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Harriman,Tot Tran missing July 12,2001; Texas
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Tot Tran Harriman


Above: Harriman, circa 2001


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: July 12, 2001 from League City, Texas
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: February 20, 1944
Age: 57 years old
Height and Weight: 4'11, 100 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Asian (Vietnamese) female. Graying black hair, brown eyes. Harriman has scars on her abdomen as the results of a Caesarian section and a hysterectomy. She wears eyeglasses. Harriman's nickname is Totsy and her maiden name is Tran. She may use the names Harriman Tottran, Harriman Tran, Harriman Tot, Tran Tot and/or Tot Harriman.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: Seven gold bracelets on her left wrist, a diamond necklace pendant, and possibly a shirt, shorts and sandals.


Details of Disappearance

Harriman was a resident of Florida in 2001. She was visiting her family in Texas during the summer and had decided to purchase property in the state to be closer to her relatives. Harriman mapped out a route between League City and Corpus Christi, Texas and planned to drive along Highway 35 searching for possible homes. She departed at approximately 5:00 a.m. on July 12, 2001 from her son's residence near League City. Harriman said goodbye to her son and drove away in her 1995 rose quartz Lincoln Continental. A photo of Harriman's vehicle is posted below this case summary.
One of Harriman's friends attempted to call her on her cellular phone at approximately 8:30 a.m. The phone rang four times and he was transferred to her voice mail, indicating that Harriman's phone was turned on. The friend tried to call her again at 10:30 a.m. and was directly connected to her voice mail, signaling that her phone had been turned off.

Harriman's children became concerned when she did not contact anyone by that evening. One of her sons phoned the friend Harriman planned to stay with overnight on July 12 and learned that his mother had never arrived as scheduled. Her family reported her as a missing person shortly thereafter.

Harriman's Lincoln Continental has never been located. The car has a white leather interior and chrome tailpipes. A small sticker reading "PJC" is placed on the right side of the rear bumper. The vehicle has personalized Florida licence plates featuring her nickname, "TOTSY." Harriman's Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) is 1LNLM97V35Y755926.

Extensive searches of the area between League City and Corpus Christi have not produced any evidence regarding Harriman's whereabouts. There are few clues in her case. Witnesses reported various unconfirmed sightings of Harriman in the Texas and Florida area shortly after she disappeared.

A sketch of a possible suspect in Harriman's disappearance is posted below this case summary. The unidentified African-American male is believed to be in his twenties with a slim build. He was seen driving in the Houston area on the day Harriman vanished. Authorities do not know if the individual is connected to her case.

Harriman lived in Vietnam and married Clinton Howard Harriman II while he was serving in the area with the United States Merchant Marines. Her husband returned to America with their young daughter and Harriman stayed behind with her oldest son from a previous marriage. She and her child escaped from Vietnam and joined her husband in the United States some time afterwards. The Harrimans had three children together. Her husband died of cancer in 1993 and Harriman's children are conducting the search for their mother. Foul play is suspected in her case.



Left: Harriman's vehicle; Right: Sketch of possible suspect


Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
League City Police Department
281-332-2566
Extension 172
OR
The Tot Harriman Search Hotline
800-400-4917
OR
Texas Department Of Public Safety
800-346-3243



Source Information
Tot Harriman: Missing
The National Center for Missing Adults
Texas Department Of Public Safety
Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team
The Houston Chronicle



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Cops seek leads on mystery torso from 1971
By Scott E. Williams
The Daily News
Published January 28, 2008

GALVESTON — In 1971, the disappearance of two Webster girls last seen on 61st Street in Galveston launched an investigation that ended in an arrest and the discovery of a skeletal torso in a Pasadena bayou.

More than 36 years later, investigators say they believe the wrong man was convicted, and the torso did not belong to the missing kid police had identified.

Sharon Shaw and Rhonda Johnson, both 14, had come from Webster to Galveston in summer 1971 to surf. The pair was last seen alive Aug. 4, 1971, waiting for a friend to pick them up on 61st Street. The friend later told investigators the girls were gone when she arrived.

