Photo courtesy of Dana Holt/Facebook
A St. Louis family is searching for answers after their loved one went missing during a trip to Texas.
Dana Holt, 30, boarded an Amtrak train at the Gateway Transportation Center in downtown St. Louis at around 7 p.m. on March 1, Fox K4C reported. When she arrived at the Eddie Bernice Johnson Union Station in Dallas on March 2, it was the last time her friends or family had heard from her since.
“It’s so scary to know that she’s thousands of miles somewhere, and I have no clue where, and I cannot help her,” said Holt’s older sister, Audrey Clay.
The surveillance footage captured Holt at the train station around noon on March 2. Clay said detectives informed her that an unknown man approached the 30-year-old after getting off the train.
“He approaches Dana and helps my sister with her bags. Then, they walked to the south end of the platform and go off-camera. That was it. I haven’t seen the footage yet,” Clay said.
The sister’s mother, Deborah Holt, received a phone call from Holt the day she went missing. Deborah said her daughter sounded scared and was crying.
“She sounded terrified and scared. I was like, ‘where are you?’ She was like, ‘Oh my gosh. He’s getting out of the shower. I got to go.’ That was it. I didn’t get to say I love you or anything,” Deborah Holt said.
“[Dana] said, ‘He won’t let me leave. I can’t get any of my stuff,’” Clay added.
After receiving the grim phone call, Clay, her wife, and grandmother traveled to Dallas, where they passed out fliers at the train station where Holt was seen last.
“I did everything that we could. We put up flyers everywhere we could think of. I searched woods, ditches, searched strip clubs, all of that for four days,” Clay said.
Clay said her sister is usually active on social media, but there has been no activity from her accounts since her disappearance, NBC 5 reported.
She also explained that Holt suffers from a medical condition and mental illness, hoping the public can share her sister’s photo and story to help bring her sister home.
“Anything that you think would be a piece of evidence. I would call it in. It may be that one thing that breaks our case wide open,” Clay said. “Whoever has her, you took somebody very close to us, and I will not stop until I get my sister back.”
Police said Holt is light-skinned with blonde hair, 5 feet 8 inches tall, and weighs 250 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black jacket and black pants and noticeable tattoos on her neck and chest.
“If my sister sees this, I want her to know I love her. I never would imagine I’d be doing this. Never. She’s my only sibling, and I won’t stop looking for her,” Clay said.
Anyone with information on Holt’s whereabouts should call 911 or the Dallas Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit at (214) 671-4268.