Missing
Nori Jenkins
Nori, approximately 1986
Date and time person was reported missing : 07/20/1986
Missing location (approx) :
Topeka, Kansas
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
Asian
Age at the time of disappearance: 51 years old
Height / Weight : 5'2, 115 pounds
Medical conditions : Nori suffers from severe mental illness and needs medications. She can become violent when she doesn't take them.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Asian female. Black hair, black eyes. Nori was born in Japan. She has a scar on her left eyebrow.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Nori was last seen in Topeka, Kansas on July 20, 1986. She left Topeka State Hospital that day and has never been heard from again.
Nori was born in Japan and married her husband, Harold Jenkins, in Okinawa while he was stationed there in the military. After they moved to the United States, they had two daughters. Nori was diagnosed with mental illness and treated for her condition in Montana.
On January 3, 1964, Nori dressed her children in their best clothes and strangled them with the cloth belt from her dress. Harold found the bodies when he came home work to their Topeka, Kansas apartment: Linda Louise, Age at the time of disappearance: d three, and Doris Marie, Age at the time of disappearance: d 23 months.
Nori was tried for two counts of first-degree murder in March of that year. Two doctors testified that she was insane, and she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to Topeka State Hospital for inpatient psychiatric treatment.
She was in and out of psychiatric hospitals throughout her adult life, and by the time of her 1986 disappearance she had also spent some time homeless and sleeping under bridges. The circumstances of her disappearance are unclear.
Other information and links : ncy
Topeka Police Department
785-368-9415
September 2021 updates and sources
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
The Doe Network
The Council Grove Republican
The Salina Journal
October 12, 2004. October 5, 2019; .
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