In early 1972, police found the girls’ skulls in Turner Bayou, a month apart. However, months earlier, in the same area, a torso had turned up. Police ascribed the remains as belonging to Phillip Manning, a 13-year-old boy from Pasadena who had gone missing weeks earlier.

A few months ago, police learned that Manning, now 49, was alive and well. At 13, he had left home with a trucker, who had offered to make him an apprentice, of sorts. However, months later, Manning abandoned the truck driver, who was abusive.

At 14, Manning joined the U.S. Army, even though he was four years below the age requirement. When his true age was discovered more than a year later, he was discharged and sent home, although he ended up in Louisiana. After a lifetime of moves and brushes with the law, Manning now lives in Austin.

Galveston police detective Fred Paige said that Manning’s life prompts the question, “Whose bones were those?”

Paige said he and other investigators with a variety of agencies believed that the torso likely belonged to Sharon Shaw or Rhonda Johnson. However, he also said detectives wanted to be certain. He asked that anyone with information on the remains call the police at 409-765-3702.

Webster resident Michael Self ultimately received a life sentence in the girls’ killings, but police now believe he was innocent. Self died in prison more than 20 years ago.

The Webster investigator in the case that led to Self’s conviction was Tommy Deal, who would later be sentenced to federal prison for bank robbery.

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Mysteries along I-45

Anniversaries of disappearances and unsolved killings can be trying times, not only for the families of the victims, but for others who lost loved ones similarly. Among the unsolved cases of missing and murdered girls and women in Galveston County are:

• July 1, 1971 — Brenda Jones, 14, was last seen in Galveston, saying she was on her way to visit a relative in the hospital. She never made it there. Brenda’s body was later found floating in Galveston Bay, about 500 yards west of the Pelican Island Bridge, with a head wound and a piece of cloth stuffed into her mouth.

• Nov. 9, 1971 — Allison Craven, 12, vanished from her Galveston home. About three months later, her dismembered remains were found buried in two separate places — in a field near her family’s home and in another field in Pearland, about 13 miles southeast of Houston.

• Nov. 19, 1971 — The half-nude bodies of Ball High School students Debbie Ackerman and Maria Johnson, both 15, were found in Turner’s Bayou in Texas City four days after they had gone missing. Both had been shot to death.

• Sept. 6, 1974 — Brooks Bracewell, 12, and Georgia Geer, 14, were last seen at a payphone outside a Dickinson convenience store. Their remains were later found in an Alvin marsh.

• Oct. 10, 1983 — Sondra Romber, 14, left her Santa Fe home for school but never arrived there. Her father reported her missing the day after he returned home to find his daughter gone and his house unlocked.

• Oct. 26, 1985 — Michelle Doherty Thomas, 17, disappeared after leaving her Alta Loma home with a group of friends. Investigators believe she may have been kidnapped and killed because she had served as a police informant in a drug bust.

• May 1986 — Shelley Sikes, 19, left her summer job at Gaido’s restaurant for her Texas City home but never made it. Her car was found on Interstate 45’s northbound feeder road about a mile north of the causeway. Her body was never recovered, but Bayview resident John Robert King and El Lago resident Gerald Peter Zwarst were later convicted of aggravated kidnapping, the most severe charge prosecutors could pursue without a body.

• Oct. 1988 — Suzanne Rene Richerson, 22, disappeared from the lobby of the Casa Del Mar Condominiums on Galveston’s Seawall Boulevard. One of her shoes was found, but no one has been able to turn up any other trace of her.

• Sept. 1991 — The remains of an unidentified woman, known as “Janet Doe,” were found in a Calder Road field, just east of Interstate 45. Her body was the fourth found in the field since 1984. Heidi Villareal Fye, 25, disappeared in 1983 and Laura Miller, 16, disappeared in 1984, both from the same convenience store. The bodies of Fye and Miller later turned up in the field, as did another unidentified woman, known only as “Jane Doe.”

