Missing Houston Couple

TayMac

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They have been missing for 11 days now. No new leads unfortunately.

Texas EquuSearch, who police say has played an instrumental role in organizing search efforts, suspended their search late Thursday. They say they will pick back up efforts as soon as police are able to give them another area of interest to search. "It's not for lack of effort. We just now need a little bit of luck to get us in the right area. And of course, at this point in time, it doesn't look good," Tim Miller, of Texas Equusearch, told NBC affiliate KPRC.
 

Lucie

Dancin' on sunshine!
This is sad. i hope it's not a love triangle. i remember hearing a story about a jamaican artist who was dating a married woman in nyc and he would visit her pretty regular. they were both married. her husband...followed them one night to a hotel and killed them both. he told wife he had business in nyc to explain his frequent travel. that was a few years back.

I hope this isn't the case here.

I knew the guy, "Country" Kerazin.
 

ChasingBliss

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no. It's not.

the new article posted gave more details. It appears his wife knew they were going to the concert together. Since they were college friends and planned to stay at other mutual friends house it seems innocent.
Yeah Im gonna go head and just acknowledge to myself and everybody else that I am cynical AF....cus nothing about that would have been ok with me as a wife. Nothing about that would be innocent to me either. But I respect the fair-mindedness of others...I guess.
 

Always~Wear~Joy

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Latest article

Vanished: Families of pair missing three weeks still hold on to hope
Houston-area friends, both parents, have not been seen since April 1
By Dane Schiller

April 23, 2016 Updated: April 23, 2016 8:10pm

"We have pretty much done everything that could be done," Huff said. "This case is going to be made in Austin."

Still, he asked that anyone who has a tip contact police.

A Texas EquuSearch mission drew dozens of volunteers to Harris County's Bear Creek Pioneers Park earlier this month but came up empty. The search, prompted by a possible cellphone ping in the wooded area, has been suspended.

"Somebody does know something," EquuSearch's Tim Miller said. "They didn't run off together, I can pretty much guarantee that."

Desk still untouched

The pair, both 35 years old, have known each other since they were students at Aldine High School in North Houston.

Taylor is a supervisor at a railroad company and works out of a Baytown rail yard. He is married with four children, ranging in age from 1 to 12, and has a degree in criminal justice from Prairie View A&M University, where he played football.

Gibson works for Exxon Mobil in The Woodlands, where the company said she remains on the payroll and her desk remains untouched.

She is single with an 8-year-old son and earned a bachelor of science degree from Sam Houston State University.

The pair was last seen Friday, April 1, about 11 p.m., when they dropped their bags at a friend's home before heading to a nightclub. Their last known contact was a telephone call at 3:08 a.m. Saturday, April 2.

A longtime friend, who asked not to be identified out of concern for his safety, told the Chronicle the pair was going out to he Landing Strip, an Austin gentlemen's club and called to check on them at 3:08 a.m.

"Let me call y'all back, man. Let me show these people how to start this fire," Taylor said, according to the friend.


Taylor never called back. When the friend tried to reach him again later, he got no answer.

The friend, who said he has known Taylor since they played football together in college, said he has spoken with police on multiple occasions and is considered a witness.

"I'm the last person to talk to him," he said. "If I knew where he was, we'd have a case."

The manager of The Landing Strip said he does not know if Taylor and Gibson were there that night but said investigators are welcome to review security camera footage. But they'll need to hurry, he said - the system automatically will start recording over the old footage beginning Monday.

'A holding pattern'

Family and friends, meanwhile, are holding out hope.

Gibson's father, Josh Gibson, said his life is in limbo while investigators probe the case.

"It is like they have you in a holding pattern," he said. "The airplane is circling around but hasn't landed yet. They tell me they are working hard, and doing such and such a thing, but no major updates."

As for Ware, she has tried to stay strong, even as a Texas Ranger earlier this week came to her home to take DNA swabs from inside her mouth. It was protocol, the ranger told her, just in case.

She has hoped and prayed, and last weekend went to Austin with other family to post handbills in restaurants, stores and bars seeking help from the public.

The Taylor and Gibson families are offering rewards for information leading to the missing pair. They have launched websites to gather donations to build up the rewards, and Taylor's father's co-workers at the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County have a barbecue fundraiser scheduled for 10 a.m. April 30 in a parking lot at 74 Aldine Bender in Houston.

'Not going to stop'

Taylor's younger cousin, Cathleen Bazaldua, drives around Houston with "#BringSidneyTaylorHome" scrawled in shoe polish across the rear window of her car. She has become her family's voice on Facebook and other social media.

"His family wants him home, and we are not going to stop until he is found," said Bazaldua, who said Taylor was her protector as she grew up.

Bazaldua said she is certain he would not have tried to run away from his life, let alone done so without calling his mother to say he is OK.

She said as she searches for answers, her heart drops whenever she hears on the news that a body has been found. She has also thought over and over about what could have gone wrong that weekend when Taylor and Gibson disappeared.

"I wonder if it was people who he thought were his friends and something went wrong, something was said wrong," she said. "Were they his true friends? Were they friends of friends?"

Taylor's mother, Ware, said she has to believe he is still alive, even though 21 days have passed without a word from her son.

"I wonder if he has passed and I say, 'No,' " she said. "I say this in my mind, I say this in private: 'Sunny, tell me where you are, let me help you.' "

But she also worries.

"I know that if something bad has happened to him, it is God's will," she said. "I know the devil walks this earth just like God does."
 

Sridevi

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The manager of The Landing Strip said he does not know if Taylor and Gibson were there that night but said investigators are welcome to review security camera footage. But they'll need to hurry, he said - the system automatically will start recording over the old footage beginning Monday.

So the cops haven't even looked at the footage of the last place they may have been?
 

sj10460

Don't Come for me unless I send for you!
So the cops haven't even looked at the footage of the last place they may have been?

perhaps they didn't have that information in the beginning? At first it was being reported they went to a club, a club and strip club are two different venues.


I wonder if it was people who he thought were his friends and something went wrong, something was said wrong," she said. "Were they his true friends? Were they friends of friends?"

This quote seems weird, as it there's something missing from it.
 

Sridevi

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perhaps they didn't have that information in the beginning? At first it was being reported they went to a club, a club and strip club are two different venues.

The friend who last spoke with them said specifically they were going to the Landing Strip club so assuming the police spoke with this friend the police would have had that info at the beginning of the investigation.
 

sj10460

Don't Come for me unless I send for you!
Perhaps they did run away or plan for a weekend getawy but due to the media coverage, they are scared and embarrassed to go back home. Perhaps they are thinking of or trying to create a narrative that would explain them being gone for so long. IDK. It still seems strange how they just "disappeared" either someone is helping them hide or some one did something to them.
 

JerriBlank

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Thanks

The missing guy (Taylor) told his friend "let me call you back, I'm trying to help these people start a fire". Those were his last known words. It seems so odd. :(
Yeah I misread it. Smh. Not sure now, when people I know say that, they mean have a good time. Sounds like he might have meant it literally. Idk then. This is very weird, but I'm sure that they're dead. I don't think that they ran off.
 
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