CA CA - Pearl Pinson, 15, Vallejo, 25 May 2016

[Jim_M]

Vigil for four-year anniversary of Pearl Pinson kidnapping on Monday

By Vallejo Times-Herald | timesherald@dfmdev.com | Vacaville Reporter
PUBLISHED: May 22, 2020 at 3:12 p.m. | UPDATED: May 22, 2020 at 3:12 p.m

Vigil for four-year anniversary of Pearl Pinson kidnapping on Monday – Times-Herald

A vigil to mark the four-year anniversary of the kidnapping of Pearl Pinson will take place Monday night at the pedestrian over-crossing on Home Acres and Lewis Avenue in Vallejo.

On May 25, 2016 the then 15-year-old Jesse Bethel High School student was kidnapped off a pedestrian walkway over Interstate 780 (the area where the vigil will be held) on her way to school by an armed man, dragged to a waiting car and vanished.

Pinson


More info at the linked article.

 

[LaborDayRN]

Vigil for four-year anniversary of Pearl Pinson kidnapping on Monday

By Vallejo Times-Herald | timesherald@dfmdev.com | Vacaville Reporter
PUBLISHED: May 22, 2020 at 3:12 p.m. | UPDATED: May 22, 2020 at 3:12 p.m

Vigil for four-year anniversary of Pearl Pinson kidnapping on Monday – Times-Herald

A vigil to mark the four-year anniversary of the kidnapping of Pearl Pinson will take place Monday night at the pedestrian over-crossing on Home Acres and Lewis Avenue in Vallejo.

On May 25, 2016 the then 15-year-old Jesse Bethel High School student was kidnapped off a pedestrian walkway over Interstate 780 (the area where the vigil will be held) on her way to school by an armed man, dragged to a waiting car and vanished.

Pinson


More info at the linked article.

This kidnapping was so horrifying!! I can't imagine what her family has gone through for the last 4 years. However unlikely, I keep hoping and praying we will hear some good news in this case.

 

[carbuff]

So tragic...

 

[Ajai Baktar]

Come on Pearl! Show us where!

 

[LaborDayRN]

Come on Pearl! Show us where!

Yes. PLEASE!!

 

[imstilla.grandma]

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Fifteen-year-old Pearl Pinson was making her way to school on Wednesday morning, May 25, 2016, when she was attacked by an armed man.

Witnesses said the man dragged her across the pedestrian overpass, where Home Acres Avenue meets Interstate 780 in Vallejo. Her face was bloodied, she was screaming for help. Witnesses heard gunshots, including her brother William, also walking to school a few blocks away. The man bundled her into a gold 1997 four-door Saturn.

By the time the police arrived she was gone, and Pearl hasn’t been seen since.,

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Fernando Castro, 19, was IDed as the potential perp.

Thanks to an Amber Alert, Castro’s vehicle was sighted the following day in San Luis Obispo County, over 250 miles south of Vallejo. The California Highway Patrol chased Castro into a residential area, where he abandoned his vehicle and ran into a mobile home near Solvang, on the Central Coast.

The occupant of the home escaped unharmed, as Castro attempted to steal a car and began shooting at police while driving away. The authorities returned fire and killed Castro. A small amount of Pearl's blood was found in the trunk of the car, but she was nowhere to be found.

The whereabouts of Castro and Pearl over the preceding day led authorities on a search that spanned hundreds of miles of California. Security footage showed Castro’s vehicle at a Bodega Bay gas station, 50 miles northwest of Vallejo. Dozens of law enforcement officers searched a 25-square-mile area in the region in the following days, but nothing was found.

Theories on Castro’s motive for Pearl’s abduction vary from sex trafficking to gang activity to a domestic fight, but four years later there are still no answers, and no sign of Pearl.

Her sister Rose told the Daily Republic in 2017 that she often dreams of her sister. She remembers her smile and the times they shared doing each other’s hair, nails and makeup. She said Pearl thought about becoming a firefighter or veterinarian.

Rose said she wishes the authorities had gotten some information from Castro before they shot him dead and holds hope that her sister is alive but is scared about what may have happened to her.

“If they find her alive, she’s not going to be the same,” Pinson said. “She won’t be herself, having gone through so much. I’m kind of scared to see what happens.”
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These Bay Area residents vanished and have never been found

 

[Caring4Many]

After listening to the Vanished Podcast on Pearl, I came here looking for an update.

I did look on google and found more information on Pearl's sister Rose who was on the Podcast. It looks like she now has a son and her fiance (and the baby's father) was killed in November 2020. This article details that and has a small bit on Pearl as well, including a new tipline that has been set up.

Clipped from the article in order to save the tipline #"The five-year anniversary of Pearl Pinson’s kidnapping is on May 25 of this year. Rose-Ann has set up a tip line at (415) 894-7460 for any information on the kidnapping of her sister or the murder of her fiancé."

Vallejo’s Rose-Ann Pinson still waiting for answers in murder of Gabriel Mendoza – Times-Herald

 

[Cascadia Mount]

After listening to the Vanished Podcast on Pearl, I came here looking for an update.

I did look on google and found more information on Pearl's sister Rose who was on the Podcast. It looks like she now has a son and her fiance (and the baby's father) was killed in November 2020. This article details that and has a small bit on Pearl as well, including a new tipline that has been set up.

Clipped from the article in order to save the tipline #"The five-year anniversary of Pearl Pinson’s kidnapping is on May 25 of this year. Rose-Ann has set up a tip line at (415) 894-7460 for any information on the kidnapping of her sister or the murder of her fiancé."

Vallejo’s Rose-Ann Pinson still waiting for answers in murder of Gabriel Mendoza – Times-Herald

Thank you for posting this. The person who killed Rose's boyfriend is at large. She has been through so much, I pray some answers are found.

 

[sammyed]

Bumping for Pearl. It may have already been noted, sorry-but did she know her kidnapper at all?

 

[Cascadia Mount]

Bumping for Pearl. It may have already been noted, sorry-but did she know her kidnapper at all?

No, Pearl did not know him.

 

[cvaldez1975]

please see this thread. maybe someone would want to call it in.

CA - Marin County 02-16-2021 Skeletal Remains

 

[Cascadia Mount]

5 years since Vallejo teen Pearl Pinson disappeared | KRON4

 

[Ajai Baktar]

Coming up on her anniversary again. Why do we get absolutely nothing on so many cases?

 

[jnblsm]

I know.
I get sad, and mad, and I just don't understand why it's so hard with all of the technology we have, why we can't find these people.

 

[Cascadia Mount]

Coming up on her anniversary again. Why do we get absolutely nothing on so many cases?

So sad.

 

[Cascadia Mount]

I know.
I get sad, and mad, and I just don't understand why it's so hard with all of the technology we have, why we can't find these people.

same here.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I guess they could not use tracking on the suspect's cell phone or vehicle GPS (if he had either of those) to try to figure out where he brought her?
Just thinking out loud.

 

[Ajai Baktar]

Coming up on 6 years now since Pearl was taken against her will.
Somebody knows!

 

[Cascadia Mount]

Someone knows. Please say.

 

[GuyfromCanada]

MAY 25

Missing for 6 years.

Family of Vallejo teen Pearl Pinson holds out hope 6 years after disappearance

Six years after 15-year-old Pearl Pinson disappeared off the streets of Vallejo, her family refuses to give up hope that she will be found.

www.cbsnews.com