Missing
Lindsay Marie Wells
Wells, approximately 1999
Date and time person was reported missing : 03/29/1999
Missing location (approx) :
Simi Valley, California
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 01/01/1976 (45)
Age at the time of disappearance: 22 years old
Height / Weight : 5'11, 135 - 175 pounds
Medical conditions : Wells was nine months pregnant at the time of her disappearance. Her baby, a boy, was due on April 17.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, hazel eyes. Wells often wears her hair pinned up. She has a tattoo of a flower on the back of her neck and a tattoo of the name "Geoffrey" on her back. She had bEthnicity : s on her teeth at the time of her disappearance.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Wells was last seen asleep in bed at the home she shared with her fiance and his mother on Granby Avenue in Simi Valley, California on the morning of March 29, 1999.
She missed a 9:00 a.m. appointment at the welfare office that day, and a doctor's appointment the following day. She has never been heard from again. Her fiance reported her missing on March 31.
Wells took only her wallet and keys when she disappeared. She doesn't own a car and she never picked up her last welfare check. She left behind her identification and her engAge at the time of disappearance: ment ring, which she had taken off because her fingers were swollen. Wells left behind a four-year-old daughter from a previous relationship; the child was living with her father in March 1999.
In 2001, an incarcerated man stated another man he'd met in prison confessed to killing Wells, wrapping her body in a blanket or a rug, and burying it. Supposedly, Wells went to a home where methamphetamine was being manufactured and interrupted the killer in the process, and he killed her to keep her from telling about it. This was never verified.
Wells's case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Simi Valley Police Department
805-583-6950
September 2021 updates and sources
Lindsay Wells
The Los Angeles Times
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara
The Doe Network
California Attorney General's Office
October 12, 2004. May 23, 2012; middle name and alternate weight added, Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: updated.
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