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Ceremony Friday to mark 7th anniversary of disappearance of Phylicia Thomas.
WILKES-BARRE – Certain that her daughter is dead, Pauline Bailey keeps alive the hope someone, somewhere knows something about where to find her daughter’s body.
Bailey will hold a vigil at 5 p.m. Friday in Kirby Park to mark the seventh anniversary of the disappearance of Phylicia Thomas.
“I want her found,” said Bailey, of the Inkerman section of Jenkins Township.
Thomas went missing from her residence in Lake Township on Feb. 11, 2004. Her body has never been found, but the skull of Jennifer Barziloski, who was missing since 2001 and also knew Thomas, was located on a property in Hunlock Township near the home of a man state police considered a “person of interest” in the disappearance of the women.
Steven Martin, 32, of Ross Township, hanged himself in a state prison in August 2005 while serving a sentence on a vehicular homicide charge.
Martin was reportedly the last person to be seen with Barziloski, 18, of Lake Township, outside an Edwardsville bar on June 23, 2001.
He also acknowledged that he spoke to Thomas the night she disappeared when he phoned her residence looking for her boyfriend Ed Rudaski.
In the past seven years, people have called Bailey.
“They’ll tell me some things, but nothing that can lead to where she is,” said Bailey on Wednesday.
She said she is certain her daughter was murdered. They were close and if she was still alive she would have called, said Bailey.
The disappearance of Thomas remains under investigation and Bailey urged anyone with information to contact state police.
Pauline Bailey said she is certain her daughter was murdered. They were close and if she was still alive she would have called, said Bailey.
