WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — There is a renewed push to find out what happened to a woman who vanished in West Palm Beach more than 25 years ago.
Police said Kawana Holmes, 24, was reported missing by her mother on March 20, 1997.
Investigators said more than a year had elapsed before anyone realized that Holmes had disappeared.
The last known activity traced to Holmes was on Feb. 28, 1996.
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Police held a news conference Monday afternoon to discuss the case.
"We know that she was at one point at Good Samaritan Hospital [Medical Center] on Flagler Drive," West Palm Beach police spokesman Mike Jachles said. "After that, it was reported that she might have been in the company of another person in the Liberty City section of Miami."
Although she was known to be transient, police said it was very unusual for Holmes to not call her mother occasionally to check in on her two young children, who lived with their grandmother.
Now an adult, Holmes' 30-year-old daughter, Sadarrin Rowe, who lives in Jacksonville, said she is determined to get answers and closure about the circumstances surrounding her mother's disappearance.
Rowe was 4 years old when she last saw her mother.
"People do not vanish into thin air," Rowe said at Monday's news conference. "Somebody knows something."
Police said the victim's daughter hopes to shed some light on the case to elicit new information about the disappearance.
"We hope that somebody may know something and is able to jar their memory after hearing about this, looking at the pictures," Jachles said. "Regardless of whatever might have transpired, we want to try and find out where she is and if she met a criminal on the way, that we find that person and hold them accountable."
