July 8, marks the third anniversary of the day we were told Lynn Messer 
disappeared from her home. Interestingly though, I have noticed recent posts on Kerry Messer’s Find Lynn Messer Facebook page changed the date of Lynn’s disappearance from July 8 to July 7. I wonder why?
Lynn vanished from the bed she shared with her husband, Kerry Messer, a Missouri state lobbyist for Christian, Biblical, homeschooling, pro-life and family values.
Kerry told his sons and the authorities that a storm woke him up around 4:00 a.m. and that is when he noticed his wife was missing.
In honor of this three year anniversary let’s help Lynn’s sons with legal and investigative fees to achieve #JusticeforLynn.
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New questions and answers are at the end of this article.
- Click on colored text to link to the original published article in below paragraphs.
In the first week media stated that Lynn was reported missing by her husband from the family farm, “When Kerry still couldn’t locate her he became increasingly concerned and called 911 to have the Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff’s Department come out to help assist.” Abram and Aarron Messer, Lynn’s sons, insisted that it was Aarron who placed the call early in the morning, July 8, 2014. The dispatch recording verified Aarron Messer was the person who called law enforcement.
The public was told, “Evidence at the scene indicates she may be in physical danger.”
Law enforcement, trained dogs, and searchers wearing GPS units searched the entire property. “People wore GPS units on them so we knew what areas we were covering and how dense we were covering them. Once one crew would get done with an area we would send another crew back in the same area with new eyes and different dogs.”
During the first days Kerry Messer was quoted, “I could not count the number of specially trained dogs and handlers, all fitted with real-time GPS tracking being fed real-time into a base computer to provide us with a huge map showing the entire path (color coded) of each individual dog throughout the entire day and night.”
A month after Lynn had been missing Kerry Messer addressed Lynn’s medications in the media.
During these numerous interviews, and in Kerry’s long letters on his Find Lynn Messer Facebook page, he actively reminds the public of his suffering, loneliness, and struggles while missing Lynn. In fact he still writes about his shredded heart over missing Lynn.
What has been frustrating to Kerry’s sons, Lynn’s family and friends, and those who have followed the story is that law enforcement found out just weeks after Lynn ‘disappeared’ that Kerry was already in another relationship with a woman named Spring Thomas. Spring had been a family friend for many years and according to Abram and Aarron Messer there was, and is, more to the relationship than what is being reported.
A recap of events wouldn’t be complete without mentioning ‘the note’. Kerry showed a note to law enforcement; a note that he said was written by Lynn. Kerry refused to show the note to his sons. “Kerry said in the very beginning, law enforcement asked him not to talk about the letter. He didn’t understand why, but just complied. Kerry said he avoided talking about it and the few people he had already told he went to and asked them to not say anything because they wanted to honor what law enforcement had requested.”
According to Abram and Aarron, “for the first 11 months the police refused to allow anyone to see the note. I understand investigators need to withhold information but this was not the case. As they had shared with me, they had refused to show us the note because Kerry asked them not too.”
Lynn’s remains were discovered early November, 2016, on Kerry Messer’s farm property.
At this date forensics tests have concluded that Lynn has been in the elements, in that spot (according to one report), about the entire time, and hair samples showed no evidence of a cause of death.
I, Carolyn, spoke with Detective White of the Ste. Genevieve Sheriff’s Department on Monday, July 3. He was generous with his time and answered the below questions for me.
I will present them in question/answer form.
Q: Were Lynn’s recovered remains a complete skeleton? Were there any remains missing?
A: They were consistent with remains that have been in the elements since 2014.
Q: When I spoke with you this time last year you confirmed that Kerry Messer was no longer cooperating with law enforcement. Is this still true?
A: We are not in contact with him and have not reached out to him. We were told last year that he no longer wanted to speak to law enforcement and we have respected his wishes. He did cooperate when Lynn’s remains were found on his property. He could have required us to have a search warrant but he didn’t.
Q: Does this also mean you have no contact with Spring Thomas?
A: Yes
Q: Do you know if law enforcement has been able to search Spring Thomas’ house and property?
A: I do know, but cannot say. I will say I have not seen the inside of her house.
Q: Kerry Messer has changed, or authorized the change, for the Find Lynn Messer Facebook cover photo. It now says his “page is the only official family and authority-sanctioned page.” I think most people equate authority with law enforcement. Has law enforcement sanctioned this page? I’m concerned about what this implies. Could Kerry be referring to law enforcement when he references ‘authority-sanctioned’?
