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BETHANY SINCLAIR
Case Type :Endangered Missing
DOB :oct-15-1985 Age :15 years
Height : 5' 2" - 157 cm
Weight : 120 lbs - 54 kg
Eyes :Brown Hair : Brown
Circumstances : Bethany and her mother, Tina M. Sinclair have not been seen since February 4, 2001. Bethany has a U-shaped scar on her head and may be wearing a crucifix pendant around her neck. Tina has a tattoo on her ankle.
Date Missing :feb-04-2001
City of Report :WEST CHESTERFIELD
State of Report :NH
Country of Report :USA
Case Number :907421

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

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TINA M. SINCLAIR
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DOB:nov-29-1966
Age:34 Missing:feb-04-2001
WEST CHESTERFIELD , NH , USA .
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Investigators in Chesterfield, N.H., have ``broadened the scope'' of their probe into the disappearance of a mother and her 15-year-old daughter.

Tina Sinclair, 34, and her daughter, Bethany, have not been seen since Feb. 3, when the mother argued with her boyfriend, according to police Sgt. Jason Graves.

``It's still being treated as a missing persons case, but we're broadening the scope of the investigation,'' he said.

Graves said there is no indication the Sinclairs met with foul play, but relatives and friends have had no contact with them. Tina Sinclair's car has been parked at her home since she and her daughter were last seen and there has been no activity on the mother's credit cards.

Police said clothing was apparently removed from the Sinclairs' home and the day the Sinclairs were last seen, a woman called Keene High School, where Bethany is a sophomore, and said she would not be attending class.

Graves said police have responded to Tina Sinclair's home in the past for ``domestic situations'' between the woman and her boyfriend, Eugene Van Bowman, who he described as being cooperative in the search.

Graves said he did not believe there was a history of restraining orders between the couple and the responses to Sinclair's home did not result in any arrests.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/miss02272001.htm

“This is an active investigation,” said Sgt. Peter Riesenberg, of State Police Troop C yesterday. “We are continuing helicopter searches of the Connecticut River and nearby environs. The Federal Emergency Management Administration is conducting a study of the area, and we’ve made them aware of the investigation.”

The Sinclairs disappeared in February, 2001. At the time, the two were living with Eugene Van Bowman, Tina’s boyfriend, in Bowman’s home on Mountain Road in West Chesterfield, which has a back yard directly on the Connecticut River.

The relationship was known to be a fiery one. When the women disappeared, Bowman told Chesterfield police that he walked out after a fight with Tina. When he returned, according to police, Tina, Bethany, and their clothes were gone. Left behind were Tina’s car, cat and both women’s possessions.

Bowman has since been convicted on an unrelated charge of sexually molesting his daughter, and he is serving a 2 to 15 year sentence in state prison. He has not been officially named as a suspect in this case. A Sinclair family member said Bowman has been claiming his Fifth Amendment privileges in regard to the Sinclair disappearances.

Riesenberg said helicopter searches have been made along the Connecticut River from Bellows Falls, Vt., to mid-Massachusetts.

Tina Sinclair is 5-foot-2, 120 pounds, with blonde hair and green eyes. She was born on Nov. 29, 1966, and has a butterfly tattoo on her right ankle.

Bethany Sinclair was born on Oct. 15, 1985. She has brown hair and brown eyes. Some descriptions say that Bethany’s height and weight are the same as Tina’s, but a family member said Bethany is 5-foot-7 and weighs 135 pounds.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is urged to contact New Hampshire State Police at 271-1158, or the Troop C barracks at 358-3333.

Volunteers renew search for mother and daughter

Family members say they won't give up looking

Monday, July 21, 2003
Chesterfield

CHESTERFIELD - A renewed search sparked by suggestions from a California psychic failed to find a mother and daughter who have been missing for more than two years, but family members say they will search again.

Several dozen family members and friends of Tina Sinclair, 34, and her daughter, Bethany, 15, searched on Mount Wantastiquet on Saturday. They say there are more places to search and they are optimistic the Sinclairs will be found.

"I feel like we couldn't possibly have covered the areas we needed to cover," said Sharon Garry, Tina Sinclair's sister. "I think there are some very interesting areas that need to be searched more."

Garry said she found a sock and other items in areas where psychic Carla Baron told her to look. Garry asked Baron for help after seeing her on a Court TV program about psychic investigators.

Baron told her in a telephone conversation to look for the remains in a natural alcove formed by rock outcroppings, Garry said.

"We found areas that were alcoves, areas perhaps someone could have been hidden in," she said. "We found areas that were described by the psychic and found items in them that were unusual to be found in those areas."

Garry said she and the other searchers marked places they thought police should investigate further. But state police say they have searched the area before and they aren't putting too much faith in what a psychic says.

