{"id":259861,"date":"2026-04-21T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259861\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:45:09","slug":"wylie-police-search-for-woman-last-seen-walking-into-wooded-area-overnight-ask-neighbors-to-check-security-camera-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259861\/","title":{"rendered":"Wylie police search for woman last seen walking into wooded area overnight, ask neighbors to check security camera footage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities in Wylie are searching for a missing 46-year-old woman, who was last seen on a neighbor\u2019s camera walking into a wooded area around 1:43 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n

WYLIE, Texas \u2014 Wylie police are looking for a woman who was last seen on a home security camera around 1:43 a.m., walking into a wooded area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police said they were called around 7:21 a.m. to the 100 block of Parkwood Drive, where a man reported his wife, 46-year-old Melonie Ballenger, was missing.<\/p>\n

Officers learned Ballenger was last seen at 1:43 a.m. on a neighbor’s camera walking into a wooded area close to her house. Wylie police are asking other neighbors to review camera footage from 1 a.m. to 7 a.m. to see if Ballenger was seen in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The videos can be uploaded here\u00a0<\/a>or by using this QR code.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ballenger was last seen wearing a black jacket and jeans. She is described as 5\u20197, 135 lbs, with black hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n

Lonestar Search and Rescue responded to search the wooded area where she was last seen, but the search has been suspended due to the weather.<\/p>\n

The investigation into her disappearance is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in Wylie are searching for a missing 46-year-old woman, who was last seen on a neighbor\u2019s camera…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-259861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}