Anybody know what the hell happened on 135 today?

[urethra franklin]

Closed both ways for over an hour. I got stuck in it, friggen horrible....News 12 said "police investigation" but didn't give any other details. I saw a ton of undercovers when it finally cleared parked on the side near Plainview Rd.

[DOC]

I CHECKED NEWSDAY AND IT DIDN'T MENTION ANYTHING....YET! CHECK THERE TOMORROW AND SEE WHAT POPS UP!??

[Sparky]

There's was or still is an ungoing police investigation down there. When i find out more info I'll let you guys know.

[SkiesMostWanted]

Bethpage school teacher, 29, missing

The husband of a missing school teacher made an emotional appeal Tuesday morning for her safe return, speaking to reporters outside Leah Hirschel Walsh's family home in Rockville Centre.

The husband, William Walsh, stood in his in-laws' driveway at around 11 a.m. Tuesday, handing out copies of his wife's photo to reporters.

"Please get the picture out. We just want her back," Walsh said, his eyes red and welling with tears.

"You can have my cars. You can have everything. I just want my wife back."

In response to questions, Walsh said the last time he heard from his wife was when he got a text message from her Monday morning. Asked where she is, he said, "I got no clue."

Walsh, a tall, lean man wearing khaki pants and a Trump Taj Mahal casino bomber jacket, arrived at the parents' home at around 10 a.m. in a yellow Mustang convertible registered to the missing woman.

At first he declined to comment, but then at around 11 a.m. he emerged from the house to give out the photos.

The missing school teacher's purse was found on the side of a highway near her disabled car at daybreak Monday, and the police issued an alert about 24 hours later.

Leah Walsh, 29, teaches autistic children at a Glen Cove school. She went missing sometime before 6:30 a.m. Monday when her vehicle was found with a flat tire on the shoulder of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, Nassau police said.

Nassau County detectives Tuesday morning asked the public's help locating her. Suffolk County police referred inquiries to the Nassau police.

After Walsh failed to report to work on Monday, school officials called her family and they notified the police, Nassau detectives said.

"She loves her job. She loves children. She wouldn't let the kids down," said her mother, Mattie Hirschel, of Rockville Centre, who said she doubts that her daughter disappeared deliberately.

"Just bring her back, Hirschel said. "She's my baby."

Mattie Hirschel, speaking before William Walsh's news conference, said her daughter's husband gave her some details on what happened. Bill Walsh said Leah contacted him and told him about the flat tire, but by the time he got there she was gone, Hirschel said. Bill Walsh said he called the police and while he and the police were looking along the side of the road they found Leah Walsh's purse, Hirschel said.

Leah Walsh's black 2005 Ford Focus, with the license plate DNU 5876 and with a large Mets sticker on the rear windshield, was found on the shoulder of northbound Route 135, police said.

The Missing Person Section detectives want to speak with anyone with information about Walsh's whereabouts, or anyone who may have seen her driving the car. Crime Stoppers accepts confidential tips at 800-244-TIPS.

Leah Walsh got her master's degree from Molloy College last May, and lived for a time in Florida, then moved back to Long Island, Hirschel said.

Leah Walsh and her husband lived in Rockville Centre for a time, then recently got an apartment in Bethpage, Hirschel said.Leah Hirschel Walsh's MySpace page says she studied communications-sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, graduating in 2006, then studied special education at Molloy.

[urethra franklin]

That's horrible, I hope that woman is alright....yikes. I can only imagine...

[ChrisF202]

That's horrible, I hope that woman is alright....yikes. I can only imagine...

While I see the need to be positive, these stories dont usually have a happy ending. I recall hearing somewhere that 90% of kidnap victims are dead within 24 hours :-\

Edit: I am led to believe its a kidnap as the cops found her car had a flat tire and her pocketbook was found laying on the shoulder of the road. My suspicion is that she had a flat tire and some sick f--k took advantage of that to trick her into think he was going to help her and instead he kidnapped her.

[Nasus]

Put this woman in your prayers everyone.

She should have never gotten out of the car. Scary world we live in when we see someone stop to 'help' us. She shouldve cracked the window and said help was on the way already.

Girls......never get out of your car if you break down. Its one thing if its in a very busy public parking lot but if you are alone in an area......stay in that car. If the car can move still drive very slowly to an area that is safer. If you have a flat.........so what if you screw up the rim.

If someone stops to offer help, crack the window and ask them to call a two truck, the police or a friend for you.

[The Commish]

Sadly many times it's a family member or close friend responsible... And I live between exits 9 and 10...

[SkiesMostWanted]

Ugh...it's such a shame that we have to hear this stuff. None the less, us women have to be extra careful when something happens. I hope they find her.

[DOC]

I HELPED A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS ALSO WITH A FLAT TIRE ON 135 ABOUT 12 YEARS AGO NEAR THE 27 EXCHANGE. SHE WAS A 20-SOMETHING AND IT WAS A TIME BEFORE WE HAD CELL PHONES IN OUR HANDS READY TO GO. I WAS IN A COCA-COLA UNIFORM AND IT WAS FULL DAYLIGHT. I INTRODUCED MYSELF AND SHE WAS COMFORTABLE WITH MY OFFER TO HELP. SHE ALREADY HAD THE JACK OUT AND IT TOOK ME ABOUT 20 MINUTES TO CHANGE THE TIRE WITH HER DONUT. SHE OFFERED TO PAY AND I DENIED IT, BUT SHE DID GIVE ME A HUG. I SAID TO HER "WHAT? YOU'RE DADDY NEVER TOOK THE TIME TO SHOW YOU HOW TO DO THIS?" LOL!