latest news report (I clipped this from CapTimes)
Police, Family and Friends Search for Missing Mt. Horeb Woman
Mt. Horeb Police are asking for help finding a 25-year-old woman who was last seen leaving work around noon Monday.
Tammy Fitzsimons was driving a red 2002 Saturn Vue with Wisconsin license plate 958 KWE.
She is 5'5" tall and weighs about 150 pounds.
Fitzsimons is the mother of a 1-year-old girl, who she failed to pick up from a relative's home yesterday.
"Tammy, if she ever did have a problem, she's from a big family, and she goes to her family for support," the missing woman's mother, Teresa Fitzsimons told 27 News. "This is very out of the ordinary for her."
Fitzsimons lives in Black Earth with her daughter, Olivia, and her daughter's father, Diego Camacho.
Fitzsimons works at Olson's Flowers in downtown Mt. Horeb.
Store owner Bill Olson told 27 News, Fitzsimons was jovial and upbeat during work Monday morning, but did not return from a lunch break. "This was not Tammy, because she was extraordinarily responsible," Olson told 27 News.
"She's a fine young woman, and we're very concerned," Olson says.
Mount Horeb Police Chief Scott Sterland told 27 News Fitzsimons cashed her paycheck at the State Bank of Cross Plains in Mount Horeb shortly after leaving Olson's on her lunch break. Sterland said "pings" from Fitzsimons' cell phone suggest she was in the Mount Horeb area Monday night. But Sterland said the information from the cell phone could be an old location if the cell phone battery was dead.
Fitzsimons' co-worker, Heidi Wittwer told 27 News Fitzsimons confided to her last week she felt she may have been followed by a car during her commute from Black Earth to Mount Horeb. "It kind of freaked her out," Wittwer told 27 News. But Wittwer also said Fitzsimons thought she may just have been "paranoid," and did not report her suspicion about being followed to police. A Mount Horeb Police official told 27 News the incident is being checked out.
Sterland said Fitzsimons remains classified as a missing person. "We've not been able to establish that there's criminal involvement, but we are certainly leaving that open."
Sterland says the search for Fitzsimons has included investigators from the state and Dane County Sheriff's office, and a Department of Natural Resources search plane.
If you have any information, you're asked to call Mt. Horeb Police at 608-437-5522.
Updated: 2007-10-02 19:24:41