Deceased/Not Found CA - Dawn Sanchez, 32, Los Altos, 20 Sept 1991

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Case File 2298DFCA

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Dawn Elaine Sanchez
Missing since September 20, 1991 from Los Altos, California
Classification: Endangered Missing



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Vital Statistics
•Date Of Birth: May 20, 1959
•Age at Time of Disappearance: 32 years old
•Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 4'11"; 109 lbs.
•Distinguishing Characteristics: Hispanic female. Black hair; brown eyes.
•Dentals: Not available.



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Circumstances of Disappearance
Dawn Elaine Sanchez disappeared from the Four Seasons Motor Inn in Los Altos, where she lived. She has never been seen again. Sanchez, formerly a prostitute at the Mustang Ranch in Nevada, reportedly left the Four Seasons Motor Inn on El Camino Real in Los Altos with two male friends, to buy drugs.

Suspicion turned to her boyfriend, a Santa Clara man who was charged with her murder. Her body was never found. Charges against the boyfriend were dropped.
Before Sanchez's disappearance, she had told another man who also lived at the motel that the boyfriend had assaulted her in the past and that she was afraid of the boyfriend, who she claimed carried a handgun and had killed a man who once propositioned her.

According to that man, the three of them drove to a vacant field near the Twin Creeks Softball Park in Sunnyvale, near Lawrence Expressway and Highway 237. The three spent some time in the lot before the boyfriend suddenly jumped back into the car, drove about 100 yards with Sanchez and then stopped, according to the witness's statements. He claimed to have seen the couple fighting and then heard what sounded like a gunshot before the vehicle sped away.



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

Los Altos Police Department
650-947-2770

Agency Case Number: 912488

Source Information:
CA DOJ
Mercury News

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/sanchez_dawn.html

Not in NamUs at this time.

Dawn's BF was convicted of her murder. She has never been located.

Dawn has been missing almost 19 years. Come home soon.

Sending prayers of strength, love and comfort to Dawn's family and friends.

so the perp, bernardo bass, took a plea to manslaughter and got 7 years. because a NASA robot was used to find the parts of his car in a vacant lot.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/nasa-robot-helps-crack-a-murder-case/