MISSING 11-Years: Mother of 3 Seen Driving Away, Then Vanished

Renewed interest in the case of a missing mother out of Girard.
Her children, who are now adults, still don’t know where their mom is.
In the woods or the waters is where we tend to find these vehicles.

We might find nothing.
Yeah, we might find a bunch of cars.
It just depends.

“There’s a truck right there.”
“Dang, dude. Dude, that is a truck.”
“I dug through that car. The window was open. It was full of sand. I thought I was feeling something inside the driver’s seat.”

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Today, we travel to Girard, Georgia, which is about an hour south of Augusta, to search the missing person’s case of Angela Diane Freeman.
She went missing back in 2014.
She was last seen leaving her house in the morning in a 2002 white Nissan.

There’s renewed interest in the case of a missing mother out of Girard.
Take a look at your screen. This is Angela Freeman, a mother of three.

Angela Freeman was reportedly last seen by neighbors leaving her home on Brigham Avenue in a white Nissan.
It didn’t seem out of the ordinary to them.
That was until law enforcement and family members came knocking on their doors saying she never returned.

Eleven years later, that story hasn’t changed.
“How can you vanish?”
It’s a question that haunts Angela’s sister, Geneva Wilkerson, to this day.

“What really happened, or where did she go?”
On April 2nd, 2014, Angela was supposed to go to a school parade to support Geneva’s children—an event she would never want to miss.
“So I kept calling, kept calling, never did get an answer.”

Geneva later got a call from Angela’s husband.
“Have you heard from her?”
“I said, ‘No, I ain’t heard from her.’ She never did pick up her phone.”

Geneva learned from Angela’s three children that they saw their mother that morning leaving for school.
But when they got home, she was missing.
Her car was missing.

But Angela’s belongings, including her wallet, were still inside the house.
One of the last sightings of Angela comes from her neighbors, who say they saw her driving away from her home in a white Nissan.
But to her sister Geneva, that just didn’t seem right.

“Stop driving. I thought she had a nervous breakdown.”
Geneva says about a year before Angela’s disappearance, Angela witnessed a deadly wreck after leaving Bible study one night.
She says her sister was even put on medication by a doctor, who advised her not to drive.

Her children, who are now adults, still don’t know where their mom is.
Lieutenant Heather Sims from the Burke County Sheriff’s Office said she began looking into Angela’s case after a family member reached out, saying the 12th year of her disappearance was approaching.

On Friday morning, Georgia DNR took to a portion of the Savannah River searching for answers, and I joined them.
Using sonar equipment, investigators worked to find Angela’s car.
Nothing came from Friday’s 4‑hour search.

But investigators have resubmitted DNA from Freeman’s children to see if they could get a match from a possible Jane Doe.
She still hasn’t been found.
And a few months ago, in October, there was renewed interest in the case.

I guess DNR has come out to some of the Savannah River here behind me to do some searches.
Whenever a vehicle is still missing, the woods or the water is where we tend to find these vehicles.
I might want to explore this with Nug, and this case is kind of reading like she could probably be in the water.

There’s not much else around here.
Yeah.
The first thing I noticed was where she was last seen leaving her house: you make a left and an immediate right, I mean, like right there.

And that’s the road we’re on.
It takes you all the way straight into this boat ramp.
So this is the very first and most obvious spot I was interested in.

It is a long road, but if she had intention, this would be the first place I would head.
I have no idea, but this is what I’m guessing is a good starting point.

It’s weird that she wasn’t driving anymore, and then all of a sudden she goes driving.
Something motivated her to get behind the wheel.
We don’t know what it is.

Strange.
She left all her belongings at home.
That’s never a good sign.

We’re not here to speculate, but we do see that in cases of usually self‑harm scenarios.
Or, you know, it could be some medical issue.
Maybe she had something going on and needed to go to the hospital and something was wrong.

There is a lot of river.
The Savannah River goes all the way down the whole state, pretty much.
We’ve found lots of vehicles up towards Augusta before, underwater.

