Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 02/15/1997
- Missing From:
- Missing From McCloud, California
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 05/21/1969 (55)
- Age:
- Age 27 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’8, 170 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, green eyes. Mero has a scar on her face near her nose and a surgical scar on her lower abdomen from a liver transplant. Her upper front row of teeth are capped. Some agencies give her name as “Karen Knichtel Mero” or “Karin Elizabeth Mero.”
- Details of Disappearance:
- Mero disappeared in McCloud, California, on February 15, 1997. She was last seen at the home of Ed Henline Sr. and his wife, where she’d previously lived with her boyfriend, Ed Henline Jr. No one reported her missing until October 1997. At first, people thought she ran away because she had a warrant for her arrest. But when she wasn’t found, police and her family worried.
Around the same time and place, a 17-year-old girl, Hannah Zaccaglini, also vanished. Both disappearances involved the Henlines. Police searched their home and questioned them. In 2012, the Henlines were charged with Hannah’s murder, but the charges were dropped in 2013 due to lack of evidence. However, police still consider them suspects in both disappearances. The Henlines were also accused of using Mero’s money after she disappeared and were arrested on drug charges in 1999. Both Mero’s and Hannah’s cases are still unsolved.
- Agency:
- Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office
- Source Links:
This person was missing Missing Since 02/15/1997