A Michigan woman mysteriously vanished from a Saturday Halloween party at a farmhouse less than 10 minutes away from her home, the New York Daily News reported.
Chelsea Ellen Bruck, a 22-year-old from Maybee, disappeared wearing her Poison Ivy costume from an Oct. 25 Halloween party at a rural Monroe County farmhouse. She was last seen talking with a man with a slight beard and glasses in the parking lot at around 3 a.m., the Monroe County Sheriff's Office told the newspaper. Investigators released a sketch of the man but he has not yet been identified.
Bruck's family reported her missing on Oct. 26 when she did not come home and did not return phone calls. Since then her family and some 800 volunteers have searched cornfields, woods and the area around Interstate 75 to find Bruck, the youngest of five children.
"We just know we're going to find her," Kassandra Bruck, Chelsea's sister, told the Daily News. "It's been a week, but we know we're doing the right things. We're getting the word out."
It is not clear exactly what lead to Chelsea Bruck's disappearance from the party, which swelled in size to at least 600 people. The waitress attended the festivities with friends and had planned on spending the night at one of their homes. But the gathering was so large they all eventually lost track of each other. Her friends left the party without her.
Kassandra said her sister, who lived near Maybee her entire life, does not have a driver's license, which would have made it more difficult for her to determine her location if she was lost, the Daily News reported.
"I didn't know the party was this big," said Kassandra, who last spoke to Chelsea before the party and thought it would be a small get-together. "In hindsight, I should have asked specifics."
