Missing
Atlanta Clark
Clark, approximately 1984
Date and time person was reported missing : 01/04/1984
Missing location (approx) :
Panama City, Florida
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 01/16/1910 (111)
Age at the time of disappearance: 73 years old
Height / Weight : 5'4, 150 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A white nylon windbreaker with a red stripe on the sleeves, a blue sweater, blue jeans and white sneakers.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Clark has an artificial hip.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Clark traveled to Panama City, Florida from her home in Ontario, Canada in January 1984. She was visiting friends in Panama City at the time and checked into Continental Condominiums for her stay. She was last seen having dinner with her friends, who were staying in the same condo, three days after her arrival
Her friends reported her to authorities as a missing person when they failed to locate Clark on January 4, 1984. Her condominium was searched by investigators shortly thereafter.
Clark had left all her belongings behind, as well as a note insinuating she might have taken her own life. No other evidence was located. She has never been heard from again.
Clark's case was reopened by Panama City authorities in 1997. Another search of the area was conducted with cadaver dogs at that time, but Clark was not recovered. Investigators sent Clark's possible suicide note to the United Secret Service in 1997 for handwriting analysis, to determine whether she had in fact written it herself. The results have not been released.
In March 2000, an inmate in a Florida prison wrote a letter to a friend saying he had killed Clark. Police investigated his account and concluded the man was not, in fact, involved in Clark's disappearance. A woman matching Clark's description died in a New York City hospital in May 2000, but it turned out she was not the missing woman.
Clark's case remains open; she has never been located, but is presumed to be deceased.
Other information and links : ncy
Panama City Police Department
904-233-5000
September 2021 updates and sources
The Doe Network
The News Herald
October 12, 2004. August 8, 2010; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
