Raffaela Stroik was last seen Monday morning at a Whole Foods
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Authorities are looking for a missing ballet dancer after her car was found at a northeast Missouri lake. A state park ranger found Raffaella Stroik’s vehicle in a boat ramp parking lot Monday in Mark Twain State Park, according to authorities.
A Missouri state trooper checked the area the next morning and found that the vehicle still there, with no sign of Stroik, a 23-year-old dancer with the St. Louis Ballet Company. Stroik, who joined the ballet last year, was last seen Monday morning at a Whole Foods in suburban St. Louis.
She was wearing whit tennis shows, a long pink scarf, an olive green jacket, and navy-colored pants with white zippers on the sides, according to authorities. She was driving a black 2012 Volkswagen Jetta with Indiana plates, said the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
« We ask for people’s prayers and any help they can to help find our darling daughter, » said her father, Duncan Stroik, CBS St. Louis affiliate KMOV reported.
Stroik is about 5-foot-7 and 115 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair that she normally wears in a ponytail. Her profile on the ballet’s website says she is from South Bend, Indiana.
