Brooklyn New York, Dana Lauren Bonanno-33

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7/29/13


Police searching for missing Brooklyn woman, Dana Lauren Bonanno

Police are searching for a Brooklyn woman who sent panicked text messages to friends and family before disappearing last week.

Dana Lauren Bonanno, 33, who lives in Greenpoint, disappeared around 11 p.m. on July 22 shortly after sending texts to her mother and friends that said she was "scared," according to her mother Donna O'Conner and the NYPD.

Bonanno, who is described as 5-foot-1 and 110 pounds with brown eyes, was last seen on Freeman Street in a blue dress.

www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/police-searching-for-missing-brooklyn-woman-dana-lauren-bonanno-1.5792360

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Dana Lauren Bonanno, Brooklyn Woman, Missing Since July 22

Posted: 08/02/2013

A 33-year-old woman from Brooklyn has been missing for two weeks after sending a "panicked" text message to her mother.

Dana Lauren Bonanno disappeared nearly two weeks ago on July 22 after an argument with her roommates.

She is described as a 5-foot-1 blonde, around 110 pounds with brown eyes, She was last seen on Freeman Street in a blue dress, AmNY.com reported.

Donna O’Connor, Bonanno's mother, said the last time she heard from her daughter was around 10 p.m. when Dana sent a text message that read "I'm scared," the New York Daily News reported.

O’Connor told LoHud.com that when she asked her daughter why, the only message she received was, “...”.

Since then, Bonanno has been incommuncado and her cell phones appears to have run out of batteries, O'Connor told the paper.

O'Connor said Bonanno had a history of anxiety issues that may have been exacerbated after losing her job as a paralegal at A&E Networks in April.

However, close friends said it wasn't typical for Bonanno to stay out of contact for any stretch of time, NBC New York reported.

Friends and family are keeping abreast of new leads through a Facebook page, but members of the general public who may have tips are asked to call the NYPD Missing Persons Squad at 646-610-6914.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/dana-lauren-bonanno_n_3697920.html

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Hunt for missing Greenpoint musician whose last text told mom 'I'm scared'

Dana Bonanno was last seen on July 22, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Police didn't declare her missing until five days later, despite repeated calls from her mother asking authorities to investigate her disappearance

Bonanno was active in the Brooklyn music scene

Last month, Donna O'Connor received a chilling, late-night text message0 from her 33-year-old daughter who lives in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood.

'I'm scared,' Dana Bonanno wrote in her text message to her mother. She hasn't been seen since.

The late-night text occurred on July 22, but Bonanno wasn't declared missing until five days later - despite repeated calls to police from her mother about her missing daughter.

'I can’t stop to think about what’s going on and get upset. What good is that going to do,' O’Connor told IOHUD.com on Thursday. “We just need to find her.”

Police finally went and spoke with Bonanno's roommate in the Greenpoint apartment they shared. The roommate told her she'd last seen Bonanno near their apartment, on Freeman Street.

Bonanno moved to Brooklyn in 2012 and became active in the local music scene. The Stormville native also worked at A&E Networks, but was laid off in April. But friends and family say she was still a rather upbeat, happy woman.

'She’s a very outgoing and positive girl,' friend Daniel Mandelbaum said. 'That’s why we’re all so worried. This is completely out of character for her.'

Her mother agreed, saying that simply taking off because she was upset about something 'is not typical of her behavior.'

Greenpoint is relatively safe section of Brooklyn. However, police were searching for a suspect in a sexual assault case in June. In that case, the attacker assaulted the woman at knife-point.

Friends and family have since taken to social media to spread the word about Bonanno's disappearance, and to hopefully generate some tips as to her whereabouts.

Bonanno was part of a group of friends called Supporting Our Underground Properly, which helped promote music events throughout the city.

Another member is Liz Rivera, who is the last person to see Bonanno briefly on Monday afternoon.
'We’re like a family.

We’re always together. She would at least contact one of us,' said Rivera. 'She was sad that she was unemployed, but I don’t see her just taking off for that.'

Rivera added that Bonanno has a cat named Love Song and that she would never leave the cat unattended.

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Dana Lauren Bonanno: Mom recounts events, other texts from missing woman

Aug. 5, 2013

Three days before Dana Lauren Bonanno went missing, she had texted her mother, asking her to call 911 without explanation, her mother said.

