MO MO - Shirley McKeown, 71, Kansas City, 24 Aug 2002

[mysteriew]

Shirley McKeown was 71 when she vanished Aug. 24, 2002. Police found her car 10 days later with enough of her blood inside that the medical examiner said she could not have survived. Police are investigating the disappearance as a homicide.

“There are people out there who know who did this, and they are letting them run free,” Bridget McKeown said while meeting with reporters to generate renewed interest in the case. “I don’t know why.”

Family and friends have contributed a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. Anyone with information is asked call the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS (474-8477).

McKeown, 45, believes her mother was attacked as she headed to her house. Police found her mother’s car, a Cadillac, hidden by a tarp and tree branches near 33rd Street and Highland Avenue in Kansas City. Detectives questioned an 18-year-old man who had been driving the car and had some of the woman’s possessions. But he has not been charged in the case.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12372853.htm

Shirley McKeown disappeared while driving to her daughter's house on Aug. 24, 2002. Two weeks later, her white Cadillac was found under a tarp several blocks from her home.

Due to the large amount of blood inside the vehicle, the case became a homicide. However, McKeown's body was never found.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/kmbc/20050812/lo_kmbc/2876807

 

[ohwell1971]

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mckeown_shirley.html

 

[ohwell1971]

http://www.achievefoundation.com/shirley_mckeown.htm

 

[summer_breeze]

Kansas City Cold Case Squad

http://www.kcmo.org/idc/groups/police/documents/police/shirley_mckeown-cch.pdf

NamUs Profile

https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/show/2330

CUE - Center for Missing Persons

http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/shirley-a-mckeown/

KC Crime Stoppers

http://kccrimestoppers.com/Unsolved.aspx?PageNum=2

Missouri Highway Patrol

http://www.mshp.dps.mo.gov/MSHPWeb/...Documents/ProjectRestConcordiaPoster06-08.pdf

 

[Jewels53]

http://kcmo.gov/police/families-ask-for-help-finding-bodies-of-their-loved-ones/

Shirley McKeown, age 70, left her home at 9129 E. 44th St. on the morning of Aug. 24, 2002. She was never seen again. Her car, however, was located Sept. 3, 2002, abandoned at 33rd and Highland with a very large amount of blood inside. DNA testing confirmed it to be Shirley’s. The car was hidden behind trees and covered with a tarp. The personalized Missouri license plates, “MCQ-N,” had been removed, and police have never recovered them.

 

[Hopingtohelp]

Surely someone in Kansas City knows what happened to Shirley McKeown and can anonymously provide that information to police. The family deserves some peace.

 

[Countem]

The Trace Evidence podcast show recently made an excellent podcast about this case.

‎Trace Evidence: 160 - The Disappearance of Shirley McKeown on Apple Podcasts

I live in Kansas City (within 15 minutes from the area in question) and am an avid antiquer, so this case has struck a nerve for me.

If there is anything that I can do or information that I can provide, being in the region, please let me know.

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Anniversary of disappearance today.

 

[Countem]

Community advocates react to KCPD bringing back Missing Persons Unit

Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves is taking a significant step to reverse a controversial move by her predecessor.

www.kctv5.com

Bridget McKeown, the daughter of Shirley McKeown, isn’t hopeful yet. She felt dismissed when she reported her mother missing in 2002. Ten days later, police found her mother’s car abandoned and covered by a tarp. There was what police called “a large amount of blood inside.”

 

[Pennysmom1]

Shirley Ann McKeown (1931-2002) - Find a Grave...

www.findagrave.com

Shirley A. McKeown – The Charley Project

charleyproject.org

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McKeown, circa 2002

• Missing Since 08/24/2002
• Missing From Kansas City, Missouri
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Date of Birth 01/21/1931 (93)
• Age 71 years old
• Height and Weight 5'5, 145 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description Blue jeans.
• Medical Conditions McKeown wears a pacemaker. She was otherwise in excellent health at the time of her disappearance and was not taking any daily medications.
• Associated Vehicle(s) White two-door 1990 Cadillac Deville with blue Missouri vanity license plates reading "MCQ-N" (accounted for)
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Gray hair, blue eyes. McKeown wears eyeglasses.

Details of Disappearance​

McKeown was last seen at 9:30 a.m. on August 24, 2002 as she left her residence in the vicinity of Laurel Avenue and the 9100 block of east 44th Street, near the Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City, Missouri, to go to her daughter's home in the 3400 block of Charlotte Street.


She was helping her daughter remodel her house at the time of her disappearance. McKeown's daughter was away the weekend of August 24 and McKeown was supervising the house painters. When she left them the day before, she had told them she would be back in the morning.


McKeown never made it to her daughter's residence. Her daughter tried to call her at 2:00 p.m. on August 25, but got no answer. After several more calls with no answer she contacted McKeown's neighbors, who said her dog had been left outside all night and her Sunday newspaper was still in the yard. The back door to the residence was unlocked.


McKeown's daughter said it would be uncharacteristic of her mother to neglect the animal or leave town without telling anyone. She reported McKeown missing on August 25, one day after she was last seen. There has been no activity on her bank accounts and credit cards since her disappearance.


On September 3, a week and a half after McKeown disappeared, her vehicle was found abandoned in a vacant lot near 33rd Avenue and Highland in Kansas City. The car, a white two-door 1990 Cadillac Deville, was hidden behind trees and covered with a car tarp and some brush. Its license plates, specialized Missouri conservation plates that are blue in color and read "MCQ-N," were missing and have not been recovered.


There was a large amount of McKeown's blood in the backseat of the car, but no indication of her whereabouts. Authorities stated that there was enough blood in the vehicle to prove she could not have survived.


A few days after the car was found, a man contacted police saying he had information about the vehicle. He came in for a voluntary interview. Investigators searched his home and yard afterwards. The man, who has not been identified, lives in the neighborhood where the car was found. Authorities have not said whether their search of his residence turned up any evidence relating to McKeown's case.


The man is not being called a suspect in her disappearance, but investigators believe he may have had contact with people who were involved in her disappearance. Another individual who had been driving McKeown's car and had some of her possessions has been questioned, but has not been charged in connection with her case.


Foul play is suspected in McKeown's disappearance; her daughter believes she could have been the victim of a carjacking. McKeown has no history of Alzheimer's Disease or other mental problems and was in excellent health at the time she vanished.


She is a retired nurse who used to work at North Kansas City Hospital in 1960s through the late 1970s, and has also held part-time jobs at Hallmark and at the Kansas City Royals ticket office. McKeown enjoyed antiques and refinishing old woodwork at the time of her 2002 disappearance.


Her case is being investigated as a homicide and remains unsolved.

 

[Pennysmom1]

Shirley A Mckeown - Missouri Missing Person Directory

Details and Pictures of Shirley A Mckeown, Missing since August 2002

www.missingin.org

3747DFMO - Shirley A. McKeown

www.doenetwork.org

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available