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Evitts, Loy February 28,1977; Kansas 29 YO
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Loy Evitts


Above: Evitts, circa 1977


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: February 28, 1977 from Kansas City, Kansas
Classification: Endangered Missing
Age: 29 years old
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair. Geise wears contact lenses. She has a petite build.


Details of Disappearance

Evitts was last seen during her lunch hour on February 28, 1977 in Kansas City, Kansas. She had her watch adjusted, browsed several stores on the Plaza, drove to a drugstore on Main Street and Westport Road, and bought coffee and an umbrella. Evitts's yellow sports car was found back in its customary space that afternoon, but there was no sign of her and she nas never been heard from again. Her purse was found ten days later, in southeast Kansas City near Unity Village.
Evitts was employed at a law firm at the time of her disappearance. Her loved ones stated she was very attached to her car and it would be uncharacteristic of her to walk anywhere when she could drive. She was born and raised in Coffey, Kansas and was a former queen nominee at Kansas State University, where she studied clothing and retailing. She lived in Overland Park, Kansas at the time of her disappearance, was happily married and was not having romantic or financial problems. Evitts is described as a meticulous person, both about her appearance and her possessions.

Evitts's disappearance is considered suspicious, but little evidence is available in her case. Her husband had her declared legally dead seven years after she was last seen.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Kansas City Police Department



Source Information
The Kansas City Star



Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated June 4, 2006; casefile added.

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One of the most baffling disappearances in Kansas City history was that of Loy Evitts, 29, a legal secretary on the Plaza, who vanished during her lunch hour Feb. 28, 1977.
Three kids looking for their lost dog found her purse 10 days later under a bridge in southeast KC near Unity Village.
Evitts, a former KSU queen nominee, was happily married in Overland Park and had no romantic or financial entanglement, police said.
"This is the first saint I've ever seen," said Sgt. John Wilson, missing-persons supervisor at the time. "Everybody says she's perfect and I haven't hardly been able to disprove it."
Two months later, police said they weren't "completely convinced" Evitts was dead. But no new leads ever developed, and Evitts' husband moved to have her declared legally dead seven years later.

Here's The Star's 10-years-after article.

KC Public Library has a compendium of photocopied articles of murders 1981-1984 from The Star and The Kansas City Times, including the Loy Evitts case.

Email inquiry today: "I was wanting to know if you knew any information on Loy Evitts, who went missing from the Plaza in...She and her husband lived just a few houses away from where I took my daughter to a home daycare at the time..."

Posted by Greg Reeves on Monday, March 06, 2006 at 09:26 AM
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3/1/78 article

Hope abandoned for woman
KANSAS CITY (AP) - A year ago Tuesday, Loy
Evitts, a 29-year-old legal secretary, went to lunch.
She never came back.
Despite exhaustive searches and hundreds of police
interviews, no trace has been found of Mrs. Evitts
since two weeks after her disappearance when some
children found her purse and some belongings under a
bridge.
Her husband, Don, and police believe she will never
be found aliIe. "I have prepared myself mentally and
accept that I will never see her again," Evitts said.
Sgt. John Wilson has helped supervise the police
investigation into Mrs. Evitts' disappearance.
"We know within an hour where she was when she
disappeared from the parking lot on the Country Club
Plaza and we know where her purse was found, and
that's about all the hard evidence we have," Wilson
said. "I suspect she is buried in a shallow grave
somewhere in the area where her purse was found, but
if you don't have a body, you don't have a homicide."
Wilson said huge files containing information about
the disappearance continue to grow, but the results
are always the same. Authorities say the purse is the
only evidence found that indicates Mrs. Evitts was
abducted.
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ATCHISON GLOBE
Monday, March 21, 1977

Police Hold
Man In Case
Of Loy Evitts

KANSAS CITY ( AP) — Police today resumed a widespread investigation into the disappearance of a legal secretary, with a primary figure behind bars in the Jackson County Jail.
Charges wore expected to be filed today against a 34-year-old Grandview man
arrested Friday night in connection with a search for Loy Evitts, a 23-year-old
Overland Park, Kan., woman who vanished Feb. 28.
The man, who was not identified, was taken into custody after authorities traced
an anonymous telephone call they believe he made concerning the investigation.
He was being held on a fugitive warrant for passing bad checks in Kansas.
Authorities said that charge and possibly others would be filed
against him today in magistrate court.
Mrs. Evitts disappeared while on a lunch break from work. Her purse was found
March 11- under a bridge in southeast Kansas City and officials have searched the area periodically since then. Authorities said a search Friday in Lee's Summit apparently was prompted by the phone call. Police were trying to determine whether the man was a prankster or actually connected to Mrs. Evitts' disappearance. A police spokesman said the man'shouse was searched, but he declined to say whether any evidence was found.
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3/18/77 article

