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Parke County Sheriff's Department needs help locating missing individual

The Parke County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help in locating Betty 'Jane" Capps as they investigate her disappearance. 

Capps was last seen on June 29 at approximately 4 p.m. in Mecca, Indiana, and her vehicle, a 2007 gray Ford Focus, is also missing. The vehicle has a license plate of 190TPH. 

Capps is 68 years old and described as 5-foot-3-inches and 180 pounds and has a butterfly tattoo on her right leg. 

The Parke County Sheriff's Department has conducted multiple searches using drones, wing aircraft and off road vehicles and bodies of water have been searched by Indiana Conservation Officers using sonar. 

Officers are unsure of her direction of travel or planned destinations and are asking anyone with knowledge or sightings of Capps to contact the sheriff's office at 765-569-5413 or 911. 

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