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Missing Christine Rena Meyer 
Christine, approximately 1996 Date reported missing : 06/04/1996 Missing location (approx) : Ketchikan, Alaska Missing classification : Endangered Missing Gender : Female Ethnicity : White DOB : 06/06/1978 (43) Age at the time of disappearance: 17 years old Height / Weight : 5'7, 158 pounds Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Christine's nickname is Chrissy. Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Christine was last seen on June 4, 1996, two days before Christine's eighteenth birthday. She was with her mother, Dianna Meyer, and her father, Robert James "Bob" Meyer, on their family's fifty-foot yacht, the Marjo, in Salisbury Sound, thirty miles northwest of Ketchikan, Alaska. According to Robert, he last saw his wife and daughter on deck at the stern of the Marjo in the early morning hours. He had been running the boat towards Sitka, Alaska that night, towing an outboard skiff. The Marjo had been experiencing mechanical problems during the trip. He awakened Christine and Dianna at 12:30 a.m., after he smelled smoke. He then went inside the boat to get their two dogs, and when he emerged, the two women were gone. He got himself and the dogs into the outboard skiff and looked for Christine and Dianna without success. Robert then went to Sitka in the skiff. The Coast Guard found the Marjo, but it was engulfed in flames by this time and sank shortly after it was located. They did find fuel containers; one contained diesel fuel. Police also found a .38 shell and a smear of blood, later identified as Dianna's, on the family's skiff. There was no sign of the missing women or their remains. Alaska State Troopers subsequently located the wreckAge at the time of disappearance: with a remote-controlled submersible camera. It was in over 500 feet of water, too deep to be accessible by scuba divers. Authorities attempted to raise the wreck with hooked cables, but it came apart as it was being pulled to the surface. In spite of this, "several significant parts" of the boat were recovered, including the boat's engines and a daybed which had been above the engine room. The engines and the bed were almost unburned. It appeared as if the boat had burned from the top down, rather than the bottom up, which contradicted Robert's story. Robert gave some initial statements to police on June 4 and a short statement on June 5, but after that he refused to assist with the investigation further. At the time of Christine and Dianna's disappearances, he was having an affair with Ann L. Lowe, his business manAge at the time of disappearance: r, and she had just gotten a divorce from her husband. Dianna was reportedly aware of her husband's infidelity and planned to file for divorce as well. Investigators determined there were inconsistencies in Robert's story. He said he was unable to radio for help until after he arrived at shore, but it turned out he had passed another boat on the way to the Sitka harbor, and he didn't ask for assistance then. There were also two hours in his timeline that were unaccounted for. Fourteen months after the Marjo sank, Robert was in a car accident and was paralyzed from the neck down. In 1998, he was charged with the first-degree murder of Dianna and Christine, and the arson of their boat. Investigators believe he killed them to avoid losing his assets in a divorce, and for insurance money; he had a total of one million dollars in insurance on their lives, and $250,000 in insurance on the yacht. Robert had called Lowe at 4:00 a.m. on the night the boat sank and told her there was a fire on the boat and his wife and daughter were missing. Lowe, her daughter and some other employees of Southwest Marine met him when he arrived in the Sitka harbor with his skiff. Lowe had washed Robert's clothes, which were reeking of diesel fuel, even though the police specifically instructed her not to. As a result of this, she was charged with tampering with physical evidence. Lowe and Robert married shortly after they were indicted. Before he could be brought to trial, Robert died in an apparent suicide. His body was found at the end of a dock in Sitka, in seventy feet of water. Lowe was convicted of felony evidence tampering and served four months in jail. Christine graduated from Sitka High School; she'd been active in band, choir, basketball and volleyball, and was active in the Girl Scouts and a member of the National Honor Society. She had almost completed her Gold Award, the highest honor in the Girl Scouts, and planned to enroll at the University of Montana and major in music education. She was an only child. Foul play is suspected in her and Dianna's cases due to the circumstances involved, but their bodies have never been found. Other information and links : ncy Alaska State Troopers 907-269-5511 September 2021 updates and sources A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are not known. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2�5% of missing children in Europe. By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends. Several organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and imAge at the time of disappearance: s of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece. The Daily Sitka Sentinel FindACase Robert Meyer Case - Mystery in Alaska October 12, 2004. January 5, 2020; . |