Police investigating the case of a missing 24-year-old Minnesota woman whose boyfriend shot himself shortly before questioning said they found a note ‘with limited writing’ in his car’s dashboard, MyFoxTwinCities.com reports.

Police would not elaborate further, but said Mandy Matula, of Eden Prairie, Minn., was last seen Thursday around 1:30 a.m. with her estranged boyfriend, 24-year-old David Marshall Roe.

The two were said to be driving in Roe’s black Ford Escape with Minnesota license number 802-KNA.

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Matula’s parents reported her missing at 8:30 a.m. Thursday when she failed to show up for her job as a city maintenance worker, according to the station.

Authorities identified Roe as a person of interest in their investigation, but before they could question him, he shot himself in the head outside Eden Prairie police headquarters Thursday afternoon. Roe was transported to an area hospital where his condition is unknown.

“They do know she was believed to be with him last night and in our attempt to talk to him, obviously, he had agreed to come in and talk to us but ultimately we didn’t get that opportunity,” Eden Prairie Lt. Bill Wyffels told the station.

Matula’s father, Wayne, told the Star Tribune that his daughter, a stand-out high school softball player, had planned to break off her relationship with Roe.

Investigators are now scouring Miller Park in Eden Prairie where Matula was last seen.

A West Michigan police chief has released a sketch of a man sought for questioning in the disappearance of a 25-year-old woman from her job as a gas station night clerk.

Police are searching for a gray minivan and its driver, who is described as a white man, age 30 to 40, about 6 feet tall, with light brown wavy hair. The description is from witnesses who saw the van parked near the station and driving away.

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Several friends and acquaintances of Jessica Heeringa, a petite 25-year-old gas station clerk who went missing while working the night shift, have been ruled out in her disappearance, which western Michigan investigators are treating as an abduction, the local police chief said Monday.

Police have frustratingly little evidence as they search for Heeringa, who disappeared Friday night shortly before the young mother was set to close an Exxon Mobil gas station in Norton Shores. The station didn’t have a security camera and there were no signs of a struggle or robbery, though police have released a description of a vehicle and a man seen in the area.

Norton Shores Police Chief Daniel Shaw said relatives, friends and other people associated with Heeringa have been interviewed, and that investigators are “no longer really concerned with their activities from that night.”

“We’re moving on, trying to find other people,” Shaw said.

A man trying to buy gas called police after finding the gas station open but no employees around.

“There’s nobody here,” Craig Harpster, 54, told a 911 operator in a recorded conversation authorities released Monday. “I hollered, ‘Hey,’ walked around the building. … It just seems strange.”

Investigators later found Herringa’s purse and other personal belongings in the station, and the cash register untouched. Police described Herringa as 5-foot-1 and about 110 pounds.

“There’s no sign of a struggle, no sign of anything inside the store being disturbed,” Shaw said. “The cash drawer was sitting out and no money was missing. Her purse was in the store with 400-some dollars in it. It’s just odd how that occurred.”

Shaw said nearly two dozen law enforcement officials are following leads. The police chief described the city, home to about 24,000 people on the shores of Lake Michigan, as “quite safe” with a low rate of violent crime.

“The family believes that Jessica more than likely left to help (someone) in some way,” Shaw said. “Their belief is that someone that she’s either acquainted with or someone she was trying to help lured her out.”

Heeringa’s mother, Shelly Heeringa, told local media that she repeatedly told her daughter she worried about her working late by herself.

“She said, ‘Mom, don’t worry. I can handle anybody,'” she said.

It’s what relatives of so many missing people hold on to: the hope that their loved one will be found alive days, months, even years after disappearing. But for Brenda Heist, the Pennsylvania woman found this week in Florida 11 years after she vanished, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance have tainted the news for her family.

“I’m hurt so much that she got up and left me and my brother,” Morgan Heist, Brenda Heist’s 19-year-old daughter, told NBCPhiladelphia.com. “It’s not that I hate her. It’s just that I don’t think she deserves to be in my life at this point.”

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Heist went missing from her Litiz, Pa., home in February 2002. Dinner for her two children — 8 and 12 at the time — was found defrosting in the kitchen on the day she disappeared, and the laundry had been started. Days later, Pennsylvania authorities found her abandoned car.

On Wednesday, Heist, 54, turned herself into a sheriff’s deputy in Key Largo, Fla., telling him she thought she was wanted in a neighboring county. When authorities ran her name through their database, it came up as “missing and possibly deceased,” the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said.

According to Lititz Borough police, Heist was overwhelmed with her life when she decided to abandon her family. She and her husband were going through an amicable divorce at the time, but she had just learned she had been denied housing support, police said.

“She explained to me that she just snapped,” Lititz Borough Police Det. John Schofield, who met with Heist on Monday, told The Associated Press.

Heist’s hair, brown when she went missing, is now blond with gray roots. Her face is sunken. According to Lititz Borough police, feeling overcome by the pressures of her life, she went to a park near her central Pennsylvania home on the day she left her home in 2002. There, as she cried, she met a group of homeless hitchhikers who reached out to her, reported The AP.

