Article-3/22/07-Mother hopes billboard helps find her daughter

Mother hopes billboard helps find her daughter

10:48 AM CDT on Thursday, March 22, 2007

By: Shelton Green
KVUE News

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A great big sign is spelling new hope for the family of Roxanne Paltauf. The 18-year-old has been missing for eight months. Now, a local company has donated a billboard on I-35 featuring Roxanne’s mysterious disappearance.

The billboard is only a block away from where Roxanne was last seen. Now, her mother is hoping the exposure will bring her daughter back.

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The family of Roxanne Paltauf is hoping a billboard along I-35 will help bring her home.
“(The billboard is) huge and it’s beautiful, just like Roxanne,” said Liz Harris, Paltauf’s mother.

The space was donated for free by Reagan National Advertising.

Paltauf never came home last July. The 18-year-old’s boyfriend, 30-year-old Louis Walls, told the family and police that Paltauf walked away from a North Austin hotel after the couple argued. Police are anxious to talk to anyone who may have seen the couple before, during and after Roxanne’s disappeared.

In July, a search by volunteers in the area where Paltauf was last seen turned up nothing. She was also featured on the TV show, “America’s Most Wanted” earlier this year. Last week, Paltauf’s story appeared in “18-Wheel Angels”, a national magazine for truck drivers.

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Harris now has high hopes that this latest tool will finally provide the missing piece of the puzzle.

“I think this is a perfect location, especially 5 o'clock traffic, everybody's going to be stopped, they're going to be looking at something, they'll be looking at her and hopefully remember her face, seen her around, find some information that maybe somebody knows where she's at,” she said.

Friends and family donated the $1,100 it took to create the artwork.

Call Crimestoppers at 472-TIPS if you know where Roxanne is. Remember, any tip leading to an arrest could mean a reward of up to $1,000

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