Can You Help Find Kortne Stouffer, Who Vanished From Her Apartment In Palmyra, Pennsylvania?

⭐Kortne Stouffer⭐

Kortne was a hippy at heart and loved to wear tie dye everything. She was filled with brilliance and brightness.  She was exuberant, full of giddy energy and love. Kortne was a free spirit and had so many dreams. Her passions were beauty, and taking care of animals.  She would spend time each day walking around town with her dog; a black Labrador named Sheba that she got for her 8th birthday. Kortne also had a pet snake she adored. Kortne spent most of her free time outdoors, traveling, or with her family. Kortne had a strong love and appreciation for her family and isn’t one to miss any family events. Kortne was a lover of Chinese food and often had lunch at Panera Bread on a weekly basis. She never missed a family meal, especially “if mommy was cooking.” Kortne would go home for family meals at least once or twice a month. She loved music. She loved to sing and has sang in multiple musical shows and groups over the years. She also had a contagious laugh.

Kortne was born on April 24th, 1991 to Scott and Wendy Stouffer. She would always call her dad sunshine. She grew up on a farm. She worked as a hair stylist at Elle salon and as a dog groomer at Stouffer Equipment, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania.

In early 2012, Kortne moved into her apartment at 810 West Main Street in Palmyra with her boyfriend, Bradly Herr. Kortne usually drove her boyfriend to work every morning and picked him up every evening.

On Saturday night, July 28th, 21-year-old Kortne had the night off from work. She and her boyfriend decided to have a party at their apartment. Bradly was under house arrest after driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs while underage and was on probation. He wasn't supposed to have any alcohol in the house, so when police responded to a call to their apartment around 9 p.m., they arrested him for probation violation. 

Kortne and her friends, Cody Prewitt and Milton Rodriguez Jr., decided to go to the Hardware Bar in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. While there, she got into an argument with a guy and his girlfriend. Kortne got kicked out of the bar and went back to her home with Cody.

Kortney thought it was her downstairs neighbors who called the police on their party, and she believed her boyfriend might spend an extended time behind bars as a result of his arrest. Kortne got into an argument with the neighbors at 3:00 a.m. and the police responded to it. The police told everyone to go back into their own houses and go to sleep. Cody claimed that he took an irate Kortne back to her apartment. 

An hour later, the police were called yet again. Kortne had been  stomping on the floor and yelling at her downstairs neighbors. When police arrived, the lights were out and everything was quite. The police decided not to disturb Kortne and turned around and left.

Cody had stayed at Kortne's apartment and when he woke up around 7:15 a.m. he couldn’t find Kortne anywhere. He got up and called for her. She didn’t answer, so he left to go to work. 

Kortne had planned to go to a nearby fair with her brother and grandfather that day. And when Kortne's mother, Wendy, spoke to her son later that evening and learned Kortne hadn’t shown up, she became concerned. Wendy went to her daughter's apartment the next day. Kortne's car was in the driveway with the windows down. The door to her apartment was unlocked, and Kortne's dog met Wendy at the door. Her shoes were there. Her keys were there. Her phone was plugged in next to the bed. The AC was on and the TV was on. But Kortne wasn’t there. Wendy knew something was wrong and called Kortne’s father and brother to come over to the apartment before calling police to report her missing.

Kortne's family began their search for her. They walked the streets of her town, they looked in dumpsters and in bushes. They called people who she was with that last night. Kortne's family couldn’t find her. There was no contact from her at all after early Sunday morning.

Authorities immediately began conducting interviews with the people who last saw Kortne.  They even searched Cody's property and found nothing. Cody took a lie detector test as well and passed with flying colors. He offered up his DNA also. Nothing brought them closer to finding Kortne.

Amanda Ballester claimed that she was a friend of Kortne's in a private Facebook message she sent Wendy. Amanda claimed she knew what happened to Kortne, so Wendy had her contact the investigators. Amanda told police that two people went to Kortne's place looking for drugs and money. They killed her, rolled her up in a carpet and drove her to Memorial lake. Once there, they weighted her body down and threw her in the lake.

Even though Amanda allegedly ended up altering her story a few times, Pennsylvania state police dispatched search teams and searched the lake with sonar equipment and scoured the shoreline for clues, but found nothing.

Kortne's parents will never stop searching for her. Family is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to Kortne’s whereabouts.

https://bringkortnehome.com/

The case remains active and will continue to be until it is solved. Anyone with information is urged to contact investigators on the tipline at 717-838-8189. You can also submit a tip anonymously online at https://tips.fbi.gov/.

At the time of her disappearance Kortne was  5'8" tall, 110 pounds with blonde hair and green eyes. She was last seen wearing a yellow tank top, black floral-print or fluorescent paint-splattered shorts, a silver class ring and a diamond wedding ring. 

Kortne had a tattoo on the left side of her abdomen of a handgun with flowers growing out of the barrel, a tattoo of three stars on top of her right foot, and a tattoo of the words "One Love" on her right bicep, with the O in "One" drawn as a peace symbol and the O in "Love" drawn as a heart. Kortne ears and tongue were pierced and she had a mole on her right cheek. Her hair was in dreadlocks at the time of her disappearance.

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