Randa Jawhari, 42, has been missing from her apartment on the 3000 block Shiawassee Avenue in Fenton, MI since February 11, 2009.
Jawhari last talked to her sister over the phone the night she disappeared but when her mother called the next morning, there was no answer at her Shiawassee Avenue apartment. Jawhari also failed to show up for her ride in the morning.
Jawhari is believed to be wearing a long, blue bathrobe, as it is missing from her apartment. She is a heavy smoker and her cigarettes were left at her apartment.
The Carole Sund/Carrington Foundation is offering a $5,000 reward in addition to the $1,000 already being offered by family members.
Jawhari is described as being a white female with brown hair standing 5′1″ tall and weighing 100 pounds. She has bipolar disorder and doesn’t own a car or possess a driver’s license.
If anyone has any information about Randa Jawhari’s whereabouts, please contact the Fenton Police Department at 810-629-5311.
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Randa (pron. Ron-da) Jawhari has been missing since the evening of Tuesday, February 10, 2009. That night her mother was with her and helped her lay out her clothes for the next day. The last time anybody had any contact with her was around 11:30 p.m., when she was at her apartment on the 3000 block of Shiawasee Avenue in Fenton, Michigan. Though she is a heavy smoker, her cigarettes were left in tact at her place, and the only things missing from her apartment were a blue bathrobe and a brown jacket with white wool sleeves and a collar. The clothes that had been laid out had not been touched.
Randa is 42 years old, 5′1″ tall, approximately 100 lbs with curly brown hair, dark brown eyes, and a beautiful smile. She has bipolar disorder but had been on her medication and stable. She has family in Michigan and in Ohio. Randa is a mother, sister and daughter. Please help us find her.
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FENTON (WJRT) — (02/06/10) — It has been nearly a year since a Fenton woman vanished from her apartment.
Police still don’t have any solid leads, but her family still hopes for her safe return.
Randa Jawhari was last seen a year ago next week in her Fenton apartment on Shiawassee Avenue.
Her family is now desperate for closure.
It’s said losing a child is a parent’s worst nightmare. For Anisse Jawhari, not knowing the whereabouts of her daughter is even worse. “If she is dead, I want to know. If she is alive, I want to know.”
Forty-three-year-old Randa Jawhari disappeared last February. Since then, birthdays and holidays have come and gone, but the Jawhari family remains stranded in time.
‘It’s like the world keeps living, but we have stopped on that day. Until we know what happened to my sister, we can’t go on,” Jawhari’s sister Rocky said.
A sketch of a so-called person of interest was released several months ago, but it hasn’t brought police any new leads.
The family set up a Facebook page in Randa’s honor. On it are messages of hope, prayers of support and pleas for help to find her. “I feel like we can let our emotions out we can talk to her, or talk to whoever knows anything,” said Rocky.
There is a billboard along U.S. 23 and posters still hang on business windows throughout the community that is also looking for answers. “It almost comes up almost every day in conversation. Any news, ya know? Have they heard anything? There are no clues, so that makes it doubly agonizing,” business owner Elizabeth Dickens said.
Brother Sam Jawhari says the family needs to know the fate of their loved one. “You can deal with anything when you know someone passed. You deal with it, but it just eats you alive. Is someone holding her hostage? Is she dead on the side of the road? All these things keep playing in your mind.”
Fenton police ask anyone with information to come forward.
Thursday marks the year anniversary of the day that Randa Jawhari went missing from her Fenton apartment. With no new leads, Naheda (left) and Rocky Jawhari (right) and their four other siblings and parents continue the search for their sister.
FENTON, Michigan — On the 11th day of every month, Naheda Jawhari has a hard time getting out of bed. Diana Anderson feels paralyzed those days. Anissa Jawhari will lose sleep.It’s not simply a coincidence. The seven siblings and parents of Randa Jawhari find it hard to function every month that’s gone by without her.
“I don’t even realize what’s going on, then I realize it’s the 11th,” said Diana Anderson, 37, Randa’s younger sister. “It washes over me. We are so close, but at the same time, you carry each other’s pain and burden. You fall apart.”Randa Jawhari
There were no signs of foul play, no evidence of why she left. Randa seems to have vanished, her family says, leaving behind everything but a bathrobe.
