Have you seen this Farrell, Pa., woman?

FARRELL, Pa. — There wasn’t anywhere Shelly Misinay went without her children.

That’s why her Valentine’s Day disappearance is so puzzling to family members.

“She is a stay at-home mom, and her kids are her life.

Anyone will tell you she never went anywhere without at least one of those kids,” said her brother-in-law Don Blackshear.

Southwest Mercer County Regional Police are looking for Misinay, but Detective Sgt. Ron Preston acknowledges they have hit a wall in the search for the 41-year-old Farrell woman.

“We don’t have anything that is pointing in a certain direction,” he said.

Misinay’s husband, Frank, told police that the two had a domestic dispute after he arrived home at 4:30 a.m. Valentine’s Day. He then went to bed, according to police.

The couple’s children, Frankie, 6, and Gillian, 4, woke Frank Misinay between 9 and 9:30 that morning, and it was then he discovered his wife gone, police said.

Police say her husband says she left on foot taking her cellular telephone and wearing sweat pants and a cream-colored winter jacket with a fur collar. But police say no calls had been made from the telephone since before her disappearance.

Blackshear said he last spoke to his sister-in-law Feb. 12 when he called to tell her that a pond at the Blackshear home in Brookfield was ready for ice skating.

And Shelly Misinay’s mother, Bernice Stanton, heard from her daughter Feb. 13 when Shelly Misinay called to thank her for a Valentine’s card and tell her she had won $10 on a lottery scratch-off ticket, Blackshear said.

“I can say I know in my heart that there is something wrong,” Blackshear said of his sister-in-law’s disappearance.

He said the family has difficulty believing that Misinay would leave her two young children. She is a homeroom mother at Notre Dame School in Hermitage and was expected to participate in Frankie’s school Valentine’s party, which was moved to Feb. 15 because of a snow day on the 14th, he said.

Police didn’t get involved until 36 hours after her disappearance because she is an adult, Blackshear said.

Blackshear said he and his wife, Tracy, have been searching for Shelly Misinay since receiving a call from her husband, Frank, on Feb. 15 saying she was gone.

Blackshear said they have since covered the area with fliers and have tried to get the word of her disappearance to as many people as possible.

“We’ve got to find her. She’s got to be OK,” he said of his sister-in-law, who grew up in Farrell and graduated from Farrell High School.

Preston said they took Shelly Misinay’s laptop computer from her home today to a Pennsylvania State Police computer expert in Erie. They are unsure when the results of that search will be known.

Preston said they are also following up on an unconfirmed sighting of Shelly Misinay at a convenience store about three blocks from her Park Avenue home on Feb. 14.

Officers were reviewing surveillance tapes from the store.

He said they have received some calls from people trying to be helpful, but most have not panned out. Anyone with information about her disappearance can call 911 or police at (724) 983-2720.