NV NV - Patricia Weeks, 34, Las Vegas, 25 April 1968

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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Patricia Weeks

Female
White / Caucasian
Date of Last Contact: April 25, 1968
Missing From: Las Vegas, Nevada

Missing Age: 34 Years
Current Age: 86 Years


Case Information

Demographics
Missing Age: 34 Years
Current Age: 86 Years

First Name: Patricia
Middle Name: --
Last Name: Weeks
Nickname/Alias: Pat

Sex: Female
Height: 5' 0" - 5' 9" (60 - 69 Inches)
Weight: 110 - 170 lbs
Race / Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

Circumstances
Date of Last Contact: April 25, 1968
NamUs Case Created: February 25, 2019

Last Known Location Map
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
County: Clark County
Missing From Tribal Land: No
Primary Residence on Tribal Land: --

Circumstances of Disappearance:
Patricia Weeks went missing from Las Vegas, Nevada approximately two weeks after her divorce from her husband was finalized. Patricia's vehicle was later found abandoned near the Las Vegas airport. Her ex-husband, Robert Weeks, was convicted of her murder in 1987 but would not disclose any further information on the location of Patricia.

Physical Description
Hair Color: Blond/Strawberry
Head Hair Description: --
Body Hair Description: --
Facial Hair Description: --

Left Eye Color: Unknown
Right Eye Color: Unknown
Eye Description: --

Distinctive Physical Features
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Clothing and Accessories
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Additional Case Info

Transportation
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[Coffee56]

• Missing Since04/25/1968
• Missing FromLas Vegas, Nevada
• ClassificationEndangered Missing
• SexFemale
• RaceWhite
• Age34 years old
• Height and WeightUnknown
• Distinguishing CharacteristicsCaucasian female. Blonde hair. Patricia's nickname is Pat.

Details of Disappearance
Patricia was last seen in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 25, 1968. She disappeared a few weeks after her divorce from her husband, Robert Weeks, had been finalized. She had been granted custody of their four young children. After her disappearance, her car was found abandoned in a parking lot. Robert told people that Patricia "either had a nervous breakdown or is probably dead." Besides Patricia, Robert was connected to three other missing persons.

James Shaw, a business associate of Robert's, had disappeared from Las Vegas on May 5, 1971. His bloodstained car was later found abandoned. Acquaintances said he had argued with Robert the day he disappeared. Cynthia Jabour, a real estate agent and Robert's girlfriend of six years, disappeared from Las Vegas on October 5, 1980. Jabour disappeared on a night she had a dinner date scheduled with Robert; she planned to break up with him. After her disappearance, her car was found abandoned in the parking lot Caesar's Palace Hotel.

When questioned by police, Robert claimed Jabour had canceled their dinner date that night and he didn't know where she was. He was supposed to take a lie detector test, but on the day of the test he canceled the appointment, saying he had to go out of town on business. He went to Tijuana, Mexico, and then on to Chile. He didn't return to the U.S. until three years later, coming in through Houston, Texas on a Libyan passport.

Robert later settled in San Diego, California and began dating a nurse, Carol Riley. She knew him as Robert Howard Smith. Riley disappeared from San Diego, California on April 5, 1986, the day she had a date scheduled with Robert and planned to end their relationship. She was seeing another man as well, a doctor from Colorado, and planned to marry this man.

When the police spoke to Robert about Riley's disappearance, they he told them she had canceled their dinner date and he had no idea what happened to her. On April 7, just two days after her disappearance, Smith left town, telling his roommate he was going on a business trip, and dropped out of sight.

Authorities subsequently learned "Robert Smith"'s true identity and the fact that three other people he had been involved with had disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Police launched a manhunt for him, and he and the four disappearances were profiled on the television show Unsolved Mysteries. Thanks to tips from people who saw the show, in April 1987 he was located in Tucson, Arizona, where he'd been living under the name Charles F. Stolzenberg. He was arrested on an outstanding embezzlement charge out of Nevada, and questioned about the four disappearances. In July 1987, he was indicted for Patricia and Jabour's murders.

A photo of Robert is posted with this case summary. At his trial, numerous witnesses testified that he was a controlling and abusive man, prone to jealous rages. Two of his and Patricia's children took the stand to talk about how their father had beaten their mother on numerous occasions; others corroborated this, and Patricia had twice gotten restraining orders against her husband. Witnesses also testified that when Robert saw Patricia sitting next to a male neighbor on a piano bench, he beat the man so severely he was unrecognizable, and didn't regain consciousness for three days.

