Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 06/29/1973
- Missing From:
- Missing From West Linn, Oregon
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 12/06/1955 (69)
- Age:
- Age 17 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’6, 130 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A brown Pendleton shirt, blue jeans or army fatigue pants, and low-cut blue sneakers with buckskin heels.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Light brown hair, hazel eyes. Rita previously fractured her lower left leg and the injury didn’t heal properly. As a result, she walks with an uneven gait.
- Details of Disappearance:
- On June 29, 1973, Rita, a junior in high school, left her home in West Linn, Oregon, for a walk. She was last seen around 8:30 pm walking uphill on Sunset Avenue. She disappeared and was never seen or heard from again.
Police suspect foul play. Ted Bundy, a serial killer executed in 1989, is considered a possible suspect in Rita’s disappearance. While Bundy confessed to many murders, mostly in the Pacific Northwest, he never admitted to killing Rita. He was convicted of killing three women in Florida, but many other unsolved disappearances of young women are linked to him, including Rita’s. Because Rita’s body was never found and Bundy never confessed, her case remains unsolved.
- Agency:
- Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office 503-723-4949
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This person was missing Missing Since 06/29/1973