Clothing not that
of missing woman
KANSAS CITY (AP) -

Items of women's clothing discovered Wednesday in an eastern Kansas City suburban area apparently did not belong to a missing law firm secretary.
Police originally thought the clothing might have belonged to Mrs. Loy C.
Evitts, 29, who vanished from work Feb. 28. But after talking to Evitts,
detectives said the torn and stained garments found near Lee's Summit were apparentlya false lead, even though they were Mrs.Evitts' size. Evitts said he
did not think the clothing belonged to his wife. Last Thursday, .the missing
woman's purse and some loose papers bearing her name were uncovered under
a bridge in southeast Kansas City.
Mrs. Evitts, a secretary;has not been seen since leaving her job in the Country
Club Plaza on a lunch break the afternoon of Feb. 28.
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Chillicothe Constitution Tribune
July 16, 1977

BODY HALF IN ARKANSAS IS STUDIED
IN K.C. KIDNAPPING



NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
(AP) — Police are investigating
the possibility that
a body found Thursday may be
that of an Overland Park, Kan.,
woman missing since Feb. 28.
Sgt. Bob gward of the North
Little Rock Police Department
said today there was "a very
good possiblity" the body was
that of Mrs. Loy C. Evitts, 29, a
legal secretary who disappeared
while on a midday
shopping trip in downtown Kansas
City.
However, Ward added that
"nothing is definite.
"I have some articles of
clothing and a description that
the medical examiner here has
arrived at," he said. "I'm
working with Kansas City authorities
and the state medical
examiner's office. We'll be
back in touch with Kansas
City
this afternoon. They may send
an investigator down here."
The body was discovered on
the North Little Rock side of
the Arkansas River about 8
p.m. Thursday by a man who

lives in the area, Ward said.
"All we liave is the lower
portion of the body from a little
below thewaist to the ankles,"
he said.
Capt. Robert Pattison of the
Kansas City police department
said the description here is
"the first good lead that we've
had" since the woman disappeared.
About two weeks after the
disappearance, three children
found a purse under a bridge in
Kansas City containing the
woman's check book and credit cards.

in late March, a Kansas City
man was arrested and ques-
tioned in connection with the
woman's disappearance, but
later was released.
Police also spent some time
digging in an area after receiv-
ing a telephone tip that the
woman might have been bur-
ied, but turned up nothing.

Lauran

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Evitts, Loy Gillespie

Missing since February 28, 1977 from Kansas City, Missouri
Classification: Involuntary
Date Of Birth : December 12, 1947
Age at Time of Disappearance: 29 years old
Approximate Height and Weight5'5" and 126 lbs
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Long blonde or strawberry hair; hazel eyes
Marks, Scars: Scar on abdomen
Clothing: A three-quarter length blue knit sweater with a maroon turtle neck and maroon slacks, she was carrying a leather shoulder bag and a black and white pocketbook.
Dentals: Available
Loy Evitts vanished during her lunch hour February 28, 1977. She drove her car from its customary spot in the garage, had a watch adjusted, then drove to a drugstore, where she had coffee and bought an umbrella. The car was back in its space later that afternoon, but Evitts was never seen again.
She was a legal secretary at a law firm. Her purse was found 10 days later, under a bridge in southeast KC near Unity Village.
Evitts, a former KSU queen nominee, was happily married in Overland Park and had no romantic or financial entanglement. The couple had no children. Evitts' husband moved to have her declared legally dead seven years later.

http://www.kcmo.org/police/FAU/index.htm
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Loy Evitts: 2/28/77

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Evitts disappeared on 02/28/77 between the hours of 1500-1600 from the Plaza Center Building parking garage (located north of the Miller & O'Laughlin Law Firm at 800 W 47th).
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/jun/02/y...g-wait-answers/
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