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Apr 12, 2022
Dec 24, 2023
Gwendolyn
King
58
16
62 inches
64 inches
100 lbs
115 lbs
White / Caucasian
Female
In the late summer of 1982, a 16-year-old girl named Gwendolyn, also known as Sue, was at a turning point in her life. On an uncertain day in September, she was last seen in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a place she called home. Her sister had driven her to the local Greyhound bus station with a ticket destined for San Bernardino, California. The plan was for Gwendolyn to join her mother, who had recently moved, and start a new chapter by attending high school there. Gwendolyn, a young woman with long red hair and brown eyes, stood between 5'2" and 5'4" and weighed around 100 to 115 pounds. Though she was reportedly not entirely happy about the move, she was willing to give it a try. It remains unknown if she ever boarded the bus that was supposed to carry her toward her future. The days that followed her departure from the Oklahoma City bus station were filled with a growing sense of unease for her family. Gwendolyn never arrived in San Bernardino, and the silence that followed was profound and unending. Her mother, wracked with worry, attempted to report her daughter missing to the local law enforcement in 1982, but for reasons that are not entirely clear, they declined to take a report at that time. In a desperate attempt to find answers, her mother hired a private investigator, but this effort yielded no results and shed no light on Gwendolyn's whereabouts. The lack of an official investigation in the crucial early days of her disappearance created a void where answers should have been. Decades passed, and Gwendolyn's case remained in the shadows, a silent testament to a family's enduring pain and a system's initial failure. It wasn't until many years later, in 2022, that her case was officially entered into missing persons databases, finally giving it the formal recognition it had lacked for so long. The details of what she was wearing or any personal items she may have had with her on that fateful day have been lost to time, leaving investigators with very little to go on. The central mystery of her case remains: did she ever get on the bus in Oklahoma City? Her disappearance is a heart-wrenching story of a young girl on the cusp of a new life who vanished without a trace, leaving behind a void of information and a family left to wonder what became of their beloved Gwendolyn. The case, now officially recognized, continues to be investigated by the Oklahoma City Police Department.
Sep 01, 1982
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Oklahoma County
73159
No
113572
Oklahoma City Police Department
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Oklahoma County
73102
Michael Brenton
Lieutenant
701 Colcord Drive, Oklahoma
4052971129
Local
Law Enforcement
2022-00021785
2022-03-31
Oklahoma City Police Department
na
Red/Auburn
Brown
Brown
06/17/2026
