Family waiting for answers on woman missing for 19 years

SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – A soon-to-be legislation in Georgia may breathe new life into chilly circumstances from years in the past.

The purpose is to convey closure and peace to households who’ve been left with out solutions.

GBI’s web site exhibits the company is preserving tabs on greater than 200 unsolved murder circumstances. Underneath Home Invoice 88, the Coleman-Baker Act signed by Governor Brian Kemp, households of murder victims can request legislation enforcement companies to evaluate chilly circumstances.

This comes as a brand new activity drive created by the Washington County Sheriff’s Workplace works to discover a girl who’s been lacking for nearly 20 years.

Sonya Tukes went lacking again in Could of 2004. She stepped exterior to take a telephone name and that was the final time her sister noticed her. Thursday evening, there was a candlelight vigil exterior of the Washington County courthouse to help the household.

Nineteen years too lengthy. It’s what Tukes’ household feels as they await solutions and closure.

“I really feel good. I’m shocked to see all of the those who got here out. I’m grateful as properly,” mentioned Sharron Tukes, sister.

After ready patiently for 19 years, Sharron says the ache nonetheless lingers.

“I can put my ache on the again burner for my mother, however to see my mother harm … it’s unexplainable,” she mentioned.

An unexplainable ache Sheriff Joel Cochran says too many really feel and the driving drive behind why this case was re-energized.

“All of us can really feel the ache. I can’t think about the ache that the household’s bought. We’re main as much as the nineteenth anniversary of her disappearance on Could the tenth, and nobody deserves that,” he mentioned.

Prayer is the one factor holding the household collectively.

Sharron mentioned: “Prayer is highly effective. Prayer adjustments issues. And may’t no person do what God can do.”

Because the anniversary of Sonya’s disappearance will get nearer, they’re holding on to hope somebody is aware of one thing and could have the guts to return ahead.

“I forgive you. I forgive whoever did one thing to my sister. I simply need solutions for my mother and for my household. I simply need solutions, closure, as a result of we deserve that,” she mentioned.

Closure is precisely what Cochran says this household goes to get. Urging the Washington County neighborhood to return ahead with any info on the disappearance of Sonya.

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