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Kinsey,Charlotte J.missing September 26,1981; Oklahoma
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Charlotte June Kinsey


Left and Center: Kinsey, circa 1981;
Right: Age-progression at age 37 (circa 2005)


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: September 26, 1981 from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Classification: Non-Family Abduction
Date Of Birth: September 10, 1968
Age: 13 years old
Height and Weight: 5'0 - 5'1, 100 - 105 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue/gray eyes. Kinsey has a small dot-shaped scar below her left eye caused by pencil lead. She has silver caps on her lower front teeth. Kinsey's ears are pierced. She has a triangular-shaped birthmark on her lower back, near her waistline.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A maroon blouse with white stripes, blue jeans and tennis shoes.


Details of Disappearance

Kinsey was last seen at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on September 26, 1981. She was accompanied by her friend, Cinda Pallett. Kinsey called her family's home to announce that she and Pallett had been offered jobs assisting a worker unload plush toys at the fair. Two boys who knew the girls said they left with a man who was 40 to 50 years old and wearing a yellow badge. The boys were with them for a time, but the man dropped them off in a parking lot, gave them $10, and told them to wait. He drove away with Kinsey and Pallett. Neither girl has been seen again.
After Kinsey and Pallett's disappearances, a yellow badge was found in the parking lot where they were last seen. It bore the name and photograph of a carnival drifter. The man was charged with the girls' abductions, but the charges were dropped a short time later. The suspect was able to prove he had been in Dallas, Texas the day Kinsey and Pallett disappeared.

Royal Russell Long, who was employed as a truck driver at the time, has long been considered the prime suspect in the girls' disappearances. Long was charged with kidnapping and murder charges for both Kinsey and Pallett in August of 1985. Long had been in Oklahoma City on the day the girls disappeared. Two witnesses stated that Long was the man who offered the girls the jobs unloading toys. Long also had a history of sexual violence towards young women.

Authorities located the Pontiac Grand Prix Long had rented during his September 1981 stay in Oklahoma. Its make and model matched the vehicle a witness claimed to have seen Kinsey and Pallett riding in the day they disappeared with a man matching Long's description. Hairs that were found in the car's truck were analyzed using forensic testing and were matched to Pallett. Animal hairs were also located in the truck; those matched the types of dogs and a cat that Pallett had access towards before she disappeared. A lock of hair found by investigators in Long's residence in Wyoming may have matched Kinsey's type; however, the test appeared to be inconclusive. Forensic tests proved that the mat in the truck of the Grand Prix once had blood stains on it.

All charges against Long were eventually dismissed for lack of evidence against him, though he is still considered the prime suspect in the girls' cases. He pleaded guilty to kidnapping in connection with the 1984 abduction of Sharon Baldeagle, who remains missing, and was sentenced to two terms of life in prison. He was still in custody when he died of a heart attack in 1993.

Kinsey enjoyed poetry and roller skating at the time of her disappearance. Her disappearances remain unsolved.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Oklahoma State Police Department
405-232-5311



Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education Of America
APB News
California Attorney General's Office
Operation Lookout
NewsLibrary
Newspaper Archive



Updated 5 times since October 12, 2004.

Last updated October 16, 2005; age-progression updated.

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Charlotte Kinsey
DOB: Sep-10-1968
Age: 13 years
Age Now: 39 years
Height: 5' 0"
Weight: 100 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Date Missing: Sep-26-1981
Last Known
Location: OK. State
Fairgrounds
Charlotte's Kinsey was last seen at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds. She called home to say that she had a job with a man at the carnival unloading stuffed animals. She and a companion, Cinda Pallett, have not been heard from since. Child has a small dot-type scar below her left eye, pierced ears and silver caps on her lower front teeth.
OCPD Missing Person Unit
701 Colcord Drive
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 73102
Phone: 405-297-1288
Fax: 405-297-1360


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A Father's Quest, part 1
BELLS, TX-The FBI said about 300 children a year are kidnapped by strangers, many of them are never seen again.
Reporter: Jalah Gray
Email Address: jalah.gray@kxii.com

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Font Size: BELLS, TX-The FBI said about 300 children a year are kidnapped by strangers, many of them are never seen again.
Jalah Gray brings us the story of a local man still searching for his daughter, who was taken more than 30 years ago. Here's part 1 of "A Father's Quest."

"You know it didn't soak in, when somebody just tells you that someone's just gone."

September 26, 1981 is a day that Otis Kinsey said he will never forget. A call from his ex-wife in Oklahoma City changed the rest of his life.

"She called and said 'we need you to come up here,' and I said 'for what?' And she said 'Charlotte's gone,' and still it didn't register on me," said Kinsey.

His daughter, 13-year-old Charlotte Kinsey, went missing that day from the Oklahoma State Fair starting a search that would consume his entire life.

"Police, you know they'll tell you bits and pieces and you gotta read between the lines," said Kinsey.

