NY NY - Stacy Pennant, 21, Brooklyn, 09 Feb 1995

Stacy A. Pennant

Missing Date: February 9, 1995
Missing From: Brooklyn, NY
Age: 21
Ht: 5'0" Wt: 120 lbs
Eyes: Brown Hair: Black
Scar over left eyebrow

Last seen wearing a green ski jacket, gray sweat pants, and white shoes.

Pennant was last seen on February 9, 1995 in Canarsie, Brooklyn driving a 1990 blue Honda Civic del Sol with New York license plates E478RT.
Her car has never been found.

NYCPD Missing Persons Squad - 212 694-7781 - Case No. KNMP01322


NamUs MP #10284

Doe Network 1329DFNY

Charley Project-Stacy A Pennant

New York State Missing Persons - Stacy Pennant

New York Daily News
March 10, 1995
" The night she went missing, Pennant went out on a rare date with a friend from Delta who lives in Canarsie. She picked him up at his Canarsie home to see the movie "Higher Learning" at a Valley Stream mall. At 11 o'clock that night, she dropped him off on E. 85th St. The friend, who asked not to be named, remembers her being in great spirits that night despite a recent break-up with a boyfriend. "She was laughing," he said. "She didn't have a worry in the world.

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What a baffling case.

Almost to the day 19 years ago this young lady vanished. What happened to Stacy?

I wonder why the "Friend" asked not to be named. did they took a BOLO on the car? Also, did she really made it to the movies?

1995 article:

Classes during the day and work at night was her steady routine until she never returned home from one rare night out. Stacy Pennant has been missing since Feb. 9, when she dropped off a friend in Canarsie just two blocks away from the home of Kimberly Antonakos, who was later found burned alive. Both woman were last seen driving Hondas, both were outgoing college students and while there is no hard evidence linking the two disappearances, Pennant's family and friends fear the worst.

They are convinced that Pennant, a 21-year-old they describe as a straight-arrow, did not run away, "She was very focused," said her mother, Deva Walters. "If she wasn't at work, she was here studying or sleeping.

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https://www.google.com/amp/www.nyda...article-1.680297?client=ms-android-sonymobile

The police said they had no specific evidence to link the two cases but added that there were some similarities.
By last night, the police had not identified the body that was discovered in Brownsville. But they were investigating whether it was that of Stacy Pennant, a 21-year-old student at Queensboro Community College who was reported missing in Canarsie on Feb. 9.
The woman found yesterday was black, about 20 years old, 5 feet tall and 110 pounds, closely matching the description of Ms. Pennant. The body was found behind Public School 183 at 76 Riverdale Avenue.
The woman had been strangled and stuffed in a plastic bag that was placed in a suitcase. The suitcase was hidden between two red trash containers behind the school, which is just a few blocks north of Canarsie. The suitcase had been doused with gasoline and set afire, the police said.
Although Chief of Detectives Charles Reuther described the body as being roughly similar to Ms. Pennant, he cautioned that a positive identification would have to come from the Medical Examiner's office.
Ms. Walters said her daughter, a graduate of Arden High School in Kingston, Jamaica, had been attending college and working full time for Delta Airlines at nearby Kennedy International Airport. Ms. Pennant had lived with her mother in 231-19 126th Avenue in Laurelton, Queens.
"The police have not been doing all they can," Ms. Walters said. "We approached the newspapers and the radio. It wasn't newsworthy for them to print it."
Ms. Pennant went to a movie with a co-worker the night she disappeared. The co-worker, a 19-year-old native of Jamaica who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was the last person to see Ms. Pennant alive.
"She was in great spirits," he said, adding that the woman was happy about her new car, a 1990 blue Honda Civic that she had purchased on Long Island and decorated with stuffed animals in the back window.
The co-worker said Ms. Pennant, got lost on her way to pick him up at his Canarsie home, and he gave her instructions on how to get from his home to a nearby entrance to the Belt Parkway that would take her back to her home in Queens. Her car has not been found.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/10/nyregion/burned-body-of-a-woman-found-at-brooklyn-school.html


2 things came to mind now that there is DNA I wonder if they could check the body that was burned in the suitcase.. since the body seems to fit the description of Stacy.. and #2 I wonder how much they really looked into her anonymous friend that was the Last to see her?

Updated Charley Project link: http://charleyproject.org/case/stacy-a-pennant

Kimberly Antonakos killer was eventually found and convicted, so it's not linked to Stacy.

It's now been 26 years...

Cold Case: Stacy A. Pennant

29 years in a week.
I'm featuring her for the month of February here. Hoping there can be water searches done for her car in the spring, there's a good writeup of that theory here. She had just bought it, had gotten lost on the way to pick up her friend, was given directions to the Belt Parkway which crosses multiple bodies of water, and it was in the 20's and windy that night.

I called about hers because there's no page for her on any of the nyc missing person sites, like it appears there used to be above, I'm told because her case is active.. Not sure if the case number listed is up to date, I believe 1990 Honda Civic is correct (not Del Sol, those released in 1992).


Put her photo through an AI enhancer too.