Right 2: Age-progressed to 44 years; 51 years
Right 2: Age-progressed to 44 years; 51 years
Name: Angela Mae Rader
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: February 7, 1977
Location Last Seen: Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia
Date of Birth: July 30, 1962
Age: 14 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 100 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Protruding left eye
Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: MtDNA Available
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Angela Rader was last seen in Roanoke, Virginia, on February 7, 1977. Angela was with her friend Tammy Lynn Akers . Neither Rader nor Akers showed up for school the next day at William Ruffner Junior High School. They were never heard from again.
Rader had run away with Akers a time or two before. Rader and Akers both worked for a friend of their families, Earl Bramblett, at the time they disappeared. Bramblett has since been convicted for the 1994 murder of a family of four and was executed in April 2003.
Investigators believe that Bramblett may have played a part in Akers and Rader's disappearances. Bramblett reportedly told friends that he wished he hadn't "hurt Tammy" three years after she went missing. He was never charged in either Akers or Rader's disappearances.
Bramblett has always maintained that he had nothing to do with what happened to Tammy Akers and Angela Rader.
Agency Name: Roanoke Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Investigator William Engel
Agency Phone Number: 540-853-2212; 540-853-5305
Agency E-Mail: police@roanokegov.com
Agency Case Number: 06-120677
Agency Name: Virginia State Police
Agency Contact Person: Special Agent Barry Koesee
Agency Phone Number: 540-380-5700
Agency E-Mail: VSPBCI@vsp.virginia.gov
Agency Case Number: 06-120677
NCMEC Case Number: 786461
NamUs Case Number: 1782
Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 03/16/2024 - By: mc
Questions or comments? Please contact appropriate member of the Area Team
** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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