After sending her mother two text messages that read, “I’m scared” and “…”, former town resident Dana Bonanno disappeared from her Brooklyn home.
New York City police are investigating the missing person case while friends and family of the 33-year-old Carmel High School graduate are doing all they can to publicize the disappearance in the hopes of learning more about her fate.
“This is so surreal,” mother Donna O’Connor said of her missing daughter. “It’s like you’re talking about somebody else.”
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Bonanno was last seen the night of July 22 by her roommates. She went to a nearby store, asking her roommates before she went if they wanted anything, and then returning with the supplies, O’Connor said. She later left the apartment for good.
“At some point (in the night) she left. They just don’t know when,” O’Connor said of the roommates. “Her purse was the only thing she took.”
O’Connor said her daughter had tried to get in touch with her that night.
“She had called me twice and texted me a little after 11, saying ‘I’m scared,’” O’Connor said, adding that when she asked her daughter why, the only text she received in return was “…”
Bonanno hasn’t been heard from since. Her cell phone also appears to have run out of batteries, with calls being routed directly to voicemail, her mother said.
Although it had been a year since she had seen her daughter, the two kept in touch through texts and telephone calls, O’Connor said. Recently, Bonanno had grown upset, having been laid off from her job with a television company in May.
Bonanno also had confided in friends about the layoff and its effect on her.
“She definitely was sad about that,” said friend Liz Rivera, 32, of Manhattan.
But Bonanno also was part of a Brooklyn music crowd that hosts events across the borough featuring house and electronic music, making her a regular at those events every weekend, said Rivera, who became friends with Bonanno through that music scene.
“We’re all positive happy people,” Rivera said, adding that Bonanno’s disappearance has caught her friends by surprise. “It’s such a huge shock.”
