Divers Searching for Missing Woman Last Seen at West Virginia Casino Two Decades Ago

A volunteer dive team has arrived in West Virginia to search for a woman who vanished 19 years ago after she was last seen at an area casino. The FBI Missing Persons poster for Karen S. Adams, who was last seen more than 19 years ago at a casino in West Virginia. A volunteer search and rescue dive group is planning to explore the Ohio River in search of Adams, who disappeared in March 2007. (Image: FBI) Karen Adams was 54 years old when she disappeared without a trace in the early morning hours of Monday, March 12, 2007. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reports that Adams was last seen at the Mountaineer Casino Resort in New Cumberland. Located in West Virginia’s northern panhandle in Hancock County, the Mountaineer Casino is less than 10 miles west of the Pennsylvania border and Independence Township, a Pittsburgh suburb, where Adams lived. The FBI says Adams made the short trip from her home to the casino, driving her red/maroon 2005 Suzuki Forenza sedan. Adams was at the casino playing bingo. Surveillance footage captured her leaving the bingo room around 11 pm Sunday (March 11, 2007), making her way to the general casino floor to play slot machines. Casino cameras captured her at approximately 3 a.m. on the morning of March 12, 2007, leaving the gambling complex. She has not been seen nor heard from since that time. Her car has also not been located.” FBI Pittsburgh Field Office At the time, the Mountaineer Casino Resort was operated by Eldorado Resorts. The company, which has since become Caesars Entertainment, sold the racino to Century Casinos and Vici Properties in 2019. Search Continues There have been few clues over the past 19 years as to what might have happened to Adams. While her family told law enforcement that she had a gambling problem, as she frequented the casino despite working as a teacher’s aide, they don’t believe she purposely disappeared or committed self-harm. Though police say the case remains active, it’s considered cold, with no suspect publicly named. If her vehicle accidentally or purposely drove off the road and into the Ohio River, Illinois-based Chaos Divers hopes to find it and bring closure to Adams’ family and friends. Chaos Divers is a volunteer organization, funded by its YouTube and Facebook platforms, that uses sonar to locate missing persons and solve cold cases in waterways. With 23 cases solved, Chaos Divers hopes to complete case No. 24 in West Virginia. Once we locate a vehicle we’re able to mark that with some pretty heavy-duty magnets, and then we dive down, figure out what it is. If it’s the vehicle that we are looking for, we call in law enforcement, and from there the process begins of removing the vehicle and the remains inside,” Lindsay Bussick, of Chaos Divers, said in an interview with WTOV9. “Even if we don’t find somebody, these families are so appreciative that somebody’s even bothering to take the time to look,” Bussick continued. “A lot of these cases are cold cases. There are no leads, so where does law enforcement go? And that’s where we can come in.” The post Divers Searching for Missing Woman Last Seen at West Virginia Casino Two Decades Ago appeared first on Casino.org.