CA CA-Maria Placz, 26, Ventura County, 21 Jul 1976

[ADKGemini]

Maria Placz – The Charley Project

Maria Placz

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Placz, circa 1976

• Missing Since07/21/1976
• Missing FromVentura, California
• ClassificationEndangered Missing
• Age26 years old
• Height and Weight5'6, 130 pounds
• Distinguishing CharacteristicsCaucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Placz may use the last name Mihalic.

Details of Disappearance
Placz was last seen in Ventura, California on July 21, 1976. She had recently moved to the United States from Hungary; she was working for Infra-Red Industries in Carpinteria, California and living in a care center when she disappeared. She has never been heard from again.

Later that same day, her car was found abandoned with her wallet, purse and a couple of notes left inside it. The notes indicated Placz was going to take her own life. Her body has never been located, however, and her disappearance remains unsolved.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[glamourkitty1922]

If she was in Carpinteria, then she was right beside the ocean.

 

[CastlesBurning]

This case description makes me have a lot of questions...

Maria is described as a dependent adult, living in a care facility; yet she's also described as a recent immigrant from Hungary. So she just moved from one country to another all by herself?

Also, she's impaired enough in whatever way that she apparently isn't able to live independently. But she can drive and own a car?

 

[HopeRains]

Reviewing old newspapers, there were legal notices posted for trustee-ship of her estate in 1977, and adoption of a child in 1983. Additionally, partial skeletal remains located in December 1976 in the same area of her disappearance were determined to not be human.