Katharina Buczek
“She was over at my house one day and spotted that blanket from my daughter’s crib and wanted it. After that, it went everywhere.”
Next, Krista visited I-85, where the truck had collided with the overpass. While there, she went live on Facebook and showed all of the crash debris that was still left behind.
And after about twenty-five minutes of combing the side of the road, Krista saw a storm drain and began to investigate it.
That’s when she spotted a suspicious item at the bottom– an earring. So, Krista reached her arm into the drain grate and used a piece of wood to scoop up the piece of jewelry. And after pulling it into the light, she confirmed that the earring was Alyssa’s.
“Oh my god, it’s her earring,” Krista said through tears in a Facebook live video.
“It’s definitely her earring. It was my earring, but my baby wore all of my stuff because she didn’t have much of her own. Yes, this is my baby’s earring.”
Following the chilling discovery, Krista decided that she was going to meet with officers at the Accomack Sheriff’s Office to turn over the earring. However, she did reveal that she would be most comfortable if the case was given to another agency for further investigation.
It has now been just over a month since Alyssa’s disappearance, though, and her loved ones still have not gotten any answers.
“People don’t just vanish. So, she’s somewhere, and, you know, we are not going to give up. We are going to fight to find her,” Krista said to WAVY.
The Taylor family has taken to social media in hopes of raising awareness about the case and ascertaining Alyssa’s whereabouts. A Facebook group entitled Find Alyssa Taylor was created; at the same time, Alyssa’s aunt, Shelly, and her cousin, Danielle, have continued posting on their own personal Facebook accounts.
“North Carolina Sheriff’s Office says their investigation has led them to believe she was not in that crash… We believe she was in that accident,” Danielle wrote in one Facebook post.
