Missing
Kristy Lynne Booth
Booth, approximately 1980
Date and time person was reported missing : 02/02/1980
Missing location (approx) :
Midland, Texas
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 12/26/1960 (60)
Age at the time of disappearance: 19 years old
Height / Weight : 5'7, 115 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A white button-down blouse, a pink vest, blue Levi's jeans and no shoes.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Booth has a birthmark on the right side of her abdomen and a dimple on her left cheek. Her ears are pierced. Her nickname is Kriss. She has one missing tooth.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Booth was last seen at the Dimensions Nightclub, a disco club popular with local young adults, in the 400 block of Air Park Road in Midland, Texas on February 2, 1980. She was partying there with friends. She has never been heard from again. She left her purse, shoes and coat inside the nightclub.
Temperatures outside were below freezing and authorities believe Booth would not have left the building willingly without her coat or shoes, unless she was only planning to be gone a short time.
One of Booth's male friends, Ron Ferrengburg, dropped her off at the club and left, driving Booth's maroon and white 1975 or 1977 AMC Pacer. Booth was discovered missing at 11:00 p.m., when Ferrengburg returned to pick her up and couldn't find her. She was not reported missing for five days, however.
Booth's vehicle was located abandoned approximately one to one and a half miles south of Highway 20 on SH 349 (Rankin Highway) on February 4, two days after she was last seen. It had been driven 268 miles that could not be accounted for. Ferrengburg was considered a suspect in her disappearance, but he passed a polygraph test.
Booth is a graduate of Lee High School, where she was involved in several extracurricular activities, including the Art Club and Future Homemaking of America. At the time of her disappearance, she lived with her parents and siblings in the 4400 block of Monty Avenue and worked as a cocktail waitress at The Great Gatsby, a now-defunct restaurant on Cuthbert Avenue. She was not having any problems at home at the time she went missing.
The Dimensions Nightclub closed in the early 1980s. Ferrengburg is now deceased. Foul play is suspected in Booth's disappearance.
Other information and links : ncy
Midland Police Department
432-685-7110
September 2021 updates and sources
Texas Department of Public Safety
Crime Stoppers of Odessa, Texas
California Attorney General's Office
The Odessa American
The Midland Reporter-Telegram
YourBasin News
6 October 12, 2004. July 20, 2020; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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