Four of their bodies have been found, almost all of them dumped in creeks or streams flowing away from the town. MEGAN LANCASTER 
 
 
 
 "These girls all knew the same people," Lancaster's sister-in-law, Kadie Lancaster, told HuffPost. “Everyone just wants answers.” 
 
 In the absence of answers — and arrests — residents are getting scared.  CHILLICOTHE, Ohio -- One-by-one, at least four women have disappeared or turned up dead in this small city, where family and friends fear a serial killer or sex traffickers are on the loose, and authorities are ruling nothing out. Boggs' daughter, 27-year-old Charlotte Trego, was the first of the women to go missing in the small city roughly 50 miles south of Columbus. On Nov. 3, 2014 -- six months to the day that Trego and Lynch were last seen -- 37-year-old Wanda Lemons was last seen in Chillicothe. DOWNTOWN CHILLICOTHE 
 
 
 
 A prostitute from Second Street in Chillicothe -- a street where much of the city's illegal sex trade occurs -- told HuffPost the word on the street is that Lynch disappeared on her way to meet a client near Water Street. "They all ran in the same circle -- the drug scene and things like that," Meyers said. “She used and she kind of was struggling, especially after she was diagnosed with lupus,” Lynch’s cousin, Chasity Lett, told the Huffington Post. “Once that happened and she lost her place, it kind of triggered the whole drug thing.” 
 
 Lynch, a 30-year-old mother of three, financed her deepening addiction by selling her body, the Huffington Post reported, citing Chillicothe police and a local prostitute. “I knew her,” said the woman, whom the Huffington Post did not identify. “It was around midnight when she went to turn tricks and disappeared.” 
 
 Lynch was the first of “Chillicothe’s missing women” — as the six have been called — to be found. Kayakers found her naked body on a sandbar in Paint Creek, roughly 20 miles downstream from where it passes through Chillicothe. But Lynch was afraid of the water, her mother told the Dispatch. “She was already dead when she was put in the water,” she told the Huffington Post. "I want her home," Connie Sayre told HuffPost. VISIT: Missing Wanda Lemons 
 
 It was around midnight on May 11, some six months after Lemons' disappearance, that 26-year-old Tiffany Sayre disappeared in Chillicothe. "She just disappeared out of thin air," Lemons' daughter, 19-year-old Megan Hodges, told HuffPost. “I just want them to find out what happened to her.” 
 
 “I think her disappearance might be related to sex trafficking, but if it were drugs I don’t think it would be related,” Hodges added. Hours later, her abandoned car was found on a bridge south of town. CHILLICOTHE POLICE 
 
 
 
 Bloomfield has been with Sayre's mother, Connie Sayre, for the past nine years and said he considers Tiffany Sayre one of his own children. (The Sayre family) 
 
 Tiffany Sayre went missing under similar circumstances. It was around midnight on May 11, and Sayre and her friend Jessie Sanford were working at a local motel. TIFFANY SAYRE 
 
 
 
 "She was doing business at the Chillicothe Inn," Sanford told HuffPost. “She left to run to her grandmother’s house and was going to go back to the hotel to meet the same people so she could make some more money. "But she didn’t call the cops because they don’t do s--t. If you're an addict or a prostitute, they don’t care." I think somebody took her.” 
 
 Like the other women, Sayre had gotten involved in drugs and prostitution, according to police and family members. TIFFANY SAYRE VOLUNTEER SEARCH 
 
 
 
 According to Meyers, each of the cases has been assigned to a detective who is actively investigating. (The Sayre family) 
 
 The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is analyzing the forensics found at the scene for traces of a suspect, Preston said. Like Us On Facebook | 
 
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 Contact The Author "We have been provided no information whatsoever," Mike Bloomfield told HuffPost. “The day I reported her missing was very upsetting to me,” Trego’s mother, Yvonne Boggs, told the Huffington Post. “The cop said, ‘Women like your daughter take off because they don’t want to be bothered.’ It was like they looked into it up to a certain point and then quit looking.” 
 
 “The police didn’t take it serious and just blew me off,” Lynch’s mother, Angela Robinson, told the same Web site. These cases, where people have been gone this long, are odd." VISIT: Finding Megan Lancaster 
 
 "There's something going on here and it's scary," Lett said. It has not been powered on since then.
– Chillicothe was the capital of Ohio some 200 years ago. Things have gone downhill from there. But amid poverty and heroin woes, the city of 21,000 has "turned for the worst," Jessica Sayre tells the Washington Post. Her 26-year-old sister, Tiffany, a sex worker battling a drug problem, went missing from a local motel on May 11. Her naked body was found wrapped in a sheet in a drainage pipe on Saturday, making her the fourth woman to turn up dead near Chillicothe's waterways in the last year. At least two more women have vanished, leading some to fear a serial killer is on the loose. "I don't want to come out and say 'yes, we have a serial killer,'" says an officer, but he admits it's possible. The location of the women's bodies isn't the only evidence linking the cases. Most of the victims had drug issues and some were prostitutes; some even knew each other, reports the Post, which rounded up coverage from the Columbus Dispatch and Huffington Post. Friends Charlotte Trego, 27, and Tameka Lynch, 30, were the first to disappear, separately, on May 3, 2014. Lynch was found dead of a suspected drug overdose in a creek weeks later; her mom told the Dispatch she was afraid of water. Wanda Lemons, 38; Shasta Himelrick, 20; and Timberly Claytor later vanished; the bodies of the latter two were ultimately found. Himelrick was pregnant; the five other women all had children. Sayre's death, ruled a murder, helped launch a task force now investigating all six cases; the cases of three missing women from nearby Portsmouth and Columbus may also get a look. For more, head to the Post.