CA CA - Teresa Marie Barbusca, 16, Stockton, May 1999

[Moonwalker9]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Teresa Marie Barbusca – The Charley Project
Teresa Marie Barbusca

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Teresa, circa 1999; Age-progression to age 35 (circa 2017)

• Missing Since05/25/1999
• Missing FromStockton, California
• ClassificationEndangered Runaway
• Date of Birth10/05/1982 (36)
• Age16 years old
• Height and Weight5'0 - 5'1, 105 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry DescriptionA tank top, jeans and sneakers.
• Distinguishing CharacteristicsCaucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Teresa had blonde highlights in her hair at the time of her 1999 disappearance. She has a tattoo of her initials "TB" on the back of her right shoulder.

Details of Disappearance
Teresa resided in Sacramento, California with her family in 1999. She ran away from home on two previous occasions when the family lived in Daly City, California in the late 1990s. She was last seen on May 25, 1999.

She drove to Stockton, California with three friends in a borrowed van during the day. Her friends told authorities that they dropped Teresa off at the Days Inn motel near Weber Street and Center Street. She has never been heard from again.

Teresa's mother said that her daughter had a rebellious streak and was involved with drugs in 1999. She liked to go to the 2Pac Chat website. She had an abortion two to three months before her disappearance. She may have been seen in San Francisco, California sometime after she went missing, but the sighting is unconfirmed.

Teresa's case remains unsolved. Sacramento authorities are handling her investigation.

 

[Murkywaters]

Teresa's NamUs page The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Per law enforcement - Teresa was allegedly driven to Stockton, CA and dropped off where she was to meet a male named "Phillip."

 

[Murkywaters]

Teresa Marie Barbusca / Missing Person / 05/25/1999 / Stockton, CA - Newspapers.com

News clipping from The Sacramento Bee Dec 1998

 

[Pennysmom1]

Teresa Barbusca - The Polly Klaas Foundation

www.pollyklaas.org

2598DFCA - Teresa Marie Barbusca

Right: Age-progressed to 24 years

Name: Teresa Marie Barbusca
Case Classification: Endangered Runaway
Missing Since: May 25, 1999
Location Last Seen: Sacramento, Sacramento County, California

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: October 5, 1982
Age: 16 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'0" (152 cm)
Weight: 100 lbs (45 kg)
Hair Color: Light brown
Eye Color: Blue
Nickname/Alias: Unknown

Distinguishing Marks/Features: She had blonde highlights in her hair. A tattoo of the initials "TB" in Gothic script, on the back of her right shoulder. Medical: Substance abuse problems.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Not available
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Available

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Tank top, jeans and tennis shoes.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance​

Teresa was last seen at the Day's Inn Motel on Weber and Center Streets in Stockton, CA on May 25, 1999. She drove to Stockton, California with three friends in a borrowed van during the day. Her friends told authorities that they dropped Barbusca off at the motel.

She'd run away twice before, when she and her mother and younger sister still lived in Daly City.

When younger she talked about wanting to become a lawyer. But in high school, Teresa fell in with a streetwise crowd and started smoking pot.

In August 1998, as a new start, Ms Barbusca sent her daughter to Sacramento to live with a cousin.

Teresa found work as a cashier in a Japanese restaurant and studied for her general equivalency diploma. Yet she also found a new circle of street friends, and she was drinking heavily and doing drugs.

On May 9 her mother told Teresa that she was moving to the Sacramento area to reunite the family. Teresa was unhappy with her mother's decision. A little more than two weeks later, she ran away. During her previous runaway episodes, Teresa called home repeatedly. She was gone two days the first time, a week the second. She may still be in California.

Investigating Agency(s)​

Agency Name: Sacramento Police Department
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 916-264-5471
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 990040535

NCIC Case Number: M-412125598
NCMEC Case Number: NCMC864049

Information Source(s)​

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
CA DOJ
Namus
The Sacramento Bee

Admin Notes​

Added: 5-23-2008; Last Updated: 05-18-2022 - By: Htmlcnvtr

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Teresa Marie Barbusca – The Charley Project

 

[Beccalicious]

Bumping

 

[cheemsg]

https://fox40.com/news/local-news/there-are-more-than-20000-people-reported-missing-in-california/

Just a short article with her sister,