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St. Croix Falls (WQOW) -- The search for a missing woman continues with no new leads, but law enforcement says her husband has passed a polygraph.
Rose Bly was last seen a week ago Friday. She lives near St. Croix Falls in Polk County. She left home to meet up with her cousin at a bar in Cushing, but never showed.
Her car turned up in Grantsburg on Wednesday. It was spotted in a parking lot near the Post Office. People who work in that area told News 18 they didn't remember it being there earlier in the week. Bly graduated from Grantsburg High School a few years ago.
Law enforcement asked her husband to take a polygraph on Thursday. Investigators say he agreed to it and say the polygraph confirmed that he's being truthful. They say they have no suspects in her disappearance.
Bly has two children. Both are younger than two years old and were home with her husband the night she disappeared.
If you have any information that can help in the case, call (715) 485-8300.
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A missing woman's car shows turns up in a parking lot, but how it ended up there remains a mystery.
There's still no sign of Rose Marie Bly a 21 year old mother of two. She lives near Saint Croix falls in Polk County. She's been missing since Friday night. Her husband said she was going to meet up with a cousin at a bar in Cushing, but never showed up.
Wednesday night, her car was found about 30 miles from home in a parking lot in Grantsburg where she has family.
The Polk County sheriff says, there are few clues and no suspects. Sheriff Tim Moore wants to make it clear that Rose's husband is not a suspect in her disappearance. In fact, he's said there's nothing that indicates a crime was even committed. It's a mystery that continues to unfold.
Moore says Rose Marie Bly ate dinner with her husband and father Friday night. Around 7:3 0 pm, her husband says she left to meet up with a friend at a bar in Cushing, but never showed up.
"At some point she did contact her husband and told him that she would be home somewhere around midnight," says Moore. When Rose didn't come home, that morning, her husband notified law enforcement.
Since then, detectives have searched the area around her home, looked at her phone records and talked to family and friends. They had little to go on until Wednesday night when her car was found abandoned in a parking lot in Grantsburg. The car was searched. Nothing significant was found.
The keys were not inside and there was no damage evident. But the sheriff says at least it's a clue. Sheriff Moore says, "We've got a direction to look, before we had no direction what-so-ever, we didn't know when she left there if she had gone which way on the compass, now we know at some point she was in Grantsburg or her vehicle was in Grantsburg."
Rose left home with very little money and no credit or debit cards. The Sheriff says her disappearance is very puzzling, especially since she has two young children at home. "It's just abnormal for a mother to leave two children that age," says Moore. "Maybe a different age would be one thing, but when they're both under the age of 2, that's not something you see a whole lot."
Detectives spent the day going door to door in Grantsburg asking anyone if they knew anything that would help in the investigation. No new leads came out of that effort. Wednesday, a helicopter was used in the search, and again nothing was discovered.
The sheriff is still asking for help from the public. If you have any information that could help find Rose Bly, you're asked to contact the Polk county sheriff's department at 485-8300.
