Wide Search Launched for Woman, 27 : Missing: Police, friends have no clues in model’s disappearance five days ago. Roommate fears she was abducted.

Linda Sobek was in a hurry the last time she spoke to her mother. The 27-year-old model was running late for a daytime photo shoot and assured Elaine Sobek she would call her back later that night.

That was five days ago.

Now her friends and police in Hermosa Beach, where the former cheerleader for the Los Angeles Raiders has lived for eight months, have undertaken a massive search to find her.

While her mother talks with any media agency that calls to publicize the search, friends plan to distribute about 53,000 flyers with Sobek’s picture and an offer of $20,000 for information leading to her return. Her friends also are considering hiring a psychic to join the effort.

Meanwhile, three teams of Hermosa Beach investigators are combing the region to turn up even the slightest clue in the sleepy suburb’s most puzzling missing person case in recent memory.

“This one stands out because of the length of time she’s been missing,” Sgt. Paul Wolcott said, adding that most other disappearance cases in Hermosa Beach are wrapped up in a day. “She is mentally stable, physically fit and didn’t appear to have any kind of problems or troubles or any dark history. It’s extremely unusual.”

Detectives spent Monday talking with Sobek’s friends, relatives, associates and current and former boyfriends and have found no evidence of foul play, said Bettye Burgos, one of Sobek’s three roommates. She was last heard from about 10:45 a.m., when her mother called her at her cottage near the beach to talk about weekend barbecue plans.

Investigators have declined to speculate on what may have happened, but Burgos fears her friend of almost two years has been abducted.

“I think she was set up,” Burgos said.

As evidence, Burgos pointed to the photo shoot that forced Sobek to cut short her conversation with her mother.

Burgos said the appointment was suspicious because Sobek had not mentioned it earlier that morning when the two sat down over coffee and chatted about their plans for the day.

Sobek, Burgos said, is a woman who “always lets someone know what she’s doing and where she’s going.” Other friends agreed.

That is the main reason Sobek’s disappearance was noticed so quickly. It has also given detectives their only lead on her whereabouts.

Wolcott said investigators are working to pin down the location of the apparent last-minute photo shoot.

It may have been hastily scheduled, he said, because the only plans Sobek told her roommates about Thursday was an off-camera rehearsal she was supposed to have at 8 p.m. to pose for a 1940s-style clothing calendar.

Even the outgoing message Sobek left on her paging service seems to reflect a sudden change in plans. The upbeat, unhurried message remained on her service Monday:

“Hello, you’ve reached Linda. It’s 11 a.m. on Thursday, and I will be on location all day today so I will not have access to a telephone. However, leave a message and I will call you back as soon as I pick the messages up this evening. . . . Thank you for calling, and I will talk to you soon.”

Sobek’s disappearance has been the subject of several local newscasts and was expected to get national play Monday night from tabloid television programs.

Investigators hope the attention will help generate more clues.

Meanwhile, her friend Paul Vreede, who prints photo listings of homes for real estate agencies, said he planned to stuff the reward flyers he ran off Monday into listing packets bound for cities from Oxnard to San Diego.

Burgos and other friends of Sobek’s plan to take about 2,000 flyers and tack them up around Los Angeles.

“We’re worried and we want her back,” Burgos said. “We’re hoping and praying that she’s going to be found.”

Sobek is described as white; 5 feet, 4 inches tall, 105 pounds, with blue eyes and shoulder-length blond hair. Her car, a white Nissan 240-SX sport coupe with California license plate 2ZOL713, is also missing.

Anyone with information on the case has been asked to call investigators at (310) 318-0360.