Tarentum police seek help finding woman missing for 2 weeks

Tarentum police are seeking help to find a woman missing for two weeks.

Tonya Lynn Sadecky, 43, was last seen when a friend dropped her off in the area of Ninth Avenue and Morgan Street in Brackenridge, Chief Bill Vakulick said.

She was last seen before noon on Aug. 28.

“We’ve reached out to people that could possibly have had contact with her and also spoke with her mother,” Vakulick said. “Hopefully, someone comes across her soon.”

Sadecky’s mother, Carol Richardson, said she felt something was wrong after she didn’t hear from her daughter for a day or two.

“I really knew something wasn’t right when her son didn’t hear from her,” Richardson said.

“She doesn’t go a day without talking with him. She’s one of these people who always has her phone glued to her hand, so this isn’t good.”

Sadecky has no permanent address, Richardson said. She was staying with friends in Tarentum, Brackenridge and the Natrona section of Harrison.

Sadecky has two children, a 21-year-old son and a nine-year-old daughter. Neither lives with her full-time, Richardson said.

She said it wouldn’t make sense that her daughter skipped town or left for a getaway without telling her family.

“Even when she’s mad at me, she returns my calls,” Richardson said.

A friend of Sadecky’s has been posting daily updates to Facebook, asking for the public’s help.

Kayla Bopp, a friend from Michigan, is rounding up volunteers for a search party, according to a recent post.

She hopes to get a group to search abandoned buildings by the Allegheny River in all three communities.

“I just want to keep her name and face out there and maybe if the right person sees it, we can get this ball rolling,” Bopp’s post said.