Pittsburgh, Alivia Christine Kail 19

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Pa. woman Alivia Christine Kail missing three weeks, boyfriend uncooperative say cops

March 30, 2011

PITTSBURGH - Police are asking for the public's help to locate 19-year-old Alivia Christine Kail, who was reported missing on March 5.

Kail has not been heard from since she told her parents she was going to Florida with her boyfriend, reports CBS station KDKA.

She was living in southwestern Pennsylvania with a roommate. The last time she was seen was when she went to her brother's house to get some clothes for the trip, reports the station.

According to police, Kail's boyfriend has not been cooperative. He has returned to the Pittsburgh area from Florida and Kail is still no where to be found.

"The boyfriend was approached by the family members and friends about the whereabouts of Alivia and he gave some conflicting stories as to where she was located," Allegheny County Police Lietenant Jeff Korczyk said to the station. "One story that she [was] dropped off in Mt. Washington and another that she was still down in Florida."

The boyfriend's identity has not been released and police have not labeled him as a person of interest.

Kail is 5-feet-1 inch tall and weighs 110 pounds. She has green eyes and a blue flower tattoo with swirls on her hip.

Anyone with information is asked to call Allegheny County Police at (412)-473-1200

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May 12, 2012

Unsolved Cases: Alivia Christine Kail

The 19-year-old has been missing since saying she was headed to Florida with a boyfriend.

Alivia Christine Kail, a 19-year-old living in Mt. Washington, went to her brother's home in West Mifflin on March 5, 2011, to gather some clothes.

Alivia told him she planned to move to Florida with her boyfriend, Alexander Lorenzi, of Pittsburgh's Esplen neighborhood.

When her family was unable to contact her by phone for several days, they became concerned. Then Alivia's phone was shut off for non-payment.

When Lorenzi reappeared in Pittsburgh without Alivia and gave conflicting accounts as to her whereabouts, the family's worry deepened.

Lorenzi was arrested on March 30, 2011, for unrelated drug and gun charges. While searching Lorenzi's home and vehicle, police found three spent shell casings, a pink tote containing woman's clothing and a sheet with a possible blood stain on it.

Alivia's mother, Christine DiDiano, identified the clothing as her daughter's. Lorenzi has been uncooperative with law enforcement officials and has refused to discuss Alivia's disappeance. Alex first reported to Alvia's family that she had returned to Pennsylvania after their vacation.

However, according to the PA Liv Safe website, Lorenzi has since told family and police that Alivia decided to stay in Florida. Lorenzi is known to travel out of state frequently and use commercial airlines as well as rental cars. He had made multiple trips to the Naples, FL, and Wheeling, WV, areas in the weeks before his arrest on the charges unrelated to Alivia's disappearance.

This March on the anniversary of Alivia's disappearance, her family and friends gathered in Brookline, where DiDiano grew up, to hold a vigil to remember Alivia and spread the word that they haven’t given up the hope of bringing her home.

At the vigil, DiDiano told Dormont-Brookline Patch that reports of missing and endangered children seem to be a new epidemic. She recalled that it had only been a few months since a vigil was held at the same spot for another Brookline native —Karissa Kunco—whose ex-boyfriend has been charged in connection with her January death.

Alivia is described as about 5-feet to 5-foot-2 tall and weighing 105-100 pounds. She has green eyes and brown hair, but frequently changes her hair color. She has a tattoo of a blue flower with swirls on her right hip, and piercings in both ears and above the right side of her lip.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call Detective Ken Scanlon of the Allegheny County Police Department at 412-473-1261.

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Unsolved Cases: Police Say Alivia Christine Kail, 19, has been Missing for a Year

The 19-year-old has been missing since saying she was headed to Florida with a boyfriend.

May 14, 2012

The last time anyone in 19-year-old Alivia Christine Kail's family in Mt. Washington saw her, she stopped at her brother's home in West Mifflin on March 5, 2011, to gather some clothes.

Alivia told him she planned to move to Florida with her boyfriend, Alexander Lorenzi, of Pittsburgh's Esplen neighborhood.

