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Darla Melissa Harper
Missing since March 4, 1986 from Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.
Classification: Endangered Missing
Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: July 2, 1960
Age at Time of Disappearance: 25 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'3", 110 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown eyes; light brown hair.
Marks, Scars: She has a 1-1/2 inch burn scar on the left elbow and a small scar on the right cheek.
Clothing: She was last seen wearing a pull-over shirt and jeans.
Jewelry: Diamond "horseshoe" shaped ring, diamond cluster ring, Necklace with a "teardrop" shaped diamond pendant.
Dentals: Available
Circumstances of Disappearance
Harper's neighbor heard noises at 11:00 pm, March 3, 1986 but did not investigate. The following day Harper failed to report to her job at IRS and a co-worker checked but found that she was missing from her Gravel Ridge apartment. She has not been heard from again. Her two-year-old daughter was left behind. There was blood on the front door of Darla's apartment.
One of the only clues was a set of finger prints found in her abandoned car, which was located in a commuter parking lot near Crystal Hill nine miles away from her apartment, shortly after Harper's disappearance.
According to Darla's mom, she had just gone through a divorce four months earlier. Darla's daughter was 2 and-a-half- years-old when her mom disappeared in 1986. Authorities have followed hundreds of leads over the years. In 1990, investigators searched the back yard of Harper's ex-husband (the house Darla lived in prior to her divorce) and found a bone fragment, but couldn't match it to Harper.
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Department is still investigating this case.
Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Pulaski County Sheriff's Office 501-340-6601
Agency Case Number: 86-03487
NCIC Number: M-187616677
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.
Source Information:
Nations Missing Children Organization
Kark TV
KTHV
KATV Channel 7 - 2/3/05
The Doe Network: Case File 168DFAR
Link:
http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/168dfar.html
Darla Melissa Harper
Missing since March 4, 1986 from Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.
Classification: Endangered Missing
Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: July 2, 1960
Age at Time of Disappearance: 25 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'3", 110 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown eyes; light brown hair.
Marks, Scars: She has a 1-1/2 inch burn scar on the left elbow and a small scar on the right cheek.
Clothing: She was last seen wearing a pull-over shirt and jeans.
Jewelry: Diamond "horseshoe" shaped ring, diamond cluster ring, Necklace with a "teardrop" shaped diamond pendant.
Dentals: Available
Circumstances of Disappearance
Harper's neighbor heard noises at 11:00 pm, March 3, 1986 but did not investigate. The following day Harper failed to report to her job at IRS and a co-worker checked but found that she was missing from her Gravel Ridge apartment. She has not been heard from again. Her two-year-old daughter was left behind. There was blood on the front door of Darla's apartment.
One of the only clues was a set of finger prints found in her abandoned car, which was located in a commuter parking lot near Crystal Hill nine miles away from her apartment, shortly after Harper's disappearance.
According to Darla's mom, she had just gone through a divorce four months earlier. Darla's daughter was 2 and-a-half- years-old when her mom disappeared in 1986. Authorities have followed hundreds of leads over the years. In 1990, investigators searched the back yard of Harper's ex-husband (the house Darla lived in prior to her divorce) and found a bone fragment, but couldn't match it to Harper.
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Department is still investigating this case.
Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Pulaski County Sheriff's Office 501-340-6601
Agency Case Number: 86-03487
NCIC Number: M-187616677
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.
Source Information:
Nations Missing Children Organization
Kark TV
KTHV
KATV Channel 7 - 2/3/05
The Doe Network: Case File 168DFAR
Link:
http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/168dfar.html