Danielle Stislicki Disappearance: New Evidence For Lab, Police Say

ROYAL OAK, MI — A Royal Oak woman who told area media she doesn’t think her brother-in-law is telling police all he knows about the disappearance of Danielle Stislicki nearly three months ago is staging a “Walk for Truth” Sunday. The walk takes place as police say they have new evidence in the disappearance of the 28-year-old Farmington Hills woman, who was last seen leaving her job in Southfield on Dec. 2, 2016.

Elizabeth Rose Newton told reporters that her sister is married to a security guard who has been staying at a Berkley home investigators in the Stislicki case searched on Dec. 22. Newton’s brother-in-law is not a suspect or person or interest in the case, but a mattress and other evidence were seized, police have said. At the time the search warrant was executed in Berkley, Farmington Hills police said “numerous locations” had been searched for clues into Stislicki’s disappearance.

Police said early in the investigation that Stislicki likely was a victim of a crime. Farmington Hills Police Chief Charles Nebus said Friday that besides the evidence collected at the Berkley home on Oxford Street, investigators also have some new evidence that will be turned over to the state forensics lab for analysis.

“We’re building a case," Nebus told The Farmington Observer. "We are still making progress. We still have potential evidence to send to the lab. We’re moving forward in building a case.”

Multiple agencies are assisting in the investigation.

The security guard staying at the Berkley home worked with Stislicki at MetLife in Southfield, and Newton told WXYZ-TV she believes the two were together the day Stislicki disappeared.”

“Therefore, he owes some kind of explanation to police,” Newton told the TV station. “No one knows if he did anything because he's not saying anything.”

In an interview with The Daily Tribune, Newton said police told her eyewitnesses saw Stislicki and her brother-in-law going into the residence, and seeing Stislicki’s Jeep parked outside. The black Jeep Renegade, along with Stislicki’s purse and personal items friends said she wouldn’t have left behind, was found outside her apartment, but police have said they believe someone other than Stislicki parked it there.

Newton and two others created a Facebook page, and more details about the walk are found on found on the women’s Facebook events page. The walk begins at 1 p.m. Sunday at Jane Addams Elementary, 2222 W. Webster Road in Royal Oak.

Several other social media pages have been established to find information about the missing woman and raise reward money. Friends created a Find Danielle Stislicki Facebook page. A website, finddani.org, has also been established.

Reward fund stand at nearly $130,000, including more than $30,500 raised on GoFundMe. Anyone with information about Stislicki’s disappearance is asked to call Farmington Hills police at (248) 871-2610.

Photo via Farmington Hills police