Missing Girl: Rasheeyda Wilson--CA--07/15/1991

[Jenn]

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewChildDetail&caseNum=846044&orgPrefix=NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

RASHEEYDA WILSON



Age Progression

Rasheeyda's photo is shown age-progressed to 22 years. She was last seen walking away from a hotel in San Diego, California. She has a 3-inch scar on the front of her right calf. She may use the last name Robinson.

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST) or the San Diego Police Department (California) 1-619-531-2000.

[Jenn]

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/wilson_rasheeyda.html


Age-progression at age 22 (circa 2003).

Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: July 15, 1991 from San Diego, CA
Classification: Endangered Missing
DOB: September 29, 1981
Age: 9 years old
Height and Weight: 5'2, 99 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: African-American female.  Black hair, brown eyes.  Wilson has three scars on the front of her right calf.  Her upper front teeth protrude.  She wore her hair in cornrow braids at the time of her 1991 disappearance.  Wilson may be using the last name Robinson.  Some agencies spell her first name "Rasheedya." Wilson's ears are pierced.

Details of Disappearance
Wilson was playing on the fire escape of an apartment building in San Diego, CA on July 15, 1991.  The building superintendent asked Wilson and her friend to move away from the fire escape because it was dangerous.  They left the area immediately and parted ways.  Wilson said that she was going to walk to downtown San Diego.   She never returned home and has not been seen again.

Wilson's mother and sister, whom she lived with, resided in a residential hotel across the street from the building where she was last seen.  At first when she disappeared no one worried because Wilson had disappeared once before, months prior to her disappearance, and then been found safe.  She is described as a streetwise child.  Investigators now believe Wilson met with foul play.  Her case is unsolved.

If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the San Diego Police Department at 619-531-2000.

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The Great-Aunt

But war is not chess. It is not football. It is not fishing. Patience is not always something we seek. Sometimes it is forced upon us.

Alma Crittenden, 65, of San Diego, has been waging her own war for 10 years. On July 15, 1991, Crittenden's great-niece, Rasheeyda Wilson, then 9 years old, disappeared while playing in her neighborhood.

Since her disappearance, Wilson's mother died, so it is left to Crittenden to wait and hope. The child's picture still hangs on Crittenden's living room wall. She keeps a stuffed Christmas mouse Wilson played with during visits. Each day, Crittenden prays. From time to time, she calls the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which runs the child's photograph on its Web site. She searches the faces of strangers, and, she says, she will continue looking until there is closure. Her war is against the probable and the unknown.

But in her patience rests hope that, like Homer's Odysseus, who overcame peril and temptation to make his long way home to loved ones, Rasheeyda will return. It is the same hope Crittenden has for soldiers now far away, for all families with empty chairs at the table.

"The only way to be patient," she says, "is to believe and trust in the Lord, to ask him for the guidance and patience to go on."
http://www.urbandharma.org/kusala/revkus/p...ncelatimes.html