Missing
Ruby Estelle Dorman
Dorman, approximately 2003
Date and time person was reported missing : 04/20/2003
Missing location (approx) :
Laughlin, Nevada
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 07/07/1924 (97)
Age at the time of disappearance: 78 years old
Height / Weight : 5'5, 152 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A black sweater, slacks and shoes.
Medical conditions : Dorman has diabetes and is required to take medication daily.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Red hair, blue eyes. Dorman wears eyeglasses.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Dorman finished her shift at the Flamingo Laughlin, in Laughlin, Nevada, where she was a buffet hostess, at 2:26 p.m. on April 20, 2003. She clocked out, changed out of her uniform and went to the parking garAge at the time of disappearance: where her white Honda Accord was on the fifth floor.
She should have arrived home at approximately 2:45 p.m., but Dorman's roommate was asleep at the time and did not know when she got in. Her car was later found parked outside her mobile home with her purse and keys inside it.
Dorman's daughter, Juliann White, whose birth name was Juanita White, called Dorman's roommate on the morning of April 20 and asked directions to the residence. Investigators believe they left together after Dorman returned home from work.
At 4:50 p.m. that day, White returned to Dorman's house alone, driving Dorman's Honda. She dropped it off and drove away in her own Jeep Cherokee. Dorman has never been heard from again. No evidence was found in her car when police searched it.
Foul play is suspected in Dorman's disappearance and investigators are treating it as a homicide. White is a suspect in her case; she has a history of mental illness and a long-standing enmity towards her mother and had threatened her in the past.
Among other things, White believes that Dorman ordered the homicidal cult leader Charles Manson and his followers to murder Rosemary LaBianca, White's aunt on her father's side, in 1969. (There is no evidence that Manson or any of his followers had any connection to Dorman.)
White was interviewed twice by authorities after her mother's disappearance and reportedly gave inconsistent statements. She denied driving Dorman's car or seeing her at all the day she vanished, although Dorman's roommate witnessed her doing both.
White moved away a short time after her mother disappeared and investigators have not been able to locate her for a third interview. There is insufficient evidence to charge her in her mother's case.
Dorman is described as a very reliable person who had not missed a single day of work for 20 years prior to April 2003. Her credit cards have not been used since her disappearance. No has been charged in connection with her case; it remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
702-298-2223
September 2021 updates and sources
North American Missing Persons Network
The Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Las Vegas Sun
October 12, 2004. March 22, 2005.
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
