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Family Pleads for Help Finding Blairstown Man
By
Becky Ogann
Story Created:
Nov 16, 2009 at 7:17 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Nov 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM CDT
BENTON COUNTY - The family of a 22-year-old Blairstown man is desperately asking you to take a look at his picture. John Skalsky Junior was last seen Saturday night, and his family is searching for what happened to him.
John Skalsky Junior's family is shocked, stunned, and scared. He left his Blairstown home Saturday night to walk to a party 9 miles away in Norway, but he never made it. Even the Benton County sheriff is calling this case a mystery.
A picture shows a smiling John Skalsky Junior standing next to his fiancee Tara Lafler. They got engaged last month. They're expecting a baby next spring. But the only thing on Lafler's mind is finding her missing fiancee.
"I seen him Saturday morning, we got up and watched TV, then he went out and got groceries," said Lafler. She then left their apartment for work.
She says Skalsky was with friends during the day.
Then Saturday night he left for a party in Norway. He didn't have a car, so he started walking the roughly nine miles, but Skalsky never made it.
His mom was the last person to talk to him around 7:30 that night.
"During the conversation, supposedly some noise she heard, a car pulled up and he said someone is here to give me a ride, and she said do you know them, and he said well, kind of," said Benton County Sheriff Randy Forsyth.
Sheriff Forsyth says no one knows anything about that possible car or even why Skalsky disappeared. Searchers have scoured the area on foot and in the air, especially near railroad tracks between the two towns.
"Union Pacific Railroad had seen someone walking near the tracks probably about that same time, but we didn't find anyone down there," Forsuth said.
And they don't even know for sure if it was Skalsky.
But family and friends are desperately following every lead, hoping to find their loved one.
"Nothing is adding up, just doesn't make any sense, we don't know what to think," said John's mom Brenda Skalsky.
But they know what they want; the guy they call Little John to come home.
Family and friends will continue their search for John early Tuesday morning. They're meeting at the Blairstown fire department at 8:00 a.m.
They're asking anyone, especially those with ATVs, to join their search efforts.
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