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This person was missing Missing Since 01/03/1991

Missing Since:

Missing Since 01/03/1991

Missing From:

Missing From Glendale, Arizona

Classification:

Classification Endangered Missing

Gender:

Female

Race:

Race White

Date of Birth:

Date of Birth 09/14/1955 (69)

Age:

Age 35 years old

Height and Weight:

Height and Weight 5’7, 140 pounds

Clothing/Jewelry Description:

Clothing/Jewelry Description A nurse’s pin, a jade brooch, sapphire and diamond earrings, a sapphire necklace, a wedding band, a sapphire ring and assorted pieces of costume jewelry.

Distinguishing Characteristics:

Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, green eyes. Susan has a birthmark on the back of her neck. She wears contact lenses or eyeglasses. Susan occasionally uses her maiden name, Smith, or her maternal grandmother’s maiden name, Stinett.

Details of Disappearance:

Susan Cassell, a nurse, vanished from her Glendale, Arizona home on January 3, 1991. She’d worked a double shift and unexpectedly came home, leaving her four-year-old son with her husband, James. James then took their son camping overnight and reported Susan missing when he returned the next day.

Susan’s car was at her family’s house, and she left several unclaimed paychecks at the hospital. She spoke to her mother on the phone that day, saying she was tired but would call back – she never did. Her mother said this was unusual. While Susan and James had marital problems, she otherwise seemed happy and healthy.

James divorced Susan in February 1992 and moved to Pennsylvania with their son. Police suspect foul play in Susan’s disappearance, but no one has ever been arrested. The case remains unsolved.

Agency:

Glendale Police Department 623-930-3314

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