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Leo Cortez, Missing from Minnesota since the 1980s.
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Leo was of an unknown age when he left Anoka State Hospital and made arrangements to meet with his sister at a bus station in St Paul, Minnesota sometime in the 1980s. When Leo didn't arrive his sister, Donna, called the hospital to see if he'd ever left and report he hadn't arrived. According to her, the nurse she spoke to was very dismissive of her concerns. Though attempts were made, a police report wasn't able to be filed until 2023. Leo is one of a handful of missing Indigenous folks in Minnesota who are being featured for billboards around the state. Leo remains missing.
DOB: Unknown
Description: None available
Tribal Information: Unknown
July 25, 2024
MMIR billboards are bringing new hope to Indigenous families | Minnesota Department of Public Safety
It has been 40 years since Leo Coleman Cortez left Anoka State Hospital, intending to meet his sister Donna at a St. Paul bus depot around noon. Coleman Cortez, who is Indigenous, has been missing ever since.
dps.mn.gov
<<Donna waited for some time at the bus station, eventually going home without her brother. She called the hospital to see if he had returned and let them know he had never arrived, but Donna remembers being dismissed by the nurse who answered the phone. While Donna called local police departments to ask for help at the time, no missing person report was filed until last year, when she filed a report with the Anoka Police Department.
Donna looked for her brother alone for decades until she met Ana Negrete of our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) office, who arranged to have Coleman Cortez featured on one of eight missing Indigenous persons billboards now displayed in Minnesota.>>
