Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 07/01/1988
- Missing From:
- Missing From New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race Black
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 11/12/1968 (56)
- Age:
- Age 19 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’3 – 5’5, 110 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A shirt, blue jeans and sneakers.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics African-American female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Monteiro has needle marks in both arms, scars on both wrists and a scar near her left eye. She has initials and words tattooed on her arms.
- Details of Disappearance:
- In 1988, a woman named Monteiro disappeared in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Her family hadn’t spoken to her since May or June of that year, and the last time anyone saw her was in July.
Around the same time, police found the bodies of nine women along highways near New Bedford. These women were all in their 20s and 30s, and had problems with drugs and prostitution. Police think a serial killer murdered them.
Monteiro and another missing woman, Marilyn Roberts (who disappeared in April 1988), fit the profile of the victims. Police believe they may have been killed by the same person.
The murders and the disappearances of Monteiro and Roberts remain mysteries; no one has been caught.
- Agency:
- New Bedford Police Department 508-991-6320
- Source Links:
This person was missing Missing Since 07/01/1988