Second billboard placed to seek information on Phylicia Thomas case

HUNLOCK CREEK — A second billboard seeking information on the disappearance of Phylicia Thomas has been placed in an area not far from where she was last seen more than 16 years ago.

Judy Lorah Fisher, a friend of the missing girl’s mother, Pauline Bailey, said the second billboard located at 324 Old Tavern Road in Hunlock Creek.

“A family friend, Gina Becker, who has volunteered every time we do a search for Phylicia, donated the billboard and bought all the wood to build the billboard stand,” Fisher said. “It is in her home yard. This billboard is not far from where Jennifer Barziloski’s skull was found on Roaring Brook Drive in Hunlock Creek and not far from Timber Lane where we did all the digging two summers ago with the cadaver search dogs.”

Fisher said the billboard was put up Sunday evening.

The first billboard seeking information on the case was placed last month on Route 11 near the intersection of Route 29.

Fisher said she and Bailey are hopeful someone will come forward with information that will help investigators solve the case and, more importantly, lead to the discovery of Thomas, who is presumed to be dead.

“We are happy to get a billboard out in Hunlock Creek because we believe that is where Jennifer and Phylicia were killed because that is where Jennifer’s skull was found,” Fisher said.

It’s been 16 years since Thomas went missing, believed to have been murdered, and her body has never been found.

Bailey and Fisher raised the money — $443 — to pay for a billboard along Route 11 in the West Nanticoke section of Plymouth Township. Fisher said the billboard will remain up for six months and will probably be renewed for another six months.

Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-222-8477 and anonymously give whatever information they have about Phylicia’s disappearance.

Bailey said she remains hopeful that her daughter’s remains can be found so she can be given a proper burial.

In recent weeks, Bailey has been placing flyers seeking information on what happened to her daughter on Feb. 11, 2004, and where her remains may be and who is responsible. Thomas was 22 at the time of her disappearance.

Fisher said it is difficult for her to understand why someone hasn’t come forward with information over the last 16 years. She said 17 people were at at party where Thomas reportedly was last seen.

Barziloski, a friend of Phylicia’s, was last seen June 23, 2001, outside C. Majors Sports Bar on Main Street in Edwardsville. Barziloski, 18, was described as a white female, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing about 135 pounds with light-colored hair and blue eyes.