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Peggy Anne Sweeten










Missing Person Case September 2021


Peggy, approximately 1998




Date reported missing : 01/17/1998

Missing location (approx) :
Grove, Oklahoma
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White


DOB : 03/20/1946 (75)
Age at the time of disappearance: 41 years old
Height / Weight : 5'2 - 5'6, 145 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian female. Black hair, brown eyes. Peggy wears eyeglasses.





Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Peggy was last seen in Grove, Oklahoma on January 17, 1998. Her husband, James Lee Sweeten, stated he returned home from a work-related conference to find her gone.
He stated Peggy left their wedding rings, along with a note saying she was leaving him for a man she met on the internet. She has never been heard from again.
Peggy left behind all her personal belongings, including her car and clothing. James filed for divorce three weeks after Peggy went missing, and the divorce was granted in April. He remarried late that year.
The couple's adult son, Patrick, had last spoken to his mother in December 1997. James didn't tell Patrick that Peggy was missing until March 1998, and it wasn't until June that Patrick convinced his father to file a missing persons report.
Patrick doesn't believe his father's story about Peggy's disappearance and thinks James may have harmed his mother; he stated Peggy didn't use the internet, didn't have an email address and could not have met anyone through there.
James was having an affair with a married woman at the time of Peggy's disappearance. The woman divorced her husband in April 1998. She and James moved in together in June and married in December.
Authorities believe Peggy was a homicide victim, and James is considered a person of interest in her presumed death. They searched his property in September 2011, but didn't find any evidence there. Her case remains unsolved.


Other information and links : ncy

Oklahoma District Attorney's Office
918-542-3224



September 2021 updates and sources

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October 12, 2004. October 11, 2011; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.