Sara Anne Bushland

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Sara Bushland was past seen successful Spooner, Wisconsin connected April 3rd, 1996 and has ne'er been seen oregon heard from again.

Sara is simply a achromatic woman, 5’0”, and 104 pounds. She has blond/strawberry hairsbreadth and bluish eyes. She has a mole connected the near broadside of her cervix and supra her precocious lip. At the clip of her disappearance, she wore wire-framed glasses. When she was past seen, she was wearing metallic rings connected her close manus and a people ringing with a achromatic stone. Sara whitethorn besides spell by the nickname ‘Bug.

It was astir 4:00 p.m. erstwhile Sara was past seen getting disconnected her schoolhouse autobus astatine the extremity of the driveway of the Lambert residence wherever she lived with her mother, stepfather and stepbrothers successful agrarian Spooner, Wisconsin. There was a dark-colored pickup motortruck driving down the schoolhouse autobus and erstwhile she got disconnected the bus, the motortruck pulled up adjacent to her. Some of those connected the autobus believed that the motortruck belonged to Sara’s 21-year-old boyfriend. From Sara’s assemblage language, she seemed to cognize the operator of the truck. There is conflicting reports, with immoderate saying that they saw her conscionable talking to the operator and others saying that she really got into the truck. The motortruck backed retired of the driveway and went successful the absorption of the adjacent municipality of Trego.

At 4:37pm, Sara’s stepbrother, David called his begetter and mentioned that Sara inactive wasn’t location yet. However, nary 1 was acrophobic arsenic they thought she was astatine a friend’s house. Sara had antecedently been grounded for respective weeks, not allowed to permission the location but for schoolhouse and school-related activities, and this was the archetypal time she wasn’t grounded. Both Sara’s parent and stepfather were retired of municipality that time and hadn’t been readying connected coming location until the pursuing day. When Sara’s parent Marie learned that Sara hadn’t returned from school, she headed to Spooner.

When Sara inactive wasn’t location by 6:20pm, her parent started calling Sara's friends to spot if they had seen oregon heard from Sara. None of them had seen her since they each near school. By 8:00pm that night, her parent started driving astir municipality looking for Sara and visited Sara's fellow Travis’s flat nearby.

Marie reported her girl missing connected April 4. In 1996, instrumentality enforcement wasn’t trained to respond to missing children arsenic rapidly arsenic they are today. Sara was archetypal labeled arsenic a runaway and past arsenic endangered.

Marie and the authorities thought that Sara had ran distant astatine first. She didn’t instrumentality immoderate wealth oregon apparel with her and had nary erstwhile past of moving distant from home. Her begetter and older sister don’t judge that moving distant was a possibility.

Sara had go friends with a radical of radical older than her, including a 21-year-old antheral that she started dating. Her parents did not similar this and told her that she couldn’t day until she was older, but she continued to spot him. Sara and her fellow had luncheon unneurotic the time of her disappearance and helium drove her backmost to schoolhouse for her day classes. He said this is the past clip helium saw her.

Sara’s household believes that she was harmed by idiosyncratic she knew arsenic they bash not deliberation she would person gotten successful a stranger’s car. At the clip of her disappearance, determination was tensions and allegations of maltreatment betwixt Sara and her stepbrothers. Sara was reasoning of moving backmost successful with her begetter and sister successful Chippewa Falls.

According to Sheriff Stuart, instrumentality enforcement conducted the archetypal of respective searches astatine the Lambert spot successful July of 1999 – much than 3 years aft Sara disappeared. He said investigators besides combed done a trash dump connected the spot successful 1999 and dragged adjacent Spring Lake successful August of 2000. Nothing of value was found. Another hunt was done successful May of 2013, erstwhile a radical of much than 70 officials, made up of Washburn County officers and Wisconsin’s Division of Criminal Investigation, searched the Lambert spot erstwhile more. This search, again, didn't crook up anything.

Sara's parent and stepfather passed distant successful 2017 without ever knowing what happened to Sara.

A 4th hunt warrant was executed connected the Lambert’s property. Again, thing of value was found.

Sara's sister and begetter are inactive searching for answers astir what happened to Sara.

No suspects person been named successful Sara’s case. The photograph supra is an age-progressed photograph of Sara to 39 years old.