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This person was missing Missing Since 01/08/1994

Missing Since:

Missing Since 01/08/1994

Missing From:

Missing From Somers Point, New Jersey

Classification:

Classification Endangered Missing

Gender:

Female

Race:

Race White

Date of Birth:

Date of Birth 05/02/1958 (66)

Age:

Age 35 years old

Height and Weight:

Height and Weight 5’2, 100 pounds

Clothing/Jewelry Description:

Clothing/Jewelry Description An oversized white sweatshirt, red silk pajama pants, white socks and slippers.

Distinguishing Characteristics:

Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Dark brown hair, brown eyes. Lamanna has a widow’s peak on her forehead, and she has a keloid scar on one of her inner elbows. She converted to the Muslim faith prior to her 1994 disappearance, and she does not drink alcohol or use drugs as per her religious beliefs. She also maintained a vegan diet in 1994. Some agencies may spell her last name “LaManna.” Lamanna may use the names Darleen Hansen, Darleen Hartsfield, Darleen Hatfield, Renee Leman and/or Jean Smith. She speaks French, Arabic, Portuguese and Farsi as well as English.

Details of Disappearance:

In January 1994, a woman named Lamanna, who lived in New York and was studying to be a nuclear medicine technologist, had a mental breakdown. She was found confused and disoriented in Queens, New York, and briefly hospitalized. Later that day, she was released and went to her sister’s house in Ocean City, New Jersey. That evening, she ran away from her sister’s house in her navy blue bathrobe, in freezing weather.

She was last seen in a bar in nearby Somers Point, New Jersey. Her bathrobe was found a short time later, two blocks away. A police dog followed her scent to a spot in Ocean City, but nothing else was found. It’s thought she may have hitchhiked.

There were several reported sightings of someone who looked like her in New Jersey and New York the following year, and later in Virginia and North Carolina. One woman, believed to be Lamanna, was found in Florida in 2016, but it turned out she wasn’t.

Lamanna had a good education (she graduated from the University of Scranton and volunteered with the Peace Corps), and a long-term relationship that had recently ended. Her sister said she suffered from anorexia and anxiety and that the breakup triggered her mental health crisis. While some say she disappeared from New York, most sources say she vanished from Ocean City, New Jersey.

Agency:

Ocean City Police Department 609-399-9111

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