But there are few boat ramps.
This is the most immediate one.
We’re about to put the boat in and see.

Our goal today is to try to find some answers, find her, and bring her home to her family—give them some peace of mind.
So hopefully we can do that.
We’re going to get in the boat right now, start running sonar, and see if we can find her today.

So let’s get in the water and start searching.
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“All right. Yeah, there’s definitely some current out here today.”
“It’s a little chilly this morning. It looks like some visibility.”

I mean, this river actually tends to be pretty clear from our experience.
“All right. Well, you ready?”
“[Sighs] Yep.”

“Yeah.”
“Woo. It’s current.”
“Yeah. It’ll be a challenge, to say the least, if we do find a car to identify with the drone.”

We might actually be doing some diving today.
“It’s 11 ft. Like, drops off.”
We’ll see what happens.

The water changes.
This is not a dig at all at law enforcement if we find anything, because we mess up all the time.
I mean, it happens.

Yeah, I’m not knocking them.
I’m just saying, we stare at sonar dang near every day, so—we’re, toot toot, our own horn a little bit—but we’re kind of good at it.

I like to say we might find nothing.
Yeah, we might find something.
We might find a bunch of cars—it just depends.

“Well, I guess we better get scanning, huh?”
“Yeah, we’re scanning 90 ft. Really sandy bottom.”

And the thing about this is she could be really far downriver.
Yeah.
Cars float long enough with this current to go a mile down.

We probably need to scan a mile or two.
Honestly, if there’s nothing here—especially since we know they’ve searched some—I don’t know exactly where they searched.

We haven’t talked to them.
I just saw it back in October, so I guess 2–3 months ago.
Yeah, it’s pretty sandy.

That’s a good image, though—9 ft.
We’re getting a good scan, so if there’s anything…

It could be buried, maybe.
Chances are, in this current, when cars go in the water, they go really close to the side.

Yeah, but we’ve also found them right out in the middle.
So it’s hit or miss.
I don’t like to make assumptions.

“That’s a car right there.”
“It’s either a car or a boat. That’s definitely something.”
“That does look like something right there. Yeah.”

“Holy crap. That—well, is there an old bridge site? Is that a…?”
“Man, that might be a boat.”
“That’s definitely something. That is something. Holy crap, that was quick.”

I’m optimistic that could be a car, but it’s really rectangular.
It looked almost too perfectly shaped.
I don’t know.

What was that—a Nissan?
“What did I say? Nissan Altima.”
Yeah, that’s just your average run‑of‑the‑mill Nissan.

Typical car.
“Yeah, I don’t get it myself.”

“There’s a truck right there.”
“Dang, dude. Dude, that is a truck.”
Yeah, you can see the down imaging—it’s a perfect shot.

And that’s pretty far—we’re pretty far from the boat ramp.
So that just gives you a good idea.
That also might be a vehicle.

I mean, that’s a truck right there.
“And there’s another car.”
“Yeah, there’s another car. That looks like an SUV.”

“That does kind of look more like an SUV.”
I didn’t hear them mention finding anything, though, in the news story.

That is definitely two vehicles.
Oh yeah.
And I would bet that other one is a vehicle too.

And we’re, I don’t know, a quarter—maybe not even a quarter—mile from the boat ramp.
Pretty far.

I just don’t know if we’ll be able to use the drone.
We can try to use the drone; there’s a pretty good current here, a really good current.

But a Nissan—they said it was an Altima as the car.
A Nissan Altima.
That’s just a car, a regular old car.

So that first one might be a car.
Definitely a truck, definitely an SUV.
So I don’t think that’s her, but that’s wild.

I’m not really surprised, ‘cause we’re out—it’s a good secluded boat ramp.
You could get away with anything out here.

“Yeah. Actually… so I guess this—what are these for? These old walls?”
“I don’t know. Is that just erosion control?”

