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Jun 25, 2013
Jan 08, 2024
Cynthia
Grotjohn
63
35
69 inches
70 inches
150 lbs
160 lbs
White / Caucasian
Female
On a winter day in 1996, 35-year-old Cynthia Marie Grotjohn, a mother known to her friends and family as Cyndy, disappeared from the rural outskirts of Cornelius, Oregon. The last time anyone saw her was on December 3rd of that year. On that day, the vehicle she was driving became stuck in the mud in the driveway of a residence on Northwest Fernflat Road. According to her family, Cynthia had gone out that day in search of mistletoe, possibly to make Christmas wreaths for a holiday bazaar. She was last seen wearing a flannel shirt, blue denim jeans, and black loafers. The circumstances surrounding Cynthia's vanishing are both sudden and perplexing. After her car became immobilized, the owner of the property came out to help her. He told Cynthia to wait while he went to get a tractor to pull her car from the mud. However, when the resident returned just five to ten minutes later, Cynthia was gone. Left behind in her car were her personal belongings, including her purse, keys, and jacket, items one would almost certainly take if leaving voluntarily. The discovery of these abandoned items immediately signaled that something was wrong. In the critical hours and days that followed her disappearance, an extensive search of the area was launched. Washington County Sheriff's personnel, along with dedicated Search and Rescue teams, scoured the rural landscape for three days, but found no trace of Cynthia Grotjohn. At the time she went missing, some reports indicated that she had been going through a difficult period in her life; she had recently ended a relationship, was experiencing financial stress, and had reportedly shown signs of depression. Despite the passage of time, the investigation into her disappearance remains open. The case is a quiet but persistent mystery, a story of a mother who vanished in a brief, unexplained window of time, leaving behind only questions and a family waiting for answers.
Dec 03, 1996
Cornelius
Oregon
Washington County
No
13786
Washington County Sheriff's Office
Hillsboro
Oregon
Washington County
97123
215 Southwest Adams Avenue, Oregon
5038462700
County
Law Enforcement
96-21118
Washington County Sheriff's Office
Brown
Brown
Brown
No
06/06/2026