• March 5, 1996 — Krystal Jean Baker, 13, was reported missing after being seen last walking in the 4500 block of FM 1765. Her body was later found near Interstate 10 and the Trinity River in Chambers County.

• April 1997 — Laura Kate Smither, 12, disappeared while jogging near her Friendswood home. Her body was found weeks later in a Pasadena retention pond. Friendswood Crime Stoppers, at 281-480-8477, is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and indictment of anyone involved in the child’s death.

• Aug. 17 1997 — Jessica Lee Cain, 17, disappeared on her way home from a Bennigan’s restaurant in Webster. Her father found her tan 1992 Ford extended-cab pickup on the shoulder of southbound Interstate 45 between exits 7 and 8 in La Marque. Her wallet and keys were inside. The Cains have established a $50,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts, or to the arrest and indictment of anyone involved in her disappearance. Anyone with information can call the Laura Recovery Center at 281-482-5723.

• July 12, 2001 — Tot “Totsy” Harriman, 57, was visiting family in League City when she left for a planned trip up state Highway 35 looking for property to buy. Neither she nor her 1995 Lincoln Continental have been seen since.

• July 12, 2002 — Sarah Trusty, 23, was last seen riding her bicycle near Algoa Baptist Church. Fifteen days later, two fishermen found her decomposed body on the Texas City Dike. Her death was ruled a homicide, and doctors determined she had been dead more than a week when her body was found.

• Nov. 3 — A man on a motorcycle found the body of Terresa Vanegas, 16, at the edge of a Dickinson High School practice field. Vanegas had last been seen three days earlier at a Halloween party on California Avenue. Her death was ruled a homicide, with police saying she had suffered various types of injuries.

• Nov. 10 — A passerby found the body of Amanda Nicole Kellum, 27, lying facedown at the eastern edge of Omega Bay, just north of the neighborhood bearing the same name. She had been beaten and stabbed to death.

• July 15 — Beach campers found the body of Bridgette Gearen, 28, on Crystal Beach. Gearen, a single mother who worked at a Beaumont law firm, had been raped, beaten and strangled. Gearen vanished one Saturday night from outside a beach house at the corner of Redfish and Crystal Beach roads that she was renting along with a dozen friends.

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How To Help

Anyone with information in any of these cases can call his or her respective law-enforcement agency:

• Dickinson Police Department: 281-337-4700

• Friendswood Police Department: 281-996-3300

• Galveston County Sheriff’s Office tip line: 866-248-8477

• Galveston Police Department: 409-765-3760

• Hitchcock Police Department: 409-986-5559

• Jamaica Beach Police Department: 409-737-1143

• Kemah Police Department: 281-334-5414

• La Marque Police Department: 409-938-9269

• League City Police Department: 281-332-2566

• Santa Fe Police Department: 409-925-2000

• Texas City Police Department: 409-643-5760

• Texas Department of Public Safety, Galveston County office: 409-933-1125
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Endangered Missing Adult

If you believe you have any information regarding this case that will be helpful in this investigation please contact:
League City Police Department at (281) 332-2566

Name: Tot Tran Harriman
Classification: Endangered Missing Adult
Alias / Nickname: Totsy
Date of Birth: 1944-02-20
Date Missing: 2001-07-12
From City/State: League City, TX
Age at Time of Disappearance: 57
Gender: Female
Race: Asian
Height: 59 inches
Weight: 120 pounds
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Complexion: Medium
Glasses/Contacts Description: Glasses with gold frames.
Identifying Characteristics: Vertical surgical scar across abdomen.
Jewelry: Seven gold bands on left wrist, gold necklace with a diamond pendant.
Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Tot was visiting her family in the Houston, TX area while she was looking for real estate. She had planned her trip and mapped her route along Rt. 35 and left at approximately 5:00am. Her vehicle is also missing and described as a metallic rose 1995 Lincoln Continental with white interior and chrome tailpipes. The vehicle has a small square sticker on right rear bumper that reads "PJC" and custom FL Lic# "TOTSY".
Investigative Agency: League City Police Department
Phone: (281) 332-2566
Website: http://www.lcpd.com/
Investigative Case #: 01-3089
NCIC #: M-441727039