Four feet down here.
Yeah, it’s really shallow—4 ft.
We might be more like a mile away now.

Definitely not a vehicle in 3 ft.
“No.”

“You want to go back?”
“Yeah, maybe go back through the middle, too. A little farther.”

Six ft out here in the middle.
I mean, it’s pretty shallow.
It’s only deep right there at the ramp.

It’s not very deep around the boat ramp—it’s 10–11 ft, and then it’s like a big hole right there.
We see that a lot because people put their boats in; you need more depth there.

But 5 ft out, it’s deeper by the edge.
It’s crazy—it’s deeper right by the edge.

So that first thing is definitely interesting.
That’s the one that’s piqued my attention—the only one out here that looks like a car.

Could be a boat, though.
Unless we got a weird scan with the SUV‑looking thing.
I don’t know; it did look tall.

We’ll scan it a few hundred more times.
We should be getting close—or is it over?

“One of them was closer—well, I think they were closer back towards that first pillar.”
“Yeah, we might be just a pinch out of range, but… now it’s starting to get deeper, and we’re getting… the boat ramp’s right there.”

“I mean, it looks shallow like there’s stuff in the water right there.”
“Yeah, that looks like a boat. That looks like a boat.”

I think that’s the first thing.
I don’t even know if we saw that, to be honest with you.
“I think that is what we were looking at—I mean, that’s the first thing we saw.”

“I don’t think so. I think it was something else. I think we missed that.”
“We’ll see. You think there’s two boats?”

‘Cause the second thing was a truck.
So if we see the truck, then you’re right.

“Well, the truck was way farther down, though. That was the second one we found. But I think it was closer down that way.”
“Yeah, I think.”

Old truck. It looks weird.
I don’t know what that is.
Stuff’s kind of buried out here, too.

We’ve got to decipher these sonar screens.
It’s always tricky.
Even to us that are looking at it every week, it can be confusing.

But basically you’re looking straight down, right side, left side.
The middle black is the water in between the boat and the sand.

“That might’ve been the truck.”
“Something right—there’s the truck. Okay, no, there’s the truck. So what is that right there?”

And there’s something big and rectangular over there, with a shadow.
Weird. That’s really… tree?

So that is—looks like some hatchback or SUV or something.
It looks more like a little hatchback.
That one’s interesting to me.

I mean, it’s tall on the down scan, but on the side scan it looks more like a little hatchback.
“See, that looks like an SUV, then it drops—yeah, look at the side scan.”

“Yeah, I think that—well, look at the down scan image—it’s squashed up, so I think it *is* higher.”

That one definitely, to me, is like—there’s no way that’s not a vehicle.
Yeah, that is like an Expedition or something—the one down there.

But if you only look at the down scan, you’d say, “Oh, it’s a truck cab.”
You know what I’m saying? It’s squished.

So that one’s squished, but, dude, that one might…
“We need to check that one. How about we check that one first?”

“How do you want to do it? You want to try the drone?”
“Yeah, we try the drone first. If you strike out, we can come back over and get the gear.”

It wouldn’t take much to dive it real quick.
I mean, if I get behind it, I can definitely come up to it.

We’ve got a pickup, we’ve definitely got some kind of big SUV, and then we’ve got a car.
There’s another case in Augusta—I got to look up what the car was—but it’s only, you know, not even an hour north, maybe less.

And if you’re trying to go to a boat ramp out of the way and hidden, this is the one.
I’ll tell you what, it’s a long—it’s a 10‑minute road.

This is the first time we’ve ever been out here.
We’re in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, we’re out in the country. It’s like 10 minutes of dirt roads.

“All right, let’s put a magnet on that one and then try to…”
“The magnet will hold us in place. We need to anchor it. I think the magnet will work.”

We’ll find it.
We’ll see.

There definitely is a current, but we’ve dealt with current before.
Worst case, we’ll dive it.

“It’s like half buried. It looks like it does have a little…”
“Yeah, dude, it goes off a little bit. It’s not a complete rectangle.”

