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The mysterious disappearance of a missing mum in the United States took a bizarre turn yesterday after police were scrambled to some barren waste ground.
Ariana Taylor hasn’t been seen for over a week in the Mid West state of Indiana, and relatives are becoming increasingly concerned about her welfare.
Her badly-damaged car was found near a major highway but there was no-sign of the 23-year-old mum of one. Neither her phone or her car keys were found in the vehicle.
It is not confirmed that she was driving the car at the moment that it crashed: "Had to be doing 80-plus miles per hour," Gary Police Commander Jack Hamady told ABC News.
"It did not look like that individual used the brakes at all … [it] went down into a ravine and came to a stop, and had flat tires. Was she being chased?" he asked, "Was she just intoxicated? We're not sure."
"It looked like my daughter was being chased off the expressway right there. I'm not even sure if she was driving," said her mother Queena Taylor. "I have a hunch of foul play. I can't speculate and put anything in perspective, but I can say foul play."
But there were hopes of a break in the case on Sunday, April 10, when police received reports of “a body” wrapped in a plastic sheet being found in a desolate grassy area in the north of the city, only a few miles from where Ariana's car was discovered.
The crime scene was quickly cordoned off and the “body,” still wrapped in tits sheet, was rushed to the Lake County Coroner’s Office.
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“Once it was able to be uncovered it was determined to be a life-sized silicone/rubber type female doll,” Gary police Lieutenant Dawn Westerfield told reporters.
“The body was wrapped completely in a sheet and off the side of the road partially covered,” explained Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr.
“Because of the close proximity to the scene of the missing girl everybody was overly cautious to preserve any potential forensic evidence such as hair or fibres or DNA on the sheet, which is why it was never touched or removed until detective, CSI, as well as the coroner’s office could proceed and photograph the scene before moving any body which is standard procedure,” he added.
Once the body was removed from the scene to an environment where the sheet could be removed properly with the preservation of evidence in mind, he said, it was found to be a doll.
Bizarrely, it is the second sex doll to have been dumped in similar circumstances in Gary in less than a month.
Police says it’s not clear when the dolls were dumped, and are unable to speculate whether the incidents are part of a sick prank related to Ariana’s disappearance.
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