Missing
Richard Kirchmann
Kirchmann, approximately 1996
Date and time person was reported missing : 07/05/1996
Missing location (approx) :
Sylmar, California
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 07/12/1950 (71)
Age at the time of disappearance: 45 years old
Height / Weight : 5'5, 140 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A white shirt and blue shorts.
Medical conditions : Kirchmann may have been in the early stAge at the time of disappearance: s of dementia at the time of his disappearance.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Brown hair, blue eyes. Kirchmann had a mustache at the time of his 1996 disappearance. He wears eyeglasses. He has a tattoo of the cartoon character Snoopy on his forearm and another tattoo of the name "Liz" written in old English script.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Kirchmann was last seen in Sylmar, California on July 5, 1996. He was employed as a truck driver for a brewing company in Los Angeles, California in 1996. He told a co-worker he wanted to travel to St. Louis, Missouri for a few days, but it is not known if he ever arrived there. He packed his belongings before he left.
Kirchmann's car was discovered abandoned at Ontario International Airport in California on July 12, one week after he disappeared. There was no sign of Kirchmann at the scene and no indication that he boarded a flight out of the airport.
He has never been heard from again. Some investigators theorize that he does not remember who he is and is hospitalized somewhere as a "John Doe" patient.
Some Age at the time of disappearance: ncies may state that Kirchmann disappeared from San Fernando, California on July 12, 1996.
Other information and links : ncy
Los Angeles Police Department
213-485-5381
September 2021 updates and sources
Los Angeles Police Department
California Attorney General's Office
The Los Angeles Daily News
The Doe Network
October 12, 2004. October 1, 2007; distingusishing characteristics and Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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