Donna O’Connor of Patterson said she texted her daughter back, saying she was on the road headed to Florida and that Bonanno should call 911 if there was a problem. Bonanno responded curtly, O’Connor said, and she didn’t hear back from her again that night, July 19.

“I’ve heard her in an emergency and that didn’t sound like an emergency,” O’Connor said Monday.

On the night she disappeared, July 22, Bonanno had also told her mother she thought her two male roommates had been looking through her personal belongings and talking about her.

That was shortly before 10 p.m., she said.

O’Connor said she told her daughter to call police if she was worried.

Apparently Bonanno did not do that. Just over an hour later, at 11:10 p.m., she sent her mother a text message saying “I’m scared.” That was the last O’Connor heard from her.

Bonanno, 33, has lived with her two roommates for the past six months in an apartment in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn.

Her mother said Bonanno’s roommates had no idea Bonanno had these concerns about them.

O’Connor said she had not been overly concerned with Bonanno’s actions before her disappearance.

“She has anxiety and I think not working has made it worse,” O’Connor said.

Bonnano was laid off from her job as a paralegal at A&E Networks in April.

She was an aspiring music producer and part of a group of friends called Supporting Our Underground Properly, promoting music events throughout the city.

A friend, Michael Annunziata, is raising money with the hope of offering a reward for information on the missing woman.

Annunziata, who grew up in Putnam with Bonanno, started the fund this week aiming to raise a minimum of $10,000 as a reward for information “leading to successfully finding Dana.”

As of 5 p.m. Monday, the reward fund had $625. It will run through Aug. 12.

“I talked to a private investigator and he said it helps out a lot in these cases,” said Annunziata, who grew up in Mahopac. “She’s a really sweet, caring, wonderful girl. A heart of gold.”

Friends have also taken to social media and posting missing person fliers throughout New York City to help police in the search.

Annunziata said he last saw Bonanno on July 21 at her loft apartment. He said Bonanno normally just went out on weekends and if there had been an event she planned to attend that Monday night, she would have told him about it.

“I’m pretty upset,” said Annunziata. “I’m hoping she just ran away but she showed no indication of that.”

O’Connor supports Annunziata’s fundraising efforts.

“In my heart I know she is alive,” O’Connor said. “I cannot for the life of me imagine that no one heard or saw her that night. It’s a very active street. All we want is for people to please give information.”

To donate to the fund, go to www.indiegogo.com/projects/missing-person-reward-fund-dana-bonanno.

www.lohud.com/article/20130805/NEWS/308050057/Dana-Lauren-Bonanno-Mom-details-other-troubling-comments-from-daughter

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Dana Lauren Bonanno mystery: Foul play, drugs or mental illness?

The search for Dana Lauren Bonanno continues, but there don't appear to be any definitive updates to share in the case -- which is perplexing, considering it hasn't even been a month since she was last seen. This case is in danger of slipping through the cracks unless the media, the public and the NYPD snap into gear. The details behind her disappearance are just flat-out strange, and the vague comments made by the mother of the missing woman are not helping ease the confusion one bit.

At one point the missing woman's mother claimed that she called her in "an emergency that didn't sound like an emergency." What on earth does this even mean? Comments like these sound idiotic and only serve to confuse those who are trying to find this missing woman. Now the mother has released more details -- but it's really confusing as to why she keeps holding back details in the first place.

Now the mother of Dana Lauren Bonanno says that she called her claiming she needed an attorney -- even though the woman earlier claimed that her last contact with Dana was through text message. She refrained from letting the public know that Dana was claiming to be worried about her roommates talking about her and going through her things. Now the mother says that she instructed her daughter to call the police -- to which the girl texted later saying she was "scared." The mother also reveals that she texted a friend with the same quote: "I'm scared."

Her mother revealed in the recent interview that Dana suffers from anxiety -- and this could have very well been inflamed by the loss of her job, as I had speculated in earlier coverage of this case. So now we have claims of stalking, an anxiety issue and just all around erratic behavior in the last hours before she went missing.

The lack of media coverage in this case is perplexing, because that means there is a lack of questions being asked. For instance: Was this young woman on drugs? The strange behavior of texting multiple people that she was "scared" while refusing to call the police, and the paranoid claims that her roommates were "talking about her" and going through her things -- these are all telltale signs of drug use or mental illness. If police can eliminate these possibilities from the root of her disappearance, then there could be a possibility of foul play in her disappearance.

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