Foul play suspected in case in Michigan
Police: Missing woman made call in distress
DETROIT – Authorities suspect foul play in the disappearance of a Michigan woman who has been missing since late last week.
Sheriff Ted Schendel said Wednesday that he couldn’t release specific details on the signs of foul play that investigators found as they try to determine what happened to 47-year-old Adrienne Quintal, who went by the first name of Ada.
He called her boyfriend a “subject of interest” and said investigators have talked with him and family. Schendel said no one is in custody or being held in the case.
Schendel said Quintal was at a family cottage in the Honor area, about 20 miles southwest of Traverse City, for rest and relaxation, family told authorities.
Authorities were told that she made a phone call from the house to a friend about 2:45 a.m. Oct. 17. Schendel said the call was frantic, saying she was in danger.
Schendel said the friend called the Sheriff ’s Office, and authorities arrived about 13 minutes later. Quintal was gone from the house, he said, but he understood that her phone, car and purse were still there.
Schendel said authorities conducted an exhaustive search in the immediate area with dogs and an aerial drone but weren’t able to locate Quintal.
Schendel said he couldn’t say any more about the call to the friend or the signs of foul play because of the investigation. He said he didn’t know why Quintal didn’t call 911. He said her friend was the last person to hear from her. Schendel said authorities are trying to put “the pieces of the puzzle together.”
Schendel said “we don’t believe she’s here anymore,” adding that other agencies are looking for her downstate. A Facebook post on the Sheriff ’s Office page on Monday indicated that investigators are interviewing witnesses in Benzie County and southeast Michigan.
Fox 2 Detroit reported that Quintal went to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with her boyfriend. Her son told the station that the boyfriend returned to their place in Southfield on Tuesday, a couple of days before Quintal made the call.