Family Offers $10,000 Reward to Help Find Missing OU Student

The family of a missing OU student from Edmond is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the 21-year-old's whereabouts.

Saturday, January 9th 2010, 1:25 pm

By: News 9


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EDMOND, Oklahoma -- The family of a missing OU student from Edmond is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the 21-year-old's whereabouts.

The family and friends will be handing out additional fliers at Starbucks, 15th and Broadway in Edmond, at noon Sunday.

Julia Gilbert was last seen 3:30 a.m. Friday, January 8, leaving a friend's house in the 600 block of Belle Air Avenue in Edmond. Julia was thought to have been driving to her parent's home in the 6700 block of Cypress Hollow in Edmond but no one has seen or heard from her since.

Julia was last seen driving a silver 2002 Volkswagen Jetta with license plate 607-BJK. There is a Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority sticker on the back windshield.

"With the temperatures so brutally cold, we are very concerned about Ms. Gilbert's whereabouts," said Glenda Chu of the Edmond Police Department.

Police said they tracked Julia's last cell phone call near MacArthur Boulevard and Covell Road around Deer Creek High School.

Julia's parents said not hearing from their daughter for this amount of time is very uncharacteristic.

"This is just out of character for Julia. She's a sweet, dear, responsible girl and it doesn't add up," said Laurel Gilbert, Julia's mother.

Beginning Sunday morning, the Civil Air Patrol will have 12 planes searching for Julia, while hundreds of volunteers will continue the search on the ground.

"We're trying to cover every square inch of Oklahoma County and beyond, outside of Piedmont. We're escalating the search as quickly as we can," said William Payne, family friend.

Julia is a senior at the University of Oklahoma who is scheduled to graduate in May.

Anyone with information about Julia Gilbert's whereabouts should call the Edmond Police Department at 405-359-4424 or 911.

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