An Indiana lady was reported lacking final week following a “suspicious” fireplace in her home, authorities mentioned.
Britney Gard, 46, was final seen the evening of Sept. 30, in response to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Workplace. She is taken into account a lacking endangered individual “because of her unknown whereabouts,” the sheriff’s workplace said.
Authorities responded to her residence on Oct. 1, following a 911 name for a hearth at her residence in Bainbridge, situated about 40 miles west of Indianapolis, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned. Smoke was reported coming from the residence round 7:40 p.m., the workplace mentioned.
Britney Gard is seen in undated images launched by the Putnam County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Putnam County Sheriff’s Workplace
Fireplace crews extinguished the blaze, which investigators imagine is “suspicious in nature,” Putnam County Sheriff Jerrod Baugh mentioned in a press release on Friday.
Nobody was discovered within the fire-damaged residence, and makes an attempt to contact Gard had been unsuccessful, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned. She was not situated following a drone-assisted search of the realm and searches of a pond on the property following the hearth, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
Gard was presupposed to attend her daughter’s volleyball sport on Oct. 1, however didn’t present up, her sister, Stephanie Bowen, advised ABC Indianapolis affiliate WRTV.
“Her automotive’s at residence, her purse is at residence. She’s nowhere to be discovered, and the home is on fireplace. It is mindless,” Bowen advised WRTV.
“I simply really feel like there’s one thing right here larger that we don’t know,” she mentioned.
Britney Gard was final seen on Sept. 30, 2025, in response to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Putnam County Sheriff’s Workplace
The search continued this week for the mom of two, with dozens of individuals, together with her sisters, trying by cornfields and wooded areas close to Gard’s property on Monday, WRTV reported.
Detectives requested anybody with details about her whereabouts to contact the sheriff’s workplace.
“We proceed to research this case across the clock and are concerned together with her household to search out Britney,” Baugh mentioned. “Since that is an lively investigation and we proceed to assemble info hourly, we is not going to be discussing any additional specific proof or info till we will full this endeavor and discover Britney Gard.”
Bowen urged individuals to be “vigilant” and to examine their residence safety cameras.
“Britney, we love you,” she advised WRTV. “We hope to see you safely return residence.”
