By David Lohr

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Chief Bane admitted that he is concerned about foul play in Jamie's disappearance, but he stopped short of naming her date as a suspect.  In regards to that question, he had "no comment."  Again, when asked if she had left the party with her date, he had no comment.

"He was interviewed, but I cannot comment on him past that," Chief Bane said.  "The Rantoul Police Department conducted search warrants on different types of things on vehicles and houses.  People who were at the party and things like that.  We also did a ground search from the location of the party, north through some fields, but nothing was found."

According to Chief Bane, there are similarities between Jamie's disappearance and that of another young woman who vanished without a trace nearly a decade ago.

Heather Zimmerman

"In that case, the girl has never been found, so we do not know for sure if that was a murder. We also don't know if this is a murder.  We can tell you that there are similarities between the two cases and some of the people involved." 

On the evening of May 26, 1997, Heather Dawn Mullins Zimmerman, 19, left her parents' house in Gifford to visit a friend in Rantoul.  According to her father, Ronald Mullins, she left behind all of her belongings, and she never picked up her final paycheck from work.

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