Firefighters were called to a house fire in Jefferson County on July 12th, 2007. Walking into a fire, one of the top responsibilities of a firefighter is life safety. Unfortunately for these particular firefighters, they had just walked into a nightmare. During their search they found an infant deceased in the house. If that wasn’t bad enough, they couldn’t find the mother Joey Lynn Offutt. She wasn’t in the house, so where could she have been? The week leading up to this fire there were red flags left and right. Why did Joey’s family and community not push for answers that week? Could there have been a different outcome? It has been almost 17 years and authorities are no closer in finding out what happened the awful morning of July 12th, 2007, or where Joey is.
Joey Lynn Offutt
Birth: 10/11/1973 – Date Last Seen: 7/4/2007
Date Reported Missing: 7/12/2007
Ethnicity: Sex: Male/Female
Height: 5ft. 3 in. Weight: 110 lbs.
Other pertinent information: Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Offutt wears wire-framed eyeglasses. She has a noticeable lisp.
Hometown: Sykesville, PA – Jefferson County
Crime Scene: Joey's home on the 90 block of Fugate Avenue in Sykesville, PA
Last Known Location Alive: Joey was last seen at her home on July 4, 2007
Injury Description: The infant was determined to have died before the fire started, but no cause of death was determined
DNA: DNA was used to identify the infant as Joey's 6-month-old son
If you have information, contact Pennsylvania State Police, DuBois Station at 814-371-4652 or 814-938-0510
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