She joined the hitchhikers, who were Florida-bound, and once arriving there, she slept under bridges and in tents, and ate food thrown out in restaurant dumpsters, according to what she told police.

Heist then moved in with a man in a camper in Key West for about seven years, working odd jobs, Lititz police said. She recently became homeless again, however, and according to Schofield, turned herself in because “she said she was at the end of her rope, she was tired of running.”

Her husband, Lee, had briefly been investigated as a suspect in Heist’s disappearance, but was cleared.

“I thought for probably about two years based on some of the information that she had been carjacked,” he told NBCPhiladelphia.com after learning the woman he had asked courts to declare legally dead several years ago was still alive. “I just wish her that she’ll get well, whatever the problems are.”

Lee Heist has since remarried.

“I think there’s nothing we have to say to each other,” Lee told NBCPhiladelphia.com.

Neither he nor his daughter Morgan have plans to reunite with Heist right now.

“I don’t want her to tell me she missed me. I don’t want her to tell me she loves me. I don’t want a sob story,” Morgan said.

Heist, who had worked as a car dealership bookkeeper, apologized for what she did to her family.

“She has a birth certificate and a death certificate, so she’s got a long ways to make this right again,” Schofield said.

Her daughter said an apology doesn’t make up for her mom’s absence.

“It was tough,” Morgan told NBCPhiladelphia.com. “Every prom — my brother graduated from high school and college, I graduated [from high school]. She wasn’t there, you know? She wasn’t there for the most important parts of my life.”

It’s unclear what’s next for Heist, who was put in protective custody but did not require medical treatment when she turned herself in, according to the Monroe County sheriff’s office.

“She appeared to be in relatively good health. She said she was tired,” Becky Herrin, spokesperson for Monroe County sheriff’s office, said.

Her mother, Jean Copenhaver of Brenham, Texas, told The AP she has spoken with her daughter since she turned herself in.

“She just said she thought the family wouldn’t want to talk to her because of her leaving,” Copenhaver said. “And we all assured her that wasn’t the case and we all loved her and wanted to be with her.”

The parents of a missing Connecticut college student joined police Wednesday to plead for the public’s help finding their daughter.

Alyssiah Wiley, a 20-year-old sophomore at Eastern Connecticut State University, was last seen near a Dairy Queen on Main Street in Willimantic on April 20, according to Connecticut State Police.

“This is a very brilliantly bright young woman who has her whole future ahead of her,” mother Corrinna Martin said at a Wednesday press conference.

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Authorities have released few details about the timeline surrounding Wiley’s disappearance, but Lt. Paul Vance told reporters that they believe the case is “an isolated incident.”

Wiley was initially reported missing to university police when she did not return to her dorm room on April 20, but state police have provided K-9 teams, aircraft and personnel to assist with a search that has expanded statewide.

Police said last week they were looking for a black 2009 Nissan Altima in connection with the case. According to Vance, the vehicle has been found, but he did not disclose whose car it is or whether any evidence was found in it.

Martin said Wiley is a psychology major with a minor in biology who is planning to go to graduate school and get a doctorate in psychology.

“This is not a young lady who would walk away from such a life,” she said. “This is not a young lady who would put her family through so much grief. This is, however, a young lady who is full of life, full of energy, and full of hope that her future is bright.”

Vance emphasized that police do have some leads in the case, but he said they are missing the one key piece of information they need.

Investigators have been interviewing Wiley’s friends, family, classmates, roommates and acquaintances throughout the state and anyone else who may have had contact with her before she went missing. Vance said police are working very closely with the family.

Windham County State Attorney Patricia Froehlich said her office has created a Facebook page where people can submit tips. According to Froehlich, the state forensic science lab has agreed to prioritize testing of any evidence related to the case.

“I know that someone out there knows where Alyssiah is,” Froehlich said.

Vance and Martin stated that tips can be kept anonymous and confidential. Anyone with information is asked to call the state police at 860-685-8190.

“We’re just asking please, please, please find it in your heart to open up your mouth and speak,” Martin said. “Please help us bring our loved one–my baby–home.”

Police are asking for the public’s help finding a missing man.

James Grimes, who turned 63 on Wednesday, was last seen March 14 at the Catholic Worker House, a homeless shelter in the 600 block of Nolan Street. An employee said Grimes told her he planned to go to the grocery store that day, according to a missing person report.

The employee said Grimes, who used to be homeless, normally visits the shelter every day to eat, but he suddenly stopped showing up. Concerned about his welfare, the woman visited his apartment several times, but he never answered the door.

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A neighbor with a key to the apartment let her inside March 25. After finding a receipt from an H-E-B dated March 14 and groceries that hadn’t been put away, she notified police about Grimes’ disappearance.

She said that although he doesn’t suffer from any illness, he’s sometimes delusional.

There were no signs of foul play at the home, police said.

Grimes is described as having straight, gray hair and is balding. He is about 6 feet 3 inches and 220 pounds.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is urged to call the police department’s missing persons department at 210-207-7660.