The husband of a Plainfield woman missing since Monday said he believes an unknown person picked her up at the house.
Plainfield police are searching for Lisa Stebic, 37, who lives in the 13200 block of Red Star Drive. Her husband, Craig Stebic, 41, said he was working in the back yard and their children, ages 10 and 12, were out buying candy about 6:30 p.m. Monday when his wife left.
He said that she went to Plainfield North High School every night to work out, and that he believes someone picked her up. She took only her purse and cell phone, he said.
Plainfield Deputy Police Chief Mark Eiting said Craig Stebic reported his wife missing at 10 a.m. Tuesday. There is no evidence of foul play, he said.
“We’re not sure exactly what’s happened,” he said.
Lisa Stebic’s car remains in the garage, and her cell phone and credit cards haven’t been used since Monday, Eiting said.
Eiting said he could not confirm whether anyone saw Lisa Stebic working out at the school or whether she was picked up at her house.
“It’s uncharacteristic of her to leave her children, so that’s the reason we are putting this investigation together,” Eiting said.
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Knowing she often went on walks and runs, police have searched a nearby jogging path and around an adjacent retention pond and found nothing, Eiting said.
Investigators were aware of an Internet posting she made on April 11 looking for “female friends only” to join her in exercise, he said. She listed her “goals” as “increase cardio, tone up, simply get out more, meet new people, just have fun.”
“I am a parent and would like to include my children in my health activities,” she wrote in the posting, in which she said she was “looking for partners to get out and enjoy nature.”
Eiting said they looked into the posting and found no information useful to their search.
Craig Stebic said he filed for divorce after 14 years of marriage in mid-January after his wife declared in October that she “didn’t want to be married to me anymore.” Since then, he said, they’ve lived separate lives in the same house.
Eiting said police were called to the home in December, for a “non-violent domestic trouble call, so it was a verbal altercation between Lisa and her husband. No arrests, no battery.”
According to court records, Craig Stebic sought joint custody of the children, with her as custodial parent, and said neither spouse needed to support the other.
She also sought joint custody, asking that the court award her support and maintenance payments, records show.
On April 17, their last court date, both agreed to complete the Will County parenting program at the University of St. Francis Solutions Resource Center. They are due back in court June 6.
Craig Stebic said he can’t be sure where his wife went or with whom in the last several months. “We haven’t talked five words for the last five months,” he said.
He said he is worried because he doesn’t believe his wife would leave suddenly.
“I can’t see her leaving her kids,” he said. “She’s a good mother. She’d do anything for her kids.”
Lisa Stebic worked in the lunchroom at Lincoln Elementary in Plainfield. She did not show up for work on Tuesday, her husband said.
She has brown hair and hazel eyes, is 5 foot 2 and 120 pounds, police said. Anyone with information is asked to call the Plainfield Police Department at 815-267-7217.
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