, was a mother of three; her husband reported her missing on May 20, 2014 and said he had not seen her since May 16.
“I heard from her every, single day no matter what," said Angie Robinson, Lynch’s mother. “I knew something was wrong when I went two days without hearing from her.
"It’s changed my whole world. It will never be the same again,” Robinson said.
Nearly six months later, on Nov. 4, 2014, Wanda Lemons disappeared. The 37-year-old mother of five was last seen by her mother, who said that her daughter told her that she planned on taking a trip to Texas with a truck driver to visit family.
Shasta Himelrick was 20 and pregnant when she disappeared after spending Christmas night 2014 with her family. The next morning she was seen on a gas station’s surveillance video in Chillicothe. Her car was found abandoned 20 minutes out of town near the Scioto River. The car doors were open and the battery was dead.
Timberly Claytor, 38, a mother of five and grandmother of one, disappeared in May 2015. Tiffany Sayer, 26, also went missing that month. She was last seen at the Chillicothe Inn with two men on May 11, 2015, and she had told a friend she planned on stopping by the motel again before heading home.
To date, four of the missing women have been found deceased.
Lynch's body was found in Paint Creek the same month she disappeared. Authorities stated that she overdosed on drugs; however, her death was ruled as caused by “undetermined circumstances.”
On May 11, 2014, Sayer's body was found by hikers near Paint Creek, about a mile from where Lynch’s body was located. She had been shot, wrapped in a white sheet and left in a culvert.
Her death was ruled a homicide.
And as the community gathered for a vigil for the missing women on May 29, 2015, Claytor's body was found in weeds near an abandoned building six miles south of Chillicothe, in Massieville. The discovery was made a few hundred yards off U.S. 23, a highway known as a drug trafficking route. She had been shot three times in the head.
Himelrick's body was found Jan. 2, 2015 in the Scioto River, just eight days after she went missing. Her death was ruled a suicide by drowning.
Lemons and Trego are still missing.
Trego is 5 feet 4 inches tall and she weighs 160 pounds. She has brown hair and blue eyes. Lemons is five feet 7 inches tall and weight 135 pounds. She has brown hair and blue eyes.
Anyone with information should call the Chillicothe Missing Persons Task Force, at (740) 774-FIND (3463). Callers may remain anonymous. Those with information also can email findme@rosssheriff.com.
WKYC’s 3News' Phil Trexler and 10TV reporter Bryant Somerville contributed to this story.
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