Name: Deborah Susan Balken
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: July 12, 1980
Location Last Seen: Parrametta, New South Wales Australia.
Date of Birth: August 7, 1960
Age: 20 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 170 cm
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Light brown
Eye Color: Blue
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Medium build. Fair complexion.
Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Balken and her friend, Gillian Jamieson , were last seen at 19.30 on Saturday, June 12, 1980, leaving the Tollgate Hotel in Church Street, Parramatta, New South Wales, with a man dressed in dirty work clothes and wearing a floppy black cowboy-style hat.
Ninety minutes after the pair left the hotel, Balkan made a brief phone call to their fellow flatmate, Susan Gilchrist, saying they would not be home for a prearranged dinner and that they were in Wollongong.
They planned to hitchhike from Thirroul station, near Wollongong, to Sydney.
Neither of the women, who worked as nurses in Sydney, have been seen or heard from since that time.
They had a history of hitchhiking and experimenting with drugs.
Agency Name: New South Wales Police Service
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 02-9698-7388
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: N/A
National Missing Persons Unit
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Daily Telegraph
NSW Police
Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 08-23-2021 - By: Htmlcnvtr
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** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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