Eleanor Marie Trujillo was a 37-year-old female who was last seen in Yakima, Washington, on February 1, 1996, beginning a disappearance that has remained defined by limited public information and enduring uncertainty. Public missing-person listings identify her NamUs case as MP76158 and place her last known contact in Yakima on that date. She is described in public records as an American Indian / Alaska Native woman with brown hair and brown eyes, approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall and about
196 pounds.
At the time she disappeared, Eleanor was reportedly working at the Heritage Care Garden Center in Yakima. Public reporting on her case says she was reported missing about a year after she vanished, a delay that leaves the earliest period of the case especially unclear. There are no widely available public photographs of Eleanor, which adds another painful barrier for public recognition and awareness. What is available is spare but significant: her name, her age, her last seen date, her community, and the fact that people have continued to preserve her case information decades later.
Eleanor’s disappearance is also part of a broader pattern of missing Indigenous women and girls in Yakima County that has drawn concern from advocates and community observers. Five Star Journal reported that Yakima County holds the majority of missing Indigenous women and girls in Washington state, and listed Eleanor Trujillo among the women who disappeared from the area, noting her February 1, 1996 disappearance. That context does not answer what happened to Eleanor, but it underscores why her case matters beyond a single file number: she was a woman with a life, work, relationships, and a place in her community, and her disappearance sits within a larger history of families and communities seeking answers.
The publicly available record does not provide a detailed timeline of Eleanor’s final known movements, the exact circumstances under which she was last seen, who last had contact with her, or what investigative steps followed in the immediate aftermath. Uncovered lists the case as needing attention and identifies the key public facts as her missing date, age at incident, and NamUs number. SpotCrime’s Yakima County missing-person listing similarly records the core identifiers: Eleanor Trujillo, missing age 37, last seen in Yakima on February 1, 1996, with case number MP76158.
Taken together, the official and public records tell a restrained but important story: Eleanor Marie Trujillo, a 37-year-old American Indian / Alaska Native woman, disappeared from Yakima, Washington, on February 1, 1996; she was associated with work at the Heritage Care Garden Center; she was later entered into public missing-person systems under NamUs MP76158; and the publicly available information remains limited many years later. The case stands as an unresolved disappearance marked by a late report, few released details, and an ongoing need for attention, remembrance, and credible information. At its heart, this is the case of Eleanor Trujillo: a woman last known in Yakima in the winter of 1996, whose absence continues to matter and whose story remains incomplete.Last Seen: Feb 1, 1996
