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Additionally, here is a local news story on the case, and the Charley Project page on Samantha. Here is the Adventures with Purpose livestream announcing the recovery. They are some amazing people, and their find today can hopefully provide some measure of closure to Samantha's family and friends. The Adventures with Purpose Research Team made the discovery on Oct 26. Samantha was 8 months pregnant at the time of her disappearance. Samantha's family was there during the search and recovery.ĪWP and Chaos Divers have previously solved multiple missing persons cases, at no cost to the affected families. On September 11, 1998, Samantha Jean Hopper, 19, was traveling to drop off her 22 month old daughter, Courtney Holt, before going to a concert with a friend, when they disappeared. The sheriffs office says the remains found in the car will be sent to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for positive identification. 11, 1998, along with her daughter, Courtney Holt.

It is likely that Courtney is in the backseat, although confirmation is forthcoming. According to police, the vehicle description matches one belonging to Samantha Jean Hopper, who was reported missing on Sept. The car was hoisted up onto the Pleasant View road bridge, and human remains were identified in the front seat.

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There was no license plate, consistent with the case as the car was a recent purchase. It was identified as a 1989 Ford Tempo, and the police were called. Prior to 10:00 AM, a sonar target was detected in Illinois Bayou off of Pleasant View road in Russellville. Although Samantha never did, today her and her children's disappearance may finally have been solved.Īdventures with Purpose and Chaos Divers, two search and rescue diving teams began searching for Samantha's car today. Samantha vanished somewhere along that route with her 2-year-old daughter. The Carpenter family kept the same address for years in hope that Samantha would return. Chaos Divers, assisting Adventures with Purpose, announced that Samantha Hopper, who was eight months pregnant when she went missing 23 years ago, and her 22 month old daughter, were recovered from her vehicle in the Illinois Bayou in Russellville on Tuesday. Samantha was reported to have been traveling to drop her daughter, Courtney Holt, off before continuing to a concert in Little Rock. The location was on the route between Samantha Jean Hopper's home and her destination, a concert in Little Rock, Arkansas. Samantha and her two youngest children were never seen again. It has been two months since Samantha Jean Hopper, 19, of Russellville, Pope County, Arkansas, United States went missing. Samantha' eldest daughter, three year old Dezarae Carpenter, stayed at home. The mystery of a pregnant woman who went missing with her infant daughter 23 years ago may have finally been solved. Samantha Ann Clarke, then 19, was last seen just after midnight on Septemat her home in Orange, Virginia.

On September 11th, 1998, Samantha Jean Hopper, her 22 month-old daughter Courtney, and her unborn child left in a blue 1989 Ford Tempo to go see a concert in West Memphis, from her hometown in Russellville, Arkansas.