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Juanita Ritchie










Missing Person Case September 2021


Ritchie, approximately 1966




Date reported missing : 11/01/1966

Missing location (approx) :
Dwarf, Kentucky
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White


DOB : 09/10/1928 (92)
Age at the time of disappearance: 38 years old
Height / Weight : 5'2 - 5'7, 120 - 150 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes.





Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Ritchie was last seen in Dwarf, Kentucky on November 1, 1966. She left home to go to the grocery store and never returned.
Her family reported her disappearance to the police about a week later, but they stated there was no investigation conducted at the time, and the police later misplaced the missing persons report and all the other information they had on her case. Ritchie left behind six children. She has never been heard from again.
In the early 1990s, a man gave the police a written statement that another man had confessed to killing Ritchie in a rape attempt. Nothing came of the lead, however. In 2012, Ritchie's brother got an anonymous phone call from a blocked number saying Ritchie's body was in a certain well in Rowdy, Kentucky.
The police pumped the well and found nothing, and decided it wouldn't be safe to send a person inside it to look around. Ritchie's brother had the well pumped a second time and found a piece of concrete at the bottom.
Foul play is suspected in Ritchie's case. Her Social Security number was never used after her disappearance, and there hasn't been any indication of her whereabouts since 1966. The investigation into her disappearance was reopened in 2012.


Other information and links : ncy

Kentucky State Police
606-435-6069



September 2021 updates and sources

The Hazard Herald
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