The Sinclairs were last seen at the home of Eugene Van Bowman, Tina Sinclair's ex-boyfriend, who lived on the road to Mount Wantastiquet. Bowman is in prison for sexual assault. He has not been charged in the Sinclairs' disappearance.

The police call Bowman a "person of interest" in the disappearance, but have not called him a suspect. The disappearance is classified as a missing persons case, but state officials say they're handling it as a homicide.

Garry said she plans to organize another search in the area in two weeks.

Monday, July 21, 2003

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Article Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 - 2:30:55 AM EST

Psychic 'sees' Sinclair women's fate

By DANIEL BARLOW
Reformer Staff

CHESTERFIELD, N.H. -- Psychic Carla Baron says she witnessed the last few minutes of Tina and Bethany Sinclair's lives, while on the phone last week.
Baron, a Los Angeles-based psychic investigator, has taken on the missing persons case of Tina Sinclair and her daughter, Bethany. The two Chesterfield residents have been missing since Feb. 3, 2001.

Baron has had several phone sessions with Sharon Garry, Tina's sister, that have lasted two or three hours during which Baron said she contacted the souls of Tina and Bethany.

"Bethany and Tina came through on the other end of the phone ... its sort of like tuning into a radio frequency," said Baron, who was recently featured on a Court TV show called "Psychic Detectives."

When the sessions began, Baron said she knew nothing of the case -- except for Tina and Bethany's names. When she contacts a spirit she usually receives a series of words or images which detail a sequence of events essential to the case, she said.

Some of the things she was shown can't be released, since they could impede the ongoing investigation into the pair's disappearance, Baron said. What she can say is that she believes the two were murdered and their bodies left in a "cave-like" formation in a hilly or mountainous area.

The case and Baron's involvement may be featured this fall on television programs on either Court TV or ABC.

Baron said a brief argument between Tina and a man escalated and that Tina was choked to death. The man was either intoxicated or under the influence of drugs, said Baron, and the killing was spontaneous and provoked by a humiliating comment Tina made.

Bethany likely witnessed her mother's murder, Baron said, and was hit in the head by a heavy object and knocked unconscious. The two women were placed in a truck owned by the man.

"The truck must have had a flatbed because I sensed that Bethany was placed in the back and Tina was up front," Baron said.

The truck took a right out of the driveway, Baron said, and the bodies of the two women were brought to a mountainous area and placed together in a cave-like opening and covered with tree branches for camouflage.

"He posed them together," Baron said, adding that the man then got sentimental and apologized.

Garry said she is convinced that Baron can add information to the search for her sister and niece. The insights and knowledge Baron has displayed during the sessions runs parallel with information that Garry has learned, she said.

"The information she had was stuff that she couldn't possibly know," Garry said. "She was describing personalities of people and locations here in New England that she couldn't know about."

No arrests have been made in the Sinclairs' disappearance, although New Hampshire State Police have searched the home of Eugene Van Bowman at least three times.

Van Bowman, who is currently at a halfway house in Concord, N.H., after being released from prison on an unrelated sexual assault charge against a minor, was Tina Sinclair's boyfriend. At the time of their disappearance, Tina, then 34, and Bethany, then 15, lived at Van Bowman's house on Mountain Road.

Soon after their disappearance, Van Bowman told a Chesterfield Police lieutenant that that the two women moved out of his house after he and Tina had a fight.

Garry contacted Baron soon after the psychic was featured on an episode of Psychic Detectives. At the time Baron said she was swamped with requests and couldn't take on more work.

"I liked her work," said Garry. "We've had other psychics contact us or call us before, some good and some bad. But I was impressed by her."

The two later began talking when Baron discovered the case through Childseek, a Web site that posts pictures and information on missing persons.

How Baron's information will work alongside the police investigation, however, is still a mystery.

Calls to New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Simon Brown, who is the lead investigator on the case, were not returned Monday. Allison Vachon, a victim's advocate with the attorney general, said investigators are not currently working with Baron on the case.

"It's still considered an unsolved case at this point," she said.

Baron, who was worked on more than 50 cases including missing Penn State student Cindy Song and the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart, said her psychic flashbacks don't solve the cases, but they certainly add new layers of insight and information.

"Police shouldn't let my information lead them," Baron said. "But they should keep it in the back of their mind."

Garry said the reason she turned to the media after enlisting Baron's assistance was to bring added attention to her visions.

"My hope was that by contacting the local media it would prompt the investigators to listen to her," Garry said.

Some police departments welcome information from psychics -- just as they would accept any credible information, Baron said. Since information from a psychic cannot be used to obtain a search warrant, Baron hopes that the information she has can be used in conjunction with the current information that the police have.

She also urges the family of the victims to conduct their own legal searches, she said.

