Image 2: Age-progressed to age 36 years (circa 2007); Image 3: Age-progressed to 43 years (circa 2014); Image 4: Age-progressed to 48 years (circa 2019)
Image 2: Age-progressed to age 36 years (circa 2007); Image 3: Age-progressed to 43 years (circa 2014); Image 4: Age-progressed to 48 years (circa 2019)
Name: Shannon Lee Potter
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: March 3, 1984
Location Last Seen: Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland
Date of Birth: July 20, 1970
Age: 13 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 140 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Shannon has scars on her abdomen and near her left eye, surgical scars on her back and buttocks from surgery concerning a cracked pelvis, and split mandible with surgical scars, small incision below knee.
Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available
Clothing: She may have been wearing high khaki boots and a white fur coat.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Shannon Lee Potter lived with her mother in Parkville. She left home one night through a bedroom window, leaving a note. Her family thought she had gone to stay with her father or someone else in the family.
Foul play is suspected.
Agency Name: Baltimore County Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Detective Dominic Bridges
Agency Phone Number: (410) 887-2214
Agency Email: N/A
Agency Case Number: 08E114810
NCIC Case Number: M217369344
NamUs Case Number: 1868
NCMEC Case Number: 601868
Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 11/21/2023
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** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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