Nichole Alloway, 19, Found Dead after meeting with someone from internet

[darcie]

Nash woman tried to return from Ohio before she was killed
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5625164/

*snipped, and more at the link*

Spring Hope, N.C. — Ohio authorities said they want to talk with a man whom a Spring Hope woman went to visit before she disappeared last month.

The remains of Nichole Alloway, 20, were found last week in an abandoned house near Otway, Ohio, in the southeastern part of the state. Her family reported her missing on June 10 to police in Portsmouth, Ohio, which is about 20 miles from Otway.

Alloway's grandmother, Diane Dille, said she she had gone to Portsmouth in mid-May to visit Dillon Maring, 18, whom she had met online but had never met in person.

"They had talked for several months prior on the phone and on the Internet, on MySpace," Dille said.

[kelloggirl]

From the article:

"She said her granddaughter wanted a relationship and was considering moving to Ohio with her two children.

Even before she got on the bus to Ohio, however, things didn't feel right.

"She got her first foot on that step and held onto the railing, and she turned to me and said, 'Grandma, I got a bad feeling about this,'" Dille said. "I said, 'Well then, don't go. Stay here.' She said, 'No, I gotta go.'"

How sad. If only she had listened to her intuition. I sure hope police pursue these leads vigorously and bring justice to Nichole and her family.

[jaxback]

When will young women ever learn?

I realize you can't teach "Common Sense" but apparently there needs to be a class on INTERNET safety... :ohmy:

Sadly, I think there are some young women (and men) who will never learn no matter how many times they hear it or how many classes they take. Their need for a partner is so desperate that "love" wins out over common sense and self-preservation instincts. :sad:

[jaxback]

I know you're right jax, but this girl was 19 years old.
How desperate could she have been?
Guess I'll never understand things like this, as I am anal about my own safety...

I will never understand how people can be so desperate for a relationship. But jeesh, she already had kids and her grandmother said she was thinking about moving to Ohio even though she had never met this guy in person. I don't mean to seem disrespectful of this victim, but that kind of attitude is both risky and pathetic. jmo:sad:

[sinagua]

Oh, this poor woman. Now, the babies are left to go to whoever will take them. Maybe the biological father(s) is a good guy.

Unfortunately, she may have been from a totally dysfunctional family.

[Mel]

What does the statement, "He didn't show her any apartments" even mean?
This is an 18 year old boy she went to see, like, a high school senior.

I can't imagine allowing a mother of two to abandon her children to go check out a boy she's never met in another state. She'd be signing over custody to me before she did that shenanigans.

Grandma took her to the bus stop? ??? And she left there without money for a bus ticket home, when it didn't work out. Not if it didn't work out, when. I know 20 year old women can be idiots, but this is grandma dropping her off. Grandmothers usually have a great deal of common sense.

he may have told her 'hey, we'll go apartment hunting when you get here, yada yada yada'...that's how i take it anyway...

just crazy!

[Details]

We meet people many ways - and any one of them may be evil. Whether it's at a bar, in line at the grocery store, at church, through a personal ad, on the internet - any of them can be a killer - it's easy enough to name cases for any of these meeting methods of dead women. I've met some people online. One is my husband, another is a couple who are some of our best friends. A few others were really crappy first dates.

However you meet someone, you've got to take appropriate safety precautions. And even when you take all appropriate precautions, sometimes they still are not enough.

People meet all kinds of ways - and normally - it works out just fine. I've traveled across the country to meet a guy I'd hooked up with online. It's not uncommon, many people meet their spouses that way. The fact she ignored her own intuition seems a little problem - but meeting someone in person who you have previously only spoken to on the phone and online is hardly reason to suggest taking custody of her children.

[SnowWhite]

I met my ex-husband in a small town bar where everyone had known him since childhood. They knew his family, his siblings and his grandparents.

NO ONE could have predicted that he had/has a sociopathic side to him. He is to this day the most dangerous person I know. And you would never know it by looking at him.

The internet is only scary because we have been told these stories about the young innocent one that goes off and ends up murdered but we all have been on these types of forums long enough to have read HUNDREDS if not thousands of stories of women missing and or murdered and they never even went on the internet.

Not only that but there are literally THOUSANDS of women who are murdered by the very man they married in front of all of their friends and relatives in a church filled with decorations and music.

Nope, after what I've learned I don't think strangers are nearly as dangerous as the people who are living in your own house.

[AnniePie]

We meet people many ways - and any one of them may be evil. Whether it's at a bar, in line at the grocery store, at church, through a personal ad, on the internet - any of them can be a killer - it's easy enough to name cases for any of these meeting methods of dead women. I've met some people online. One is my husband, another is a couple who are some of our best friends. A few others were really crappy first dates.

However you meet someone, you've got to take appropriate safety precautions. And even when you take all appropriate precautions, sometimes they still are not enough.

People meet all kinds of ways - and normally - it works out just fine. I've traveled across the country to meet a guy I'd hooked up with online. It's not uncommon, many people meet their spouses that way. The fact she ignored her own intuition seems a little problem - but meeting someone in person who you have previously only spoken to on the phone and online is hardly reason to suggest taking custody of her children.

I've also met some wonderful people online and some of them are now very close friends. But I am an older and wiser woman than a twenty year old girl who could have proven poor judgment just by the fact that she has two children at such a young age.

Gramma, with her life experience, should have encouraged this young woman not to get involved with this fellow until she had checked him out a lot better than she had. Her intuition was trying to tell her something and she wasn't paying enough attention. Her heart was leading her head, and she ended up paying with her life.

[Jester]

"An Ohio man has been arrested in connection with the death of a Spring Hope woman, whose body was found in the southeastern part of that state.
...
Scioto County Sheriff Marty Donini said Alloway and Howard were traveling on Ohio State Road 73 while they were allegedly abusing unspecified drugs, and Alloway died in Howard’s vehicle.

The sheriff said that after Alloway died, Howard allegedly disposed of her body by taking it to a rock-embedded area off the highway in Otway.

Howard is charged with gross abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, and trafficking drugs."

more at link ...

http://www.springhopeenterprise.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=102&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=3759&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1379&hn=springhopeenterprise&he=.com

[iluvmua]

is it possible that this person she was chatting with online was not really 18 but 32?

[Jester]

is it possible that this person she was chatting with online was not really 18 but 32?

I think it's quite possible. I think guys that want to hook up with younger women often shave a couple of years off their true age. I'm skeptical about the story that she overdosed causing him to he roll her out of the car on the side of the road. If that were the case, why didn't he come forward right away and state the facts - get it over with? Why did it take a month and a police investigation to solve a natural death or overdose?

She had asked for money to return home. Maybe she used that for drugs, and maybe he took the money and used it for drugs. I hope there's a thorough investigation, and that this case isn't shelved because he said she died of an overdose, he panicked, and that's the end of it.