Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 07/04/2016
- Missing From:
- Missing From Troy, Alabama
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 09/26/1986 (38)
- Age:
- Age 29 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’6, 125 – 135 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A white tank top, white flip-flops and blue denim shorts.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue/gray eyes. Faulkner has the following tattoos: Chinese characters meaning “Success” on her foot, the name “Madison” on the inside of her right wrist, and cherries on her lower back. She previously fractured her collarbone on the right side and it healed crookedly. Her ears are pierced. She pronounces her name “Layla.”
- Details of Disappearance:
- On July 4th, 2016, in Troy, Alabama, a woman named Faulkner vanished. She’d recently broken up with her boyfriend, Blane Gralheer Jr., and moved back in with her parents.
That day, her family went to a barbecue, leaving Faulkner at home. Her parents saw her at 5:30 pm, and she posted on Facebook around the same time. Then, she disappeared. Her purse, phone, and tablet were gone too. No one knows if she left willingly or was taken. While she sometimes disappeared for a few days, this was unlike her. All her social media and online accounts have been silent since that last Facebook post.
Two days before her disappearance, Faulkner and Gralheer broke up. She told her parents she was scared of him and said, “If something happens to me, it’s him.” They had a big argument on Facebook the day she disappeared, with Faulkner accusing him of theft and infidelity.
Gralheer claims the breakup was mutual, blaming Faulkner’s substance abuse. He denies her accusations and says he’s not gay. A lie detector test about her disappearance was inconclusive, and he refused a second one. He still talks to Faulkner’s parents.
Faulkner’s mother thinks she’s dead because she believes Faulkner wouldn’t abandon her child. Police consider Gralheer a person of interest, and her parents suspect he knows something, even if he wasn’t directly involved. The case remains unsolved.
- Agency:
- Pike County Sheriff’s Department 334-566-4347
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This person was missing Missing Since 07/04/2016