Between those lines was a story that would never come to an end.

"Royal Russel Long."

Royal Russel Long was a part time carnie and a long haul trucker. Investigators said he was known for going around to state fairs and carnivals and enticing young girls with the promise of a job unloading stuffed animals from a truck that never existed.

On September 26,1981, Charlotte Kinsey and her friend Cinda Palette accepted that job offer.

The two girls had gone to the fair with their boyfriends after calling their moms for permission, the four kids left with Long.

"He got all the kids in the car and took them, said we gotta go meet the truck out here," said Kinsey.

The boys later told investigators Long took them to a nearby truck stop but the truck was not there. He asked the boys to get out and wait in case it showed up, while he and the girls went to check the next stop. The boys watched as the car drove away.
That was the last time Charlotte Kinsey and Cinda Palette were seen alive.

"Her mother's no longer living, that devastated her. She talked about her til her dying day."

Christy Lane said Charlotte's mother kept her room just the way she left it for eight years after she vanished, hanging on to the hope that one day her daughter would come home. She was just five months old when her sister disappeared, but Christy remembers growing up hearing Charlotte's story.
Today, she says it has profoundly affected the way she raises her own children.

"I won't even let them ride around the block, like just riding their bikes around the block, things like that, I'm very over protective," said Lane.

"I just don't know, something like that just leaves you feeling bitter," said Kinsey.

Otis still remembers the last time he saw Charlotte like it was yesterday and today he said he can't help but look for her face, in every crowd.

"If I'm at a mall or a carnival and I see a girl that looks like that, you feel almost compelled to go look at the face. And Charlotte would be in her 30s 40s today, so you just hold on to these memories," said Kinsey.

Next week on First News, we'll tell you how the law finally caught up with the man last seen with Charlotte Kinsey and we'll take you inside the courtroom where a young attorney prosecuted the case he said haunts him til this day.

That's next Thursday in Part 2 of "A Father's Quest"

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BELLS, TX-- A Bells man, whose daughter disappeared from Oklahoma City in 1981, has never stopped searching.
Jalah Gray shows us the man last seen with Charlotte Kinsey, and takes us back in time to the courtroom, where a young attorney tried one of the first "bodiless" murder trials in Oklahoma history.

On September 26, 1981 Royal Russel Long drove Charlotte Kinsey, Cinda Pallett and their two boyfriends to this truck stop just off I-40. When they got here and there was no truck waiting, Long asked the boys to get out and wait while he went to check the next stop.

The boys later told investigators they watched as the car drove away and the two girls waved out the back window. That was the last time Charlotte Kinsey and Cinda Pallett would ever be seen.

"After the 3rd or 4th day of the initial investigation after the girls disappeared, Royal Russel Long was removed as a person of interest," prosecutor, Ray Elliot, said.

The focus of that investigation would come back to Long about three years later.

By the time he again became the main suspect in the Kinsey and Pallett case, he was already serving a life sentence in a Wyoming prison for kidnapping and raping two young hitchhikers.

One girl escaped, but Long took off with 12-year-old, Sharon Baldeagle, who was never seen again.

Ray Elliott had just begun his career as Assistant District Attorney in Oklahoma City, when Cinda and Charlotte disappeared.

Little did he know, that case would consume his life.

"I literally lived, ate, breathed and slept that case, Mr. Macy took me off of every other assignment, and I had no other assignment," he said.

It was the second bodiless murder trial in Oklahoma history, and captured the attention of people nationwide.

Mike Gassaway defended Long in the 1985 trial.

"There's a lot of tension because it appeared to me that the district attorney's office was taking this case personally as opposed to professionally," Gassaway, said.

"You can take a case both personally and professionally, as DA of this county I take it personally any time a character like Royal Russell Long comes into this county and kidnaps 2 of our young girls and murders them."

The prosecution built a case with overwhelming evidence against Long, including the testimony of the two boys who identified him as the man who drove away with the girls, and the rental car with a trunk mat that had been painted.

"So we luminoled this mat and there came a perfect silhouette of two small bodies laying back to back on that mat outlined in blood, with a boot print on the lower right hand corner," Elliot, said.

A long blonde hair was found stuck in the paint in the corner of that mat and a large chunk of blonde hair was also found in Long's home in Wyoming.

A forensic expert testified that those hairs were a match to Charlotte Kinsey.

Investigators found that Long had been trained as a meat cutter when serving time years earlier in California.

They even had a confession Long made to a fellow inmate in Wyoming.

"He says to the inmate sitting next to him, "If you cut the bodies up small enough and put them in a rat hole, they'll never find them," Elliot, said.

Judge Charles Owens would not allow the inmate to testify.

In fact, Judge Owens threw out several vital pieces to the prosecution's case.

Including the testimony of Long's own daughter who said he had molested her many times.

"She had witnessed him on numerous occassions try to entice young girls into the cab of his truck, either by the use of a live puppy, or most often with stuffed animals, which again was clearly his MO in our case," Elliot, said.