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Texas Missing Persons Clearinghouse Online Bulletin
Missing Person Details

Name: Tot Tran Harriman
AKA: Totsy, Harriman Tottran, Harriman Tran, Harriman Tot, Tran Tot
Case Number: M0108002
Case Type: Endangered
Last Seen in: League City (Galveston County)
Last Seen on: 7/12/2001
Height: 4' 11"
Weight: 100 lbs.
Age Missing: 57
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Date of Birth: 2/20/1944
Race: Asian
Sex: Female
State Missing From: Texas
Country Missing From: USA

Circumstances: Ms. Harriman wears glasses. She has extensive scarring on her abdomen from a C-section and a hysterectomy. Ms. Harriman was last seen wearing a shirt, shorts and sandals. She was also wearing gold rings and gold bracelets. Ms. Harriman was in route to Corpus Christi, Texas. She had indicated that she was going to take Highway 35 to her destination so that she could stop along the way to view property to purchase. Ms. Harriman was driving a maroon, 1996 Lincoln Continental with Florida personalized tags “TOTSY”. Since Florida only has a rear license plate, there is a Navy Seal emblem where the front plate is normally affixed.


You can contact the Missing Persons Clearinghouse at :

Missing Persons Clearinghouse
Texas Department of Public Safety
P O Box 4087
Austin, Texas 78773-0422
Phone: (512) 424-5074
Helpline: (800) 346-3243
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Vigil set for 15th anniversary of disappearance
By Chris Paschenko
The Daily News
Published August 10, 2012

LA MARQUE — A candlelight vigil next week will commemorate the 15th anniversary of a teenage girl who disappeared without a trace.

Jessica Lee Cain was last seen at the age of 17 leaving a Bennigan’s restaurant at Bay Area Boulevard at Interstate 45, where she’d met a group of friends after a performance at Harbour Playhouse in Dickinson.

Cain’s father found her car the following morning on the southbound shoulder of I-45 in La Marque between exits 7 and 8, but there was no trace of her. Her wallet and keys were inside the 1992 Ford pickup.

Cain’s disappearance was among the mysteries of several women reported missing or found murdered in Galveston County since 1971. A $50,000 reward was established for information leading to Cain’s whereabouts or an arrest and indictment in the disappearance.

La Marque police detective Danielle Herman said Thursday she believes there could be a statement from Cain’s relatives at the vigil, which will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Aug. 18 at La Marque’s Highland Bayou Park. There will be a dedication of a newly constructed memorial

Herman also expected information about a newly issued reward and possibly a team’s review of the case.

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Mysteries Along Interstate 45

Here is a list of cases of missing and murdered girls and women in Galveston County:

July 1, 1971 — Brenda Jones, 14, was last seen in Galveston, after saying she was on her way to visit a relative in the hospital. She never made it there. Brenda’s body was later found floating in Galveston Bay, about 500 yards west of the Pelican Island Bridge, with a head wound and a piece of cloth stuffed into her mouth.

Nov. 9, 1971 — Allison Craven, 12, vanished from her Galveston home. About three months later, her dismembered remains were found buried in two separate places — in a field near her family’s home and in another field in Pearland, about 13 miles southeast of Houston.

Nov. 19, 1971 — The half-nude bodies of Ball High School students Debbie Ackerman and Maria Johnson, both 15, were found in Turner’s Bayou in Texas City four days after they had gone missing. Both had been shot to death.

Sept. 6, 1974 — Brooks Bracewell, 12, and Georgia Geer, 14, were last seen at a pay phone outside a Dickinson convenience store. Their remains were later found in an Alvin marsh.

