Kate Waring’s family issues new plea for information
Three months after her daughter disappeared, Kate Waring’s mother made an emotional plea Friday for new information about her daughter’s whereabouts.
“Try to imagine,” Janice D. Waring wrote in a letter, “what it would feel like if you couldn’t find your daughter for days on end, you kept repeatedly dialing her number to no avail, you waited for the sound of her unlocking the front door, her familiar footstep in the hall and her voice calling ‘Mom!’”
Kate Waring, 28, vanished the night of June 12, after she went to a West Ashley gym, a downtown drug store and a Japanese steakhouse. Her cell phone and credit cards haven’t been used since. Family and friends are offering a $25,000 reward through CrimeStoppers.
Charleston police had no new information about the case Friday, other than it remains open.
Waring’s mother wrote in a letter posted Friday on a Web site, bringkatehome.com, that her daughter “left without her clothes, her makeup, her cherished journals and her daily medicine.” She described her daughter’s love of languages and animals, along with her struggles.
“Like many people, Kate has fought a personal battle with substance abuse—and I have always been awestruck by how courageously she met this challenge head-on, with the love and support of her family,” she wrote.
She also described how her daughter traveled with her father last summer to the Arctic Circle to see polar bears and kayak near the glaciers. “I am so happy she was able to find joy and peace at the top of the world,” she wrote.
“But now that peace has been shattered. I lie awake at night, worried sick about Kate, praying that whoever knows where she is will step forward and let her family reclaim our loving daughter and sister. To be honest, in dark moments, her father and I think something awful may have happened to Kate and worry that she may not be alive. But we push those thoughts away by thinking of her poetry and our trips together.”
To provide information on the whereabouts of Katherine Waring, call Charleston police at 577-7434 or Crime Stoppers at 554-1111. A $25,000 reward is being offered.
