Anna's Vital Statistics and case details

[PonderingThings]

http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/176dfca.html (http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/176dfca.html)
(Photos at link)

Anna Christian Waters
Missing since January 16, 1973 from Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California
Classification: Non Family Abduction

# Vital Statistics Date Of Birth: September 25, 1967
# Age at Time of Disappearance: 5 years old
# Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 3'8; 40 pounds
# Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Blonde hair; brown eyes.
# Marks, Scars: Waters has dimples and a mole on her cheek.
# Clothing: Blue Levis; blue/white t-shirt; black rubber boots.
# Dentals: Not available

Circumstances of Disappearance
Waters was last seen playing in her family's backyard in San Mateo County, California on January 16, 1973.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning Waters' whereabouts, please contact:
San Mateo County Sheriff's Office
650-364-1811
You may remain anonymous when submitting information to any agency.

Agency Case Number:
730484

NCMEC #: NCMC601935

NCIC Number:
M-205458221
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

[PonderingThings]

http://www.missingkids.com/photographs/NCMC601935c1.jpg
Anna in 1973 aged 6 yrs

http://www.missingkids.com/photographs/NCMC601935e1.jpg
Anna's Aged progressed photo - 38 yrs

NCMEC POSTER (http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=601935&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US)

[Annasmom]

Notice that the age progression has what seems to be a mole on Anna's left cheek. She had a mole near her eye on the right cheekbone (barely visible in the kindergarten picture), but none on the left cheek. She also has a smallpox vaccination scar on one upper arm.

[PonderingThings]

I asked Anna's Mom to tell us what she thinks Anna may look like as a grown up based on family likenesses, etc. This is what she replied:

Please note: This is absolutely a guess
about 5'8"
130 pounds
light brown hair with blonde highlights
and probably glasses.

Maybe athletic (though I'm not, and I'm a lot rounder than I was at 38!)



Note: Thank you again Anna's Mom for this info!

[PonderingThings]

http://www.missingchildreninternational.org/cases/waters-anna-christian/ncmc601935e1.jpg

Different age progression - from
http://www.missingchildreninternational.org/cases/waters-anna-christian/

[Annasmom]

http://www.missingchildreninternational.org/cases/waters-anna-christian/ncmc601935e1.jpg

Different age progression - from
http://www.missingchildreninternational.org/cases/waters-anna-christian/
Pondering: The International site is definitely something new to me. I contacted the California Amended Name site and received the following reply:
"WATERS ANNA C 1967 09 25 BENEDICT FEMALE SAN FRANCISCO Has anyone ever sent for her birth certificate recently to see if it is sealed or open? If they send you a copy then it was never formally sealed, or had a replacement for the birth certificate." I'm not sure I understand this, but I am sending for the birth certificate anyway. I think it means that if I can get a copy of the birth certificate, a LEGAL name change or adoption has never been made. Of course, that doesn't rule out falsified documents, which I understand are not difficult to obtain through underground sources (sorry, my only reference is television, but my husband's passport was stolen a couple of years ago, so I think things like this go on in the real world.

[itsreenw]

Pondering: The International site is definitely something new to me. I contacted the California Amended Name site and received the following reply:
"WATERS ANNA C 1967 09 25 BENEDICT FEMALE SAN FRANCISCO Has anyone ever sent for her birth certificate recently to see if it is sealed or open? If they send you a copy then it was never formally sealed, or had a replacement for the birth certificate." I'm not sure I understand this, but I am sending for the birth certificate anyway. I think it means that if I can get a copy of the birth certificate, a LEGAL name change or adoption has never been made. Of course, that doesn't rule out falsified documents, which I understand are not difficult to obtain through underground sources (sorry, my only reference is television, but my husband's passport was stolen a couple of years ago, so I think things like this go on in the real world.Annasmom, as a DMV employee, I can tell you this does indeed go on, 9/11 hasn't slowed down identity theft it has just forced birth certifiicate and document forgers to get better at their trades. The demand has always been there as long as their have been crooks and con artists and sadly, there is always going to be someone on the other side of the counter that is willing to let a document or two slip through for a pay off.

[PonderingThings]

Anna's Mom you logic makes perfect sense to me - unfortunately I don't know anything about birth certificate access.

Since the international site is new to you.... what do you think of the age progression?

[Annasmom]

Anna's Mom you logic makes perfect sense to me - unfortunately I don't know anything about birth certificate access.

