Ashley Marie Carroll, 24, is missing. She is a mom of a one year old daughter and would not up and leave her child, or family. She reportedly disappeared after "a falling out"
with her boyfriend, Jermon McLean of Albany, on May 6, 2010 according to police reports. Her boyfriend told police that she was intending to travel to NYC to see a friend, but the friend has not seen her and no records to show if she made it to NYC.
Ashley has a big red rose and the name "Arioniah" tattooed on her right arm. Paw Prints, The name "Steve" is tattooed on her left hand and neck. Her right foot has a tattoo of rosary beads with a cross and the name "Maria." There is a tribal tattoo on her lower back and a cub tattoo on her calf. A tattoo on her wrist reads, "What goes around comes around." She is described as 5-foot-5, weighs about 140 pounds, hazel eyes, long brown hair and olive skin.
If you have any info, please call the Rensselaer PD, Det.Boniface AT (518) 462-7451
Family seeks closure with search for missing womanPublished: Monday, July 26, 2010No comments posted. | Email to a friend | Print version | | RSS Feeds More Photos
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Family and friends search in the Tivoli Lake Preserve area for Ashley Carroll of Rensselaer Sunday July 25, 2010 in Albany. Photo by (J.S. Carras/The Record)
Margaret Carroll of Rensselaer wipes away tears as family and friends search for her daughter Ashley Carroll in the Tivoli Lake Preserve area Sunday July 25, 2010 in Albany. Photo by (J.S. Carras/The Record)
By Katie Nowak
The Record
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Kyla LaMountain a family friend of Ashley Carroll of Rensselaer turned out to search for Carroll in the Tivoli Lake Preserve area Sunday July 25, 2010 in Albany. Photo by (J.S. Carras/The Record)
ALBANY — “Gone But Not Forgotten.”
That was the message printed on t-shirts worn by members of a search party Sunday, organized by the family of a Troy woman who’s been missing since May.
Dozens of people gathered in Tivoli Park to help Ashley Marie Carroll’s family and friends search for clues to her disappearance, determined to both find answers and to make sure that Carroll would indeed never be forgotten.
Carroll, 24, was supposed to have left for a weekend trip to visit friends in New York City on May 6, but instead was last seen in Arbor Hill, near First and Quail streets. She was in the area to meet up with her boyfriend, James McLean of Albany, with whom relatives say she had been fighting.
She never made it to New York.
In her absence, relatives and friends are left with more questions than answers, along with sadness and confusion.
Carroll has a 2-year-old daughter, and close family friend Francecsa Hempstead said Carroll would never abandon her baby.
“She’s a good mom,” Hempstead said. “I could never imagine her leaving Arionnah like that. Ashley was always there for her family in any time of need, and she always made sure the baby had what she needed.”
Hempstead’s mother, Kyla LaMountain, who said she’s known Carroll “since she was in the womb,” also spoke about Carroll’s dependability and kindness.
LaMountain lost her young daughter to illness when Carroll was a teenager, and Carroll stayed by her side throughout the whole ordeal.
“She never left me, and she was there with me and my daughter up until she passed away,” LaMountain said. “She would never just have up and left for no reason. That’s obviously why we’re here looking. We think something terribly went wrong.”
Caroll’s mother, Margaret Carroll, said she organized the search in order to turn up clues and leads, and find out anything about her daughter’s whereabouts. The investigation has been short on answers, she said, and getting the word out about her daughter’s disappearance may help the family finally learn what happened to Ashley.
Those joining the search party Sunday signed a registry and were split into smaller groups, which fanned out across Tivoli Park’s 80 acres armed with shovels, rakes and walkie-talkies. Det. John Coleman, of the Albany Police Department, addressed the group before it dispersed, describing what Ashley was last seen wearing — white pajama pants, a black shirt and white flip-flops — and instructing searchers to call him immediately if they found any potential clues.
“We’re checking every single thing we can, following anything we can,” Coleman said.
But some in the search party don’t think police have been doing enough.
A woman, who identified herself only as Mindy, said she joined the search party to support the family, and expressed frustration with the investigation.
“Nothing’s really been done,” she said. “If she was a college student that went missing from SUNY, it’d be a different story. But she’s not.”
Margaret Carroll and LaMoutain also said they believe there are people with information about Ashley’s disappearance that refuse to come forward. Both women alluded to a close friend of Ashley’s who has since cut off contact with the family, hired a lawyer and stopped answering questions about the night she went missing.
“She’s got a baby, she’s got a mother that misses her,” LaMountain said. “Her mother probably can’t even sleep at night wondering what happened to her daughter. I mean, how do you do that to a family? I don’t understand.”
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