Laurie Partridge Missing December 1974 WA
Reward revitalizes search for teen missing since '74 Jeff Humphrey Last updated: Thursday, May 04th, 2006 06:19:13 PM SPOKANE -- A new reward is helping revitalize interest in a 32-year-old cold case involving the disappearance of a Spokane teen who left school one day and literally vanished off the face of the earth. In December of 1974, Lauire Partridge left Ferris High School early, complaining about not feeling well. Without school bus service she headed home on foot and was last seen walking south on Havana Street near 43rd Avenue. No one thinks Laurie ran away; later that cold December day she had been planning on going to pick out an engagement ring with her boyfriend and had plans to get married. Major Crimes Sergeant Jim Goodwin would like to solve the case of Laurie Partridge’s disappearance; he’s been assigned to the case for the past six years, but also for a personal reason. Goodwin was a student at Ferris High School the day Laurie disappeared and still worries about his former classmate. “Somebody knows someone out there that knows something and I really hope they come forward,” Goodwin said Thursday afternoon. Recently the Partridge family got a hold of a California foundation that has helped locate more than two dozen missing persons including Laci Peterson in San Francisco bay. That foundation has offered up a $5,000 reward for information that will help solve this three-decade mystery surrounding Laurie Partridge’s disappearance. If you have any information on the case, call the Tip Line at 242-TIPS http://www.kxly.com/news/index.php?sect_rank=2&section_id=560&story_id=2139

LAURIE PARTRIDGE DOB: May 31, 1957 Missing: Dec 4, 1974 Age Now: 48 Sex: Female Race: White Hair: Blonde Eyes: Blue Height: 5'0" (152 cm) Weight: 110 lbs (50 kg) Missing From: SPOKANE, WA United States Laurie's photo is shown aged to 47 years. She was last seen on her way home from school at 37th and Havana Streets. Two days later, the contents of her purse were located near the area where she was last seen. She has a brown mole on her right cheek. ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT National Center for Missing & Exploited Children 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST) Spokane County Sheriff's Office (Washington) 1-509-477-4760 Poster Available at: http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=603391&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US

$5,000 reward offer in disappearance of teen in 1974 in Spokane 05/05/2006 Associated Press More than 31 years after Laurie Partridge complained of stomach cramps, left school and disappeared without a trace, her family has arranged a $5,000 reward offer to try to learn what happened. The reward, announced Thursday, has been offered by the Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation of Modesto, Calif. Partridge's youngest sister, Caryn Chambers, 38, who lives in Florida and works for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said co-workers suggested she approach the foundation, which was established by the parents of another missing teen in 1999. "There's obviously someone who abducted or killed my sister, and they are getting away with it," Chambers said. "There's someone who knows something out there." Partridge, 17, 5-foot-4 and 105 pounds, left Ferris High School because of cramps about 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 4, 1974, a Wednesday. Unable to get a ride, the blond, blue-eyed girl decided to walk the two-plus miles to the home where she lived with her parents and five younger siblings, saying the air might help her feel better. The family reported her missing after she failed to show up for work that evening at Lincoln Heights Theater. She was engaged to a 20-year-old man from the Nine Mile Falls area, and they had planned to pick out engagement rings the next day. Initially, sheriff's deputies thought she might have run away from home, given her displeasure when the family moved to Spokane from California, but by the time she vanished she had started working on the high school newspaper and was on the drill team. Detectives staked out a Beach Boys concert to which Partridge's father had given her tickets but didn't see her, eventually learning that the tickets had been used but too late to determine by whom. Three people were questioned by detectives, including one who later turned out to be serial killer Ted Bundy, but on Thursday sheriff's Sgt. James A. Goodwin said none panned out. "Anybody who can give us information to get it resolved will help," Chambers said. "It's worse not knowing." http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8HDKGR00.html