A woman estate agent in America has gone missing, apparently while showing a prospective buyer over a house.
In what could be a chilling echo of the Suzy Lamplugh case in the UK, attractive blonde Beverly Carter was showing the property to a viewer she had never met.
When she failed to make contact with her family after the 5.30pm appointment, her husband went to the property – a repossession – and found her car outside containing her purse outside the property whose door was wide open.
She had been due to go on to two other viewings, but never made her next appointments.
Police in Arkansas are continuing their search.
The estate agency, Crye-Leike Realtors, where Mrs Carter works in Little Rock, has stepped up its protection for estate agents making lone viewings.
Steve Brown, executive vice-president at Crye-Leike, said his colleague’s disappearance highlighted the dangers that agents expose themselves to by showing houses to prospective buyers they have not vetted.
He said it emphasised the importance the firm will place on getting agents to vet prospective buyers at an office before viewings.
Leigh Brown, of Re/Max, called on the industry to use Carter’s plight as a wake-up call.
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