This is the letter that my wife wrote that we are sending out to the news organization. It has been a painful 12-15 hours to even get the police in gear.
My daughter is missing and the police in Minnesota tell me that because she is an adult they cannot do anything except put out an APB on the car she was driving last night. This is despite the fact that the man she had a lengthy and often violent relationship with threatened to kill her recently.
My daughter is 22 years old. Her name is Lydia Wussow and she has been living in White Bear Lake, MN for the past couple of months. Before that she was involved in a relationship with Daniel Graser, a violent drug addict who manipulated her and abused her. Dan is living somewhere in Minneapolis, but since he doesn’t work and relies on handouts from his family, he moves from place to place, staying with “friends”. We do not know where he lives and his family claims not to know, but I have reason to believe that his sister knows where he lives or at least how to contact him. I have his cell phone # and have given it to the police, but of course he doesn’t answer it. I have enclosed a picture of him.
My daughter borrowed her friend’s car last night and said she was going to hang out with friends. She never returned. The car is missing and so is she. She has been extremely happy lately because she is now in a relationship with a loving and kind young man, has finished her schooling at The Aveda Institute, and was looking forward to working as an esthetician at a salon or spa. She had finally freed herself from Dan’s influence and discovered what it was like to be in a loving relationship.
Dan kept harassing her; calling her at work constantly until the stress drove her to quit her job a couple of weeks ago. Dan is manipulative and devious; he is also extremely dangerous. He threatened to kill Lydia and the new man in her life or to hurt her or “make her do things”. He left these threats on the cell phone, verbally and in text messages. I tried to contact his sister who lives in Eagan; she didn’t return my calls. Lydia’s boyfriend finally was able to talk with her and my husband also had a phone conversation with her... She claims that her brother Dan “is not welcome at her house” and that she hasn’t seen him in months. This is not true. She is the one responsible for Dan returning to the Minneapolis area from Sheboygan, WI. And she brought Dan to meet with Lydia in Minneapolis on Wednesday of last week; two days before Lydia disappeared.
I understand that there are certain ways the police handle missing person cases; however when a person has been threatened by a known violent offender and goes missing, it would seem imperative to look for the said violent offender before all you have left is a body. I want my daughter back safely. Although I know there is a possibility that she went to meet Dan willingly because she feels sorry for him and there is the history of his manipulating her, I also know she would not take someone’s car if she was not planning to return. I am terrified that Dan has drugged her or beaten her again. I need help in locating her as soon as possible.
Lydia’s birthday is 1/10/84. She is caucasian. She is 5’9” tall and about 130#. She has shoulder-length light brown hair, brown eyes, and a space between her front teeth. Lydia wears contacts.
Dan Graser was born in October of 1979. He is Caucasian. He is very skinny and approximately 6’6” or even 6”7” tall. He is addicted to heroin and likes to think of himself as a “gansta”. He has friends in the Milwaukee area and may have forced Lydia to drive him there.
Lydia was last seen driving a 1993 teal Saturn, license plate DTP087. There is an APB out for this vehicle but no one has reported seeing it yet.
A picture of Lydia is at this link.
Lydia
Dan
A better pic will be available shortly
Please help!
Thanks guys in advance. I never thought I would be using this board for this.
If you have any information please contact the St. Paul or Minneapolis Police Department immeadiately.
