Sarah Elizabeth Kinslow
Age progressed to 20 years old
Missing Person Information
Missing Since: May 1, 2001 from Greenville, Texas
Classification: Endangered Runaway
Date Of Birth: June 14, 1986
Age: 14 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 100 - 105 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Kinslow has a tattoo of the letter I on the inside of her ankle, two chicken pox scars to the left of her nostrils, and an additional chicken pox scar on her left temple. Her teeth are crooked; the two upper front ones overlap each other. Kinslow's left ear is pierced four times, two times in her lobe and two times in her cartilage. Her right ear two or three times in the lobe. She has a mole on the right side of her neck near her collarbone. Kinslow swings her arms when she walks. She wore a size 9 shoe in 2001. Kinslow may have grown taller since her disappearance. She may have dyed her hair another color, possibly brown, and possibly cut it short as well. She had acne at the time of her disappearance.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A colored t-shirt which may have had a logo on it, a teal hooded zip-up jacket, baggy blue jeans, blue and gray sneakers, a watch with a black band and a pink face with the cartoon character Minnie Mouse on it, an a silver necklace with a pendant that spells the word "rock."
Case Story
Kinslow was last seen when she was dropped off at Greenville Middle School in her hometown of Greenville, Texas at 7:20 a.m. on May 1, 2001. She did not attend her classes the day of her disappearance; she and her friends had planned on meeting a local cemetery and skipping school. Her friends say she never met them. She has never been heard from again.
Police dogs traced Kinslow's scent to two blocks from the school, but then the trail ended. A witness claims he saw Kinslow inside an older model light blue Ford truck at 3:30 p.m. on the afternoon of her disappearance; the truck was near Kinslow's school and was driven by a Caucasian male in his thirties. The man had dark brown hair and a pencil moustache. The witness stated that Kinslow did not appear to be upset and was not trying to get out of the truck. Another witness says Kinslow was at seen a phone booth in Caddo Mills, Texas after her disappearance.
A week after Kinslow's disappearance her eighteen-year-old boyfriend, Curtis Wayne Bell, was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. While investigating Kinslow's disappearance, police discovered that she had been sexually involved with Bell. It was apparently consensual, but Kinslow was not of legal age to give her consent.
Kinslow's parents did not allow her to date, but they knew of her relationship with Bell. He lives in Quinlan, Texas and was one of the friends who was supposed to skip school with Kinslow on the day of her disappearance. Kinslow had been dating Bell for two months prior to her disappearance; she wanted to marry him and wrote in her diary that she and Bell would run away to Mexico if her parents did not allow them to be together. Bell admits that he and Kinslow discussed running away, but says they were not being serious.
Kinslow did not take any extra clothes, her toothbrush, or her purse when she went missing. Police nevertheless believe she left of her own accord. Several of her friends failed polygraph tests in connection with her disappearance. Bell and all of Kinslow's other friends disclaim knowledge of her whereabouts.
Kinslow was possibly seen in the Tualatin, Beaverton, Tigard, and Portland areas of Oregon in early 2004 and may have been sighted in Surrey, British Columbia in late 2004. She is reported to have cut her hair short and dyed it brown. Her case is unsolved and still classified as that of a runaway.
Who to contact
Greenville Police Department
903-457-2900
OR
Texas Department of Public Safety
800-346-3243
Source Links
The Charley Project
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Texas Department of Public Safety
Child Search Ministries
The Child Seek Network
The Laura Recovery Center
Nation's Missing Children Organization
4 the Kids
The Polly Klaas Foundation
MISSING Sarah E. Kinslow
Families of Missing Loved Ones
Project Jason
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/k/kinslow_sarah.html
