NM NM - Pernell Lloyd Tewangoitewa, 21, Farmington, 29 May 1998

[CastlesBurning]

Pernell Lloyd Tewangoitewa – The Charley Project

• Missing Since: 05/29/1998
• Missing From: Farmington, New Mexico
• Classification: Endangered Missing
• Sex: Male
• Race: Native American
• Age: 21 years old
• Height and Weight: 6'2, 175 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description: A light blue and white shirt, blue jeans and sneakers.
• Distinguishing Characteristics: Native American male. Black hair, brown eyes. Tewangoitewa wears eyeglasses with gold wire frames. He is of Navajo and Hopi Indian descent.

Details of Disappearance
Tewangoitewa was last seen driving away from Gator's Bar & Grill in Farmington, New Mexico on May 29, 1998. He was employed as a bouncer at the establishment at the time, and had spent the evening there with his sister and some friends.

When Tewangoitewa left the bar, he was driving his sister's 1988 Pontiac Subaru station wagon while she rode with friends. She assumed he was following her back to the home they shared in Bloomfield, New Mexico, ten miles away, but he never arrived there.

On June 18, three weeks after Tewangoitewa's disappearance, the vehicle he was driving was found in a dry river wash in Choke Cherry Canyon, five miles northwest of Farmington. It had been badly burned and there was no sign of Tewangoitewa at the scene. He has never been heard from again.

Authorities believe Tewangoitewa was the victim of a homicide, but no arrests have been made in his case. The Subaru was junked at a salvage yard in 2000 without being processed for forensic evidence.

Tewangoitewa was a cosmetology student at the time of his disappearance. His disappearance remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency

• Farmington Police Department 505-599-1010
• San Juan County Sheriff's Department 505-334-6108

Source Information

• Indian County Today
• The Gallup Independent
• Pernell Lloyd Tewangoitewa - Missing
• NamUs

 

[angintx]

I believe this man was also a victim of Robert Fry.

 

[Atombudd]

Botched New Mexico murder case draws eye of U. S. Civil Rights Commission

FARMINGTON, N.M. ? Prompted by a murder mystery and a campaign by distraught relatives of the apparent victim, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is planning

indiancountrytoday.com

 

[Pennysmom1]

Pernell Lloyd Tewangoitewa - New Mexico Missing Person Directory

Details and Pictures of Pernell Lloyd Tewangoitewa, Missing since May 1998

www.missingin.org

3414DMNM - Pernell Lloyd Tewangiotewa

Identifiers
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Not Available

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Light blue and white shirt, Blue jeans
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Tennis shoes, Wears gold toned, wire framed eyeglasses

Circumstances of Disappearance​

Pernell Pernell was last seen May 29, 1998 with his sister and friends at Gators Bar and Grill in Farmington, New Mexico. According to witnesses he was seen leaving Gator’s parking lot at 01:30 and heading east on Main Street alone. He never made it home that night.

It is believed that Pernell detoured and went to a party that took place in Flora Vista, New Mexico. On June 18, the Silver Subaru hatchback that he was driving was discovered completely burned in Choke Cherry Canyon, about five miles northwest of Farmington.

Farmington police processed the scene on June 20 and filed a missing-person report. The cause of the car fire was later determined to be arson. The case remains unsolved, although investigators have looked at a possible connection to an alleged serial killer in the area. Although Pernell is classified as a missing person, police say they are treating the case as a homicide.

Pernell was a student at a local cosmetology school and lived with his sister at her house in Bloomfield about 10 miles southeast of Farmington

 

[Pennysmom1]

Just a note on the spelling of Pernell's last name. NAMUS, Doe, and<modsnip: not an approved source> shows it as Tewangiotewa; Charley shows it spelled Tewangoitewa.

 

[doublestop]

When Tewangoitewa left the bar, he was driving his sister's 1988 Pontiac Subaru station wagon while she rode with friends. She assumed he was following her back to the home they shared in Bloomfield, New Mexico, ten miles away, but he never arrived there.

Was it a Pontiac or a Subaru? Two different manufacturers. Also, later they say it was a Subaru hatchback--not a station wagon.

 

[Pennysmom1]

Pernell Tewangiotewa, Missing from New Mexico since 1998.

A blog about the many missing, murdered, and unidentified Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal women of the United States and Canada. Say Their Names!

www.justicefornativepeople.com

<<Tribal Information: Pernell is of Navajo and Hopi descent.>>

 

[Atombudd]

Botched New Mexico murder case draws eye of U. S. Civil Rights Commission

FARMINGTON, N.M. ? Prompted by a murder mystery and a campaign by distraught relatives of the apparent victim, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is planning

indiancountrytoday.com

Link that works article from 2002

Botched New Mexico murder case draws eye of U. S. Civil Rights Commission

FARMINGTON, N.M. ? Prompted by a murder mystery and a campaign by distraught relatives of the apparent victim, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is planning to hold a return set of hearings here in San Juan County, a sometimes racially torn land bordering the Navajo Nation where the commission...

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