ODESSA, Texas —
UPDATE: The Odessa Police Department has announced that Brittany Sawyer has been safely located.
At this time there are no additional details and we will continue to update this story as we receive more information.
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The Odessa Police Department provided more information about missing person, Brittany Sawyer.
The timeline is:
- April 25th - Brittany went home from school early
- April 26th - She texted her supervisor she’d be out the rest of the week
- April 28th - She texted her supervisor she’d be out another week
- May 2nd - ECISD was contacted by Sawyer's landlord who brought her ECISD belongings to the district per request of Sawyer
- "ECISD personnel were contacted by the landlord of the house that Ms. sawyer was living at, and the landlord brought her ID badge and computer, and those things that were owned by ECISD back to ECISD and told ECISD basically that Ms. Sawyer asked the landlord to bring that stuff back to ECISD," said Gerke.
- May 4th - ECISD did a welfare check and determined her home was vacant
- May 10th - Reported to OPD by ECISD employee
- "It was first reported to us on May 10th," said Gerke. "Our front desk personnel received that information from an ECISD employee. Because ECISD had no more contact with her on May 10th, they contacted us and filed a missing persons report."
"There still have been no threats involved here, there’s no indication with Ms. Sawyer that anyone has threatened her or anything like that," said Gerke. "We decided to post yesterday because we had kind of come to a dead end with the investigation. It wasn’t moving any further, so we asked for additional help."
"We do take these things very seriously, and we do handle a number of these every week, and the vast majority of these things work out very well and the ones that don’t work out in the short term we still take very seriously," said Gerke. "There’s a lead detective assigned to this case right now, she has been at it all day."
ECISD said in a statement:
"We are concerned for Brittany and are working with OPD. We are hopeful this report will lead to information that will help us locate her."
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The Odessa Police Department is asking for the public’s help finding a missing person.
Brittany Sawyer, 35, was last seen on April 30 in Odessa.
She is approximately 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 130 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Police said she doesn’t have a car and is frequently seen walking.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is encouraged to contact OPD at 432-333-3641 or Odessa Crime Stoppers at 432-333-TIPS and reference Case #23-0005367.