Ginger Michelle Kropp - Missing Since June 2009

Details from NamUs**:

Ginger Kropp was last seen by the University of Minnesota Police Department in 2009. Family has not seen or heard from her since 2004 when she was supposed to be attending University.

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Missing Person: Ginger Michelle Kropp
Last-contact date: June 11th, 2009
The area where the MP was last seen: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Link to government source: NamUs MP#56053

VITAL DETAILS

Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Sex: Female
Age at time of disappearance: 42 years old

Birthdate: This person was born between June 12th, 1966, and June 11th, 1967

• The range is calculated using the missing person's age on the date of her disappearance.

Hair: Blond/strawberry
Eyes: Blue
Scar: None listed at NamUs
Height/weight: 5-foot-3 and 120 pounds
BMI*: Ginger Michelle Kropp 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: Ginger Michelle Kropp did not have any tattoos associated with her profiles. If you know this to be a mistake, then please contact this site.

Ginger Michelle Kropp, a missing person, was last heard from on June 11th, 2009 when she was 42 years old. This individual has now been missing for 12 years as of the original publication date of this blog post.

I do note an odd detail in the NamUs description. It says that Ginger was seen in 2009 by campus police but her family hasn't seen her since 2004. I've reached out to someone to see if she is the missing person. I await a reply before doing any more research on this case.

Five-Year Gap Suggests Voluntary Low-Key Lifestyle

I revisited the case of Ginger Michelle Kropp on March 12th, 2025, finding her still listed as missing on NamUs (MP#56053). Last seen by the University of Minnesota Police Department on June 11th, 2009, in Minneapolis, she was 42 years old.

The five-year gap between her family’s last contact in 2004, when they believed she was attending university, and her 2009 sighting strongly suggests she voluntarily kept a low-profile lifestyle.

The 2009 police interaction, lacking details in NamUs, further supports her living on her own terms, with no evidence of foul play I could confirm. At 42, the campus sighting, even if not as a student, shows she was active in the area.

I checked Find a Grave for both names—Ginger Michelle Kropp and Ginger Tinsley—but found no memorial. This forum could be checked occasionally, even by the reader, so long as her NamUs profile remains active.

Furthermore, those with memberships that allow for pervasive newspaper database memberships could look for an obituary so long as her NamUs profile remains active. If it is not active, some kind of resolution should be assumed.

Her disappearance after 2009 isn't as puzzling as some cases, given what appears to be a voluntary estrangement or dissociation from family. I couldn’t find records under either name, wondering if she moved, changed identity, or went off-grid; at 58 or 59 now.

Without searchable records and in the absence of evidence suggesting clandestine activity, I lean toward estrangement over a darker fate. I do revisit and update blog posts periodically.

Author: S.K. Lambert (Blogger Hobbyist and Freelance Writer)

All articles are subject to editing after the original posting.

S.K. Lambert (Blogger Hobbyist and Freelance Writer) is not a Private Investigator, however, he is currently studying to be one as of March 2021.

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*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.