Police release major leads in decade-old missing person case
CATSKILL, N.Y. (NEWS10) – State police say they are investigating new leads in a missing persons case involving a woman who’s been missing for nearly 14 years: Audrey May Herron.
Sources tell WISH-TV’s sister station WTEN that this new lead centers around a person of interest who is currently in prison on another unrelated charge. In the past two days, investigators have searched a property and a pond in the Town of Catksill that is connected to that person of interest.
Herron, who was 31-years-old at the time, was last seen leaving her job as a part time nurse at Columbia-Greene Long Term Care Facility in Catskill on August 29, 2002. Since then, Herron’s family and friends have held a motorcycle ride each year to raise money for a reward fund and to make sure the public doesn’t forget about her.
“It seems like a thousand years, it just goes on with no hope,” Audrey’s father, Ray Turk said when WTEN interviewed him in 2007.
Ray Turk knew all too well, the moment when everything changes.
“When it happened, I said I’ll never see her again,” said Turk. “But I keep praying I do, but I don’t believe it’s ever going to happen. I’ll never give up as long as I’m here,” said Audrey’s father.
Her father has since passed away.
State Police are actively investigating these new leads.