A: No, we don’t sanction anything.
Q: Has Kerry Messer been cleared of the investigation into Lynn’s death?
A: No, he has not.
Q: The death certificate currently reads, “Undetermined.” Could this status change in the future?
A: A cause of death will not be stated until the investigation is closed.
And lastly, to hear “We won’t stop until we determine what caused Lynn’s death.” Spoken by Major Jason Schott of the Ste. Genevieve Sheriff’s Department in an interview last week had me thinking there is evidence. Now we just wait on timing for the investigative puzzle pieces to fit together.
I doubt Lynn disappeared from her own bed on a stormy night only to be found dead two years later in an area that was professionally searched by search and rescue dogs, helicopters, and searchers wearing GPS units to map/grid where they had searched. A woman whose hair samples showed no evidence of a cause of death. As far as we know there were no weapons found with her. What happened to Lynn?
In honor of this three year anniversary let’s help Lynn’s sons with legal and investigative fees to achieve #JusticeforLynn.
Click here to donate: It’s quick and easy.
Great colum. It was nice to meet you at the memorial service.
It was nice to meet you too. I hope you saw the article in which I used some of your sermon from the Memorial Service. Thank you for allowing me to use it. Here is the link: https://chocolateorelse.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/lynn-messer-reversal-of-destiny/
I just want to say, you are a good Christian woman to keep up the fight for justice for Lynn. I don’t know if you knew her personally or not, and if you didn’t, this only makes it even more righteous that you are doing this. If this ever happened to me, I would hope someone else who calls themselves a Christian would also fight for my justice. It does disgust me that it rarely seems to be Christian men doing this righteous fighting (apart from her sons). Where are the pastors and Christian male leaders asking questions and bringing the truth in light in this situation of her odd disseapearance and death?
I didn’t know Lynn or her family, but my background beckoned me to her story. I have said your exact words, I would hope that a friend would keep up a fight until justice was served for my death. I’ve also been saddened that no men in Christian leadership have come to the front of the pack to get to the truth; or to simply hold Kerry accountable for being unfaithful to his marriage covenant early after Lynn’s disappearance. Here is my original article that tells in more detail why I became involved. https://chocolateorelse.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/toxic-tuesday-lynn-messer-missing-person/
Yes! Other than Aarron & Abram Messer who have bravely stepped forward to request that their dad come clean and to hold him accountable for what they’ve observed, where are the men on this issue? WHERE ARE THE MEN? Even when Kerry fired Abram and caused Abram and his wife and 4 kids to have to move out of their home, there’s been a deafening silence from Christian men. Very sad. First Baptist Festus – Lynn’s home church – seems to have fallen particularly short as they have stood back as Lynn’s sons have been further hurt and some might even say abused by their dad. Before Lynn’s body was discovered, they refused to denounce what appeared to be an affair between Kerry & Spring Thomas at a time when for all anyone knew, Lynn might possibly be alive. If one’s wife were missing, what kind of person would have already initiated a relationship with another woman within about a month after the wife’s disappearance? Law enforcement confirmed that the relationship with Spring was in place by early to mid-August after Lynn disappeared in early July. No one knows exactly when the relationship started with Spring. 2 Timothy 3:1 – 5, “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.”
Preach it!
Ask it!
Where are the men? Why are mainly women speaking out on this? Where is the church? What has happened to the church?
I think, possibly, the church has taken I Thes. 4:11 ” and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,” and I Thes. 5:14-15 to an extreme; “And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.”
I wish the church body understood that warning wrong doers isn’t just for the pastor or church leadership; no! I Thes. 5:14-15 is addressed to the church body; members…the community of believers. We go from I Thes 4 of ‘mind your own business’ to I Thes 5 of a responsibility to interfere. I Thes. 4: 11 is teaching the church to be careful as non-Christians watch us; compared to I Thes. 5:14-15 which pertains to the church body relating to and setting scriptural boundaries. Risky, spiritual business; necessary duty.
Who paid for all the resources to do such an intense search? Our tax dollars since he is a lobbyist?
The initial search would have been covered by tax payer dollars having nothing to do with Kerry’s status as a lobbyist. There were other searches after the initial law enforcement search was completed that continued on a volunteer basis.
Thanks for answering this since I’m behind on replies!