MI MI - Paige Renkoski, 30, Fowlerville, 24 May 1990

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Paige Marie Renkoski
Missing since May 24, 1990 from Fowlerville, Livingston County, Michigan.
Classification: Endangered Missing

Vital Statistics

Date Of Birth: February 2, 1960
Age at Time of Disappearance: 30 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'6; 125 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Blonde hair; blue eyes.
Marks, Scars: Long surgical scar on inside of right arm, surgical scar on right leg from knee replacement. She has 2 surgical screws in her left knee.
Clothing: White silk shirt, silk patterned slacks. Long beaded necklace.

Circumstances of Disappearance

Paige Marie Renkoski, 30 years old, was last seen speaking with an unidentified Black male on the shoulder of Interstate 96 near the Fowlerville exit in Michigan on May 24, 1990 at approximately 3:00 - 4:30 PM. Her car was later found abandoned; the keys were in the ignition and the engine was running. The door to the vehicle was unlocked and Renkoski's purse and shoes were located inside. She has never been seen nor heard from again.

On that day back in 1990, Renkoski had dropped her mother off at Metro Airport at 11:30 a.m. and stopped to visit a friend in Canton Township until about 2:30 p.m. She stopped at a party store, bought a beer and headed back to Lansing. Some witnesses have told police they saw her vehicle weaving in and out of traffic, a maroon or burgundy van following close behind.

She left a large sum of money in her bank account and apparently had no travel plans. Renkoski had a close relationship with her mother and was engaged to be married.

In 2002, police said they have identified one suspect and are seeking a second in the disappearance of Paige Renkoski. The Livingston County Sheriff's Department relseased composite drawings of both suspects and told of new leads. Among them: at least two suspects were seen by passing motorists. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance.

Investigators

If you have any information concerning Renkoski's whereabouts, please contact:

Livingston County Sheriff's Department 517-546-2440
OR
Michigan State Police 810-227-1149

All information may be submitted anonymously.

Agency Case Number: 147-4661-90
NCIC Number: M-250465529
Please refer to these numbers when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
Nation's Missing Children Organization and Center For Missing Adults
The Detroit Free Press
The Detroit News 5/31/02
The Doe Network Case 294dfmi

LINK:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/294dfmi.html
 
*bump* An update on the investigation..

http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20110220/NEWS01/102200303

Six possible suspects identified in 1990 disappearance of woman along freeway (with sketches)

By Lisa Roose-Church • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • February 20, 2011

After logging more than 4,300 investigation hours chasing tips in the 1990 disappearance of an Okemos woman, a cold-case team said it has identified six possible suspects in the case.

The team also hopes to use special sonar equipment in the spring as it follows tips suggesting three Livingston County properties where substitute teacher Paige Marie Renkoski may be buried.

Officials would not confirm the locations being eyed, except to say the sites are in Fowlerville, Tyrone Township and Genoa Township.

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http://www.freep.com/article/20110525/NEWS05/105250400/Livingston-team-use-radar-search-missing-Paige-Renkoski?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

Paige Renkoski has been missing and presumed dead for 21 years, but the cold case team working toward finding her body hopes it's getting closer, thanks to ground-penetrating radar.

Livingston County Sheriff's Department cold case squad member Mike Frayer, who is leading the investigation, said the group hopes to begin using the borrowed equipment today to search three Livingston County areas identified as possible burial locations for Renkoski. The substitute teacher from Okemos was last seen the afternoon of May 24, 1990, on the shoulder of westbound I-96, about a quarter-mile east of the Fowlerville exit, talking with one to four men.

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Investigators seek public's help in cold case (with suspect sketches)

A cold-case team has developed three new suspect sketches in connection to their search for an Okemos woman last seen in 1990 on an expressway near Fowlerville.

Cold case team member Mike Frayer said the sketch based on a tip from a now retired Michigan State Police intelligence officer is considered “extremely credible” and a second sketch based on a tip from a woman resembles a former truck driver serving time in New York for four murders.

http://www.livingstondaily.com/arti...-sketches-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage
 
http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/cold-c...arch-with-cadaver-dogs-in-paige-renkoski-case
Cold case investigators to conduct search with cadaver dogs in Paige Renkoski case

Posted: 2:50 PM
Last Updated: 26 minutes ago

(WXYZ) - The Livingston County Cold Case Team plans to do a search with cadaver dogs at 11:00 a.m. on Friday after receiving a tip in the Page Renkoski case.
As we first reported on October 24, there were some promising leads in the cold case surrounding the disappearance of Renkoski – the woman who vanished 21 years ago along I-96 near the Fowlerville exit.

Cold case investigators will meet at the Eaton County substation in Delta Township and then move to the search area. The search location has not yet been disclosed.

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Cadaver Dogs Alert to Possible Human Remains During Search For Paige Renkoski

Cadaver dogs searching Thursday for a Lansing-area woman who disappeared 21 years ago detected what investigators believe to be human remains in Livingston County.

The search for Paige Marie Renkoski took investigators to three locations. The dogs got a positive response for human remains in a northern area of Livingston County, said Sheriff's investigator Bill Lenaghan.

"That means that there's something there that they have honed in," he said.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20111111...emains-in-Paige-Renkoski-search#ixzz1dNhrlvor
 
This link was posted previously, however I noticed that the Livingston Daily articles are not kept on-line for too long.so I wanted to capture some key points here on WS.

http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20111024/NEWS01/111024009/Investigators-seek-public-s-help-cold-case-suspect-sketches-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage

In it there are sketches of three possible suspects. (I tried to post the image, but it didn't work.)

There is also a discussion of leads from three people:

1) a retired Michigan LE officer drove by PK's car on the shoulder of I-96 and saw a black man peering into her car's rear window. There was a cargo-type van pulled up behind her car. PK was not seen.

2) a woman was picked up by a trucker in 1989 after her vehicle broke down on I-96. He told her she just made the "biggest mistake of her life". Luckily she said she had a gun and he let her get out. Apparently he resembles an ex-trucker who is serving time in NY for four murders. They are going to compare the convicted killer's palm print with a palm print found on PK's car.

3) a woman traveling on I-94 near Kalamazoo in 1990 said a man in an old car fashed a police badge at her in an attempt to get her to pull over. He was described as black and later referred to as Hispanic. So perhaps he looked black, hispanic?
 
An expected dig Friday in Conway Township in which cadaver dogs indicated the possible presence of remains was delayed.

Sheriff Bob Bezotte said investigators will seek a search warrant for the property in the 7700 block of Sober Road and digging isn't expected to begin until this week.

http://www.livingstondaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011111130311


I wonder if this is the area on the map that was provided by the tipster.
 

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