Faulkner County woman hopes for answers 7 years after mother’s disappearance

CONWAY, Ark.- A Faulkner County woman is still searching for answers seven years after her mother’s disappearance.

Monday marks the seventh anniversary of the disappearance of 54-year-old Kelly Evans of Faulkner County.

Nikki Driscoll, Kelly Evans’s daughter, was the last person to see Evans. She visited her mom in her home near White Oak Road in Enola.

“I just miss her and I want to find the answers,” Driscoll said.

She filed a missing person report just a few short days later after going days without hearing from her and showing up to her mother’s home to find no one there.

“I really felt like, you know, my mom took off on foot and that she left,” Driscoll said.

She said she remembers her mom as a bright personality but someone who had her struggles. Driscoll continues the fight for answers.

“It gets heavier by the year, every year that I don’t get that answer, it gets so much harder to not believe the worst,” Driscoll said.

She said the hardest part is not having her mom to lean on while she raises her two sons.

“There’s lots of things in my life that I need my mom for,” Driscoll said. “There’s lots of decisions that I’ve had to make that I didn’t have my mom to lean on or just to have her advice on.”

The Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office reports receiving a tip on Oct. 22, 2017, stating that Ms. Evans may have been walking on Hwy 225 East towards Greenbrier wearing blue jeans, a hat, and a black/white zebra stripe purse. However, the tip led to no answers.

Over the past seven years, the Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office has conducted seven searches surrounding Evans’s home but has found no evidence of Evans’s whereabouts.

The last search was on March 20, 2020, when new drone technology and cadaver dogs were used.

The Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office says despite the ongoing efforts of numerous agencies, the disappearance of Kelly Evans remains unsolved to date.

Driscoll prays that her mom is still out there and urges her to come home.

Anyone with information on Evans’ whereabouts is asked to contact Lieutenant Woodward or Investigator Howington at the Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division by calling 501-450-4917.

Those who wish to remain anonymous can submit a tip through the Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office website.

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