Missing
Michelle Quintana
Quintana, approximately 1987
Date and time person was reported missing : 08/08/1987
Missing location (approx) :
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 08/18/1963 (57)
Age at the time of disappearance: 23 years old
Height / Weight : 5'6, 100 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A red shirt, blue jeans and red shoes.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, brown eyes.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Quintana was last seen in Santa Fe, New Mexico August 8, 1987. She was at her home in the 300 block of Prince Road in the Rancho de Luna subdivision south of the city when her pageheaderr went off and she said she was going to use a pay phone on Cerrillos Road. She has never been heard from again. Her flatbed truck was later found at the De Vargas Center Mall. An unidentified person witnessed her getting into a red Jeep at the mall.
Police have a suspect in Quintana's disappearance, a cocaine dealer who knew her. It was his pageheaderr she was carrying that went off the night of her disappearance. Quintana and the dealer were allegedly involved in a $5,000 cocaine transaction. Her husband said $6,000 went Missing location (approx) : the family's safe when she vanished.
The dealer, when questioned, said Quintana did have cocaine debts. He denied having pageheaderd her and said he didn't know her whereabouts. The dealer and Quintana's husband were both imprisoned on drug charges in the years after her disappearance.
Quintana worked as a real estate Age at the time of disappearance: nt at the time of her disappearance, selling condominiums that belonged to her father-in-law. Her case remains unsolved and foul play is suspected.
Other information and links : ncy
Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department
505-955-5038
September 2021 updates and sources
The Doe Network
The Santa Fe New Mexican
The Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star
October 12, 2004. July 1, 2017; height, weight and Description, clothing, jewerly and more : added.
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
