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Case Description

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Summary based on the NamUs case record (MP23402) and 4 other sources
In the summer of 1981, a 26-year-old woman named Cathy Anne Smith vanished from Kansas City, Missouri. She was last seen on July 1st of that year. At the time of her disappearance, Cathy was described as a white female with brown, shoulder-length hair and blue eyes. She stood between 5'10' and 6'3' and weighed between 160 and 180 pounds. Cathy, who sometimes went by the aliases Kathy Anne Smith, Kathy Anne Parker, or Cathy Anne Parker, was an employee of the Frisco Railroad. She was in the process of relocating from Kansas City back to Harrison, Georgia, a place she had lived before.

The circumstances surrounding Cathy's disappearance remain unclear, as very few details are available in her case. It is known that she went missing while she was en route to Harrison, Georgia. Tragically, she never reached her destination and has not been heard from since. The railroad she worked for, the Frisco Railroad, was later acquired by the Burlington Railroad. The lack of information has made the investigation challenging for the Kansas City Police Department over the years.

Despite the passage of time, Cathy Smith's case remains open. Information has been shared through various platforms in the hope of generating new leads. Her case is listed in national missing persons databases, and law enforcement continues to seek any information that might shed light on her whereabouts. The central mystery of the case is what happened to Cathy after she left Kansas City with the intention of starting a new chapter of her life in Georgia. The scant details have left her family and investigators with unanswered questions for decades.

Last Seen: Jul 1, 1981