KY ‘Missing Persons Finder’ Andrea Knabel Herself Goes Missing In Louisville

LOUISVILLE, KY. (THECOUNT) — Andrea Knabel, a Kentucky woman who dedicated her life to helping find missing persons, has herself gone missing after departing her mother’s Louisville home on Aug 13.

Knabel, 37, is a single mother of two and was last seen in mid-August about 1 a.m., leaving a relative’s home on-foot.

“Here she is helping to locate people and she comes up missing herself,” friend and private investigator Tracy Leonard told WAVE-TV.

“We have no indication at this point that leads us to believe that there’s any foul play, but we’re still very early in our investigation,” Leonard said in a Facebook video. “We’re just going to continue to look at what facts we discover.”

“She’s a good mom, friend, and has a beautiful heart. Andrea would do anything for anyone. Smart, funny, strong, loving, always there for people. This has been so overwhelming for all who know and love my friend,” Suzette Rodriguez wrote on Facebook.

Authorities aren’t sharing details as to why Knabel left her relative’s home in the 4000 block of Fincastle Road in the middle of the night. Leonard is working with the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department to find Knabel and would only reveal to the Louisville Courier-Journal that “she was pretty upset, pretty wound up when she left walking,” according to Heavy.

Police checked home security cameras in the neighborhood but most weren’t recording at the time of her disappearance. Local stores are currently being canvassed for video surveillance footage.

Knabel is described as standing five feet seven inches tall and weighing 190 pounds. She has dirty blonde/light brown hair and hazel eyes. Knabel was wearing a light-colored tank top and white shorts on the night of her disappearance.

Anyone with possible information on the case should contact police at 911.

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