Investigators need your help solving a mystery.

Thirty-five-year old Karen Smith disappeared two weeks ago without a trace. Investigators hope her ex-husband’s picture and car will lead to answers. Smith’s family believes her ex-husband, Steve Halcomb, had something to do with her disappearance two weeks ago.

Jeff Klinck is Karen’s cousin. “She was scared to death of the man. He, I want to say, terrified her emotionally. He was very abusive emotionally.” According to Smith’s children, they all went to bed Wednesday night December 27th. But when they woke up their mother was gone. So was her purse, but her shoes were still there.

Halcomb, who was staying at the home, was also missing and he just re-surfaced this week after turning himself in to police for parole violation. Investigators impounded his car, a 1983 light blue Ford LTD. “We also have processed the vehicle that we are looking at and we’re seeking the public’s help at this point, if anyone has seen the vehicle, Steve and/or Karen Smith,” says Detective Judy Phillips.

Smith’s family believes Halcomb abducted her, dragging her body out of the boarded-up doorway. One of her socks was found hanging on a nail and Klinck believes she would never leave her children, especially for this long. “Her kids were her life. Her family was her life. She had absolutely no reason to go, to run-off or anything.”

For now, Halcomb sits in jail and will not talk to detectives. Meantime, Smith’s family just wants answers. “We just want her home. If he’s done something to her, we just want to know where she is so that the family can come to peace with what’s going on.”

At the house, Karen Smith’s mother, 13-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter hold vigil, hoping for her safe return. Smith had let Halcomb stay at the home because she didn’t want to upset him. He just got out of prison last August and was on parole for a drug dealing conviction.

Anyone with information can call missing persons at 765-327-6917.