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(MO) Missing mother of triplets who vanished six weeks ago was in divorce dispute with husband Who is a PERSON of Interest
In domestic law on July 15, 2011 at 12:21 pm
The family of Jacque Waller today claimed the 39-year-old Missouri mother of five-year-old triplets was the victim of domestic abuse and that her estranged husband, a former police officer, knows where she is.
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Mrs Waller’s husband, Clay Waller, has been labelled by police as person of interest, but not a suspect in his wife’s disappearance.
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‘He tore my family to pieces,’ Mrs Waller’s father, Stan Rawson, this morning told Good Morning America. ‘I have no doubt in my mind. I stand by anything I’ve said.’
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Mr Rawson yesterday posted a message to Mr Waller on the family’s ‘Find Jacque S Waller’ Facebook page.
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‘I just wanted to mention that you’re not fooling anybody at all,’ he wrote. ‘I under the sheriff has a [sic] orange jumpsuit picked out for you, and a fine room at the Cross Bar Hotel.
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‘You will regret hurting my girl and the Tripps—I promise you will!’
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Mr Waller was the last person to see his wife alive on June 1.
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The couple separated in March and had met earlier in the day to finalise paperwork for their divorce.
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Mrs Waller was last seen when she went to her estranged husband’s home to pick up her son.
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Mother of triplets: Jacque Waller was reported missing on June 1
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Search: Police are appealing for help finding Jacque Waller
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Mr Waller told police in an interview following his wife’s disappearance that the couple had fought and that she had left his home at around 4pm by foot.
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He said that he then left his home and returned around two hours later to find her car gone. It was later found abandoned with a flat tyre on the interstate.
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Police yesterday said that business
cards belonging to Mrs Waller, who works for Blue Cross Blue Shield, had
been found on a stretch of road ten miles from where her car was
discovered.
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James Humphreys, Jackson chief of police, told ABC News: ‘We are now well over 250 leads into it [the investigation].
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‘We still have not found Jacque, but we’re still continuing to search every day and each week.’
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Mr Rawson said: ‘The police are operating on the assumption that something must have happened, that’s for sure.
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Claims: Mrs Waller’s parents, Stan and Ruby Rawson, told Good Morning America that their daughter had been the victim of domestic violence
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‘I am operating on the assumption that something did happen, and have no doubt in my mind about what happened.’
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His wife, Ruby Rawson, told Good Morning America that she confronted her son-in-law on the night her daughter disappeared.
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‘I asked him what he’d done to her and he said ‘I didn’t do anything,’ Mrs Rawson told Good Morning America.
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‘I said, “Yeah, you did and you know you did, because of all the threats you’ve been saying to her over the last year”.’
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‘He said, “I have never threatened her”, and I said, “Yes, you did, and we knew it all along”.’
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In a statement, Mr Waller’s attorney said: ‘Mr. Waller misses his wife and hopes she is found okay.
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Family: Mrs Waller with her two daughters and an unknown baby in a photograph courtesy of the Southeast Missourian
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Disappearance: Mrs Waller had been finalising her divorce on the day she went missing
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Found: Mrs Waller’s car was found with a punctured tyre on the interstate
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‘He had nothing to do with her
disappearance and sympathises with her family. We will not try this case
in the media while there is an ongoing investigation.’
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The couple’s three children, five-year-old triplets Maddox, Avery and Addison, are being cared for by Mrs Waller’s sister.
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A court on Tuesday again denied any visitation rights to Mr Waller who has not been allowed to see his children since the week his wife disappeared..
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