“She called each and every one of us eight times a day,” said Naheda Jawhari. “And if we didn’t answer, she’d leave a never-ending message.”
Randa’s mother, Anissa Jawhari, knew something was wrong when she hadn’t heard from her daugher by 7 a.m. on Feb. 11, 2009.
Randa’s daughter, Mattilyn, 7, lives with Anissa Jawhari, and Randa would call every morning before Mattilyn went to school, Anissa said.
That morning she didn’t.
“Randa can not function without her family,” said her brother, Sam Jawhari, 50. “She needed us and she knew it.”
Fenton police are searching for a man seen with Randa a few months before she went missing.
Randa, 43, has bipolar disorder and suffered from bouts of depression. Family members say she wouldn’t leave her daughter, and when she didn’t return for Mattilyn’s birthday in April, a little more hope was lost.Randa is artistic, having written a book of poems illustrated with sketches and paintings she had done. She was once an aspiring actress, had a small role in the 1994 film “True Lies,” and taught acting classes at the Rainbow Connection in Flint.
The days following Randa’s disappearance, police and volunteers scoured fields, roadways and other areas. A helicopter searched overhead for her. Police have followed up every tip they’ve had, said Fenton police Detective Ron Skarzynski said.
Police have few leads to follow. The tips have dried up. Police are seeking any information about a man seen with Randa a few months before she went missing.
The man was seen with Randa at a dental appointment and described as clean cut and 30 to 35 years old. He was wearing a long, black leather jacket and silver chains around his neck.
Skarzynski is hoping to find the man to at least rule him out as a suspect.
“It’s not a crime to go missing,” he said. “Nobody has called us with any information of seeing her. … It’s starting to make us think she’s not in the area.”
This is the only missing person case of this magnitude the Fenton police department has handled in recent history, Skarzynski said.
For the family, any information at all will be helpful.
“I went to a funeral, and I was jealous,” Anderson said. “That family at least had closure. There’s no closure.”
For now, Randa’s information is on a billboard that hangs over U.S. 23 and a Web site, www.findranda.org. The family is offering a $6,000 reward in the case.
“We just don’t want her forgotten,” Naheda Jawhari said. “We are stuck. We are here in limbo.”
Find Randa Jawhari
Randa Jawhari, 43, is 5-foot-1 and 100 pounds.
She was discovered missing from her Fenton apartment on Feb. 11, 2009.
Police are seeking information on a man last seen with Randa in fall 2008.
Published: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:28 AM EST
Fenton — It’s been 287 days and there is still no sign of Randa Jawhari, a Fenton woman who vanished without a trace, sometime during the very late night hours of Tuesday, Feb. 10 and early morning hours of Wednesday, Feb. 11.
As families across the country are getting together for Thanksgiving dinners, the Jawhari family must cope with the fact that one chair at the dining room table will be empty.
Randa, 43, was reported missing Feb. 11 after her mother, Anisse Jawhari went to her Shiawassee Avenue apartment and found the apartment empty. Randa had lived there for about five months. She kept in touch with her large family constantly by using her apartment phone.
Bracing herself for the upcoming holidays, Randa’s mother knows they will be difficult. “Anytime I’m by myself, I cry for Randa.
“I say, where are you, Randa?” Anisse said as she glanced at photos of Randa, on display in her Fenton home.
Anisse and her husband David will be hosting Thanksgiving dinner at their home and will be serving traditional family favorites, dating back to their Lebanese heritage. Anisse and David, and seven of their children were born in Lebanon.
After the elder Jawharis married, they came over to the United States to be with relatives in Ohio. They brought three of their children with them, and sent for the other four 10 months later after they settled in. Their youngest daughter, Diana, was the only child born in the United States.
After a visit to an uncle in Holly, the Jawharis moved from the Parma, Ohio area to Fenton and have lived in town ever since. The Jawharis own Beirut Restaurant in Linden.
