Search warrant sheds new light in case of missing student, Jessica Benson

Posted on: 7:58 pm, September 9, 2013, by Katie DeLong and Jeremy Ross, updated on: 10:28pm, September 9, 2013

MILWAUKEE (WITI) FOX6 News is learning more about two cases that may be connected. The first, the case of a missing college student. 22-year-old Jessica Benson has been missing since May. The second: A robbery at Bensons workplace, Educators Credit Union just days before she disappeared.

A search warrant just unsealed sheds new light on law enforcements investigation into the robbery, and Bensons disappearance.

Benson hasnt been seen since May of 2013, when she called in sick to work and seemingly disappeared just days before her graduation from Mount Mary University.

A search warrant details how investigators focused on Bensons handwriting, searching Bensons personal belongings in her dorm room, inside Carolyn Hall at Mount Mary. There, according to the search warrant, officials recovered items including Bensons notes and school binders.

This, after the Educators Credit Union on Appleton Avenue was robbed on May 7th.

The robbery was captured on surveillance video. A man is seen passing a note that included words used by credit union employees. Law enforcement officials believe there were similarities in the writing between the piece of evidence and what was found in Bensons dorm room.

Benson disappeared days before her college graduation and, coincidentally, just after her workplace was robbed.Initially, her sister, Judith Beyer, though Benson was missing or kidnapped.In fact, Bensons friends and family had come together to pray for her safe return.

However, court documents and a Milwaukee police search warrant released back in June insinuated that Benson was not kidnapped but rather involved in the robbery that occurred at her work just before she disappeared.

And now, Bensons sister, Judith Beyer, is not sure what to believe. According to her, Benson had nothing to worry about. She worked at the Credit Union for six years, had no criminal record and was about to graduate from college.

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Search warrant sheds new light in case of missing student, Jessica Benson