IA IA - Kimberly Doss, 16, Davenport, 27 Sept 1982

[Mysteries1974]

The actual date is March 20, 1980

Kimberly Sue Doss

Left and Center: Kimberly circa, 1980 Right: Age Progressed to age 56 Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: March 20, 1980 Missing From: Davenport, Scott County, Iowa Classificat…

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Tried to do her some justice on my website for her. I’ve also sent the correct information to Meaghan Good who runs the Charley project and she will also make sure her case for Kimberly is fixed

 

[Shoopersleuth]

Found this newspaper article from 1984

Feb 18, 1984, page 3 - Quad-City Times at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from Quad-City Times dated Feb 18, 1984, page 3.

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Thank you for posting this, I will add it to her file. Yes Kimberly was dropped from the missing Children list when she turned 18 which was the Idaho Policy at the time. She was later put back on an remains on now.

Kimberly Sue Doss disappeared in March of 1980 from Davenport Iowa. She spoke to her mother by phone to say she was traveling from Davenport to Houston by bus with a one night stop over in Chicago on her scheduled route. She was 14 years old at that time. Law enforcement finally took an official report on September 1 1982 when she would have been 16 years old and still a child. She had not been seen or heard from for over 2 years by that point.

Any and all sightings of her as a prostitute in California by the name Kimberly Gardner have been proven false multiple times by Law Emforcement, they just won’t remove the incorrect information from NamUs. We have tried.

The last time there was any confirmed sighting of Kimberly alive was in March 1980. The last contact she had with family was March 24 1980 when she spoke to her mom. She was 14 years old.

 

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Family Still Asks: Where’s Kim Sue Doss?

One of your neighbors posted in Neighbor News. Click through to read what they have to say. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)

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Kimberly Sue Doss – The Charley Project

Updated 6 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated June 5, 2024; date of disappearance corrected, two pictures added, details of disappearance updated.

Kimberly was living in Davenport, Iowa at the time of her March 1980 disappearance. She had moved to Houston, Texas with her mother several months earlier, but returned to Davenport because she missed her friends and boyfriend. She initially planned to live with her father, but instead stayed with her boyfriend and his family. She kept in regular touch with her mother in Texas.

Prior to her disappearance, Kimberly got into a fight with her boyfriend and left his home. She called him later and said she was in Ridgeview, Iowa with a friend she referred to only as Debbie. (None of her family or friends know of any friends she had by that name.) The last people to see her were two male friends in Davenport, whom she visited after leaving her boyfriend's home.

On March 20, Kimberly called her mother and said she was going back to Houston and had gotten a bus ticket to go. She mentioned meeting a girl on the bus in the Quad City area, named Kathy, who was from Chicago, Illinois, and Kimberly planned to spend the night in Chicago before going to Houston.

She never arrived in Houston and has never been heard from again. Her mother attempted to report her missing, but the Houston police refused to accept the report because Kimberly had disappeared in Iowa. She then contacted the Davenport police and tried to file a report, but they wouldn't take a report either because Kimberly's mother was in Texas.

It was not until September 1982, after Kimberly's mother moved to Davenport, that she was finally able to file a report for her daughter as a runaway with the Davenport Police Department. Many agencies give the date of Kimberly's disappearance as September 1, 1982 or September 27, 1982, but she'd gone missing two and a half years earlier.

Thursday's Child, a charitable organization that assists homeless or at-risk teenagers, claimed they made contact with Kimberly in 1983 when she was arrested for prostitution in California, and that she was using the name Kimberly Kathleen Gardner and didn't want anything to do with her family.

This woman was not, in fact, Kimberly; she was located in Minnesota in 1991 and admitted her actual name was Shannon Jones. All of the supposed sightings of Kimberly that had been reported after 1980 were actually Jones. In 2018, a DNA sample taken from Jones definitively proved she was not Kimberly Doss.

Due to this misidentification, Kimberly’s name was mistakenly removed from the National Crime Information Center several times. The Davenport police closed her case in February 1984, because she had turned eighteen and it was policy at the tmie to remove missing children who reached the age of 18 from the registry. Kimberly was re-listed as a missing child in 1999.

Kimberly's family does not believe she ran away from home, as they don't think she would have suddenly stopped contacting everyone she knew. They believe she may have met with foul play. Her disappearance remains unsolved.

