Mother asks for help to find missing daughter

Everyday for Anne Kessler is a waiting game.  She waits for news from her youngest daughter 30 year old Deborah Kessler who’s been missing for three weeks.

“I’m beside myself. I pray a lot.,” she told News 2.

Kessler says her daughter lived by herself in Summerville, and be cause of a learning disability, she couldn’t work. So she picked up her disability check from her mother at work.  When her boyfriend showed up instead December third, she knew something was wrong.

“What’s going on I just don’t know. I’m totally beside myself,” she said shaking her head.

Later that day her boyfriend filed a missing person’s report saying Deborah walked to a friend’s house in Knightsville at five a.m. to get money, but wasn’t seen after that.

“Do you believe what her boyfriend has said that she got up in the middle of the night? Why would she go to a friend’s house to get money?” I asked her.

“[No.]  Especially when she’s coming to met to get her money. I don’t believe what he said,” she answered.

The details don’t add up to this mother who worries about her outgoing daughter’s health.  She has severe asthma and doesn’t have her medication.

“Somebody out there has to know. It’s a big world I know, this is somebody people love and care about.”

Kessler now spends the days leading up to Christmas reminiscing memories of her daughter as she waits for any news trying not to fear the worst.

The Sheriff’s Office says they don’t have enough evidence to suspect foul play in the case at this time.

They did question Kessler’s boyfriend, Terry Cloyd and found he had an outstanding warrant in Georgia.

He is in custody right now, but deputies were not certain if he had been transferred back to Georgia when asked about it Saturday night.

News 2 did ask about the relationship to the person whose house Kessler walked to early in the morning, but officers say they can’t release that information right now.
Kessler was last seen wearing blue jeans, a black hooded sweatshirt and a green jacket. 

She has brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with any information should call the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office at 843-832-0300.