Right: Age progressed to 50 yrs (Circa 2011)
Right: Age progressed to 50 yrs (Circa 2011)
Name: Sharon Lynn Pretorius
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: September 28, 1973
Location Last Seen: Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
Date of Birth: April 23, 1960
Age: 13 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 135 lbs.
Hair Color: Long, brown hair, worn in braids
Eye Color: Blue
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Available
Clothing: A yellow long-sleeve sweater, blue jeans and gym shoes.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Pretorius was last seen she left her home on Cornell Drive in the Dayton View neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio on September 28, 1973.
She had attended her classes at Fairview High School, where she was a freshman, gone home, had a piano lesson, and left to collect money in the neighborhood for her Journal Herald newspaper route.
Procedures at the time prohibited Pretorius's family from reporting her as a missing child until 24 hours had passed. Investigators believe she did not run away and was probably abducted and murdered. A witness saw a girl matching Pretorius's description struggling with a man near a car at the corner of Cornell and Philadelphia Drive on the day she disappeared, but the man has never been identified and the girl was not confirmed to be Pretorius.
Authorities followed up many leads in her disappearance over the years, but her case remains a mystery.
Agency Name: Dayton Police Department
Agency Contact Person: 937-333-COPS
Agency Phone Number: N/A
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 396350
Dayton Daily News
Guest Book for Sharon Lynn Pretorius
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Added: 8-3-2006; Last Updated: 05-18-2022 - By: Htmlcnvtr
Questions or comments? Please contact appropriate member of the Area Team
** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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