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Gene Watson said followed up on a lead last week, but it pan out. Right at this moment, at a dead Nashville dreams Meanwhile, Janet Garvey continues to think of her sister, Jennifer Rivkin, every day. After graduating from Bes- semer City High School in 1983, Rivkin married, had a son and divorced. She studied bar- bering in Charlotte and opened a hairstyling business called Jennifer Co. in her hometown.

Things went well, but Garvey said her sister also dreamed of a songwriting ca- reer. Rivkin traveled back and forth to Nashville and finally moved there. While cutting the hair of country music stars, she wrote songs and managed an up-and-coming singer. Then she married again, eloping to Key West, with David Rivkin also known as a songwriter, manager, producer, and mixer who has worked with Prince, Etta James, Billy Idol and other major artists. Garvey said the couple lived in upscale Brent- wood suburb, near such celeb- rities as country star Waylon The Fraley family has been looking for their missing loved one since she disappeared in 2008, even enlisting help from private investigators.

The search took on new mo- mentum a little more than two years ago, when Conley, a Gas- tonia police officer for 21 years, volunteered her services. Gaston police say the Fraley case, which initially drew na- tional attention, is still active. Jamie Fraley, who was bipo- lar and suffered from other health issues, drive and lived in an apartment complex on Lowell-Bethesda Road out- side Gastonia. Authorities said they found her apartment locked, with everything in place and no signs of violence. Early on, police began to sus- pect Ricky Dale Simonds 49, in disappearance.

He lived in the same apartment complex and had served pris- on time for killing a woman in the 1980s, police said. And Fra- ley had been dating son, Ricky who con- sidered a suspect because he was in prison when Fraley dis- appeared. But in June, 2008, Simonds Sr. was found dead in the trunk of his car. main suspect in this case is said Assis- tant Gaston County Police Chief Joe Ramey.

have no other leads that point in any other Still, police continued to search for clues about what happened to Fraley. Ramey said new evidence in the Fraley case was recently tested, but it help investigators. Fraley was a student at Gas- ton College and planned a ca- reer as a drug counselor, family members say. She a user and disapproved of drugs, they said, but she wanted to help ad- dicts. High-profile cases disappearance was the first of three high-profile Gaston County mysteries in spring 2008.

On May 5, UNC Charlotte student Irina Yarmolen- ko, 20, was found strangled on the banks of the Catawba River in Mount Holly. In 2011, a Gaston County ju- ry convicted a Mount Holly man in her killing. Police say the three cases appear to be connected. As for the self-appointed in- vestigators, Ramey said, can understand family members who are always looking for an- swers. You sympathize with that.

They want closure. But we have to have solid, valid in- formation to follow up on. And difficult at this The searchers say not trying to solve the cases; looking for bodies, while still hoping the women Jennings. They visited Gaston County frequently. Garvey know what happened to her sister in Nash- ville, except that somewhere along the way took the wrong The second marriage last, Garvey said.

In 2004, Riv- kin returned to Bessemer City. needed to be Garvey said. had an ad- diction For the next four years, her sister struggled. Garvey said she and her father traveled all over North Carolina, repeated- ly getting Rivkin out of jail. She often landed behind bars on drug and shoplifting charges.

her addictions, she was still very close to her fami- Garvey said. never brought drugs around her fam- ily or came around her family high. That was something she kept to herself. She protected us from that part of her Garvey saw her sister for the last time on May 1, 2008. They met in office at the electric motor service business in Dallas, N.C.

It was a warm spring day, and as they looked out the window, Rivkin spoke of going back to Nash- ville and writing songs again. But she was afraid the old crowd there would make fun of her because she no longer wore $500 shoes or expensive designer outfits. Garvey no- ticed the worn-out sandals Riv- kin was wearing and wondered if been shoplifted from Kmart. asked me if I thought she was good enough for any- Garvey said. told her there was never a time she good After about two hours, Riv- kin got up to leave.

said she loved Garvey said. hugged. And then she was Special friendship Rivkin visited her parents on May 4, and her abandoned car was found two days later. For Garvey, her face is a haunting image. She spots it in grocery store checkout lines and passing cars or on sidewalks.

Garvey and her fel- low searchers follow every tip that comes their way. Like the Fraley family, she says she plans to stick with the quest for as long as it takes. I continue search- ing, how could I go to sleep at Garvey said. could say, gone. got to get on with my But no, I do that.

Everything reminds me of Jennifer. She was a drug addict, but still human. We all make mistakes. never going to give up. Never, never, DePriest: 704-868-7745 MISSING from 1B JEFF WILLHELM On May 6, 2008, police found the BMW that 42-year-old Jennifer Rivkin of Kings Mountain was driving near a bar in west Gastonia.

She was last seen May 4. Missing Women Jamie Fraley and Jennifer Rivkin both have Facebook pages. Anyone with information on their whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers of Gaston County at 704-861-8000, the Gaston Coun- ty Police Department at 704-866-3320 or Gastonia Police at 704-866-6702. Enos, founder the American Pit Bull Foundation, which found a home for the puppy. Enos said the front leg will need to be amputated.

going to get her the care she needs and help her progress in the healing pro- Enos said. Schmidt said he imagine somebody treating a dog so poorly. love my dogs. I feed them, I give them baths, I let them hang out in the he said. imagine someone doing something like He described the man who attempted to drown the pup- py as a skinny black male be- tween 6 feet 2 and 6 feet 5.

Schmidt estimated the weight at no more than 170 pounds. He was wearing a black baseball cap with thin dreadlocks underneath at the time. He had no facial hair. He said the suspect was driving a light-colored, four- door sedan, possibly a BMW or a Mercedes. It had no plates on it but it did have a paper tag from a dealership with a red circular emblem in the center.

are looking for him and making a pretty valiant ef- fort to find Enos said. On Sunday afternoon, after Charlotte-Mecklenburg Ani- mal Control lifted its 72-hour hold on the puppy, Enos took her to her new foster home. The new puppy also got a new name: Lotus, after the flower that rises up from muddy waters and becomes a beautiful blossom. thought it was fitting for Enos said. rose above this traumatic incident, and she made Arriero: 704-804-2637 Twitter: PUPPY from 1B COURTESY OF SARA ENOS Lotus found a foster home thanks to the American Pit Bull Foundation.

Want to help? To donate to the Amer- ican Pit Bull Foundation to help with sur- geries and other rescue efforts, visit www.americanpitbullfoun- dation.com/About- Us.html.