No sign of missing kids; Md. mom faces charges
CLARKSBURG, Md. — Police are planning to file criminal charges against a mother who disappeared after giving conflicting information about the whereabouts of her two children.
There have been no calls from anyone claiming to have seen Carolyn Hoggle or her children, 2-year-old Jacob and 3-year-old Sarah, Assistant Police Chief Russell Hamill said in a news conference Wednesday.
"That deeply concerns me," Hamill said.
Authorities said they could not rule out the possibility that the children may not be alive.
According to police, Catherine Hoggle's common-law husband on Monday reported her and two of their children missing from their home in Clarksburg. Another child and Hoggle's father also live at the home.
Troy Turner told police that while he was at work Sunday, Hoggle's father drove Catherine, Jacob and Sarah to Hoggle's mother's home in Gaithersburg. Hoggle, ho has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, borrowed her father's gray, 2007 Nissan Rogue and told her parents that she was going to take Jacob to get some pizza.
Approximately three hours later, Hoggle returned to her mother's home without the boy or the pizza. She told her parents that Jacob was at a friend's home and then took her daughter home, police said. It was later determined that Jacob was never at his friend's home.
At approximately 5:50 a.m. Monday, Hoggle left the family's home with Sarah and told Turner that she was taking the child to a daycare center. When she returned home at approximately 8:30 a.m. she told her husband that Sarah and Jacob had been dropped off. Her husband works nights and didn't know that Jacob hadn't come home from his grandmother's home. He took their other son to a bus stop.
Later that day, Turner took Hoggle to a medical appointment and when he picked her up, he said he wanted to pick up Sarah and Jacob. According to Turner, Hoggle was not forthcoming with information about the children's whereabouts" so her husband wanted to go to a police station to ask for help.
Before going to the police station, they went to a Chick-fil-A restaurant. At some point, Catherine left the restaurant. When her husband realized she had left, he called police. Police say a "K9 bloodhound track indicated that Catherine had exited the restaurant and walked to the Germantown Transit Center."
"I just want my freaking kids back," Turner said.
Police say it is possible that a friend or someone who knows Catherine may be watching the children and not realize that family members and police do not know the children's whereabouts.
Wednesday, police released surveillance video of Hoggle at the Chick-fil-A in Germantown on Monday. She was last seen on surveillance video Tuesday in the area of Germantown Road at approximately 4:30 a.m., police said. The children were not with her.
Police have great concerns over the welfare of the children because Hoggle has been seen on video without them many hours after they went missing, police said.
"There is still a possibility that this will have a happy outcome, that we can reunite the children with their dad and grandparents," Captain Daren Francke said Wednesday.
Hoggle is described as a white female, 5'06" tall, 160 pounds, with brown eyes and shoulder length black hair. She was last seen wearing blue jeans and a black tank top.
Sarah is described as a biracial female, 3'6″ tall, 40 pounds, with brown eyes and medium length brown hair.
Jacob Hoggle is described as a biracial male, 3'0" tall, weighs 25 pounds, with brown eyes and a curly, blond afro.