Jamie Fraley: The Calls and the Family Search
Agency dates, family recollections and the search around Gastonia.
Abstract
NamUs MP3073 lists April 8, 2008, as Jamie Michelle Fraley’s Date of Last Contact in Gastonia, North Carolina. Its narrative describes overnight calls and a planned ride to a hospital.1
Calls and the Record
The registry names Gaston County Police reference 2008-00024-020. It describes contact with her mother around midnight and a friend around 1:30 a.m. The planned hospital trip is reported information, not documentation that Jamie reached a hospital.1
Ken Lemon’s April 2019 WSOC feature includes Kim Fraley’s memory of speaking with her daughter after midnight. Detective Brian Dalton described a later call ending when someone reportedly arrived. He said the person’s identity was unknown. The original calls and statements were not inspected here.5
WBTV’s April 2018 appeal quotes police placing Jamie at her apartment around two in the morning on April 8. That attribution is useful, but the underlying observation was not reproduced. A published police account and an independently inspected witness statement are different evidence.7
Sarah-Blake Morgan’s 2015 WBTV feature instead gives April 9.6 WBTV’s 2019 appeal gives April 11 as the report date, then says she was last seen that morning. Its wording does not resolve which night the earlier account describes.8
Family, Friends and a Public Search
WSOC’s April 2012 coverage includes mother Kim, sister Tesla Rush and aunt Stacy Dennis describing the uncertainty of Jamie’s absence. Family friend Rita Conley volunteered to help search. The report describes regular trips into woods and along roads, rather than a confirmed trail of Jamie’s movements.2
Morgan’s later interview preserves Rush’s difficulty understanding what missing meant when the family first learned the news. Cousin and best friend Erica Beaver described the absence of a place to mourn. Those personal accounts explain the family’s experience without establishing a finding about Jamie.6
Lemon also describes Kim keeping her daughter’s writing. That personal memory does not predict or explain the disappearance.5
In April 2014, WSOC described Joan Petruski of The Kristen Foundation keeping articles, photographs and notes while assisting with searches and publicity. Her collection represented sustained work to keep the case visible, not a separate set of independently confirmed observations.3
Lemon’s April 2016 report followed preparations for a video appeal featuring Kim holding written signs. Family friend Rheta Conley hoped people beyond North Carolina would share it. This was reporting about a planned awareness effort; the video and subsequent social-media response were not independently reviewed here.4
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you trace April 8, April 9 and April 11 to the original contact and reporting records?6,7,8
Can you identify the dated phone-recovery record before placing that discovery on the timeline?1
Can you distinguish a reported arrival during a call from documentation identifying who arrived or where Jamie went?5
Keep the dated sources and your questions in a Research File in Almost Solved. Label each entry as a reported call, a later recollection, a recovery report or a publication. A clarification should explain a particular detail; uncertainty about a time or name must remain uncertainty rather than become an accusation.
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Later Recovery Accounts and Appeals
NamUs describes a utility worker finding Jamie’s phone two days later, roughly three miles from home. This is the registry’s recovery account, not the underlying recovery report.1
Lemon’s 2019 report instead says hours later and about a mile and a half away. These accounts require the original recovery documentation; differing descriptions alone do not establish a second phone or discovery.5
The April 2014 report attributes a year without new tips to Sergeant Stephen Dover. That statement concerns the period he described, not today’s tip activity or the value of information someone might now hold.3
WBTV’s 2019 appeal again sought information from the public. Its publication was another attempt to draw attention to Jamie, not evidence of new contact or a resolution.8
Scope and Method
Original calls, witness statements, recovery documentation and investigative files were not inspected.
Prepared with AI assistance. Sources and references checked against the cited public materials. This paper is an original synthesis of the identified public sources; it does not reproduce article bodies, transcripts, or an investigative file.
Footnote References
- NamUs, MP3073, Jamie Michelle Fraley; reviewed November 2, 2026.
- WSOC, Fraley family and search report, April 9, 2012.
- WSOC, Fraley six-year retrospective, April 8, 2014.
- Ken Lemon, WSOC, Fraley video-appeal report, April 5, 2016.
- Ken Lemon, WSOC, Fraley family and police feature, April 2019.
- Sarah-Blake Morgan, WBTV, Fraley family feature, April 10, 2015.
- WBTV, Fraley tenth-anniversary appeal, April 2018.
- WBTV Web Staff, Fraley information appeal, April 11, 2019.