CA CA - Janice Chai Hsi Lo, 39, San Gabriel, 12 Nov 1996

[Gardener1850]

Missing Person / NamUs #MP19972
Janice Chai Hsi Lo

Female, Asian
Height 5' 4" - 5' 6" (64 - 66 Inches)
Weight 110 - 130 lbs

Hair Color Black
Head Hair Description Long, past shoulders
Eye Color Brown

Last Known Location Map
Location San Gabriel, California 91776
Los Angeles County

Circumstances of Disappearance
Janice Lo left her office at World Marketing Alliance in San Gabriel and met a friend for dinner. Later that night, she was seen driving away from the Rivera Restaurant in San Gabriel. Her briefcase and Lexus later turned up in different cities.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[Jim_M]

DBM Will repost after all information is laid out.

 

[Gardener1850]

Article Published Nov 20, 1996

After a weeklong investigation into the sudden disappearance of a West Covina woman, police said each clue they find lends the case a new mystery.

Janice Chia Hsi Lo, 39, was reported missing after she failed to turn up at her San Gabriel office Nov. 13. A punctual, devoted worker, Lo was not one to miss appointments or run off unexpectedly, said West Covina Sgt. Mark Dettor.

Police said they found Lo's briefcase in the City of Commerce last week.

"It contained the regular stuff you'd expect to find in a briefcase," Dettor said. But what the briefcase was doing in Commerce, Dettor said, "nobody knows."

Lo's apartment showed no sign of forced entry and her 1995 Lexus LS400 was found just around the corner from her home on Azusa Avenue by a passing motorist Sunday.

Police have questioned her boyfriend, friends and co-workers, as well as several people in the Taiwanese city in which Lo's parents live, but the interviews provided investigators with little information, Dettor said.

Mystery Grows Over Missing Women

 

[Gardener1850]

San Gabriel Valley Tribune (West Covina, CA) – Monday, November 12, 2001

Today marks the five-year anniversary of the night the 39-year-old West Covina woman vanished. Lo has become the second longest missing person case in West Covina; Leslie Ann Porter disappeared from her Sentous Street apartment 17 years ago.

“You’re looking for that one thing that would lead you to solve the case,” said police spokesman Cpl. Rudy Lopez. “We ran out of leads. Frustrating.”

Detective Cruz Garcia, who now handles the case, said he periodically gets calls – about four this year – from other agencies who found skeletal remains. The department sends Lo’s dental X-rays to see if they match, he said.

Recently, the case drew the attention of San Jose police, who were investigating the disappearance and murder of Ping Wang of San Jose.

Both victims were Chinese, in their late 30s, and not apt to just leave their responsibilities. And the victims’ vehicles were found days after they vanished, parked within blocks of their homes.

But the lead fizzled.

“It doesn’t seem associated or related with one another,” said San Jose Sgt. Armando Realyvasquez. “What happened to Janice Lo isn’t what happened to Ping Wang.”

Read More: Disappearance of Janice Lo still unsolved – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

 

[Gardener1850]

Lo was known to put in long hours at work; it wasn’t unusual for her to come home late to where she lived alone in a rented house in the 1500 block of Holly Oak Drive. She never missed appointments, so when she didn’t show up for work or return pages, her co-workers reported her missing.

Police found several of her business suits, still swathed in plastic, lying on the floor of her garage. She didn’t take out the garbage and apparently didn’t get a chance to check the messages on her answering machine.

A day after she vanished, her briefcase was found at a Commerce loading dock. She had no appointments scheduled in that city. Her 1995 Lexus LS400 turned up two blocks away from her house on Nov. 17.

It wasn’t damaged.

No one used her credit cards or withdrew money from her bank account, detectives said.

“Everything points to a homicide but until a body is found, it’s still a missing person,” Lopez said.

Disappearance of Janice Lo still unsolved – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

A very pretty woman... makes me wonder if she had caught someone's attention at work or in her neighborhood. Someone that knew about her living alone etc., possibly waiting for her to come home late that night.

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Janice, now missing 25 years...

 

[Aurora90]

Bump

 

[Diavola]

NamUs UP17160
-Human remains were discovered in a wooded area off State Highway 20 in Nevada City, California.
-Estimated to be between 25-45 years

I can see some similarities with the reconstruction.

 

[TSL7584]

Missing 26 years today

 

[Aurora90]

NamUs UP17160
-Human remains were discovered in a wooded area off State Highway 20 in Nevada City, California.
-Estimated to be between 25-45 years

I can see some similarities with the reconstruction.

did you submit this?

 

[Aurora90]

Lo was known to put in long hours at work; it wasn’t unusual for her to come home late to where she lived alone in a rented house in the 1500 block of Holly Oak Drive. She never missed appointments, so when she didn’t show up for work or return pages, her co-workers reported her missing.

Police found several of her business suits, still swathed in plastic, lying on the floor of her garage. She didn’t take out the garbage and apparently didn’t get a chance to check the messages on her answering machine.

A day after she vanished, her briefcase was found at a Commerce loading dock. She had no appointments scheduled in that city. Her 1995 Lexus LS400 turned up two blocks away from her house on Nov. 17.

It wasn’t damaged.

No one used her credit cards or withdrew money from her bank account, detectives said.

“Everything points to a homicide but until a body is found, it’s still a missing person,” Lopez said.

Disappearance of Janice Lo still unsolved – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

could she be in the water? her briefcase was found on a loading dock...

 

[Aurora90]

id suggest adventures with purpose but after the recent revelations...not so much.

 

[Diavola]

@Caring1 could you post Janice's exclusions?

 

[Caring1]

@Caring1 could you post Janice's exclusions?

1 Unidentified Person Exclusion

 

[Diavola]

NamUs UP17160
-Human remains were discovered in a wooded area off State Highway 20 in Nevada City, California.
-Estimated to be between 25-45 years

I can see some similarities with the reconstruction.

I have submitted through DoeNetwork.

 

[Diavola]

NamUs UP17160
-Human remains were discovered in a wooded area off State Highway 20 in Nevada City, California.
-Estimated to be between 25-45 years

I can see some similarities with the reconstruction.

I have submitted through DoeNetwork.

Excluded through dentals.