Patricia Crandall -- Missing in California Since 1949

Details from NamUs**: 
Patricia was last seen in Shasta County, California on March 13th 1949. She has not been seen since.

Missing Person: Patricia Crandall
Last-contact date: March 13th, 1949
The area where the MP was last seen: Redding, California
Link to government source: NamUs #MP51926

VITAL DETAILS

Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Sex: Female
Age at time of disappearance: 19 years old
Birthdate: between March 14th, 1929 and March 13th, 1930
  • The range is calculated using the missing person's age on the date of her disappearance.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height/weight: 5-foot-3 and 112 pounds
BMI*: Patricia Crandall 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: Patricia Crandall did not have any tattoos associated with her profiles. If you know this to be a mistake, then please contact this site.

Patricia Crandall, a missing person, was last heard from on March 13th, 1949 when she was 19 years old. This individual has now been missing for 72 years as of the original publication date of this blog post.

I decided to look at this case because of one tiny detail in the profile. It says that she was last seen with a suitcase. Without any other details, that could mean that she was planning on going traveling or maybe she went missing voluntarily. In the absence of anything clandestine in her profile, I thought there was a chance that his individual's name might show up in the documentary records that are now searchable online with deep web memberships.

That said, it was hard to find her among all the all Patricia Crandalls in American history. However, I think this missing person might have had the middle initial "L." The county our missing person went missing from was Shasta County and she was likely born in either 1929 or 1930. I found a "Patricia L. Crandall" who was 10 at the time of the 1940 census who lived in Shasta County so some things seemed to match up.

There is a good discussion on this missing person on Websleuths. It could be that the missing person was this individual on Ancestry who married into the name Patricia Louise Von Ahn. If so, the missing person died in a car accident in 1962. However, there are some confusing matters with the yearbooks associated with the Ancestry profile that need to be looked at.

Mon, Feb 19, 1962 – Page 8 · Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon) · Newspapers.com

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Author: Shane Lambert (UncoolNegated on Websleuths)
All articles are subject to editing after the original posting.
Shane Lambert (UncoolNegated on Websleuths) 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.



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