nov 19, 1968 - Linda Mary Garrison DISAPPEARANCE

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Linda Mary Garrison, 19, was last seen on Tuesday, November 19, 1968 in Sumner, Pierce County, WA. She is not missing from tribal land. According to clippings posted to WebSleuths, Linda left home after a horse ride and hasn't been seen since. As of three weeks after the last sighting of her, her German shepherd, named "Checko," had apparently refused to eat since Linda's disappearance.

One month before her disappearance, Linda — who was 18 years old and living at 1522 Fryar Ave in Sumner at the time — was, "rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup Thursday [October 10 1968] for treatment of back injuries sustained when she fell to the pavement from a horse."

Linda is a white female with blond/strawberry hair and blue eyes. She was 5'1 and 125 lbs at the time of her disappearance. One newspaper clipping spelled her middle name as "Marie" rather than "Mary."

According to NamUs, her current age (as of 10/30/24) would be 74 years old; as of 3/22/25, her current age would be 75. This, combined with the information from the 10/11/68 clipping and her age at time of disappearance, puts her birth sometime between October 31, 1949 and November 19, 1949 (inclusive).

Linda has zero rule-outs on NamUs. Anyone with information in her case is urged to please contact the Sumner Police Department at (253) 863-6384. The agency case number is 1000448.

I submitted all information that I could find (i.e. everything above) to the Doe Network; her case was added to DN on March 28, 2025.

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WRITE-UP COMPLETION DATE: March 29, 2025
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LUNAR PHASE: waning crescent
ZODIAC SIGN: scorpio
DAY OF WEEK: Tuesday

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