For months, the police in Berkeley, Missouri, have been investigating the disappearance of 25-year-old Monica Sykes, who got in a car outside her sister's house early in the morning of October 28 and hasn't been heard from since.But last week, Sykes' mother publicly raised questions about the department's handling of the case— telling the RFT that phone records show that Monica had become very close with a Berkeley police officer in the month before her disappearance. Now Howard has apparently been placed on administrative leave.
Berkeley Mayor Theodore Hoskins did not return a call or email seeking comment, nor did Police Captain Art Jackson, the department's interim chief.
But Regina Sykes tells the RFT that Hoskins called her last week after the RFT's story was published — the first time she's heard from the mayor during her family's three-month ordeal.…
