‘Something bad has happened.’ Mom desperate to find daughter who vanished in Oklahoma

Hannah Cook’s family is going to spend Christmas Eve passing out flyers with her young face plastered across them, her height and weight, the color of her eyes and hair — listed along with a plea for help and a phone number for the Oklahoma City Police Department.

They’ll meet in the parking lot of the Bass Pro Shop in downtown Oklahoma City — where Hannah was last seen on the night of Dec. 16 – with 500 flyers ready to distribute, according to a Facebook post by her sister Anna Bates. She’s hoping people will turn out to help.

Hannah’s family has spoken with police and investigators are on the case, but as of Dec. 23 they’re no closer to finding the 24-year-old, family members say.

“My heart says something bad has happened,” her mother, Gina Cook, told KFOR. “I don’t want to believe that. But at the same time, she just wouldn’t do it. She just wouldn’t disappear off the face of the earth.”

Gina was one of the last people to see Hannah, and to speak with her, before she vanished, KFOR reported. It was an accidental Facetime call, around 8:30 p.m., that lasted all of 10 seconds.

Gina asked Hannah what she was up to. “Ugh, mom. You wouldn’t like this, it’s about a boy,” came the response.

But “she’s not going to run off with some man,” Gina told the outlet.

Hannah was sitting in her car in the Bass Pro Shop parking lot at the time, Gina would later learn.

Since her disappearance, Hannah’s family has been vocal on social media, trying to cast as wide a net as possible to find her.

“This is unlike Hannah,” her sister, Anna Bates, said in a post. Her dog was left alone without anyone to care for it. Her debit card hasn’t been used since the night she went missing, and her cell phone can’t be pinged, Bates said.

They’ve spoken to Hannah’s friends and to area jails and hospitals, and none have any clue where she is.

Brandi Martin, another sibling of Hannah’s, said the family is getting desperate. But they aren’t giving up.

“We just finished making a missing persons poster for my sister,” Martin said in a Facebook post. “I never thought I would type the words ‘missing person’ and follow it with my sister’s name. We are scared. More than scared, and me and my entire family are asking you for help.”

Gina is losing hope, KFOR reported. A week has come and gone since that strange Facetime call, since she last saw her daughter’s face — and a happy ending just doesn’t seem like what’s in store.

“My heart says my daughter’s dead. That’s what my heart says,” Gina told the outlet.

“She’s not going to be here at Christmas and she’s probably not going to be here on New Years. And I don’t think she’s going to come back at all,” she told KFOR. “I just want to know where she’s at. I want to know what happened to her.”

Hannah stands 5-feet, 7-inches tall, and weighs around 165 pounds, according to information shared by her family. She has brown eyes and black hair, and a large tattoo of a rose on her left thigh.

The night of Dec. 16, she was driving her silver 2002 Honda Accord, Oklahoma license plate number BUJ-043.

Anyone with information about Hannah’s whereabouts is encouraged to contact the Oklahoma City Police Department at 405-231-2121.

McClatchy News reached out to OCPD for an update on the investigation but has not heard back.