DATE: October 29th, 2025
SUBJECT: Missing Woman Found Deceased
RELEASE NUMBER: 2025-NR-1029
CONTACT: Lieutenant Doug Daza
AUTHORITY: Sheriff Noah Robinson
On Tuesday, October 28th, a Posey County woman was reported missing to the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office. The woman’s husband reported his wife, Rebecca Versteeg, age 44, had failed to return after leaving her place of employment in Vanderburgh County. On today’s date, after an exhaustive search, Versteeg was located in her vehicle, deceased.
Rebecca was employed as a nurse at Solarbron, located at 1501 McDowell Road, Evansville, IN. She was last known to have left work at approximately 1333 hrs on Tuesday. She spoke with her husband by phone shortly after leaving and reportedly mentioned she was experiencing chest pain. She told her husband she believed it to be indigestion from lunch. Her husband returned home from his work in the late afternoon and found that she had not come home. He then contacted both the Posey County and Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Offices.
Deputies checked Rebecca’s place of employment, the route she typically travels home, and attempted to locate her phone and vehicle through GPS data; however, none of these efforts were successful. Throughout the evening, deputies continued to check the roadside for signs of the vehicle. Her cellphone was active and a ping for location data was conducted. This yielded a search area within this route with a radius of 2,200 meters. Deputies also checked area hospitals and urgent care facilities. The Posey County Sheriff’s Office also searched the area of her route from the county border to her home.
The search continued into today. The Evansville/Vanderburgh County Emergency Management Agency assisted, providing all-weather drones to search the heavily wooded areas along her likely route home. Volunteer Fire personnel also assisted in the search. Versteeg’s cellphone was pinged again and showed that it had not moved. A later ping failed to produce a result indicating the phone had apparently ran out of power.
At 1420 hours, two detectives, traveling slowly along the shoulder of the University Parkway south of Marx Rd, located the vehicle down an embankment and in a heavily wooded area to the west of the Parkway. Versteeg was found deceased inside the vehicle. It appeared that the vehicle was northbound on the University Parkway when it crossed the median, went across the southbound lanes then drove off the roadway and down the embankment. While the area was heavily wooded, the vehicle did not strike anything that would have given visible evidence that a vehicle had left the roadway there. There was damage to the vehicle but nothing at the scene indicated that Versteeg was fatally injured by the crash.
The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office was notified and came to the scene. An autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow morning. At this time, there is no evidence of foul play and the death does not appear suspicious.
Found Deceased: Rebecca Rae Versteeg, 44, Wadesville, IN