“It does have a little butt on the car that goes off. Did you see that shot?”

It looks a little weird.
It looks a little tall in that shot.

“So that’s the rear window. Yeah, that’s the rear of that. See, there’s a little bit of a butt right there, you see?”
“Oh.”

So we’re going to attempt to put this magnet on this car.
Question is, is it going to hold?
Doubt it.

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“All right. That’s a challenge. I’m on it. Let’s see if it sticks.”
“All right. How are we looking?”

“I think it came off.”
“It did. I don’t know if the drone’s going to work on this one, man.”

Yeah, the current’s kicking.
The only way to do it, you’d have to drop down straight behind it, get behind the current.

These are good, strong drones, but they do have limitations, man.

“All right, we have the magnet on it. It just came off, but we got it on again. We’ll try not to move too much, but yeah, it’s going to be challenging.”

We’ve got the Chasing drone right here we’re about to throw in, which I use all the time.
It does a pretty good job even in current, but it has its limitations, like I said.

If I drop straight down and get behind it and go under the current, if I can go up to it and see a color—even though it’s buried—we’ll see.
We’ll know really quick.

But this is ripping.
We’re right in the worst spot; the current is so strong.

It shouldn’t have any real growth on it, if you think about it—it’s just half buried.
It might be just enough to tell the color pretty easily.

White—white stands out.
White stands out pretty good.

“Let’s see what happens. You ready for this?”
“Not really.”

“You want me to do that while you get ready to dive?”
“Yeah, I guess.”

“Hold on—it’s carrying the cord away, so I have no idea where you’re at.”
“Well, there is viz, but it’s… I’m gone.”

“Wait. Okay, I’m trying to stabilize.”
“You can’t see him. That’s good viz.”

“I’m holding on to you—you’re going… wow, you’re taking off on me.”
“Okay, I’ll pull it back up.”

“All right, well that’s not going to work.”

All right, I got all suited up now.
We’re about to go down there.

It is like 50° water, but I’ve got my drysuit on, thermals.
I’m not staying down long, but there is a rip‑roaring current.

We should be able to get a tag.
I might have to do a little bit of digging because it’s half buried.

Get a tag.
If I can see, I can tell from the top if it’s white.

Honestly, if the tag’s buried, it should be in good condition.
So you might be able to get a good number off of it, at least.

The goal is we’re going to start with that one and then try to do the other two.
If that’s hers, we’ll probably just do that one and call.

So let’s get out of here and check it out.
“That’s crazy.”

“Come on home.”

“It’s a Caprice Classic.”
“Oh my gosh, a Caprice Classic. That’s Chevy, right?”

Chevy, I think.
Maroon red, boxy, full of sand.

“Probably down there… it might have had a tag, but I couldn’t tell.”
We’re actually—the anchor came off the log.

The anchor’s wedged perfectly in the windshield crack.
So we’re barely holding on to anything right now.

“Well, that’s cool.”
“Do you…?”

Okay, I guess we got one.
Let’s try the truck and the other one.

It’s wicked, wicked current, and it’s cold.
“Well, if you want to do that, we can do it.”

“Okay. I guess as I pull forward, just…”
“Oh, it’s not even on it. Like I said, it’s barely on.”

I dug through that car.
The window was open, it was full of sand.

I thought I was feeling something inside the driver’s seat, but it was just glass or something—I don’t know.
We’re on the truck right now.

“Does it look old, you think?”
“I don’t know if it looks old, but it looks like the front end is wrecked.”

“Yeah, it looks beat up on the front end. Got the anchor snagged to the front end.”
So this is going to take you over the bed and everything.

“Okay. Well, hopefully there’s a tag—we’ve got something to report.”
“That last one looks pretty new.”

It looks pretty new.
“All right, let’s get down here. It’s cold, though.”

“Very cool. 011. Okay.”

“BZQ011—BZQ011.”
“Wonderful.”

Blue GMC, older.
Not terribly old.