Garry acknowledges that some people will see Baron's involvement into the investigation as self-serving. Baron has not asked for money for her services, she pointed out, and the increased media scrutiny on the case could be a double-edge sword.

While the case puts Baron's name in newspapers, information that is part of the public record would hurt her if it is proven to be false, Garry said.

"It's my impression that this is her professional career and that she can actually lend valuable information to the case," Garry said.

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February 3, 2003

Sinclair mother, daughter now missing 2 years
By STEPHEN SEITZ

Union Leader Correspondent

STATE POLICE and the Attorney General's Office plan to hold a press conference tomorrow to update the public on progress in the investigation into the disappearance of Tina Sinclair, right, and her daughter, Bethany. (File Photos)

CHESTERFIELD — Tomorrow marks the second anniversary of the last time either Tina Sinclair or her daughter Bethany have been seen.

State police and the Attorney General’s Office plan to hold a press conference tomorrow morning at the Troop C barracks in Keene to update the public on the progress of the investigation, and to generate fresh interest in the case.

Family members were briefed by state police last week, however, and said there was little new to report.

“They’re no closer now,” said Tina’s mother, Mary Lewis. “They’re doing everything they can to find new leads. I hoped to hear them say they’re somehow closer.”

Sharon Garry, Tina’s sister, said she wanted wider press coverage in the case.

“Not to take away from the pain Laci Peterson’s family is going through,” Garry said, “but they’ve got nationwide coverage and a $500,000 reward. We have Vermont and New Hampshire coverage and a $5,000 reward.”

Peterson is the California woman who was eight months pregnant when she disappeared on Christmas Eve last year.

Officially, the Sinclair disappearances are being classified as missing persons cases, but murder is also considered a possibility.

When the women disappeared, Tina Sinclair was living with Eugene Van Bowman, now 44, a former supervisor at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. They lived in his house on Mountain Road in West Chesterfield, which has a backyard bordering directly on the Connecticut River.

The relationship was known to be volatile. Bowman told Chesterfield police at the time that he walked out on a fight with Tina the night of Feb. 4, 2001. When he returned, according to police, Tina, Bethany, and their clothes were gone. Left behind were Tina’s car and cat, and their possessions.

The following morning, Feb. 5, an unknown woman called Keene High School to say that Bethany, who was a freshman at the time, would be out sick. Except for that phone call, not a word has been heard from either woman since.

Bowman is serving a 2- to 15-year sentence in New Hampshire State Prison on the unrelated charge of sexually molesting a young girl about 10 years ago. He has not been officially named as a suspect in this case.

Tina Sinclair is 52, weighs 120 pounds and has blonde hair and green eyes. She was born on Nov. 29, 1966, and has a butterfly tattoo on her right ankle. She would be 36 years old now.

Bethany Sinclair was born on Oct. 15, 1985. She has brown hair and brown eyes. Some descriptions say that Bethany’s height and weight are the same as Tina’s, but family members said Bethany is 5-foot-7 and weighs 135 pounds. She would now be 17 years old.

The disappearances have been registered with the federal National Crime Information Center, and the Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Anyone with information on the women’s whereabouts is urged to contact New Hampshire State Police at 603-271-1158, or the Troop C barracks at 603-358-3333.

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Tina Sinclair, at the time age 34, and her 15-year-old daughter Bethany, were living in the Chesterfield home with Eugene Van Bowman. They were last seen on Feb. 3, 2001. According to Bowman, the two had a fight, and Bowman told police he ended it by walking out of the house. By the time he came back, he told police, Tina and Bethany had taken their clothes and left.

Left behind were Tina's car and cat, and both women's possessions.

On Monday, Feb. 5, an unknown woman called Keene High School to say that Bethany, who was a freshman at the time, would be out sick. The last person to talk to Bethany was her date on Saturday night, over the phone, just before midnight. The women have not been heard from again.

Chesterfield police were called after the women had been missing a week, and state police were brought in after that.

Officially, the disappearances are classified as a missing persons case, and no suspects have been named. However, Bowman has been called a "person of interest" by authorities, and his home has been searched several times, including a search of the residence in April and a river search after the river thawed out.

After five years, it is doubtful that the women will be found alive.

UPDATE: APRIL 28, 2006 - CHESTERFIELD, N.H. Searchers with dogs were in woods Friday in West Chesterfield, an area that has been searched before.

State police say the search was prompted by a tip from Canine Alert Search Team

The family and friends have published a NEW website in attempt to bring new life to their COLD CASE. They are soliciting the public's help in finding the missing mother and daughter.

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Their contact email address is: webmaster@missingtinaandbeth.org

Sharon Garry (sister of Tina Sinclair and aunt to Bethany Sinclair) can be reached at: sharongarry@sbcglobal.net

MerryJo: friend and webmaster can be reached at: webmaster@missingtinaandbeth.org

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