A teenage girl climbed out of her bedroom one evening in 1984. That was the last night she was seen, and more than 25 years later, her disappearance remains a mystery.
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Shannon Lee Potter was 13 when she slipped out the window of her Parkville-area home and went to a party on March 3, 1984. Little else is known about what happened to her that night and why she has been missing ever since, according to Baltimore County police and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
“There’s very little information about her disappearance,” said Melinda Stevens, director of NCMEC’s missing-children division.
Authorities have said her death is considered suspicious and foul play is suspected.
Stevens said Shannon’s mother told investigators that she didn’t know what might have happened. Shannon’s parents were separated, and her father was living in Mississippi. Shannon had spoken to her father and was making him plans to visit him during the upcoming summer, Stevens said.
“She seemed happy,” Stevens said.
About a month after Shannon went missing, police received information that she may have been spotted in the Orlando, Fla., area. But that tip was never confirmed, Stevens said.
Shannon would be 41 years old now.
She is white and has brown hair and brown eyes. According to NCMEC, she was about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed 140 pounds when she went missing.
Shannon has scars on her stomach and near her left eye, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. She was last seen wearing high khaki boots and possibly a white fur coat.
Anyone with information about her disappearance is asked to call police at 410-887-3943 or 410-307-2020, Crime Stoppers at 866-7-LOCKUP (56-2587) or NCMEC at 800-THE-LOST (843-5678).