 

[Shoopersleuth]

Kimberly Sue Doss

Part 1: Just A Teen

Try to think back to when you were a teenager, for some people the world was not so harsh. As teens the world was theirs and they felt they knew everything. It was the ultimate feeling. So it felt anyway. A parent's input was undoubtedly unwelcome, and being told no to something was astonishing to a teenager. Many of us can relate to those feelings. At just 14 years old, Kimberly was no different. We will get into all the circumstances regarding Kimberly’s disappearance, but first, l want you to get to know Kimberly.

Larry and Linda Doss welcomed their second daughter, Kimberly Sue Doss on February 2, 1966. Kimberly had a sister Schelly who was two years older than her. Their family lived in Davenport, Iowa along with extended family close by. Kimberly lived there until age 8 when her parents ended up divorcing. Larry remarried and remained in Davenport with his new wife and stepchildren. Linda moved to Louisiana with Schelly and Kimberly. Schelly’s favorite memories with Kimberly were living in Louisiana and often going to the local trampoline park and movies together. After their time in Louisiana, the family moved to Houston, Texas. Linda remarried, and they welcomed two stepsisters into their family. Kimberly was especially close with one of her stepsisters growing up, unfortunately, she passed many years ago now.

According to the family, Kimberly was a good child, she was extremely outgoing and never met a stranger. Schelly only remembers them getting disciplined occasionally if at all. Kimberly found her interest in boys as a young teen and going to parties with her friends. Since she sometimes went back to Davenport to see her family, she would always see a close guy friend, Dallas Murphy, who lived down the street from her grandparents. Eventually, Dallas became her boyfriend so living in Houston was undoubtedly difficult for a teenager to not be near her boyfriend.

At 14, Kimberly felt she knew what was best for her. Like most teens, she did not want to have rules or be told no. She did not get her way one day and told her mom she was returning to Davenport to stay with her dad. Kimberly missed being back in Davenport it seemed. Being a teenager away from your closest friends, other siblings, and childhood home would presumably be difficult for any teenager.

Kimberly, being a free spirit, returned to Davenport, and she had no intentions of living with her dad. Instead, she moved in with Dallas at his mom’s house where she typically stayed when back in Davenport. Thinking she knew best, Kimberly lived there for a few months before deciding she wanted to move back to Houston.

March 20th, 1980, Kimberly called her mom to tell her she wanted to take the bus and come home to Houston. That was the last time Linda has ever spoken to Kimberly…

In Part 2 of Kimberly Sue Doss, we will take you back to what led Kimberly to call her mom about going to Houston. With the help of Kimberly’s family and law enforcement, we will begin to clear up the misinformation circulating for the last 44 years.

If you have any information, no matter how big or small, regarding the disappearance of Kimberly Sue Doss, please contact the Davenport PD 563-326-7979. If you are not comfortable doing so, please email us instead at avoice4thelost@gmail.com and we will forward the information to the authorities.

Please join AVoice4TheLost and check back for part 2 of Kimberly Sue Doss…

Agency Case : 82-46115

The Doe Network : 503DFIA - Kimberly Sue Doss (doenetwork.org)

Kimberly Sue Doss – The Charley Project

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Family of Kimberly Sue Doss

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[Shoopersleuth]

Kimberly Sue Doss’s Missing Person Date of last Contact has Finally been officially Corrected by Davenport Police Department and was updated in NamUs this Morning

 

[Earth]

That's good news. Maybe she can be excluded as some unidentified remains that were not considered previously.

 

[Shoopersleuth]

There have been a lot of changes and updates to this case in the last week and Det Lauren Anderson with the Davenport Pilice Department has launched a fresh investigation. Kimberly’s information is being updated and corrected on official sites now.

Is it possible to start a new thread with the updated and correct information so we can leave the incorrect info and false information behind?

 

[Mysteries1974]

There have been a lot of changes and updates to this case in the last week and Det Lauren Anderson with the Davenport Pilice Department has launched a fresh investigation. Kimberly’s information is being updated and corrected on official sites now.

Is it possible to start a new thread with the updated and correct information so we can leave the incorrect info and false information behind?

the moderators can edit the title so that it correctly shows March 20th 1980 as her date of disappearance. This way nothing is lost. Idk who to take for that