Since the international site is new to you.... what do you think of the age progression?
Hi, Pondering. The age progression seems to be one which the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children did a few years ago. I would be fascinated to learn how they do this. They used family photographs, but their software probably is based on typical growth patterns, using mathematical formulas. Just looking at family resemblances on both sides, I would think Anna's nose would be thinner, her brow somewhat higher and her head longer. Her hair might be darker, and she might wear glasses. Also, that business of the mole in the wrong place persists. She had a mole on her right upper cheekbone, not on the left jaw. That said, it seems almost miraculous that they can take a photograph of a five-year-old child and make it into a believable picture of a woman in her thirties!

[SherlockJr]

Save me some time here....somewhere in all these posts I remember reading something about a possible medical condition that was never posted. Annasmom or Dr Doogie, could you send me a message what this might be?

[Dr. Doogie]

Save me some time here....somewhere in all these posts I remember reading something about a possible medical condition that was never posted. Annasmom or Dr Doogie, could you send me a message what this might be?
I am not aware of Anna having any medical problems, though I may have missed it myself in all the posts. Annasmom might be able to give you a definitive answer on that.

[Annasmom]

Save me some time here....somewhere in all these posts I remember reading something about a possible medical condition that was never posted. Annasmom or Dr Doogie, could you send me a message what this might be?No, there was no medical condition. Maybe you are remembering that I said she had a smallpox vaccination scar on one upper arm (and I don't remember which one).

[Dr. Doogie]

It has been suggested that I post the links to all of the pictures of Anna here for easy access. Here they are:

Last picture of Anna taken before her disappearance (within 2 weeks of abduction):
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drdoogief/detail?.dir=/aac9&.dnm=b540.jpg&.src=ph

This picture was taken four months before her disappearance (9/17/72). Notice that she was a little heavier in the face as compared to just before she disappeared:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drdoogief/detail?.dir=/aac9&.dnm=d8c4.jpg&.src=ph

This is the picture that appears on her missing posters. It also was taken 9/72:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drdoogief/detail?.dir=/aac9&.dnm=c41c.jpg

Here is a picture from 1972 showing her playful side:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drdoogief/detail?.dir=/aac9&.dnm=c41c.jpg

This a portrait painted by a local artist commissioned by Annasmom after Anna disappeared. it is an amazing work, both playful and haunting at the same time:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drdoogief/detail?.dir=/aac9&.dnm=2b56.jpg&.src=ph

This is an age-progression to age 25. Annasmom has commented that this was the least likely of the age-progressions. As you can see, the mouth is way too large in comparison to the rest of the face. She commented that it does not look like anyone she would recognize, but I must admit, it looks like Annasbro in drag (sorry, N-Dude!):
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drdoogief/detail?.dir=/aac9&.dnm=5fafscd.jpg&.src=ph

This is the age-progression to age 31. It is better, but the teeth still seem to look too large:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drdoogief/detail?.dir=/aac9&.dnm=5fafscd.jpg&.src=ph

Here is the age progression to 35. It is looking more realistic than the others, but it repeats the error of the mole being on the wrong side of the face and is much too prominent:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drdoogief/detail?.dir=/aac9&.dnm=f803scd.jpg&.src=ph

Based on the 35 year age-progression, Annasmom sketched what she felt were better representations of what Anna would look like today:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drdoogief/detail?.dir=/aac9&.dnm=f193scd.jpg&.src=ph

[Joe Ford]

I thought it might be a good idea to post the timeline for the day that Anna disappeared here for quick reference.

Timeline at Ranch on 1/16/1973



7:00 AM- Joe left for work

7:30 AM- Anna and brothers on bus to school

7:45 AM- Annasmom feeds chickens and animals

10:00 AM-Rooster attacks horsewoman, Annasmom brings her to house,

hysterical

-another horseperson arrives at Ranch

-horsepeople return to horsebarn together

-rooster attacks woman again

-horseman kills rooster and tosses in creek

11:00 AM-Two friends with infant arrive from SF for visit with Annasmom

Noon – Joe returns – construction job shut down due to rain

12:20 – Anna arrives on school bus

12:40 – Anna goes outside to play in yard, puts on red coat and rubber boots

1:30 PM- Ranch resident (family friend) comes in back door for visit



Anna comes back in house
Friends from SF finish visit and leave
Resident/friend goes to road to collect previous day’s mail, returns

2:00 PM- Annasmom hears Anna in bedroom/porch, talking (to cats?)

