CA CA - Alexander Lengheimer, 53, San Francisco, 18 Dec 1988

[TheArtfulDetective]

Alexander Lengheimer



Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: December 18, 1988
Location Last Seen: San Francisco, San Francisco County, California

Description:

• Date of Birth: November 10, 1935
• Age: 53 years old
• Race: White/Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Height: 5' 7" (67 inches)
• Weight: 180 lbs
• Hair Color: Brown
• Eye Color: Brown
• Nickname/Alias: Unknown
• Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
• Clothing & Personal Items: Unknown
• Identifiers: Dental records available

Circumstances of Disappearance:
Lengheimer was last seen in San Francisco, California on December 18, 1988. He has never been heard from again.

On December 30, Lengheimer's vehicle was found abandoned at a beach on the Great Highway and Sloat Boulevard. He is believed to have disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Few details are available regarding his case and his whereabouts remain unknown.

Investigators:

• San Francisco Police Department: (415) 558-5508; (415) 553-1071; [email protected]
  Reference Case#: 89-0023727

NamUs Case Number: MP41505
NCIC Case Number: M-339152037

Alexander Lengheimer
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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[alb1on]

I wonder whether he may have gone abroad. My reason for saying this is the absence of US records for him (other than addresses) combined with an Ancestry record for the arrival of an Alexander Lengheimer in Melbourne, Australia in 1958. The record records his destination in Australia as the Bonegilla CIC(Commonwealth Immigration Centre) - in other words he was emigrating to Australia, having embarked in Genoa. The online records of the Bonegilla centre at Search then show the person arriving in Australia was born in 10/11/1935 (as with the missing Alexander) and was born in Austria. This gives a lot of international connections and, assuming the missing man and the 1958 Australian arrival are the same it would help to know why he was in the USA and when he arrived.

 

[alb1on]

Just to add a bit more information. I am fairly sure he arrived in California before 1971 (and so, presumably was settled having lived there for 17+ years). This assumption comes from the chess result of an A Lengheimer reported in The California Chess Reporter of July/August 1971 at http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/ccr/V21N1.pdf. (see toward the bottom of page 9 and top of page 12). This at least excludes the possibility that he was either just a recurrent visitor to the area or a recent immigrant. Unfortunately he appears to have been a fairly weak player and a search on the FIDE ratings site does not show any player of his name - but this is not surprising (I played myself but stopped in the mid 80s when my rating would have disappeared).