Angela Marie Fullmer

Status:

Open

Jurisdiction:

Siskiyou County Sheriffs Department (CA)

Missing From:

Callahan, CA

Summary:

Angela "Angie" Fullmer, a 34-year-old mother of five, was last seen on December 15, 2002 after an argument with a male companion during a drive to a forest road in southern Siskiyou County. He said she walked off into the trees toward South Fork Road and he heard a vehicle drive away. Searches found nothing. The sheriff's office treats her disappearance as suspicious and believes she died at the hands of another. No one has been charged.

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Circumstances of Disappearance:

Angela Marie Fullmer, known as Angie, was 34 years old and the mother of five daughters, then aged roughly 7 to 17, when she disappeared in December 2002. She had previously worked at a pizza parlor in Mount Shasta and stayed in close contact with her family. According to her family, she had already bought and wrapped Christmas presents for her children, and shortly before she vanished she asked her mother to look after the girls if anything happened to her. On Sunday, December 15, 2002, Fullmer was in the company of Thomas O'Connell, described in various reports as a friend or former boyfriend. The two had reportedly been drinking over the weekend and had been at a party. At about 2:45 p.m. they left to drive in his pickup truck to a forest area. According to O'Connell's account to investigators, the two argued over mud tracked into the truck, Fullmer got out and walked away through the trees toward South Fork Road near an old logging road in the Twin Pines area, and shortly afterward he heard a car door close and a vehicle drive off, which led him to assume she had gotten a ride with someone else. He reported her missing in the early hours of December 16; reports put the delay at between 8 and 12 hours after he last saw her. The sheriff's office has said his account could not be verified. The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office record lists the place last seen as near South Fork Road in the Callahan area. News reports quoting the sheriff's office over the years, as well as NamUs and the California Department of Justice, place the Twin Pines area near Lake Siskiyou, southwest of the city of Mount Shasta. Authorities at first believed she might be lost in the forest and sent out a search party, but snow and whiteout conditions hampered the effort and no trace of her was found. Her bank accounts and credit cards have not been used since she disappeared. In August 2003 a dog walker found what appeared to be human bone fragments in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest near North Shore Road; they turned out to be cremated remains scattered during a memorial ceremony and were not connected to her case. The sheriff's office came to treat the disappearance as suspicious and does not believe Fullmer left voluntarily. In March 2013 the office called her case a top priority. In March 2016 Sheriff Jon Lopey announced that the office was reopening four cold cases, Fullmer's among them, saying it had investigative leads and believed the case could be solved; a Crime Stoppers appeal the following month offered a reward of up to $1,000. In November 2017 the office again appealed for help, and in December 2018 it said the case was gaining momentum, that its Major Crimes Unit was working new leads with assistance from the FBI, and that a reward of up to $2,500 was offered. In February 2019 Lopey said that a detective had been assigned to the case part-time, that the FBI was conducting forensic testing of evidence, and that investigators believed Fullmer was deceased and had died at the hands of another. The sheriff's office has described O'Connell as a person of interest because he was the last known person to see her; he has not been arrested or charged, and no one else has been charged. As of December 2025 the sheriff's office says that despite several searches over the years her whereabouts remain unknown. Fullmer has also used the surnames Mendoza and Chiaratti. She was 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighed about 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, and was last seen wearing blue jeans, a black sweater, black boots and a gold ring set with a stone.

Additional Details:

Investigating agency: Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit, 305 Butte Street, Yreka, CA 96097. Tips: 24-hour dispatch (530) 841-2900 or main office (530) 842-8300; anonymous tips are accepted. A reward of up to $2,500 was announced in December 2018 for information leading to a conviction. Her family maintains a Facebook page, The Truth About Angie.

Case Last Updated:

Oct 23, 2026