2:10 PM- Carpenter friend of Joe arrives for visit

2:15-2:20 PM- Annasmom, no longer hearing Anna-sounds, becomes

alarmed. She had been monitoring sounds as mothers do-

back door opening and closing, Anna playing in yard

2:20 PM – Annasmom panics-she, Joe and the two friends rush outside to

look for Anna, shouting her name

2:45PM – After a frantic search of the creek area and outbuildings, Sheriffs

Department is called

3:15 PM- Sheriffs Deputies arrive, blast siren. Formal search begins of ranch

and creek

*** Sometime later Joe’s friend reports that while coming up Purissima Rd,

that he stopped and got out of his truck to admire some horses grazing.

While there he was passed by a westbound van with two people inside

that waved to him. He also said that when he arrived at our house at

2:10 PM he saw Anna at the front of our house, said hi to her and came

in.

[smile22]

ok i was looking at the timeline and have read the manuscript. and one thing that i dont know if it was discused or not is annasmom do you remember what she was saying when you heard the noises? the possible talking to the cats? if the georges were involved do you think they could have snuck in from the back and she was talking to them?

[SherlockJr]

Annasmom has been working with Anna's age progression picture and asked to post it here for everyone to see. The bone structure of her face, eyebrows, and mole have been modified. She has also given Anna a haircut in one of the pics.

[iNTERESTEDWOMAN]

In the younger pictures of Anna, she appears to have unusually curly hair, a little less so in the last picture, but still curly. In the snap shots taken was her hair "curled" via hair rollers, or was that natural?

[Annasmom]

In the younger pictures of Anna, she appears to have unusually curly hair, a little less so in the last picture, but still curly. In the snap shots taken was her hair "curled" via hair rollers, or was that natural? Anna had naturally curly hair.

[SherlockJr]

It's here already! A new age-advanced picture of what Anna may have looked like around the age of 18. Let's get busy looking for some high school yearbooks from 1981-1986. Thank you Steve at the NCMEC.

[Dr. Doogie]

The hair looks so 1980's, which is perfect (since Anna would have graduated high school around 1985-86).

[Cubby]

Every time I see an updated picture of Anna I am in awe. These last two are fantastic. This is very different than I had imagined Anna in her HS years. She is so beautiful.

But..... oh, and of course there is a but...... I had to pull out my old HS yr books. Could only find 81-82-83, could not find 84. My sisters should have 85 through 88. To check "the hair"...... It's hard for me to tell from this photo, whether this looks like naturally wavy hair, or the spiral perms, which were not "in" for our age group until the mid 90's.

In early 80's Anna would have attended, either fall of 81/82 and graduated 85/86. (Im going to guess 86, or maybe even 87 considering KG is not legally mandatory in many area's, and it is possible Anna skipped KG entirely starting 1st fall of 75. )

Early 80's through 84, my graduation year, we all still wore "feathered" hair. I noticed the girls with naturally curly hair, usually wore bangs or short feathered bangs, the rest left curly or curled under bangs. 85-87 still some of the same, and the girls started wearing the shorter feathers on the sides, just covering the ear's longer in the back. Plus some of the princess Di hair styles. It wasn't until the late 80's "big hair" was in..... and the early to mid 90's with the spiral perms and of course some of that colored punk.... here and there.

The hair kind of threw me off, and my first thought was the mid 90's spiral, so I confirmed with a life long friend who is a beautician, I had my years right for the varying 80's styles.

The face, tan, makeup age...... etc. Totally Awesome! as we said back in the 80's.

This is great! Has Annasmom seen this picture yet?

[Dr. Doogie]

Has Annasmom seen this picture yet?

Yes, she is the one who received it from the NCMEC.

[Gina_M]

The new age progression is really beautiful. Bulletins are being circulated on MySpace, asking people to check their yearbooks. Do local libraries also keep yearbooks on file?

[MagicRose99]

It's here already! A new age-advanced picture of what Anna may have looked like around the age of 18. Let's get busy looking for some high school yearbooks from 1981-1986. Thank you Steve at the NCMEC.

Wow! What a beautiful young girl! It's wonderful!

[SherlockJr]

Wow! What a beautiful young girl! It's wonderful!

This was my first thought too. My second thought was if she were my daughter, she would not be allowed "out" till she turned 50. :waitasec: No wonder she's so hard to find!

[MagicRose99]

This was my first thought too. My second thought was if she were my daughter, she would not be allowed "out" till she turned 50. :waitasec: No wonder she's so hard to find!

LOL! How true! LOL!

Seriously, I really hope this helps in the search... someone has to recognize her somewhere...