Private eye, police continue search for missing woman
Bennett J. Loudon
Staff writer
(May 23, 2007) ? MACEDON ? Private Investigator Richard Ingraham will be handing out fliers in this Wayne County community today to remind people that Sandra Sollie's disappearance remains unsolved 13 years after she was last seen on May 23, 1994.
But Ingraham's efforts are not solely designed to inform the public.
"Whoever did kill her, we don't want them to get all that comfortable. We want to keep the pressure right on them, even if it's psychological right now," said Ingraham, a private investigator who lives in Henrietta and has been working on the case for free since 1996.
He was planning to discuss the case by telephone with a psychic Tuesday. It won't be the first time a psychic has gotten involved. State Police Investigator Tom Crowley said another psychic contacted investigators a few years ago, but provided no useful information.
Sollie's father, Dominic Cervone, 81, said he doubts a psychic can help.
"Some people are all for the psychics. They believe in them wholeheartedly. I don't know why, but some people do," said Cervone, who lives with Sollie's mother, Nancy Cervone, 79, in Oakfield, Genesee County.
Sollie was last seen at West Wayne Plaza on Route 31 in Macedon on the same day 4-year-old Kali Ann Poulton disappeared from an apartment complex in Pittsford. The Poulton case was solved in August 1996.
Sollie lived alone with her poodle in a Macedon apartment. She was reported missing more than a week after she was last seen. Friends and her landlord became suspicious after Sollie missed two doctor appointments and did not pay her rent. Sollie was 38 years old and 7? months pregnant when she vanished.
Police checked her apartment on June 2, 1994, and found nothing unusual. Her car was parked in the driveway, but her miniature poodle and purse were gone.
The dog's tags were found in a trash can at a Penfield car wash. Police investigated several people who used Sollie's credit card, which was found by a boy near Hudson Avenue in Rochester. Police said the users of the card had no connection to Sollie's disappearance.
Crowley, the latest in a string of investigators assigned to the case over the years, said a special State Police unit in Albany that includes current and former investigators and retired district attorneys will study the Sandra Sollie case file and make suggestions on how to proceed.
"It's not necessarily a cold case, although it's an older case," said Crowley, who noted that he had chased a new lead in the case within the past few weeks.
"There's no one suspect in this investigation. There's a lot of theories as to what happened to Sandra, and the fact is, we don't know for sure," he said. "There's a lot of people we'd like to sit down with and talk to that we hope can shed some light on things."
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