Missing
Jana Mann Witt
Witt, approximately 2005
Date and time person was reported missing : 08/17/2005
Missing location (approx) :
Glen Rose, Texas
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 07/17/1961 (60)
Age at the time of disappearance: 44 years old
Height / Weight : 5'3, 160 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Red hair, blue eyes. Witt may use the last names Branch, Holstin and/or Howard. Some Age at the time of disappearance: ncies refer to her as Jana Mann-Witt.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Witt was last seen in Glen Rose, Texas on August 17, 2005. She said told people she was going to visit her daughter, who lived in Cleburne, Texas, and accompany her daughter and granddaughter to the child's first day of kindergarten.
Witt never arrived at her daughter's home and has never been heard from again. When her daughter stopped by her house, both the front and back doors were locked and the television was turned on. Witt left her purse, medication, shoes and pickup truck behind.
Prior to her disappearance, Witt worked for ten years in Granbury, Texas. She got a job at Ike's Place, a small, now-defunct restaurant in Glen Rose, and was working there when she went missing.
Witt reportedly exhibited behavioral/personality changes prior to her disappearance; the night before she went missing, she wouldn't let her daughter hug her and said she wasn't feeling well. Her daughter said she "just wasn't herself" and hadn't been for weeks. Foul play is suspected in her case, which remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Texas Department of Public Safety
800-346-3243
September 2021 updates and sources
Somervell County Crime Stoppers
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Hood County News
October 12, 2004. August 21, 2016; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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