Oct. 10, 1983 — Sondra Romber, 14, left her Santa Fe home for school but never arrived there. Her father reported her missing the day after he returned home to find his daughter gone and his house unlocked.

Oct. 26, 1985 — Michelle Doherty Thomas, 17, disappeared after leaving her Alta Loma home with a group of friends. Investigators believe she might have been kidnapped and killed because she had served as a police informant in a drug bust.

May 1986 — Shelley Sikes, 19, left her summer job at Gaido’s restaurant for her Texas City home but never made it. Her car was found on Interstate 45’s northbound feeder road about a mile north of the causeway. Her body was never recovered, but Bayview resident John Robert King and El Lago resident Gerald Peter Zwarst were later convicted of aggravated kidnapping, the most severe charge prosecutors could pursue without a body.

Oct. 1988 — Suzanne Rene Richerson, 22, disappeared from the lobby of the Casa Del Mar Condominiums on Galveston’s Seawall Boulevard. One of her shoes was found, but no one has been able to turn up any other trace of her.

Sept. 1991 — The remains of an unidentified woman, known as “Janet Doe,” were found in a Calder Road field, just east of Interstate 45. Her body was the fourth found in the field since 1984. Heidi Villareal Fye, 25, disappeared in 1983 and Laura Miller, 16, disappeared in 1984, both from the same convenience store. The bodies of Fye and Miller later turned up in the field, as did another unidentified woman, known only as “Jane Doe.”

March 5, 1996 — Krystal Jean Baker, 13, was reported missing after being seen last walking in the 4500 block of FM 1765. Her body was later found near Interstate 10 and the Trinity River in Chambers County. Authorities retested DNA evidence in the case and arrested Kevin Edison Smith on Sept. 22, 2010. Smith was convicted April 26 of capital murder, and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison, the longest punishment he could receive under the 1996 state Penal Code.

April 1997 — Laura Kate Smither, 12, disappeared while jogging near her Friendswood home. Her body was found weeks later in a Pasadena retention pond. Friendswood Crime Stoppers, at 281-480-8477, is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and indictment of anyone involved in her death.

Aug. 17, 1997 — Jessica Lee Cain, 17, disappeared on her way home from a Bennigan’s restaurant in Webster. Her father found her tan 1992 Ford extended-cab pickup on the shoulder of southbound Interstate 45 between exits 7 and 8 in La Marque. Her wallet and keys were inside. The Cains have established a $50,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts, or to the arrest and indictment of anyone involved in her disappearance. Anyone with information can call the Laura Recovery Center at 281-482-5723.

July 12, 2001 — Tot “Totsy” Harriman, 57, was visiting family in League City when she left for a planned trip up state Highway 35 looking for property to buy. Neither she nor her 1995 Lincoln Continental have been seen since.
July 12, 2002 — Sarah Trusty, 23, was last seen riding her bicycle near Algoa Baptist Church. Fifteen days later, two fishermen found her decomposed body on the Texas City Dike. Her death was ruled a homicide, and doctors determined she had been dead more than a week when her body was found.

Nov. 3, 2006 — A man on a motorcycle found the body of Terresa Vanegas, 16, at the edge of a Dickinson High School practice field. Vanegas had last been seen three days earlier at a Halloween party on California Avenue. Her death was ruled a homicide, with police saying she had suffered various types of injuries.

Nov. 10, 2006 — A passer-by found the body of Amanda Nicole Kellum, 27, lying facedown at the eastern edge of Omega Bay, just north of the neighborhood bearing the same name. She had been beaten and stabbed to death.

July 15, 2007 — Beach campers found the body of Bridgette Gearen, 28, on Crystal Beach. Gearen, a single mother who worked at a Beaumont law firm, had been raped, beaten and strangled. Gearen vanished one Saturday night from outside a beach house at the corner of Redfish and Crystal Beach roads that she was renting along with a dozen friends.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/333330
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