Dawna Natzke Found: Missing Persons Case Now a Murder Investigation

Dawna Natzke, an Arkansas police dispatcher who went missing right before Christmas, has been found dead in an Arkansas wilderness. Police are ruling her death a homicide even though, at the time of this writing, they could not determine if how or when she was killed.

Natzke’s former boss, Hot Springs Village Police Chief Laroy Cornett told “Our missing person’s case has evolved into a homicide,”.

Natzke was last seen leaving a Christmas party on December 21st and reported missing when she failed to show up to work on December 23rd. She left the party with her boyfriend Kevin Duck, who said he and Natzke had gone to bed that evening at her home and when he woke up she was gone. The gated community that Natzke lived in was not equipped with surveillance cameras.

Natzke was found 5 miles into the wilderness from where her burned out car had been found right after her disappearance.

Police visited Natzke’s older sister and mother on Tuesday to tell them that a body had been found in the wilderness and they were waiting for confirmation that the body was their loved one.

“It was a formality anyway,” Vicki Hegyi, Natzke’s sister said. “We knew it was Dawna.”

Dozens of Facebook pages have been started in order to find the killer. Hundreds of people have already joined them and everyone is just hoping they will bring the perpetrators to justice.

“There is at least one person who knows what happened and many more who, without realizing it, have the information needed to `crack this case” one of the pages said.

Natzke is survived by her three children, her sister and mother.