Police Believe Missing Woman Is Alive

Police now believe an Evesham Township woman who disappeared this weekend is alive and with a male family friend, but they were unsure if she is with him voluntarily.

At a Monday afternoon press conference, authorities said they believed the woman was in the company of a man was identified as Wayne Morris of Moorestown, N.J. Police also said that they had spoken with Morris by phone.

Barbara Staudt, 37, disappeared this weekend while running an errand.

She was reported missing late Saturday night after she failed to return to her Marlton home from a trip to a Taco Bell fast-food restaurant in Berlin Township.

Her minivan was found early Sunday in a parking lot of the Berlin Circle Plaza near the restaurant, and police found her purse and keys inside the vehicle.

Staudt -- a 37-year-old mother of four young children -- has no history of mental or physical illness.

She is five feet four inches tall, weighs 95 pounds and has blue eyes and shoulder-length dirty-blond hair. She was last seen wearing shorts and a T-shirt.

The family suspects foul play and put up fliers bearing her picture.

The police say there is no evidence of foul play. Investigators have taken the hard drive from her computer and later today will examine it for possible evidence in his disappearance.

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