Lisa Michelle Stebic, née Ruttenberg (born May 19, 1969) is an
American
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missing person
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. The mother of two went missing from her home in
Plainfield, Illinois
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The village includes land in Will County's Plainfield and Wheatland townships, as well as Na-Au-Say and Oswego tow ...
on April 30, 2007.
Stebic, 38, is tall, , with brown hair and brown eyes. She has two visible tattoos, a small rose on her ankle and a large butterfly on her lower back.
Case
Her case has received widespread news coverage. Her husband, Craig Stebic, refused to talk to the police or to help in the investigation or search.
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The
local CBS affiliate (WBBM-TV) broadcast a video of a
rival station's reporter
Amy Jacobson at the Stebic home wearing a bikini.
Jacobson, Craig Stebic's sister, Jill Webb, and her husband, Robert Webb, have all filed lawsuits against WBBM regarding airing of the video. Craig Stebic has never been named a suspect by police, although he has been called "a
person of interest
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" in his wife's disappearance.
In October 2007, the
FBI
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added pictures of Lisa and information about her disappearance to its kidnapped and missing-persons website. Stebic's photo and information were shown on national television at the end of the October 11, 2007 broadcast of ''
Without A Trace
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'', a
CBS
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drama
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about an FBI missing-persons team in
New York City
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and detailed the next morning on ''
The Early Show
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''.
, Stebic is still a missing person.
See also
*
List of people who disappeared
Lists of people who disappeared include those whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated. Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead ''in absentia''. Some of these people were possibly subjected to enfo ...
References
External links
FBI Missing Person Investigation - Lisa StebicFindLisaStebic.com
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1969 births
2000s missing person cases
Missing people
Missing person cases in Illinois
People from Plainfield, Illinois
History of women in Illinois