Some of the Jawhari favorites include Chicken Hashwe, adorned with rice and nuts. Homemade hummus, baked eggplant, Fatoush salad and homemade dressings are also expected to bring some comfort to the large, family get together. For dessert, Anisse said Baklava, a big one, will be served, along with some fruit salad.
Anisse said she contemplated canceling Thanksgiving dinner, however, her son, Sam insisted everyone get together for the sake of the children. As the prayer is said, Anisse said the entire family will pray for Randa’s return.
Coping with so many unknowns has taken a toll on the family. Anisse does not understand why her daughter does not show up on the surveillance video that monitors the apartment complex parking lot. She does not know why Randa left a coat, her ID and her cigarettes behind. Read the rest of this entry »
FENTON, Michigan – Almost four months have passed since Randa Jawhari disappeared from her Shiawassee Avenue apartment. Police detective work, a $6,000 reward, a highway billboard and social networking Web sites have turned up little information in attempts to locate her.
But the Jawhari family isn’t giving up on the search.
Last week, the family went from business to business in Fenton, reposting fliers detailing what they know about the woman’s disappearance. The family also has started a benefit fund and will host a vigil June 6 in downtown Fenton. Tuesday marks Randa Jawhari’s 43rd birthday.
“Hopefully, this will bring back an awareness that she’s still missing,” said her sister, Naheda Jawhari. “We had heard rumors that people thought she had been found.”
Randa Jawhari, described as 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 100 pounds, went missing from her apartment Feb. 11. There were no signs of foul play, and police leads have come up empty.
“There’s no more new leads,” Naheda Jawhari said. “(The police are) doing what they can, but they’re waiting for someone to basically say, ‘There she is.’ They’re not getting the information that they need to find her.”
The Jawhari family has set up the Randa Jawhari benefit account at The State Bank and will accept donations from community members. Naheda Jawhari said funds from the account will be used to further the search.
“It’s kind of difficult, especially with the way the economy is, to ask for anything like that,” she said. “We’re to the point where we have no choice.”
The June 6 prayer vigil will begin at 7 p.m. at the Fenton Millpond on South Leroy Street next to City Hall. Naheda Jawhari said the downtown area was always one of her sister’s favorite spots. The community is welcome to attend.
“It’s a park that Randa always enjoyed going to,” Jawhari said. “We just thought it would be appropriate to honor my sister with a prayer vigil.”
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Randa Jawhari should call the Fenton Police Department at (810) 629-5311.
May 26, 2009 – Randa Jawhari Benefit Fund Established
The Jawhari family has put a hold on asking for financial help for as long as they could. This is so difficult, especially now with the economy the way it is. They have opened the “Randa Jawhari Benefit Fund” at The State Bank. All proceeds will help the Jawhari family to further help in the search of Randa. You can mail a check or money order to:
The State Bank
Attn: Mail Teller
PO Box 725
Fenton, Mi. 48430-0725
The Jawhari family thanks you for your continued support, they appreciate all of you that have helped in Randa’s search, brought food, given them a shoulder to lean on and continue to pray for their family. May God’s blessings be upon you. May the peace of God rest upon you and your loved ones.
Fenton police Detective Ron Skarzynski said the man accompanied Jawhari on about five visits to a dentist’s office at Court Street and Dort Highway in October and November.
Jawhari was having a partial bridge made and a receptionist there told police the man seemed very impatient during the appointments.
The man was constantly asking how long Jawhari would be, said Skarzynski.
The dental receptionist recently met with a state police sketch artist and described the man with Jawhari as clean cut and 30 to 35. He was seen wearing a long, black leather jacket and silver chains around his neck.
Police want to talk with him to see if he has heard from her since she went missing.
Police have labeled the man a “person of interest” and said the investigation has not led them to suspect foul play in the disappearance.
If you have any information about Randa Jawhari’s whereabouts, please contact the Fenton Police Department at 810-629-5311, or submit an anonymous tip online.
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FENTON, Michigan — On the 11th day of every month, Naheda Jawhari has a hard time getting out of bed. Diana Anderson feels paralyzed those days. Anissa Jawhari will lose sleep.It’s not simply a coincidence. The seven siblings and parents of Randa Jawhari find it hard to function every month that’s gone by without her.
