oct 10, 1979 - Lisa Jane Borden DISAPPEARANCE

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Lisa Jane Borden was born on January 15, 1960 in Cooke, TX to parents Jack Fred Borden and Joyce Mildred Hester. At the time of her disappearance Lisa was 19yo. She lived with her family in Big Spring, Howard County, TX.

Lisa was last seen by her family on Wednesday, October 10, 1979 in Big Spring. She traveled to CA shortly afterward. She called her family later in the month from CA.

Lisa was last known to be in Lodi, San Joaquin County, CA. Her boyfriend sent her a plane ticket for a return flight back to TX, but she never retrieved it. She has not been heard from again.

An unknown friend told Lisa's family that Lisa was living in Amarillo, Potter County, TX, working as a waitress, but the friend did not provide further information, and this account has not been confirmed.

Lisa was known to hitchhike. She was reported missing by her sister. According to Charley Project, authorities believe Lisa may have been taken against her will. Big Spring PD is investigating her case.

Lisa is listed on both the TX Department of Public Safety's Missing Persons Clearinghouse database as well as the CA Department of Justice website. According to the former, her "Case Type" is "Involuntary." She is classified as Endangered Missing on both Charley Project and Doe Network. Lisa is listed as missing from Lodi, CA on Charley Project, while all other databases list her as missing from Big Spring, TX. Her picture was last updated on the TX MP Clearinghouse site on October 16 2001, and her NamUs case was created on December 14 2010.

Lisa was a nineteen-year-old white female who was 5'8 and 140 lbs at the time of her disappearance, though NamUs states that she was 5'8-5'11 and 140-150 lbs. She has brown hair, brown eyes, and a scar on her left hand. She has metals and screws implanted in her left hand after an injury sustained in an automobile accident. It is unknown what she was wearing when she disappeared.

Lisa attended Gainesville High School during the 1975, 1976, and 1977 school years; in the 1975 yearbook that is available on Ancestry.com, someone circled her photo in marker and wrote "queer" with an arrow pointing to her. Lisa attended Abilene High School in 1978. In that yearbook there are mistakenly two school portraits of her, one captioned "Lesa Borden" and the other "Lisa Borden." Lisa is not mentioned at all in her mother's obituary. She had one brother and four sisters. Her father passed away in 2010, and her mother passed in 2016.

Lisa's fingerprints and DNA are available, while her dentals are not. She has seventeen exclusions on NamUs; all of the UIDs found in western states have since had their NamUs pages taken down, including one that has since been identified as Gwenn Marie Story.

Anyone with information regarding Lisa's disappearance is encouraged to call the Big Spring PD at (432) 264-2550. The agency case number is 98-C-3365. Tipsters can also contact the Texas Missing Persons Clearinghouse at (800) 346-3243, agency case number M9808001.

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WRITE-UP COMPLETION DATE: May 31, 2025

Cases mentioned above that are also/will be present on this timeline:
Gwenn Marie Story
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