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This person was missing Missing Since 09/02/1995

Missing Since:

Missing Since 09/02/1995

Missing From:

Missing From Fort Smith, Arkansas

Classification:

Classification Endangered Missing

Gender:

Female

Race:

Race White

Date of Birth:

Date of Birth 12/06/1970 (54)

Age:

Age 24 years old

Height and Weight:

Height and Weight 5’2 – 5’5, 100 pounds

Clothing/Jewelry Description:

Clothing/Jewelry Description A white sleeveless cotton shirt, cut-off blue denim shorts, white socks, black sandals, a gold oval-shaped knuckle ring on her left index finger, and a necklace with a cross pendant on a black ribbon.

Distinguishing Characteristics:

Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Murchison-Dunbar’s hair was bleached blonde at the time of her 1995 disappearance. She has a tattoo of a unicorn on her left shoulder, a tattoo of a heart with an arrow piercing it on her left breast, and a rose tattoo on her left ankle. Her ears are pierced and she has moles on her chin. She has scars on her left ankle and left leg and a Cesarean section scar on her abdomen. Murchison-Dunbar wears upper dentures and only has about five teeth in her lower jaw. She has a dimple in her cheek that appears when she smiles. Some agencies refer to her as Lori Murchison.

Details of Disappearance:

On September 2, 1995, Patricia Murchison-Dunbar vanished from Fort Smith, Arkansas. She was last seen around 5:40 a.m. near the Continental Motel. She and her boyfriend had been arrested for drunk driving and she disappeared the same day she got out of jail.

She never collected her final paycheck, didn’t contact her baby daughter, and was never heard from again. She might have had $50 her boyfriend gave her for bail.

The FBI investigated a former prosecutor, Ron Fields, suspecting him of ordering her murder, but there wasn’t enough evidence to charge him. Police also got reports from five different people saying she died from a drug overdose and her body was hidden by a man she was with. It was too late to charge that man, though, because the time limit for prosecuting that crime had passed.

Murchison-Dunbar had been traveling between Fort Smith and Wilburton, Oklahoma, and used drugs. Her disappearance remains a mystery.

Agency:

Fort Smith Police Department 501-709-5100

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