MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It’s been six days since anyone has seen or heard from a Binghampton woman whom Memphis Police issued as a missing person on Wednesday.
31-year-old Darica Williams, who also goes by Darica Shine, is a mother of three children. Her family members say the last time they heard from her, she was arguing with her boyfriend.
Her family says they are worried sick and think the boyfriend knows more than he is letting on. However, the boyfriend says it’s all a misunderstanding and that she left on her own accord.
“Darica is a very fun person, she loves to joke, she enjoys life, and she’s a free spirit,” said Darius and Pamela Prude, her parents. “The last time anybody from the family was in contact with her was February 29 around 7:30 p.m. Her boyfriend Cameron Conwell reached out to my oldest son and told him that he needed to come get his sister.”
According to a police report, Conwell called William’s brother. The brother said he “heard his sister in a verbal argument with her boyfriend, heard a loud disturbance, and then the phone hung up.”
“We have not heard from her since,” her parents said. “This is not like Darica, Darica has plenty of family on her mother’s side, her father’s side, she always calls. She always asks us for help or if she needs anything, we always come. So this is not like Darica.”
WREG crews went to the house where Williams and her boyfriend had just moved in and where the argument allegedly took place.
The boyfriend refused to come outside but said Darica left on her own.
“She got mad because the next-door neighbor wanted me to help fix her tire,” he said. “I’m out here talking to the next-door neighbor, the next-door neighbor is a woman. Darica got mad and she came outside with a bag and backpack and walked off.”
Conwell says he hasn’t seen her since and doesn’t know where she could have gone.
“I love that woman! H** yeah, I want her to bring her a** back home,” he said.
But her family thinks Conwell knows where she is and is begging for answers.
“Have a heart, have a conscience,” her parents said. “You’ve been around her children, you know how much she loves her children. You know how much she loves her parents. Please, let her go.”
If anyone has any information on her whereabouts, please contact Memphis police immediately at 901-545-COPS.