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Amber Simmons shares her tragic story on the blog that she created to spread awareness for her mother, Rachel Conger, who has been missing for almost two years from their Como, TN home.
http://www.bringrachelhome.blogspot.com/



My name is Amber Simmons, I a… Continue

Rachel Conger
Oct. 11, 1977-March 13, 2008


Please,
Don't ask Amber if she’s over it yet.
She'll never be over it.

Don't tell her Rachel's in a better place.
She isn't here with her.
Don't say at least she isn't suffering.
She hasn't come to terms with why
she had to suffer at all.

Don't tell Amber you know how she feels,
Unless your mother is missing too.


Don't ask her if she feels better.
Bereavement isn't a condition that clears up.

Don't tell her "at least you
had your mother for… Continue

The investigation of a 19-year-old woman's disappearance led to the French Broad River in Newport Monday afternoon.

Police and rescue workers started searching the river shortly before 2:00 p.m. Monday. They were trying to determine what happened to the woman who is missing and believed to be in danger after her car was found alongside the road, destroyed by fire.

The Newport Police Department announced earlier Monday that investigators were looking for Megan Maxwell.

Maxwell stands about 5'6… Continue

It has been twelve long months since Amber Simmons has looked upon her mother's face, and yet this 14-year-old child soldiers on and holds her head up high, despite those who want nothing more to tarnish her mother's name or insinuate that her mother left her willingly. Rachel Conger was thirty when she disappeared on March 13, 2008 from her Como, TN home that she shared with her daughter, Amber. Amber's stepfather had spent the night of March 12 at Rachel and Amber's home. When Amber woke up on… Continue

Twenty years ago, Marvin & Sandra Maple disappeared with two of their daughter's three children, Bobby & Christi Baskins, from Murfeesboro, TN. The Maples had temporary custody after accusing the parents of mentally and physically abusing the children. Authorities found the accusations to be unfounded and the Maples were ordered to return the children to the parents. Instead they disappeared with the children.This week the children-who are now adults- have finally been located-alive and… Continue