Name: Robert Glenn Bennett
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: February 16, 1983
Location Last Seen: Whittier, Los Angeles County, California
Date of Birth: February 1, 1932
Age: 51 years old
Race: White
Gender: Male
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 170 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Several tattoos on both arms
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Robert Bennet left the Whittier Narrows Plant for the Los Angeles County Sanitation on February 16, 1983 at 1030 a.m. He was en route to the Los Angeles County Rubber Company in Los Angeles but never arrived.
John Alcantara, 52, of Downey was charged in November 2005 with the first-degree murder of Robert Bennett, his maintenance-crew supervisor at the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts. According to witnesses, Alcantara and Bennett drove into the Whittier Narrows area known to sanitation district employees as "the jungle" together, where Bennett planned to confront Alcantara about his performance. Alcantara then allegedly shot Bennett in the head, returned to the scene to dismember the body with an ax, put the remains in garbage bags, and had a coworker dump the bags at the Puente Hills Landfill. Bennett's body was never found.
Large pools of blood, still wet, were found soon after in the area, near tire tracks identified by sanitation workers as those of a dump truck and Bennett's work truck. Bennett's truck was discovered at a Jolly Roger's restaurant about 10 miles away, and more blood was found on shovels owned by the sanitation department and in a dump truck which made a trip to the landfill that day.
Alcantara confessed to a fellow employee that he shot Bennett in the head and alluded to the crime to others he knew from work, but witnesses failed to come forward because they were frightened.
Agency Name: Los Angeles County Sheriff Department
Agency Contact Person: Detective Tamar Abraham
Agency Phone Number: 323-890-5500
Agency E-Mail: tlabraha@lasd.org
Agency Case Number: 083-00980-0894-011
NamUs Case Number: 12125
NCIC Case Number: M-767066601
NamUs
CA DOJ
Wittier Daily News 2006
Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 11-13-2021 - By: Htmlcnvtr
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** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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