Kimberly Sue Doss

Status:

Open

Jurisdiction:

Davenport Police Department (IA)

Missing From:

Davenport, IA

Summary:

Kimberly was living in Davenport, Iowa at the time of her March 1980 disappearance. She had moved to Houston, Texas with her mother several months earlier, but returned to Davenport because she missed her friends and boyfriend. She initially planned to live with her father, but instead stayed with her boyfriend and his family. She kept in regular touch with her mother in Texas.

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Circumstances of Disappearance:

The last people to see her were two male friends in Davenport, whom she visited after leaving her boyfriend's home. On March 20, Kimberly called her mother and said she was going back to Houston and had gotten a bus ticket to go. She mentioned meeting a girl on the bus in the Quad City area, named Kathy, who was from Chicago, Illinois, and Kimberly planned to spend the night in Chicago before going to Houston. She never arrived in Houston and has never been heard from again. Her mother attempted to report her missing, but the Houston police refused to accept the report because Kimberly had disappeared in Iowa. She then contacted the Davenport police and tried to file a report, but they wouldn't take a report either because Kimberly's mother was in Texas.

Additional Details:

It was not until September 1982, after Kimberly's mother moved to Davenport, that she was finally able to file a report for her daughter as a runaway with the Davenport Police Department. Many agencies give the date of Kimberly's disappearance as September 1, 1982 or September 27, 1982, but she'd actually gone missing two and a half years earlier. Case Number: 82-46115 NCIC Case Number: M184196973 NCMEC: 601057 NamUs Case Number: MP2919 Date of Last Contact: March 24, 1980

Case Last Updated:

Oct 17, 2024