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Rowe,Janeth A.missing March 2,1997; Virginia
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Janeth Ann Rowe


Above Images: Janeth, circa 1997


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: March 2, 1997 from Herndon, Virginia
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: February 14, 1947
Age: 50 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 170 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Janeth's hair was shoulder-length at the time of her disappearance.
Medical Conditions: At the time of her disappearance, Janeth had an unspecified leg ailment that caused her to have difficulty walking.


Details of Disappearance

Janeth was last seen on March 2, 1997 at her condominium, which is located in the 12000 block of Alton Square in Herndon, Virginia. The weather was cold and rainy the day she disappeared. She was reported missing the following day when her daughter failed to find her at her residence. There was no sign of a struggle. Janeth's car was still parked in the garage and all of her belongings were left behind.
Janeth was living with her daughter, Lisa Rowe, at the time of her disappearance. Lisa and her boyfriend have been named as persons of interest in Janeth's disappearance. They maintain their innocence in Janeth's case and Lisa stated she believed her mother had left of her own accord. Janeth's mother and sister, however, believe she is deceased.

Janeth was laid off from her job at Mobil eight months prior to her disappearance and took a job at a consulting company afterwards. Authorities have not ruled out foul play in her disappearance, but they have not named any suspects in her case either. Her case remains unsolved.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Herndon Police Department
703-435-6843



Source Information
The Washington Post
The Alexandria Gazette
The Doe Network



Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated November 13, 2005; picture added, details of disappearance updated.

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Six Years Later, Woman Still Missing
Clues remain scarce in disappearance of Janeth Ann Rowe.
Jeff Green
March 5, 2003


SEEKING HELP


Jeff Green
Jane Baxter holds up a photograph of her missing daughter, Janeth Ann Rowe, last seen six years ago.





All she wants is "closure." After six long years and a trail short on leads, Jane Baxter has just about given up. Just about.
Baxter, 82, of Herndon, wants to place flowers on the grave of her daughter, Janeth Ann Rowe. There is only one slight problem. Nobody knows where Janeth Rowe's body is, or if she is actually dead.
Six years ago, sometime between the evening of March 2, 1997 and the morning of March 3, one of Baxter's two fraternal twins disappeared without a trace. At the time of her disappearance, Janeth Rowe, a 51-year-old widow, was living with her daughter, Lisa Rowe, 20, in their first floor condominium in the Crescent at Worldgate complex in Herndon.
In November 1993, Baxter, her twin daughters and granddaughter all moved to the same condominium at Alton Square in Herndon. The four women occupied three units down the hall from each other.
Six years later, Baxter and Newman still live there, Lisa Rowe lives in Leesburg and Janeth Rowe's whereabouts remain a mystery. Today, Janeth Rowe, who would be 56, remains the only active adult missing persons case in the Herndon Police Department.
After a search of the area, the Herndon police turned to the FBI for assistance. According to police, Janeth Rowe's personal information, "was entered into the FBI's VICAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program), which is designed to facilitate cooperation, communication, and coordination between law enforcement agencies throughout the country to locate missing persons, and into NCIC (National Crime Information Center) as a 'missing and endangered' person."

IN A RELEASE MARKING the sixth anniversary of Janeth Rowe's disappearance, Sgt. Jerry Keys said her family is "still hoping and praying for her safe return." Some members are more optimistic than others, however.
"Unlike my grandma and aunt, I feel like my mom is still alive," Lisa Rowe said. She thinks her mom had had enough. Eight months before her disappearance, Janeth Rowe was laid off from her job at Mobil. Her daughter said she watched as her mom mailed out 600 resumes. "No one wanted to hire a 50-year-old widow," Lisa Rowe said.
Eventually she was hired by a Washington consulting company, her family said. "I was 21 or 22 when she disappeared because by then she knew I could take care of myself," she said. "So, yeah, I think she just walked off in search of a new life. She was fed up."
In search of clues, Baxter and her other daughter even consulted a well-known television psychic, Sylvia Brown.
While the granddaughter holds out hope to someday reunite with her mom, the grandmother seems to think she has seen the last of her missing daughter. "I would certainly like to have closure at this point," Baxter said. "I find it hard to believe she is alive after all this time. We feel like she is gone, it is hard to have hope."