This March on the anniversary of Alivia's disappearance, her family and friends gathered in Brookline, where DiDiano grew up, to hold a vigil to remember Alivia and spread the word that they haven’t given up the hope of bringing her home.

At the vigil, DiDiano told Dormont-Brookline Patch that reports of missing and endangered children seem to be a new epidemic. She recalled that it had only been a few months since a vigil was held at the same spot for another Brookline native —Karissa Kunco—whose ex-boyfriend has been charged in connection with her January death.

When Lorenzi reappeared in Pittsburgh in 2011 without Alivia and gave conflicting accounts as to her whereabouts, the family's worry deepened.

Lorenzi was arrested on March 30, 2011, for unrelated drug and gun charges. While searching Lorenzi's home and vehicle, police found three spent shell casings, a pink tote containing women's clothing and a sheet with a possible blood stain on it.

Alivia's mother, Christine DiDiano, identified the clothing as her daughter's. Lorenzi has been uncooperative with law enforcement officials and has refused to discuss Alivia's disappeance. Alex first reported to Alivia's family that she had returned to Pennsylvania after their vacation.

However, according to the PA Liv Safe website, Lorenzi has since told family and police that Alivia decided to stay in Florida. Lorenzi is known to travel out of state frequently and use commercial air lines as well as rental cars. He had made multiple trips to the Naples, FL, and Wheeling, WV, areas in the weeks before his arrest on the charges unrelated to Alivia's disappearance.

Alivia is described as about 5-feet to 5-foot-2 tall and weighing 105-100 pounds. She has green eyes and brown hair, but frequently changes her hair color. She has a tattoo of a blue flower with swirls on her right hip, and piercings in both ears and above the right side of her lip.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call Det. Ken Scanlon of the Allegheny County Police Department at 412-473-1261.

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Police search for body of missing woman Alivia Kail near Allegheny County Airport


19-year-old woman disappeared in 2011


11:58 PM EDT May 30, 2013

WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. —Allegheny County police searched a wide area near the county airport on Thursday for the body of Alivia Kail, who disappeared two years ago at age 19 and was never found.

Channel 4 Action News' Marcie Cipriani reported that police have information and evidence which leads them to believe the young Mount Washington woman was killed and has been buried.


The new search also involved ATVs and dogs in a wooded area behind the airport in West Mifflin. Kail's mother, Christine Didiano, of Brookline, joined police at their mobile command center and made a public plea for tips as she displayed a baby picture of her daughter.

"If Alivia's where they feel that she is, I just want to get her back and I'm looking forward to moving on," Didiano said. "There's still time and an opportunity that I want to reach out and say that someone or more that do know and have been very frightened, and it's very understandable ... During this time would be the very best time for a truth of somewhat to come out anonymously."

Some bones were found during Thursday's search. If they are determined to be human, police said they will be taken to a lab for DNA analysis. One has already been sent to the lab because a forensic pathologist wasn't sure if it was a human bone or an animal bone.


When Kail went missing in March 2011, it was reported to police by her brother, who told them that he last saw her at his West Mifflin home with her boyfriend. He told them that Kail said she was going to Florida with her boyfriend, but there was no proof that she ever made the trip.


Alex Lorenzi, described back then as Kail's boyfriend, was questioned by police and jailed for several weeks on unrelated drug charges, but he was never charged in connection with the woman's disappearance.

On Thursday, police said they were led to the airport by evidence that was collected at the time of Kail's disappearance, along with recent evidence after many interviews with people who they believe are connected to the case. They think more than one person could be responsible for her death.


"It's been very difficult on my life as far as normal things, every day, working, trying to do that, and the struggle and the chain wrapped around me," Didiano said. "I don't want the chain any more. The chain needs to come off of me, and that's going to happen when Alivia is found, so then at least I can continue to fight for her, for the crime, and then settle it, and then myself and my children can go ahead and live and get back to normal, because nothing's been normal."


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Bone found in search not related to missing woman, police believe

May 31, 2013 12:26 am


Days turned into weeks, weeks into months and months into years, but still Christine DiDiano waited, hoping for some answer in the disappearance of her daughter, 19-year-old Alivia Kail of Mount Washington.

