Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 12/27/2011
- Missing From:
- Missing From Altoona, Florida
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 10/26/1986 (38)
- Age:
- Age 25 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’0 – 5’1, 90 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A pink t-shirt, blue jeans and possibly sandals. Carrying her cellular phone, wallet and keys.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Buenfil’s tongue and ears are pierced. She has scars on her abdomen and her right thigh, a needle mark on her right thigh and a dimple on her left cheek.
- Details of Disappearance:
- On December 27, 2011, a woman named Buenfil and her friend, Terry McDowell, got their car stuck in the sand in the Ocala National Forest. Buenfil went to get help but disappeared. Dogs trained to track scents followed her trail to a nearby road, but then lost it.
Buenfil had three young daughters and always kept in touch with them, so her vanishing is very strange. Police think something bad happened to her and suspect McDowell, whose picture is available. McDowell died in a fire in 2013 without ever explaining what happened to Buenfil. The case is unsolved, and police believe foul play was involved.
- Agency:
- Lake County Sheriff’s Office 352-343-9529
- Source Links:
This person was missing Missing Since 12/27/2011