Police say that on the night after a Maryland mother disappeared, she boarded a county bus near the fast-food restaurant where her husband had last seen her.
Two of her Catherine Hoggle's children are also missing, and family and friends are desperate for answers.
Authorities say Hoggle slipped out the back door of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Germantown late Monday, shortly after her husband realized their two youngest children were missing, and he told her he wanted to go to police. On the way to speak to authorities, the couple stopped at the Chick-Fil-A. That was when Hoggle apparently slipped out a back door.
Their 2-year-old son, Jacob, has not been seen since Sunday morning. Her 3-year-old daughter, Sarah, was last seen Monday morning.
On Friday, Montgomery County Police released surveillance video of Hoggle in a Germantown office building around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, just hours after she left the Chick-fil-A. The building is in the area of Route 118 (Germantown Road) between Interstate 270 and the Germantown Commons shopping center.
Authorities say Hoggle has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and had stopped taking her medication.
On Friday, police announced that Hoggle apparently boarded a Ride-On bus near the Chick-fil-A on Tuesday night. She rode the bus to the transit center at the Lake Forest Mall in Gaithersburg and got off.
There have been no reported sightings of Sarah or Jacob.
In her absence, Hoggle has been charged with two counts of misdemeanor child neglect.
Family and friends are planning a candlelight vigil in the Chick-fil-A parking lot Saturday night.
The vigil is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of the Chick-fil-A in the Germantown Town Center at 19945 Century Blvd. in Germantown.
Troy Turner, the children's father, said he's been looking for them himself and passing out fliers around the clock. Family and friends have handed out more than 10,000.
Turner said he doesn't think Hoggle would hurt their children.
"Her thinking, in her right or her wrong mind, wouldn't do anything on purpose to harm the children," he said. "Whatever she's doing, she has a skewed version of reality. She believes she's protecting our children."
He thinks someone may be helping her stay out of sight.
Police said Friday that they remain concerned for Hoggle and the children. They planned to spend the day reviewing and discussing search efforts. There were no new searched planned for Friday unless authorities get new information. They plan to resume searching Saturday.
Police released a statement that reads in part:
Based on data and information gathered during the investigation, detectives have focused on areas of the County that they believe Catherine may have visited recently. Officers have searched these areas, looking for evidence that could assist detectives in locating the Hoggles. The search process is highly organized and systematic, conducted by police officers, and is overseen by the Montgomery County Police Department Search Team.
On Thursday, Catherine's father, Randy Hoggle, pleaded for his daughter's return. "If you just come and get help, we'll all help you," he said.
Also Thursday, teams searched Darnestown Park on Route 28 for the missing children. Scores of police and searchers spent the previous day in a wooded area near the Seneca Creek Greenway.
Hoggle was captured on surveillance video around 4:40 a.m. Tuesday, when she was shown to be in the downtown Germantown area. Police believe she had been in a building in that area for nine hours after leaving the Chick-fil-A. They said they found the contents of her purse in a bathroom in that building.
"We're working with the owners of that building, we're working with the people in that building to try and determine what it is that Catherine did inside there," said Montgomery County police Capt. Darren Francke.
On Thursday night, police received a tip that Catherine Hoggle may have been wandering around the Walmart at the Milestone Shopping Center. However, after reviewing security video at the store, police determined a woman seen there was not Hoggle, reported News4's Jackie Bensen.
Hoggle's youngest child, Jacob, was last seen at his grandmother's home in Gaithersburg on Sunday afternoon. Her daughter, Sarah, was last seen Monday morning at their home in the 12200 block of Elm Forest Court in Clarksburg.
Hoggle's common-law husband, Troy Turner, told police that while he was at work Sunday afternoon, Hoggle's father drove the family to Hoggle's mother's home in Gaithersburg. Hoggle then borrowed her father's car, a gray 2012 Nissan Rogue, and told her parents she was taking Jacob to get pizza.
She returned to the house three hours later without her son or any food. Hoggle told her parents she dropped off Jacob at a playmate's house and went back to her own home with her daughter.
Police determined Monday night that Jacob had never been at a friend's home.
Hoggle's daughter, Sarah, was last seen around 5:50 a.m. Monday, when Hoggle left their Clarksburg home with the little girl, telling Turner that she was dropping off the child at a daycare center.
When she returned home at 8:30 a.m., she told Turner that she had taken both Jacob and Sarah to the unknown daycare.
Police say that Turner, who works nights, hadn't known that Jacob had never come home after visiting his grandmother's house.
Later Monday, when Turner asked Hoggle about picking up their children from the daycare, Hoggle would not tell him where they were.
He decided to go to the police for help, but first, the couple stopped at a Chick-fil-A in Germantown. Hoggle slipped out of the restaurant unnoticed, and Turner called police at 8 p.m. Monday to report that Hoggle and their two youngest children were missing.
Police say a K9 unit tracked Hoggle to the area of the Germantown Transit Center at 19945 Aircraft Drive. She was then seen on surveillance video in the area at 7:15 p.m.
"We are about 1,300 strong on the police department, of men and women on the street," said Montgomery County Asst. Police Chief Russ Hamill. "We need the eyes and ears of the community to help us find these little children and bring them safely home."
Last year, Hoggle filed a complaint against a relative that included page after page of minute detail about the alleged theft of used clothing, News4's Jackie Bensen reported. Called "excessive writing," it is considered a symptom of schizophrenia.
Catherine Hoggle is 5-feet-6-inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. She has brown eyes and black hair. She was last seen wearing blue jeans and a black tank top.
Sarah Hoggle is biracial, 3-feet-6-inches tall and weighs 40 pounds. She has brown eyes and brown hair. Her brother, Jacob, is also biracial, and is 3 feet tall and weighs 25 pounds. He has brown eyes and a blond afro.
If you have seen Catherine Hoggle, Jacob Hoggle or Sarah Hoggle, police ask that you call 911 immediately. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the police non-emergency number (301-279-8000).
SOURCE: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Catherine-Hoggle-Jacob-Hoggle-Sarah-Hoggle-Vigil-Planned-for-Missing-Maryland-Kids-Mom-274900661.html
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