thedrifter
04-09-08, 05:26 AM
Article published Apr 9, 2008
Missing Marine reportedly an area native
Couple last seen in California at military base
Jan Risher
jan.risher@timesofacadiana.com
Lance Cpl. Margaret "Maggie" McMahon's family just wants to know she's OK.
McMahon has been missing from Camp Pendleton in southern California since March 31, when she and her husband, George Kevlyn Reid, also a Marine, were last seen.
The Marines reported McMahon missing April 3. Her family has gone on a full media blitz searching for McMahon, but as of yet has heard nothing concrete about her whereabouts. McMahon's family suspects foul play, saying she wouldn't put them through this ordeal if she were OK.
The couple married Jan. 28, after about 10 months in the Marine Corps, according to her sister, Kimberleigh McMahon. Reports of marital turmoil have clouded her family's view of the marriage and her husband, who claims Lafayette as his hometown on his MySpace.com page.
Both were scheduled to deploy to Iraq this summer.
Maggie McMahon's sisters, Kimberleigh and Heather, say they believe his family now lives in North Carolina. It is unclear when Reid lived in Lafayette or if he still has family here. Calls were made to Reids listed in the Lafayette telephone book. Of those who answered, none claimed any relation to George Kevlyn Reid, who goes by the name Kevlyn.
"We've heard nothing from her. It's not like Maggie. We're a very large family. We all have big mouths. I talked to her the Friday before she went missing," said Kimberleigh McMahon, 26. "She spoke to my dad the night before she went missing. She got married after only knowing him since November. We don't know much about him. We just found out the other day his first name is George."
Kimberleigh McMahon said she's losing hope, even though her stepmother has identified Maggie McMahon from video footage withdrawing money from a Kansas bank.
"We know from talking to her he was verbally abusive to her. She told my mom she was going to make him go to counseling. One minute he would be abusive. The next minute he would be the sweetest guy," Kimberleigh McMahon said.
On Tuesday, Heather McMahon, 29, said the family had to pull the $12,000 reward.
"It was generating too many tips and interfering with the investigation," she said by phone from her home in Long Island, N.Y.
Both sisters said officials in California told the family the couple's apartment had been completely emptied, but both said the couple's things, including clothes, are still in the apartment.
"They were supposed to come home in May. We would have met him then," Heather McMahon said.
Ellie
Missing Marine reportedly an area native
Couple last seen in California at military base
Jan Risher
jan.risher@timesofacadiana.com
Lance Cpl. Margaret "Maggie" McMahon's family just wants to know she's OK.
McMahon has been missing from Camp Pendleton in southern California since March 31, when she and her husband, George Kevlyn Reid, also a Marine, were last seen.
The Marines reported McMahon missing April 3. Her family has gone on a full media blitz searching for McMahon, but as of yet has heard nothing concrete about her whereabouts. McMahon's family suspects foul play, saying she wouldn't put them through this ordeal if she were OK.
The couple married Jan. 28, after about 10 months in the Marine Corps, according to her sister, Kimberleigh McMahon. Reports of marital turmoil have clouded her family's view of the marriage and her husband, who claims Lafayette as his hometown on his MySpace.com page.
Both were scheduled to deploy to Iraq this summer.
Maggie McMahon's sisters, Kimberleigh and Heather, say they believe his family now lives in North Carolina. It is unclear when Reid lived in Lafayette or if he still has family here. Calls were made to Reids listed in the Lafayette telephone book. Of those who answered, none claimed any relation to George Kevlyn Reid, who goes by the name Kevlyn.
"We've heard nothing from her. It's not like Maggie. We're a very large family. We all have big mouths. I talked to her the Friday before she went missing," said Kimberleigh McMahon, 26. "She spoke to my dad the night before she went missing. She got married after only knowing him since November. We don't know much about him. We just found out the other day his first name is George."
Kimberleigh McMahon said she's losing hope, even though her stepmother has identified Maggie McMahon from video footage withdrawing money from a Kansas bank.
"We know from talking to her he was verbally abusive to her. She told my mom she was going to make him go to counseling. One minute he would be abusive. The next minute he would be the sweetest guy," Kimberleigh McMahon said.
On Tuesday, Heather McMahon, 29, said the family had to pull the $12,000 reward.
"It was generating too many tips and interfering with the investigation," she said by phone from her home in Long Island, N.Y.
Both sisters said officials in California told the family the couple's apartment had been completely emptied, but both said the couple's things, including clothes, are still in the apartment.
"They were supposed to come home in May. We would have met him then," Heather McMahon said.
Ellie