Robin Renee Williams -- Missing from Port Angeles, Washington

 

Missing Person: Robin Renee Williams

Last-contact date: August 1, 1986 at about 4pm

The area where the MP was last seen: Port Angeles, Washington at Lincoln Park

Link to government source: NamUs #MP77894

VITAL DETAILS

Ethnicity: White/Caucasian

Sex: Female

Age at time of disappearance: 24 years old

Birthdate: between August 2nd, 1961 and August 1st, 1962

• I'm not sure of the exact birthdate for Robin Renee Williams but a range can be calculated using her age at the time of the disappearance.

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Green

Scar: Not sure

Height/weight: 5-foot-4 and 110 pounds

BMI*: Robin Renee Williams was in the normal range for BMI.

• Please, Google-search BMI if you aren't familiar with the phrase. I think it's an important tool to be aware of when working on missing person cases.

Tattoos: Robin Renee Williams did not have any tattoos associated with her profiles. If you know this to be a mistake, then please contact this site.

Clothes: baggy grey pants and a white sleeveless shirt

Robin Renee Williams was last heard from on August 1,1986, when she was 24 years of age. This individual has now been missing for 35 years as of the original publication date of this blog post.

I didn't include the NamUs description of circumstances at the start because it wasn't a great description in this case. I read a Pott Gottlieb article online at Peninsula Daily News and noted the following:

• Robin Renee Williams had two children, a three-year old girl and a one-year old boy
• Williams was last seen "strolling alone across a Lincoln Park ballfield"
• Her vehicle was found at a gas station
• She had been drinking at noon on the day she went missing
• Prior to being seen walking across the ballfield, she had been at a bar with two male friends
• She was reported missing on March 6th, 1986 by a friend who had been taking care of her children
• The father of her two children was in jail at the time of the disappearance and, for whatever it is worth, he passed a lie-detector test on the matter in 2016

According to the NamUs description:

Williams was last seen by a male friend walking away from his pickup truck at Lincoln Park in the City of Port Angeles, Washington. Immediately after, she and the male friend had argued and broken off their romantic relationship early on the afternoon of August 1, 1986. Williams, who had left her two small children with a foster care provider in Port Angeles the day before she disappeared, has not been seen or heard from by friends or family since.

This case goes in a lot of different directions. Firstly, there's the father of the children in jail and a belief that he could have been involved in her disappearance. I don't consider lie detector tests to be foolproof, however, I don't think most jail-bound fathers would organize the disappearance of the woman that was taking care of his children.

That Williams left her children with a babysitter might suggest that she was planning her own disappearance. Other women have disappeared after leaving their children with babysitters. However, I think in Williams' case it's a weak assumption to assume she voluntarily disappeared given that she has not reappeared in the 35 years since 1986. Furthermore, if Williams was planning to disappear voluntarily, getting drunk at noon wouldn't seem like a reasonable part of that plan given that she had a vehicle and probably would have preferred sobriety while operating it. That her vehicle was found speaks to the probability that she stayed in the Port Angeles area, although the small city is a ferry city with connections to Victoria, Canada.

What could be thought about in this case is the theme of rejection that is resilient in the NamUs description. Furthermore, what does it mean for her vehicle to be found at a gas station? Also, is it risky for a woman to be walking alone, perhaps intoxicated at the time, in what appears to be a wooded area (at least by the modern map)?

Certainly, not all of the strange circumstances or risk factors, in this case, can be relevant. From the father of her children being in jail to the theme of rejection to the vehicle being found abandoned to the children being left with the babysitter to the fact that she was walking alone while possibly inebriated in a wooded area -- any one of these circumstances starts to paint a picture yet some of these circumstances must be red herrings when it comes to this missing person case. Accordingly, this one is particularly challenging when it simply comes to deciding what is relevant.

I think that Websleuths or amateur investigators can best help with this case by looking at the clothing she was thought to be wearing (baggy grey pants and a white sleeveless shirt) and cross-referencing the articles with any Jane Does in the greater area. Jane Does often have clothing associated with their profiles. 

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Author: Shane Lambert (Vancouver, Canada)

All articles are subject to editing after the original posting.

Shane Lambert (Vancouver, Canada) is not a Private Investigator, however, he is currently studying to be one as of March 2021.

Website hashtag: #MPCSL

*For BMI values, I use the UPPER or HIGHER ranges that are given for height and weight.

**Text might be paraphrased. If taken verbatim, then grammar or spelling errors are not necessarily corrected from original sources.

Disclaimer: Whenever possible, government sources are preferred for getting the details of a missing person's case. However, any source that the article writer deems reputable may be used.