Judge Owens ruled there was not enough evidence to send Long to trial.

"If Royal Russell Long is in fact guilty as charged in this case, it would appear that law enforcement officials in the State of Oklahoma, quote "Picked him before he was ripe."

"At that point I realized that the case was over."

Elliott says Long would taunt the family when he walked by, saying things like he was the only one who would ever know the real story.

"In my opinion he was referring to the FBI, and that somehow he felt in his mind that the big boys, being the FBI, owed him a favor, for his informant activity, and he was going to call in that favor," Elliot, said.

"As much as we've hurt and gone through trying to find our daughters, it's pretty inhumane of anybody to sit back and say I can prove your daughter's alive and yet not provide any of it," Pearla Peterson, said.

"When Long walked out they said, he done it, I mean you could tell that that was the end of it," Otis Kinsey, said.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Last week we took you back to the1985 trial of alleged serial killer, Royal Russell Long. Long was the last person seen with 13 year old Charlotte Kinsey, who disappeared from the Oklahoma State Fair more than 30 years ago. Tonight Jalah Gray tells us how the search shaped the life of Charlotte's sister and why the former prosecutor in that case believes Charlotte may never be found. Here's Part 3 of "A Father's Quest."

"You'll go to anybody, you'll do anything, I mean when something like this happens, you go to places you never thought you would go, you'll do things you never thought you could do."

Otis Kinsey says over the last 30 years he's gone to great lengths to find his daughter, but the only person who truly knows where she is, would never tell him.
In 1985, after days of taunting the families during trial, saying he was the only one who would ever know the real story, Royal Russell Long was acquitted in the Oklahoma City murder case of 13 year old Charlotte Kinsey and Cinda Pallett.
He was taken back to a Wyoming prison to continue serving a life sentence for kidnapping and raping 2 other girls.
In 1993, Long died of a heart attack on the prison lawn...taking with him the answer to the one question the Kinsey family is still looking for til this day.

"We would have to go to all these cities, and they'll throw you a book of all the remains they found, and say hey you look through it, knock yourself out." said Otis.

"You know I spend a lot of time researching it, because you know the thought of her being somewhere labeled unidentified just seems terrible." said, sister, Christy Lane.

But former prosecutor, Ray Elliott, says he doesn't think the girls' remains will ever be found.
He says what investigators really knew about Royal Russell Long would sicken most people.
Like things he had said to his own daughter, who said he had molested her many times.

"Her father told her one, that no female over the age 13 could satisfy him sexually." said Elliott.

Long's daughter also told investigators how she'd witnessed him try to lure young girls into his truck in several different fairs and carnivals across the country.

"He'd also made the statement to her that he was so good that he could be in a closed room straddling a dead body, with a bullet in the brain of the body, and him holding a gun in his hand that matched the bullet in the persons body and that he would never be convicted." Elliott said.

With all the information given by his daughter, investigators believe Long may have had hundreds of victims over the years.
Elliott says, they located more than half a dozen girls in various states, who said they had been approached by Long.
Add that to the fact that Long was a trained meat cutter and had told a fellow inmate 'if you cut the bodies up small enough and shove them down a rat hole, no one will ever find them', Elliott says they knew they were dealing with a serial killer.

"I truly believe and I think I can show you that the bodies are within 45 miles from where we sit right now, in a rat hole, just like he said, in some field grown over with grass." said Elliott.

Because the girls disappeared during the oil boom in Oklahoma, and they know Long delivered equipment to drilling rigs there, Elliott believes Long never left the state with the girls.
Upon further investigation into oil field ratholes, he learned there could be tens of thousands of them in the area where Long worked.

"And then to further add to that, when a well is completed either by hitting oil or hitting a dry hole, the rat hole is capped off my concrete, and forever forgotten." Elliott said.

But even today, more than 30 years later, Charlotte's family holds on to hope.
Just a few months ago, while researching online, Christy Lane found her sister listed as one of 3 possible matches for remains found in Tennessee.

"It's unreal how many unidentified remains are found in the United States alone, that are never identified." Lane said.

Although Charlotte was eventually ruled out as a match for those remains, Christy says, coming so close has only fueled her efforts.

"I thought even if you had to email every medical examiner that had remains fitting in that age group, from those years, it would be worth it to try and have her identified." said Lane.

"I became very close to the families, and I made them promises that I was unable to fulfill, because I promised them that I would convict Royal Russell Long." said Elliott.

Elliott says this case still haunts him til this day, and he says if he ever wins big in the lottery, he would spend it to help find the girls.

If you have information regarding the whereabouts of Charlotte Kinsey or Cinda Pallett please call the Oklahoma Police Missing Persons Unit at the 405-297-1129 or Crime Stoppers at 405-235-7300. Callers to Crime Stoppers can remain anonymous and may be eligible for cash rewards.


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