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FLORENCE, Wis. -- Authorities have renewed their plea for the public's help in finding a missing Florence woman on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance.
Nancy Renkas, 47, last was seen about 12:30 p.m. July 18, 2016, in her vehicle parked outside Super One Foods on U.S. 2 in Iron Mountain. Surveillance footage showed her getting into a white sports utility vehicle that pulled up to her vehicle and then drove east on U.S. 2.
Renkas never returned to her vehicle or her home on the 600 block of Spring Street, where she lived with her sons, Marvin and Joseph Renkas.
Although authorities have located the white SUV, driver and forensic evidence, they still need "additional information to clearly understand what happened."
The Florence County Sheriff's Department initially took the missing person complaint from Renkas' sons on July 19, 2016, and the case was turned over to the Iron Mountain Police Department when Renkas' vehicle was found at Super One Foods.
Dickinson County Sheriff's Office officials confirmed this morning they have since taken over "due to developments in the case" but declined to reveal what those developments entail.
A task force of multiple law enforcement agencies continues to meet and conduct interviews on the case.
"Based on the facts, we have no information supporting Nancy left the area on her own or she did not intend to return home on the afternoon of July 18, 2016," Florence County Sheriff Jeff Rickaby said in a news release issued Monday. "A search of the vehicle located perishable groceries in the vehicle purchased at Marcouiller's grocery (in Niagara, Wis.) shortly before it was parked at the Midtown Mall in Iron Mountain. Nancy does not have a history of being missing or leaving without telling her family her location; in fact, the opposite appears to be true."
Rickaby said he believes people in the community have information valuable to the case.
Those with information can anonymously contact Crime Stoppers of Marinette and Menominee County at 1-800-427-5857. The calls are "scrubbed" to eliminate any caller identification before the caller speaks with an operator, providing total security, Rickaby said.