“Cool. Was it all wrecked and stuff?”
“Couldn’t pull the tag off, but I found it—BZQ011.”

“I think it was Georgia—or Alabama, I can’t remember.”
“I think it was—the number’s right though. You should type that in.”

“How many letters?”
“BZQ011.”

“No, that’s right. I got it on video.”
“Okay, yeah. It’s cold. I was digging and digging because it’s so buried. I’m cold now. Cold.”

“Let’s try to get this other one next.”
“Okay.”

“All right, we’re hooked on the last one. Definitely like an SUV, right? Expedition or something.”
“Probably an SUV or a minivan or something. Definitely, though—big old…”

“Yeah. Big car.”
So this one’s right here—should be pretty quick too.

Looks like I’m looking at the passenger side; looks like the window’s down.
So they’re either both down, or the passenger side’s definitely down.

“So have fun, bro.”
“Yeah, we’ll get in, get it out. This one will be quicker, and we’re not looking for any of these, but you just never know—so we got to check.”

“All right, let’s do this.”

“AKD4473.”
Not what we’re looking for, but we can look that up and report it.

It’s empty, window down, half buried.
Looks—I swear it looks pink, but it’s red.

We’re hooked on the roof bar with the anchor, like under the bar.
It works out pretty good for this.

Yeah, it does the job.
“All right, let’s look at the map again. I think we might get to one other ramp, maybe.”

“Maybe we can scan this a little bit more and double‑check.”
“But okay. All right, I’m going to get out of the water.”

All right, we are driving down this long dirt road.
There’s one more boat ramp a little farther south, but it’s still in Burke County, I believe—only 20 minutes from here.

We’re going to go check out that ramp, and that’ll probably be it.
There’s one pond I’m interested in near the hospital I might try to go to, but Jeremy’s got a longer drive back than me.

So let’s get over to this next ramp, clear that real quick, and then go from there.
All right, this is the last ramp.

It kind of makes sense to me anyway, because it’s a straight shot.
It’s a weird, long road, but if you just keep going, if you don’t know where you’re at, it goes right into the water.

Might be nothing.
Definitely worth checking real quick.

There are some nice houses around here, though.
I think this is like a ramp when the water’s really high.

You can also use this one, but…

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All right, we just went up and down and scanned all this.
I don’t even know if I was recording or not, but I don’t see anything.

It is deep enough—9 ft—but it just looks flat.
Nothing jumping out as a vehicle.

So I think this one’s clear.
My last theory for where she went is the hospital, because why would she drive if she never drives, unless it’s an emergency?

The Burke County hospital is right down here on the left.
I noticed there’s a giant pond right here, a lake that people fish in.

There’s no guard rail.
You could have an accident and go over it depending on the spot.

I don’t know—maybe she pulled in here and she was nervous.
She was already not driving.

So we’re going to check this real quick.
This is going to be it for today, though.

You never know.
I think it’s a good theory.

“Oh, I feel like someone would see it if it went in the water.”
“You got connection?”
“Yeah.”

Although some of the historic images did look kind of shallow.
It definitely doesn’t drop off like crazy or instantly.

Three feet over there.
It makes sense to be deeper down that way.

Far down there.
“Sit right there—looks like they never look.”

Well, that’s a good spot too.
This lake looks really green and disgusting.

[Clears throat]
[Snorts]

Well, barely deep enough, really, but it looks clear.
Good theory, though.

All right, well, we scanned around this whole thing.
Didn’t see anything.

It’s barely even deep enough, and I think I saw that some of the old maps didn’t make it look very good.
But, you know, we’re open to come back here if anybody watching knows an area around here—a pond or part of the river you could access, especially back in 2014.

Please feel free to email me if you have any tips or anything like that.
We’ll come back out. I’m only like an hour away from here, so I’m happy to come back out and scan and run sonar.

It’s just so strange for someone to go missing with their vehicle.
We definitely want to bring her home, if possible.

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