Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 12/24/2002
- Missing From:
- Missing From Port Allen, Louisiana
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 04/12/1937 (87)
- Age:
- Age 65 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’8, 132 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A full-length black wool coat, dark gray pants, a light-colored shirt, diamond rings, diamond earrings, a diamond-encrusted watch, a diamond necklace and possibly a blue dog brooch.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown/red hair, brown eyes. Mari has scars from facelift surgery. She wears acrylic fingernails and her ears are pierced. Some agencies spell her name “MariAnn.”
- Details of Disappearance:
- On Christmas Eve 2002, Mari disappeared. She was last seen outside a Subway restaurant in Louisiana. Investigators think she was kidnapped. Her belongings were left behind, suggesting robbery wasn’t the motive. A truck sped away from the scene, caught on blurry security footage.
Mari was going to visit her husband in prison; he’d been convicted of bribery. Police don’t think his crimes are connected to Mari’s disappearance.
Police suspect Mari’s kidnapping might be linked to Derrick Todd Lee, a serial killer. Lee owned a similar truck, and his phone records put him near the Subway at the time. DNA evidence didn’t connect them, but many still believe Lee was involved.
Mari was never found. Lee was never charged in her case. She was declared legally dead in 2004. Police believe she was murdered.
- Agency:
- West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office 225-343-9234
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This person was missing Missing Since 12/24/2002