Jeanne Overstreet, a 19-year-old maid at the Doubletree Hotel, planned to hitchhike downtown Sept 3, 1982, to have lunch with a friend. She never made it to the restaurant.
At around noon she left the midtown home she shared with two roommates and, sometime later, was seen hitchhiking on Stone Avenue.
Overstreet stood 5-foot-5, with blue eyes and the phrase "Free Bird" tattooed on her left shoulder. At the time of her disappearance she had blond hair and weighed 115 pounds. She now would be 47.
STATUS
Overstreet's case was last reviewed by the Tucson Police Department in 2004 when a DNA sample was taken from her sister, Jackie Dugan, and entered into a national missing person's database, said TPD spokesman Officer Charles Rydzak. But with no new leads or theories about Overstreet's whereabouts, the case is closed.
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Though Overstreet disappeared nearly 28 years ago, her family is hopeful she will be found.
"She was very sociable, liked to meet new people," her sister Jackie Dugan said. "She liked laughter. She liked her music. She had a very good heart, would help anybody. She was so liked by everyone that we knew."
Her family continues to post "missing" fliers. Last year, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children generated an age-progressed image of Overstreet to show what she might look like today.
"We are always looking. You just can't help it," Dugan said. "You see a blond girl walking down the street, and we just look."
Overstreet's family is convinced she was abducted. At the time of her disappearance, Dugan said, her mother was in ill health, and "she wouldn't have taken off and done that to my mom."
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