Twice Gone

There’s something deeply unsettling about the cases that never quite leave you—where the threads of violence and loss stretch across decades and states, and where the same name keeps resurfacing in the shadows.

Katherine Marie Lowery was just 26 years old when she vanished from Olive Branch, Mississippi in February 1999. She was a mother of two—an 8-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son. When her partner, Steven DeLoge, was arrested months later in Cheyenne, Wyoming for sexually abusing Katherine’s daughter, police quickly realized something was wrong. The children hadn’t seen their mother since they lived in Mississippi. And when deputies returned to the home they’d shared, they discovered it had been cleared out, cleaned thoroughly—but blood spatter revealed the truth: something violent had happened there.

Katherine was never seen again.

But Katherine isn’t the only person connected to Steven DeLoge who vanished without a trace.

In 1985—fourteen years earlier—Elizabeth A. Eisel, DeLoge’s half-sister, disappeared in Bellevue, Washington. She and DeLoge had moved in together after reconnecting as adults, and they eventually had a child. But when DeLoge grew interested in another woman, Elizabeth vanished. Her baby was left with a babysitter. Her belongings untouched. She wasn’t even reported missing until 1988.

The circumstances surrounding both disappearances bear chilling similarities—abandonment, manipulation, and the silencing of women who should have been protected. DeLoge is a named suspect in both cases, and yet, justice has never come.

Katherine’s children were left motherless. Elizabeth’s son grew up without answers. And still, their stories remain buried beneath the weight of time and bureaucracy.

I believe Katherine and Elizabeth deserve better. Their names deserve to be spoken. Their stories demand to be told.

If you know anything—anything at all—about what happened to Katherine Marie Lowery or Elizabeth A. Eisel, please come forward. Silence is not safety. Let’s bring truth to light. Let’s bring them home

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