Missing
Rhonda Lynn Yocom
Yocom, approximately 1985
Date and time person was reported missing : 02/07/1985
Missing location (approx) :
Oroville, California
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
Asian
DOB : 07/29/1965 (56)
Age at the time of disappearance: 19 years old
Height / Weight : 5'1, 115 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : Possibly earrings, two turquoise rings and a silver chain with a unicorn pendant.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Asian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Yocom has a small unicorn or rose tattooed on her breast and scars on both legs from sores. Her ears are pierced. She may use the last name Dabis. Yocom is of Filipino descent.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Yocom was last seen getting into a car with Odis "Buck" Garrett in Oroville, California on February 7, 1985. He was going to drive her to Klamath Falls, Oregon so she could avoid having to make a court appearance about a criminal matter. Garrett owned a house in the Vallejo, California area and may have taken Yocom there instead. She called her boyfriend, John Woolen, on February 11. This is the last time anyone heard from her.
Both Woolen and Garrett are members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, and Garrett is currently serving multiple life sentences in prison for drug charges and murder. Authorities stated Woolen wasn't a suspect in Yocom's disappearance, but they thought he might have been involved in the disappearance of another girlfriend, pageheadert Barr.
Yocom is considered missing under suspicious circumstances. Her case remains unsolved and foul play is suspected.
Other information and links : ncy
Nevada County Sheriff's Department
530-265-7880
Butte County Sheriff's Office
530-538-7434
September 2021 updates and sources
California Attorney General's Office
The Union
The Doe Network
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Butte County Sheriff's Office
5 October 12, 2004. August 11, 2013; Description, clothing, jewerly and more : and Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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