Missing
Carmen Lynn Pearcy
Pearcy, approximately 2004
Date and time person was reported missing : 06/18/2004
Missing location (approx) :
Cottonwood, California
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 09/21/1956 (64)
Age at the time of disappearance: 47 years old
Height / Weight : 5'1, 120 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A gold wedding band set with a pear-shaped cubic zirconium, a Black Hills gold ring set with a ruby on her left middle finger, and a gold ring on her left pinky finger.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, hazel eyes.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Peacy was last seen in Redding, California, driving her dark green Ford F-150 super cab pickup truck. She resided in Cottonwood, California at the time of her disappearance, and was driving to pick up her three grandchildren for a weekend visit.
Pearcy's truck was later found abandoned the vicinity of Interstate 5 near the Gillman Road exit in Gillman, California. Three weeks after her disappearance, she was seen in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where she showed up at the Klamath Falls Mission asking for food. She signed in at the mission with her real name.
Workers at the mission stated Pearcy appeared "loopy" and that she ate and prayed, but refused to spend the night. She walked away from the mission alone and appeared the next day for breakfast, but did not come after that. Pearcy has not been seen since. Her case remains unsolved. She may be homeless.
Other information and links : ncy
Tehama County Sheriff's Office
530-529-7900
September 2021 updates and sources
NCN Northern California News
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.
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