"I don't care if she's out doing a kilo of cocaine, she's still my daughter and I want her home," Caruso said yesterday. "Dogs and cats get better treatment when they go missing."
Lord, who has a 3-year-old son, attended a family barbecue in Collingswood, N.J., on July 4 and was last seen at a Camden train station the following morning. She was reported missing in Collingdale and yesterday morning, authorities there met with Camden and Collingswood police for the first time to discuss the investigation.
Camden Police Capt. Harry Leon said investigators went to the Walter Rand Transportation Center, where Lord was last seen, as well as areas of Broadway and known drug areas yesterday to hand out fliers.
"No one has seen her," Leon said.
Collingdale Police Chief Robert Adams said there have been anonymous reports that Lord was seen in New Jersey and Philadelphia after the disappearance. A law-enforcement source, who asked not to be identified, saw a woman who fit Lord's description, including the Mickey Mouse tattoo on her forearm, near the VA Hospital in West Philadelphia.
"I don't know where to go from here, nothing looks suspicious. I don't think she's being held against her will or anything," Adams said. He said Lord would remain in the National Crime Information Center database as a missing person until she was found.
According to Caruso, Lord got a ride from an "ex-Marine" at the Collingswood apartment complex to the transportation center in Camden early the following morning so she could catch a PATCO train to Philadelphia. Collingswood Police Chief Richard Sarlo said detectives went to the apartment and found no evidence of foul play but have not spoken to the individual who allegedly drove her to Camden.
