Abbi Schaeffer Got Mixed Up In Kansas City Drug Game Before She Turned Up Dead

The newspaper offers a worthwhile write-up but missed the teaching moment. 

What we take from this report . . . 

The Kansas City drug game isn't some abstract or exotic lifestyle . . . Drug-fueled and extremely dangerous circumstances are now a reality for a growing segment of local young people.

Here's the tragic story of how this state of affairs impacted a local family . . .

Over the past 10 months, the Schaeffers have been left to wonder what happened to the brilliant, beautiful young woman they remember her as. And they still do not have all the answers.

But they have long suspected something terrible happened to her. And on May 30, when she had been gone for several days, Belinda Schaeffer walked into Kansas City’s North Patrol station with a story to tell.

Her daughter had recently told her she had information about a fentanyl trafficking operation, she said, and that she was supposed to talk to the FBI before she suddenly disappeared. Her phone had gone silent and dropped off the map, and the last signal from the device had come from an apartment complex in south Kansas City one week earlier.

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Vanished Kansas City woman whose remains were found by woods had ties to FBI drug probe

On May 23, 22-year-old Abbi Schaeffer left her Northland Kansas City home carrying her purse and her black-and-white cat "Izzy." For six hours, a dark gray BMW, its windows tinted black, had been parked across the street in their quiet, suburban-like subdivision. Schaeffer walked out, spoke with the man in the driver's seat, and got in.

Human Remains Found in Missouri Identified As Woman Missing For Nearly a Year

The remains of a woman have been found nearly a year after she vanished in Missouri, authorities said, per multiple news reports. Kansas City police said the skeletal and human remains of 22-year-old Abbi Schaeffer were discovered on April 1 after officers responded to an area near 95th Street and Blue River Road, according to KCTV, Fox 4 KC, and KHSB 41.

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