Missing Woman: Kerry Lynelle Johnson -- OR -- 09/14/1982

[LoriDavis]

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april072008/kerry_johnson_4-7-08.php

Vanished Records in Teen Girl's Disappearance Clouds Prospects of Hope
It has been almost twenty six years since anyone saw Kerry Johnson, and missing person advocates are hoping someone in Salem knows something.

Tim King Salem-News.com
Apr-07-2008 01:54


Special thanks to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for the photographs of Kerry Johnson.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Advocates fear the case of a teenage girl who vanished from the Salem area more than twenty five years ago may fall completely into obscurity.

The case of Kerry Lynelle Johnson is especially troubling because the police records on her case are missing. Nobody seems to know exactly what happened.

Kerry was 17-years old when she disappeared. She was last seen in Salem Oregon in 1982. It would appear she has family in the area, or did at that time, as she was trying to reach the home of her cousin. We are hoping that someone can offer information that can help reestablish the case.

Police say Kerry Johnson was last seen hitchhiking to her cousin's residence in Salem, Oregon on September 14th 1982 and that she never arrived at the residence. It is reported that she may have been sighted in San Jose, California sometime after her disappearance.

She was alone, on foot, and possibly carrying a large blue suitcase at the time. She has never been heard from again.

Johnson's entire police file was lost sometime after her disappearance, according to the charleyproject.org.

"Investigators do not know the whereabouts of her relatives, if she has any, and so cannot compare their DNA to any unidentified remains they find. Johnson's disappearance remains unsolved. Few details are available in her case."

Since her disappearance on September 14th 1982 from Salem, Oregon, Kerry Lynelle Johnson has been classified as a missing, endangered person. She was born November 27th 1964 and was 17 at the time she was last seen.

Kerry was five foot eight inches tall and weight 160 pounds. She was a Caucasian female with brown hair and blue eyes.

The photos that accompany this story show her as a teen and in an age progressed image as she may appear today.

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If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Salem Police Department 503-588-6123

[Deborah]

http://www.angelfire.com/mi3/mpccn/kjohnson.html

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Age-progression at age 35 (circa 1999)

[Denise]

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewChildDetail&LanguageCountry=en_US&searchLang=en_US&caseLang=en_US&orgPrefix=NCMC&caseNum=784470&seqNum=1

KERRY LYNELLE JOHNSON

Case Type: Lost, Injured, Missing   
DOB: Nov 27, 1964
Sex: Female
Missing Date: Sep 14, 1982
Race: White
Age Now: 43
Height:  5'8" (173 cm)
Missing City: SALEM
Weight:  160 lbs (73 kg)
Missing State :  OR
Hair Color: Brown
Missing Country: United States
Eye Color: Blue
Case Number: NCMC784470 

Circumstances: Child disappeared while she was hitchhiking to her cousin's house.

[Denise]

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/150dfor.html

Kerry Lynelle Johnson

Missing since September 14, 1982 from Salem, Marion County, Oregon.
Classification: Endangered Missing

Vital Statistics

Date Of Birth: November 27, 1964
Age at Time of Disappearance: 17 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'8; 160 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; blue eyes.
Dentals: Not available
DNA: Not available

Circumstances of Disappearance
Johnson was last seen hitchhiking to her cousin's home in Salem, Oregon on September 14, 1982. She never arrived at the house and has not been heard from since that time.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning Johnson's case, please contact:
Salem Police Department
Missing Persons Unit
503-588-6123
Email
All information may be submitted on an anonymous basis.

NCMEC #: NCMC784470

NCIC Number: M-091289759
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information: The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
State Police Missing Children Clearinghouse

[LoriDavis]

https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/2660/0/
NamUs profile for Kerry Lynelle Johnson - Case 2660

[LoriDavis]

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20120923/NEWS/309230045/National-group-highlights-missing-Salem-woman?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CNews%7Cs

National group highlights missing Salem woman
9:32 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Written by Kelsey Leavitt
Statesman Journal

A banner reads: “Kerry Lynelle Johnson missing September 14th 1982”.

Information cards are attached to balloons and released in the hopes that wherever they land, someone might have a clue to finding the missing girl.

The case has been cold for 30 years.

The Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons (CUE) stopped in Salem on Saturday as part of its ninth annual tour. CUE has been operating for 18 years with a mission to bring media attention to unsolved homicides and missing person cases that have gone cold.

“I feel like it’s important to get out in the community and let people know that this is a forever, ongoing issue, and people need to help,” CUE founder Monica Caison said.

Each year the nine-day “On the Road to Remember” tour travels across the United States hoping to spark new leads on selected cases in various regions. Traveling the west coast this year the group chose to highlight Johnson.

She was a Salem resident who had hitchhiked to Reno, Nev., to see a relative. She then hitchhiked to California to see a friend and called her parents from San Jose to say she’d be home by Oct. 1. Johnson, who was 17, was never heard from again.

“We always pick a national honoree to lead the pack,” Caison said, “and the reason we chose her was because she never got any press. Never has.”

Throughout the years, Robert Johnson said, has watched his daughter’s file get passed from police officer to police officer but nothing new has come to light. Each time he’s told that maybe the new officer will have new insight or ideas how to find her but so far there has been nothing.

“Each time they do that it’s like, oh good, good, you know maybe this time, but so far it hasn’t happened. There is just never a closure,” he said.

Connie Backes, the missing girl’s aunt, agrees that there is no closure for something like this. But she is thankful that CUE hasn’t forgotten her niece.

“So many just get lost in the files,” Backes said. “The police don’t have the manpower, the people, or the money to actually look for everybody.”