Denise Kathleen Anderson, property 22, vanished from Sacramento, California connected April 13, 1971.
Denise lived with 2 roommates astatine the Auditorium Apartments, 925 16th St successful April 1971. The identities of her roommates are unknown. I tried doing a reverse metropolis directory hunt by the address, but didn’t find anyone I thought would beryllium a apt roommate. The lone females listed astatine that code successful 1971 look to person been overmuch older and had been astatine the aforesaid spot for years. They astir apt lived successful antithetic apartments wrong the building.
Denise was listed successful the 1971 directory, but astatine 441 45th St, which was the location of her mother. This leads maine to judge that Denise and her roommates had lone precocious moved into the apartment.
According to a video and nonfiction published by Solve Crimes With Rick and Gavin, the flat she lived successful astatine the clip of her disappearance was situated successful the theatre district. This would person served her well, arsenic she was an aspiring histrion and was progressive with Centerplayers Theater Group. In fact, she had been formed arsenic Simone Everad successful a theatre accumulation of Marat/Sade, and failed to amusement up for a rehearsal connected the time she disappeared.
Very small is known astir Denise’s case, unfortunately. One of her roommates said she had seen Denise dormant successful the flat astatine 5:30am. The roommate borrowed Denise’s car that day, and returned location astatine 2:30pm to find Denise gone.
All her belongings, but a abbreviated wig she often wore, were near astatine home, and her slope relationship has ne'er been accessed.
Denise worked astatine Wells Fargo Bank, and ne'er showed up to enactment aft she was past seen.
Thats each the accusation determination is, and respective questions leap retired astatine me. Where was the different roommate, and did they spot her aft 5:30am? When they accidental each her belongings were near behind, bash they truly mean ALL of them, oregon conscionable the things they’d presume she would instrumentality if she intended to wantonness her life? Did she instrumentality the cardinal to her apartment? Shoes? Purse oregon wallet? Was she scheduled to enactment astatine the slope that time successful summation to the play rehearsal? If so, what clip was she expected astatine the earlier of the two? Were they wrong walking distance, oregon mightiness she person hitchhiked, since her roommate had her car?
I haven’t seen immoderate denotation 1 mode oregon the different astir whether determination was thing suspicious astir however the flat was left. The shot looks to person been dropped present large time, it doesn’t look to person been investigated astatine all. It was astir apt different lawsuit of constabulary deciding, without adjacent knowing Denise, that she’d gone disconnected connected her ain and would travel backmost soon.
This is 1 mentation I truly can’t adjacent consider. I get that radical instrumentality disconnected each the clip to flight their parents rules, unhappy marriages, etc but Denise was a azygous adult, surviving connected her ain and she didn’t person to reply to anyone. If, for instance, she wanted to spell to Hollywood to prosecute a vocation successful amusement business, she could person done truthful without hiding it and leaving necessities specified arsenic wealth and her car.
I judge Denise was a unfortunate of foul play, and though it could person progressive idiosyncratic she knew (it’s chartless whether she had boyfriends oregon ex-boyfriends), determination was nary shortage of serial killers successful the country either.
I’ve seen suggestions ranging from the East Area Rapist to the I-5 Strangler, Bundy, Zodiac… but Solve Crimes With Rick and Gavin besides mentions a murderer by the sanction Phillip Arthur Thompson, who I hadn’t heard of. According to the site, helium lived little than a mile and a fractional distant from Denise, and helium raped and murdered Betty Cloer conscionable 2 months aft Denise went missing. It’s besides imaginable that her disappearance could beryllium linked to the inactive unsolved murders of Judith Hakari (Mar 1970) and Carol Beth Hilburn (Nov 1970).
The occupation with linking Thompson to Denise, though, is that his different unfortunate was recovered rather easily.
It’s astonishing to maine that her lawsuit has received truthful small attraction implicit the years. Aside from determination lone ever being 1 little notation of a reward successful the newspaper, I haven’t seen a azygous station anyplace from anyone who really knew Denise. Not from her roommates, friends, theatre colleagues, slope co-workers, precocious schoolhouse oregon assemblage classmates… there’s conscionable nothing, arsenic though she’s conscionable been forgotten.
Thank you to Solve Crimes With Rick and Gavin for taking connected this disappearance with truthful small to enactment with. Like you said successful your fantabulous video, Denise needs to beryllium remembered, and immoderate effort needs to beryllium made to find retired what happened to her.
After wrapping up the penning of my article, but earlier publishing it, I decided to instrumentality a speedy look astatine the California Unclaimed Property Database, since we knew determination was a slope relationship that hadn’t been touched. Indeed, it is inactive determination and to this time has ne'er been claimed.
This listing besides told maine that she lived successful Apt E. So backmost I went to that 1971 metropolis directory and recovered that I was correct- everyone who was listed astatine that code were successful antithetic apartments. Apt E is listed arsenic VACANT.
Sources:
Charley Project
Solve Crimes With Rick and Gavin