Connelly woman now missing for 25 years
>> Laura Louise (Smith) Williams drove off with two men from in front of her mobile home in this town of Esopus hamlet on July 25, 1994. She hasn’t been seen since.
Though 25 years have passed since Williams’ disappearance, the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office says the case remains open. Authorities have said in the past, though, that it’s unlikely she is alive.
Williams was 22 years old and had multiple sclerosis when she vanished, leaving behind three children and the medication she needed to control her condition, the Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post about the cold case.
At the time of her disappearance, Williams was separated from Vernon Williams, her husband and the father of her two boys. She was reported missing by Frank Coswell, her livein boyfriend and the father of her daughter.
A neighbor told authorities she saw Williams about 10 a.m. on the day of the disappearance, leaving with two men in an older-model white fourdoor vehicle that had been parked front of her home at a trailer park in Connelly.
The Sheriff’s Office said Williams was described as being between 5-foot-2 and 5-foot-4 and weighing 130 to 150 pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes, two scars on her stomach, a tattoo of the world “John” on her upper right arm and a tattoo on her right leg, above her knee, of a heart looking like two rings or circles.
She also had pierced ears at the time and had trouble walking due to her multiple sclerosis, authorities said.
She was last seen wearing denim shorts, a lightcolored blouse and sneakers, and she had a small, two-handled beige duffel-style tote bag, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office at (845) 338-3640 or email sheriff@co.ulster.ny.us.