Abigail “Abby” Blagg’s smile with two front teeth missing could light up a room.
Abigail “Abby” Blagg, 6
It’s been 11 years now since anyone has seen Abby, who had freckles, a pug nose and short sandy blond hair.
She lived in a nice home in a cul-de-sac at 2253 Pine Terrace Court in the Redlands Mesa neighborhood in Mesa County near Grand Junction. The Blaggs were renting.
Her folks, Michael and Jennifer Blagg, had moved from Simpsonville, South Carolina 10 months earlier. They had also lived in Texas, California and Arizona over the course of 10 years. Neighbors would say they were reclusive but a model family, nonetheless.
Michael, 38, a former Navy lieutenant commander and helicopter pilot and nuclear engineer, was an operations manager at AMETEK Inc., which manufactures truck gauges. He was known to dashed out of his office if he was needed at home.
Jennifer, 34, was a stay-at-home mom, who volunteered at Abby’s school, Bookcliff Christian School, collected rocks and jewelry and took Jazzercise classes three days a week.
Abby was a first grader. On the Tuesday she went missing, she didn’t go to school. A parent called the front office. It was an excused absence. Abby had always been really good at her studies.