Tacoma home searched in connection with missing pregnant Parkland woman
Investigators served a search warrant at the home of an ex-boyfriend believed to have fathered the baby of a pregnant Parkland woman missing more than a week.
Kassandra Cantrell, 33, hasn’t been seen or heard from since she left her family’s home the morning of Aug. 25.
She was reported missing Thursday by relatives who say she would never disappear, let alone skip her first ultrasound appointment.
On Monday, a Pierce County sheriff’s SWAT team served a search warrant at a home in the 3500 block of South K Street.
The man lives there with his current girlfriend and was home at the time, authorities said.
“He is not in custody or detained at this point,” sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.
The FBI’s forensic team’s search of the house continued into Tuesday.
Cantrell’s friends believe she was going to the grocery store the day she went missing, but there has been no activity on her EBT card.
Her cell phone also hasn’t been used since the day she disappeared.
It last pinged off a cell tower on Vashon Island, which promoted a two-day search for signs of Cantrell in Point Defiance Park.
Cantrell’s Mazda 3 sedan was found in the 300 block of 25th Street East near the Interstate 705 overpass in Tacoma Friday evening with the keys inside.
Detectives are reviewing surveillance video from the area in hopes of figuring out who abandoned the vehicle there and when.
Cantrell is described as 5-feet-7 and 180 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
If anyone has information about her whereabouts, they are asked to call 911.
This story was originally published September 1, 2020 at 10:32 AM.
