Emily Sander, an 18-year-old freshman at Butler Community College in Kansas, went missing after Thanksgiving weekend. Family and friends searched for the girl, who was last seen leaving a bar in El Dorado, Kan. with resident alien Israel Mireles. Upon searching for Mireles, police only found a bloody motel room and an abandoned rented car.

Sander was a nude model, known as Zoey Zane for adult Internet sites. She was originally from Texas and did the modeling as a side job to get extra cash. Authorities said her ties with this industry have no link to her death but that Mireles is the main suspect. El Dorado police found evidence of foul play after entering Mireles’ hotel room where he was living outside Wichita, Kan. A search for Sanders began and her body was found 50 miles East of where she was last seen with Mireles, on November 29. Forensic examinations have been scheduled; a cause of death has not yet been released.

The search extended for Mireles and his 16-year-old pregnant girlfriend, who was also last seen with him. They are believed to be heading South as the 2007 Ford Taurus rental car the man was driving turned up on November 27 in Texas, near an area where he has family. Police expect Mireles to try and cross the border to Mexico, if he has not already done so.

Friends of Sanders have posted a public message on Sander’s website ZoeyZane.com. They are raising funds for a reward to be given to anyone who can provide information about Mireles. The announcement also declares outrage for the media attention that followed after Sander’s death and discovery of her nude modeling. She was typecast as a “porn star,” something that was unnecessary according to the post.

“Due to your irresponsible journalism and not checking your facts before sending out this info over the news wire, you have turned this into a PR feeding frenzy for the sole purpose of creating drama to draw in viewers,” reads the on-line message.

If no information that could help solve Sander’s case is obtained the money raised will be given to Sander’s family to be donated. Nonetheless, those who knew the young woman are committed to getting justice.

“[To Mireles] You can run, but you can not hide. Running to Mexico will not keep you safe from justice, you will be caught,” as the last message on Sander’s site said.

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Bessie King is a Blast contributing editor. She can be reached at [email protected]

5 Responses

  1. Perlie the Pony Girl

    I miss Emily so much. She waz mega fun. Emily waz happiest when she made other peeps happy. She dreamed big dreams and had lotz of planz for the future. I know she would have made it big if her life wazn’t taken away from her. She made it big for just 18.

    Don’t call her a porn star bcuz she wasn’t. She just posed nude and in some nude shots with other girlz. Some of her solo work was suggestive but the shots with other teen girlz was like flirty stuff.

    My friends and I made a tribute to Emily. We talk about her life and what she meant to her friends. She loved the Wizard of Oz and dancing and animals and a lot more. She loved everybody! Her tribute is at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/emily.html

    I miss u so much Emily. Some day I’ll see u over the rainbow!

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  2. Intekno

    Some (less than one in twelve) people are “bloodsniffers”, male or female vigilantes who boast remarkable, almost paranormal, intuition in identifying capitol offenders, as the Bible would know them. No matter how atheistic and violent a society becomes, a bloodsniffer will be born into it, either to claim his or her calling or to refuse it, allowing capitol offending populations to remain big. Israel might be a bloodsniffer! Emily was a porn star, probably not sexually loyal to her biological spouse. Adulterous, that is. When a bloodsniffer is not identifying and bringing down capitol offenders he or she start to go crazy, so maybe Israel did the right thing by “taking her name”. Polyandry (adultery) is a biblical capitol offense, you know, certainly recent and unresolved polyandry.

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  3. Emily 92

    Then there’s psychopaths like Intekno! You think we should be killing everybody who loves more than one person? You better go read your Bible cuz Abraham and David and Solomon all practiced polygamy!

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  4. Emily 92

    And the tribute to Emily is beautiful. The world lost a beautiful girl, sweet and creative. I’m sorry to Emily’s family and to Perlie.

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  5. Barbie Doll

    Zoey Zane was awesome. At 18 years old a true Discordian American Princess! From her pics you could tell she was totally fun and could show us her all. Now we’re left with 15 year old Miley Ray Cyrus who shows her naked back and gets friendly with Daddy. Hannah Montana is cool, but she won’t replace Zoey!

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