As the hours passed Thursday, Ms. DiDiano waited still.
Her vigil this day was not alone. Starting at about 9 a.m., dozens of police officers, as well as members of her family, fanned out over about 40 acres surrounding the Allegheny County Airport in West Mifflin, searching for a trace of a woman who has not been seen or heard from since March 2011.

Investigators said a combination of interviews with witnesses and "technical details" gleaned from digital devices such as cell phones led them to believe they should search in three areas north, west and east of the airport, said Lt. Andrew Schurman of the Allegheny County police.

The area around the airport includes shopping malls, restaurants and stores, but also open fields and wooded areas, and as investigators worked, Ms. DiDiano waited with her two sons in an airport parking lot for word of some discovery that might finally bring closure for her family.

Word never came. Shortly after 2 p.m., Lt. Schurman announced that the search was ending. A bone had been found, and investigators would determine whether it belonged to an animal or a human. If it's human, DNA testing would follow, but police don't believe it is related to the Kail case. Later, Lt. Schurman added that a small T-shirt had been found, but it wasn't clear whether it was a man's or a woman's or connected to the Kail investigation.

For that investigation, the search had come up empty, he said.
So Ms. DiDiano said she will wait some more.

"If today, it took till nightfall, it doesn't matter," she said after Lt. Schurman's announcement. "If they told me I had to camp for three days, I'm here. I'll always be here."

West Mifflin is where the search for Ms. Kail began.
Two years ago, Alivia Christine Kail went to the West Mifflin home of her brother, Lance, to pick up clothes she needed for a trip to Florida she was planning with her boyfriend.

That was March 4, 2011, and Ms. Kail hasn't been seen since. Police searched for her in Florida, and in the spring of 2011, they also searched property and cars associated with her boyfriend, Alexander P. Lorenzi of Esplen, who has been arrested several times since 2011 but never in connection to her case.

Ms. DiDiano has maintained, and she repeated Thursday, that she believes Mr. Lorenzi knows what happened to her daughter, but Lt. Schurman declined to name any suspects. He said Thursday that police are looking at more than one person as suspects.
Mr. Lorenzi could not be reached for comment.

Police do not know whether Ms. Kail is alive or whether she made it to Florida, but Lt. Schurman said the point of the search Thursday was to "eliminate the obvious." West Mifflin was an area of interest due to information gathered from witnesses and from digital devices such as cell phones, though Lt. Schurman would not be more specific.

Police had been hoping to receive more information that could narrow their search, but they never did.
"We've pretty much exhausted all of our investigative leads to date and decided it would be a good time to search those areas," Lt. Schurman said.

A total of 86 people joined in the search, about half of them county police cadets and the rest from Allegheny County and West Mifflin police, the medical examiner's office and local volunteer fire companies, plus Ms. Kail's two sisters and brother-in-law.

The private land outside the perimeter of the county airport was divided into three sectors and then into grids, Lt. Schurman said. The searchers, broken into teams, walked abreast in lines to look for remains, West Mifflin police Chief Ken Davies said.

At about noon, two Allegheny County police units could be seen searching in an open field called the South Taylor Environmental Park.

Plenty of poison ivy and several animal bones were found, including the one bone that was not immediately distinguishable as animal or human. Cadaver dogs alerted police to two areas of interest in the western sector, but other than the T-shirt, nothing was recovered, Lt. Schurman said.

At the end of the search, Lt. Schurman said the investigation would continue and that police could eliminate the area near the airport in future searches, unless her remains were underground.
Ms. DiDiano asked anyone with information about her daughter to come forward and said she would continue to look for Alivia, the youngest of her five children. She said the search near the airport, "a long time in the making," had not been useless.

"This isn't a loss at all," she said. "This is just a good beginning. This is truly the beginning of something we've been waiting for. I do believe the truth will place itself forward."

Read more: www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/allegheny-county-police-search-near-west-mifflin-airport-for-missing-alivia-kail-689727/#ixzz2Yrj7uI5c