Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 03/10/1980
- Missing From:
- Missing From Roseville, Minnesota
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 12/20/1957 (67)
- Age:
- Age 22 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’2, 110 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Brown has a scar on her left pinky finger extending from her palm to her fingertip. She may use the last name Jones.
- Details of Disappearance:
- A woman named Brown disappeared from Roseville, Minnesota in March 1980. She told her boss she was leaving town and then vanished. Her roommate, Patrick Walsh, said she went to California in a brown van with others, but police initially thought she left on her own. It wasn’t until July that she was reported missing.
Walsh had a troubled past, including a history of crime as a teenager and an attempted murder charge where he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Though doctors said he had an antisocial personality, he wasn’t considered mentally ill. Years later, after Brown disappeared, another woman who knew Walsh, Cindy Gerdes, was found murdered. Walsh was eventually convicted of murdering a coworker, Pamela Sweeney, in 1991.
Because of Walsh’s history and the circumstances of Brown’s disappearance, he’s a suspect in both her case and Gerdes’s death. However, neither case has been solved, and Brown has never been found.
- Agency:
- Roseville Police Department 651-767-0640
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This person was missing Missing Since 03/10/1980