NY NY - Jennifer Gordon, 29, Watertown, 10 Sept 1997

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The Doe Network:
Case File 1984DFNY

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1984dfny.html

Jennifer Jean Gordon
Missing since September 10, 1997 from Watertown, Jefferson County, New York
Classification: Endangered Missing



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Vital Statistics
•Date Of Birth: January 31, 1968
•Age at Time of Disappearance: 29 years old
•Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'3"; 130 lbs.
•Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; blue eyes.
•Marks, Scars, Tattoos: She has a long scar on right calf 3 to 4", a scar on upper lip, from left to right and a tattoo of a bleeding rose on her left shoulder.
•Medical: Jennifer was being treated for schizophrenic and alcohol abuse, but often went off her medication because she feels there is nothing wrong with her. At the time of her disappearance she was not taking her medication. She has been known to have a drug problem - possibly abusing marijuana or other drugs.
•AKA: Jennifer Loomis
•Dentals: Not Available
•Fingerprints: Available
•DNA: Available



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Circumstances of Disappearance
Gordon was last seen in Watertown, New York on September 10, 1997.
She has a history of running away, but in the past, she has maintained contact with her family via a phone call home every couple of weeks. This time, there were no phone calls. She left behind a 3 year old son.
Jennifer can be considered a drifter of sorts having spent time in the Carolina's and Florida.



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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Jefferson County Sheriffs Department
Detective Gary Belch
315-786-2673
315-788-1441

Agency Case Number: 19465-97

NCIC Number: M-070614717
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
New York Missing Persons
Jefferson County Sheriffs Department

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/gordon_jennifer_jean.html
More details at Charley Project.


https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/7689/2/
NamUs Profile:
Dental: NA
DNA: Sample submitted-tests complete
Fingerprints: NA

Jennifer has been missing almost 13 years now. Come home soon. Prayers for her family and her Son.
 

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Jul. 15—WATERTOWN — With the summer of 1997 giving way to fall, and Halloween approaching, Alice M. Gordon wondered when her phone would ring.

Her 29-year-old daughter, Jennifer J. Gordon, wasn't a runaway. When Jennifer periodically traveled to other states with boyfriends, her mother always knew where she went. Jennifer called to check in. Jennifer found her way home.

Alice recalls last seeing Jennifer on Sept. 10, 1997.

"I started getting really worried when she didn't contact me around Halloween time to go trick-or-treating with her son," Alice said over the phone from her Glen Park home this week. "That got my attention — where is she?"

At the time, Alice and Jennifer were rearranging custody of Jennifer's 3-year-old son Eric, whom Alice adopted and raised. Even through the process of the custody change, it was typical for Jennifer to call and check on Eric, Alice said, especially around a holiday.

The sheriff's office doesn't have a budget line only for cold case investigations — those cases that lose momentum, lack enough prosecutorial evidence or just don't have the evidence at all, he said. When leads do surface, they're scrutinized before additional resources are expended. If credible information points detectives somewhere, "this sheriff would spend the money to look at it," he said.

Barnett hopes refreshing the detective unit with old notes will prompt new questions.

"What can we go back and redo?" he said. "Where could it lead?"

In November 1997, Alice told the Watertown Daily Times that she feared for her daughter's life. She did not believe her daughter to be suicidal, but added, "She believes she has no friends and no family that cares about her."
 
Details of disappearance updated - Jennifer Jean Gordon – The Charley Project

Gordon was last seen in Watertown, New York on September 10, 1997. A week prior to her disappearance, she had been discharged from a community psychiatric facility on Stone Street. She has never been heard from again. At the time of her disappearance, she lived in the 700 block of State Street; the building has since been demolished.

She has left home before, but had always kept in touch with her loved ones every few weeks by phone. None of them have heard from her since her disappearance. Her mother reported her as a missing person 40 days after she was last seen.

Gordon has led a transient lifestyle in the past and has previously lived in Florida and North and South Carolina. Many of the men she had relationships with were physically abusive to her. At the time of her disappearance, she and her mother were fighting over custody of Gordon's three-year-old son. Her mother later adopted the child.

Few details are available in Gordon's case, which remains unsolved. Her mother is still alive and still hopes for resolution in her case.
 

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