32 Year Old Kathleen “Katie” Barham Missing Since 5/27/15 in Portsmouth, VA (Update: Body Found of Missing Woman)

32 year old  Kathleen “Katie” Barham has been missing since Wednesday, May 27, 2015 in  Portsmouth, Virginia. However, Portsmouth Police did not assign a detective to the case until June 8, eleven days after Katie was reported missing. Barham has hazel eyes and long brown hair. She’s about 5’2″ tall and weighs 135-140 pounds.

A Portsmouth mother has been missing for nearly two weeks.

Police are trying to find 32-year-old Kathleen “Katie” Barham. She was last seen Wednesday, May 27, around 10:30 p.m. when she went to wash a load of clothes in her apartment building on Bickford Lane in Churchland, said Det. Misty Holley.

Katie’s boyfriend and father of her two children, Rich Fegan says he was falling asleep on the couch that night, when Katie went missing.

“She started washing the clothes in the laundry facility in the building. A little while later I woke up with her complaining saying the dryer’s not working, and she had to go to the building right here (points to next apartment building) to dry the clothes,” he said.

He says he woke up around 1:30 a.m. and Katie was gone.

UPDATE I: Body found Wednesday confirmed to be missing Portsmouth woman.

The body found Wednesday at Tejo Lane and Silver Maple Drive in Portsmouth has been identified as 32-year-old Kathleen “Katie” Barham.

Barham had been missing since May 27th around 10:30 p.m. when she went to wash a load of clothing in her apartment building in the 6500 block of Bickford Lane.

Her body was found early Wednesday morning in a wooded area just a street away from where she was last seen.