Olivia Samantha Fowler.Photo:Olivia Samantha Fowler/Facebook
Olivia Samantha Fowler/Facebook
Olivia Samantha Fowler initially went missing on Aug. 14, 2021 in Meriwether County, Ga, Sheriff Chuck Smith said in a press release. In December 2022, human remains were found in a rural part of the county that were eventually confirmed to be Fowler’s, Smith said.
She was last seen the day before she vanished. In the two years since she first went missing, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the FBI have assisted with the missing person investigation. Part of the remains found in December were sent to the FBI Crime Lab in Quantico, Va., Smith said.
The investigation is still ongoing. Smith did not say if the death was being investigated as suspicious, saying that there is “much evidence to be analyzed and processed.”
“The family request that they be allowed to properly grieve this recent news and to be supportive of them during this difficult time,” Smith said. “The family would like the public to know that Olivia was not only a mother, but a daughter, a sister, a grandchild, and an important member of the Fowler family.”
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Roxanne also toldDatelinethat she and her sister grew up in the small town of Woodbury, Ga.
“It’s a really small town,” Roxanne toldDateline. “We only have one grocery store.”
Anyone with information is asked to call the Meriwether County Sheriff’s Office at 706-672-6651 or the FBI tip line at 770-216-3000.
“Although the outcome of the disappearance of Olivia Samantha Fowler is not what any of the family or law enforcement wanted, this investigation remains active and ongoing,” Sheriff Smith said in the press release. “Our focus now is to allow the family to grieve.”
source: people.com
