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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: July 1, 1996 from Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Classification: Endangered Missing
Age: 37 years old
Height and Weight: 5'2, 120 - 125 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair, green eyes. Minassian's nickname is Tricia.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A gray sweatshirt and black stretch pants.
Medical Conditions: Minassian was depressed at the time of her July 1996 disappearance; she had previously been hospitalized for her condition. She also may suffer from occasional episodes of memory loss as the result of injuries sustained in a vehicular accident.Bar
Details of Disappearance
Minassian was vacationing in Cape Cod, Massachusetts with her husband and three children in July 1996. The family resided in Hingham, Massachusetts at the time. Minassian's youngest son was taking a nap during the afternoon of July 1. She told other family members that she planned to visit a local car wash before returning home. Minassian has never been heard from again.Minassian's red/maroon 1994 Mercury Villager minivan with Massachusetts license plates numbered 667-ZIS was located abandoned and locked in the Cahoon Hollow Beach parking lot, fifty miles away, shortly afterwards. The location is where Minassian and her husband went on their first date eighteen years before her disappearance. Authorities believed that she committed sucide in the ocean and began canvassing the nearby beaches for her remains. Extensive searches of the Cahoon Hollow and Newcomb Hollow areas produced no evidence as to Minassian's whereabouts.
The day after Minassian disappeared, her husband found some letters inside her pocketbook which was in the second family car. In the letters she stated she loved her husband and children. She apologized for not being a good wife, parent, and employee and stated that everyone would be better off without her. The letters did not state that she was going to commit suicide, however, and she has never attempted to do so before. Minassian's credit cards and Social Security number (SSN) have not been used since her disappearance, and she left behind her wedding rings, purse, credit cards, identification cards, keys and $12 in cash.
There were several unconfirmed sightings of Minassian in the Brockton, Massachusetts area in April 1997. Police believe she took her own life, possibly by walking into the ocean, but if she did so her body has not been found. Minassian's husband believes she may have started a new life under another identity. Her disappearance remains unsolved.




 

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First google search brings up a living women who looks a whole lot like her

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Lengthy article.
Oct 12 2021
Who is missing in Massachusetts? Missing persons website lists only two people
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Neo Babson Maximus and Patricia Minassian are the only ones listed as missing on the Massachusetts government’s website.

''Public database
Massachusetts doesn’t have a public database for all missing persons.

Although the website does link to NamUs, a national database often used for missing and unidentified persons cases, police departments in the commonwealth aren’t required to use it.

There are 155 missing persons reports listed for Massachusetts, a massive difference from the two listed on the state’s website. However, those in the NamUs database are still only about 6% of the state’s active missing person cases, according to a 2020 report from the Missing Person’s Task Force in Massachusetts. The number is even lower for unidentified person cases entered into the federal NCIC database, which is specifically for police departments.

“Only 4% of the state’s active unidentified person cases have been entered into the federal NCIC database,” the report states.

The report was released Dec. 2020 and it recommended that the state require police to use both NCIC and NamUs “without delay.”

“The task force determined that only 129 of the 2,202 active missing person cases in Massachusetts have been uploaded to NamUs by law enforcement agencies and only 7 of the 175 active unidentified person cases have been uploaded to NCIC by the OCME,” the report continued. “Having accurate and precise information implemented into these databases (NCIC and NamUs) are critical to solving the states missing and unidentified person cases.”

Only 10 states have passed legislation mandating the use of NamUs. Massachusetts is still not one of them, yet it has helped in Massachusetts cases.''
 
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Name: Patricia Minassian
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: July 1, 1996
Location Last Seen: Bourne, Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: December 19, 1958
Age: 37 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 120 lbs
Hair Color: Brown, shoulder length
Eye Color: Green/hazel
Nickname/Alias: Tricia
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Medical: Minassian had been experiencing episodes of depression since a car accident two-and-a-half years previously, in which she suffered head and back injuries. She had spent a week in a psychiatric hospital two times in the previous year.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Black pants; grey sweat shirt
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance​

Minassian was last seen by relatives in Bourne on June 30, 1996.

She and her family were vacationing on Cape Cod when she drove off in a Red 1994 Mercury Villager MA Reg# 667-ZIS and left a 15-page letter stating the family would be better off without her.

The minivan she was driving was found in a Wellfleet restaurant parking lot where she and her husband had gone on their first date 18 years ago.

Mr. Minassian told The Cape Cod Times that his wife, an occupational therapist, indicated in the letter that she needed her own space and was unhappy with the way she had been feeling, but did not mention suicide.

Police have turned up no new leads in the case and dive teams and helicopters that searched the ocean off the Cape Cod National Seashore have found no trace of her.

NamUs Case Number: 21391
NCIC Case Number: Unknown

Information Source(s)​

NamUs
Massachusetts State Police
News-Standard 7/10/98

Admin Notes​

Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 10-14-2022 - By: hwa
 
June 4, 2012 -story about Patricia's son graduation and his speech

<<Saturday’s ceremony became emotional when student speaker, Kevin Minassian took the stage.

Minassian who will attend New England College in New Hampshire this Fall, told his fellow students to be grateful for life- something that he has always been after his mother went missing in the summer of 1996. Minassian described how a car accident on Halloween 1995 left his mother, Patricia with brain damage which led to severe depression. He detailed the struggles she dealt with until one day, she put her son, only 2 years-old at the time, to bed, and left the house in the family’s car. The car was found days later at Cahoon Beach in Wellfleet and she was never seen again.>>
 
There is an article from the Boston Globe here, but I do not have access. If someone else does, could you post the article here?
 

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