WHEN HERNDON POLICE officers arrived at Janeth Rowe's condominium in March 1997, they found her car in the garage and her belongings still in her home. Police found no signs of a struggle but never ruled out the possibility of foul play. James Moore, the Herndon detective assigned to the Rowe case, insists the police do not have any suspects. He has, however, called Lisa Rowe and her long-term boyfriend and father of their two infant daughters, Steve Cordell, "persons of interest."
"My life has fallen apart since she left," Lisa Rowe said. She lost her mother's condominium and she had to pawn off all of her possessions to stay financially afloat. In the months following her mother's disappearance, Lisa Rowe admits she stole her grandmother's credit card numbers, an act that raised eyebrows, if not suspicions, at the Herndon Police Department. She is currently on probation for the credit card theft.
"It is not like we aren't getting cooperation," said Moore. "It is just that we didn't get enough evidence to lead us in any one way."
For her part, Lisa Rowe can only roll her eyes at those, especially her mother's sister, who think she, or Cordell, had something to do with her mom's disappearance. "It's a joke, but I am used to it."
Just three weeks ago, Lisa Rowe, who lives in Leesburg, was, once again, interviewed by Moore for three hours in the trailer that house the Criminal Investigations Section of the Herndon Police Department. Unlike previous investigators, Lisa Rowe says she has faith in Moore.
Without a crime scene or a body, the case will remain extremely difficult to solve, Moore said. "I hope we find a body," Moore said. "Then I think something will happen."
Lauran

"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente.


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Janeth Ann Rowe was last seen at her Herndon condominium on the evening of March 2, 1997. At the time, she was 50 years old.

The following day, her daughter, Lisa Rowe, was unable to locate her mother. Janeth Rowe's home showed no signs of a struggle or theft, and her car was still parked in the garage.

A search of the area surrounding Janeth Rowe's home in the 12000 block of Alton Square yielded no clues. Despite help from the FBI, which entered Rowe's name into national crime databases, no progress has been made in the search. Now, Herndon police are asking for help from the public to solve the case. Police have never ruled out foul play.

Lisa Rowe lives in the area, as do Janeth Rowe's mother, Jane Baxter, and her sister Pam Newman. All of them are hoping for Rowe's safe return, but Baxter admitted that time has begun to erode their optimism.

"After six years, it's hard to have any hope. I feel if she had gone away by herself, she couldn't have gone very far," Baxter said. She described the weather as cold and rainy at the time of Rowe's disappearance and said that her daughter had difficulty walking because of a leg ailment.

Janeth Rowe was born Feb. 17, 1947. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed 170 pounds when last seen. She has hazel eyes, and her shoulder-length hair was straight and brown at the time of her disappearance.

Anyone with information about Janeth Rowe is asked to call Herndon police at 703-435-6843.
Lauran

"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente.


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Widow disappeared from home without a trace
By: Scott McCabe
Examiner Staff Writer
June 9, 2010



It was cold and rainy the day Janeth Rowe disappeared.

Rowe, a 50-year-old widow, had been laid off from her job at Mobil eight months before she had vanished and had taken a job at a Washington consulting company. She had was living with her daughter, Lisa Rowe, and her daughter's boyfriend on the 12000 block of Alton Square in Herndon.

The last time anyone saw Janeth Rowe was March 2, 1997, at her condominium, authorities said.

Herndon police would like to talk to anybody with information that can help solve this mystery.

The day after Rowe vanished, Lisa Rowe called police to say she was unable to locate her mother. Janeth Rowe couldn't have gone far because she had an injured leg that made walking difficult, police said.

Investigators searched the area and found no signs of a struggle or theft, and Rowe's car was still parked in the garage and all her belongings had been left behind.

Police turned to the FBI for assistance and have entered data in the national database for missing persons whose disappearance involves a strong possibility of foul play.

Rowe was born Feb. 17, 1947. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed 170 pounds when last seen. She has hazel eyes, and her shoulder-length hair was straight and brown at the time of her disappearance.

Anyone with information can call Herndon Police at 703-435-6843.


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