Missing
Maria De Lourdes Pahl
Pahl, approximately 1980; Age when reported missing: 67 (approximately 2012)
Date and time person was reported missing : 08/01/1980
Missing location (approx) :
Vinton, Texas
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
Hispanic
DOB : 03/04/1945 (76)
Age at the time of disappearance: 35 years old
Height / Weight : 4'11 - 5'0, 100 - 140 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A green top and blue jeans.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Hispanic female. Black hair, brown eyes. Pahl has a dimple on her chin and a scar on her abdomen. Her nicknames are Laura, Lulu and Luly. She may use the last name Calleros-Duran.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Pahl was last seen in Vinton, Texas on August 1, 1980. She left home after an argument with her husband, saying she was going to take the bus to Anthony, New Mexico to get groceries.
Her oldest daughter was in Georgia at the time, and went home to take care of her siblings after Pahl didn't come home. There were six children in the family, one of whom was less than a year old.
Pahl and her family had moved from Florida to El Paso in 1978 and lived in a house in the 100 block of Holguin Road. She didn't have a driver's license at the time of her disappearance. In the years since then, her family has left El Paso.
The police didn't conduct any investigation after Pahl disappeared; they merely filed a missing persons report. The investigation was reopened in 2000, thirty years later, and authorities began looking into the possibility that foul play was involved in her case.
They excavated her family's former home and found no evidence, and Pahl's oldest daughter stated she didn't believe her father was involved in her mother's case.
Pahl is described as a devoted mother who wouldn't have abandoned her children. Little information is available in her disappearance.
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El Paso County Sheriff's Office
915-538-2291
September 2021 updates and sources
Texas Department of Public Safety
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