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A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe. By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends. A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.



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According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day. Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends. Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.

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Roxanne Elizabeth Paltauf
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missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
Paltauf, date, approximate 2006
Date Missing 07/07/2006
Missing From
Austin, Texas
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 01/03/1988 (34)
Age 18 years old
Height and Weight 5'4, 115 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A pink or peach-colored tank top, light blue shorts and flip-flops.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Light brown hair, green eyes. Paltauf's navel is pierced and her ears are double-pierced. She has a mole on the right side of her neck and a quarter-sized scar on her left knee. Paltauf has previously fractured her nose and one of her upper front teeth is false. Her nickname is Roxy. Some agencies spell her last name "Paultauf."
Details of Disappearance Paltauf was last seen at approximately 8:30 p.m. on July 7, 2006 at a Budget Inn hotel in the vicinity of Interstate 35 and Rundberg in Austin, Texas. She had checked into the hotel with her boyfriend, Louis Walls.
She planned to spend a few days with him, but Walls said they got into an argument and she left angrily, carrying only her identification. Walls stated he tried to follow her, but she told him to leave her alone so he went back to their room.
Approximately 20 minutes later he went looking for her again but could not find her. She has never been heard from again. Walls called her mother the following day, and her mother reported her disappearance to police.
By the time the police got involved, Walls had already checked out of the hotel and gone to his sister's home, taking Paltauf's belongings with him, so any possible evidence in the hotel room was destroyed.
Paltauf left behind all her personal belongings including her clothing, shoes, purse, wallet, jewelry and cellular phone, which is uncharacteristic of her. Her boyfriend returned the cellular phone to her family on July 12. Over three hundred calls were placed on it between July 8 and July 12; many of them were to Walls's ex-girlfriend in New Mexico.
Walls has a criminal record that dates back to 1995. Paltauf's mother didn't approve of Walls and Walls's mother didn't approve of Paltauf, so the couple would usually go out to be together. Her friends also disliked Walls, who initially lied to Paltauf about his age. He told her he was nineteen years old when they started dating, when he was in fact twenty-eight.
They had been together for two years by the time Paltauf vanished, and she often took care of his two children. One of Paltauf's friends stated she said Walls had hit her, seriously damaging her nose. He has a history of threatening other girlfriends, and at least two of them took out protective orders against him. Walls has never been charged in connection with Paltauf's disappearance, however.
Curiously, Paltauf's state of Texas identification card turned up in the wallet of another man, Geoffrey Moore, who was accused of attacking an exotic dancer and trying to rape her. The incident took place on July 13, six days after Paltauf's disappearance, at a Motel 6 not far from the Budget Inn she disappeared from.
Charges against Moore were later dropped for lack of evidence, but although police spoke to him about Paltauf it isn't clear how he came to possess her identification. Both Moore and Walls are considered persons of interest in Paltauf's .
Paltauf's family describes her as a responsible teenager who was devoted to her four younger siblings. She kept in daily contact with her mother, whom she was close to. She had dropped out of McCallum High School in her junior year, enrolled in job training and was studying for her GED.
She had passed all the sections of the GED exam except mathematics, and had taken a second job. She dreamed of becoming a fashion designer. Her mother believes foul play was involved in her disappearance; it remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Austin Police Department
512-974-5250
Other
NamUs
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Crime Library
MySpace Page for Roxanne Paltauf
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Project Jason
The Austin Chronicle
Fox 7

Missing Person Photos

A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe. By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends. A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.



Missing Person Photos

Resources for Missing Persons

According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day. Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends. Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.

Missing Person Photos