Passages from Robert's diary were presented for the jury; he wrote bitterly about Jabour, saying, "You have humiliated me beyond belief. I will even the score." The jury was permitted to hear about Riley's suspicious disappearance as well.

In April 1988, he was convicted of Patricia's murder and Jabour's murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. It was the first time in Nevada history that someone was convicted of murder without the victim's body. He died in prison in 1996; he was never charged in Riley and Shaw's disappearances.

None of the bodies of the missing people connected to him have ever been found. He was interested in mining, and may have dumped them in mine shafts in the Nevada desert.
Investigating Agency

• Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department 702-828-3111

Source Information

• NamUs
• Unsolved Mysteries Wiki
• The Arizona Daily Star
• The Escondido Times-Advocate
• The Tucson Citizen
• The Winston County Journal
• The Arizona Republic
• The Reno Gazette-Journal

Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004. Last updated July 29, 2020; casefile added.

Patricia Weeks – The Charley Project

TV SOLVES REAL-LIFE CRIME TALE TALE OF MISSING PEOPLE SPURS FUGITIVE'S ARREST

Robert Weeks - Newspapers.com

 

[shanda3434]

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, but I find it strange that 3 of the 4 went missing on the 5th of the month and Patricia was on the 25th.

 

[agapoyesoun]

I so hope that Patricia (Pat) is found. I pray for her children and any friends who are waiting for her to be brought home. x

 

[Cimatico]

Enhanced image from source https://www.namus.gov/api/CaseSets/NamUs/MissingPersons/Cases/55650/Images/97571/Original

 

[FOXINBOX]

Disposals are neat [Unusual for a guy with a quick temper] but the second crime scene not so much. Perhaps he had help, he certainly had means or opportunity to procure a fake passport, which suggest links to some kind of criminal organisation. Unless, of course he murdered some poor chap in Libya for his passport.

 

[Diane Redfern]

Disposals are neat [Unusual for a guy with a quick temper] but the second crime scene not so much. Perhaps he had help, he certainly had means or opportunity to procure a fake passport, which suggest links to some kind of criminal organisation. Unless, of course he murdered some poor chap in Libya for his passport.

It's not crazy to suggest he may have more victims in Mexico, Chile or Libya (I'm not sure if he got there or just wanted a false passport with other nationality). It's curious he chose countries with huge deserts... just perfect to hide a body.

 

[FOXINBOX]

Desert conditions hide, but they also preserve, so if Patricia is ever found, there might be evidence. I hate all these missing, unidentified cases, it's so awful that people were brutally discarded when their "Nearest and Dearest" either saw them as obstacles or were just so indifferent they could not be bothered to look for them.

 

[DS2021]

988UFNV

I think there's a strong chance of this being a match

 

[Diane Redfern]

Desert conditions hide, but they also preserve, so if Patricia is ever found, there might be evidence. I hate all these missing, unidentified cases, it's so awful that people were brutally discarded when their "Nearest and Dearest" either saw them as obstacles or were just so indifferent they could not be bothered to look for them.

But you have to locate them first... and so far it hasn't happened.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Patricia Weeks – The Charley Project

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Patricia Weeks – The Charley Project

 

[John/Jane Doe]

4658DFNV - Patricia Weeks

 

[snooptroop88]

So the case of Patricia Weeks-- what an incredibly unusual (and truly horrible) case. There's another very unusual case with Jane Doe found in Lancaster CA (Mojave Desert) remote area, discovered Dec 8 1968, died two to three mos prior, but date of death per multiple sources could be up to a year prior. Decedent was in homemade coffin/casket, care taken in its construction, I believe made of plywood, top painted red. Inside, the remains were mummified, the woman had bobby pins in her hair and was wearing pajamas, LE thought it was a domestic. Brocade pillow and a paper bag over decedent's head. Quilts found with her, she'd been shot in the temple and the bullet went completely through/exited. She was wearing a British-made red and white check bathrobe. Patricia Weeks disappeared in April 1968, so this fits the time range. Height aligns, age aligns. Weight aligns Both Patricia and the Jane Doe had children (there is a hysterectomy scar on this Jane Doe). I looked it up and the age range for hysterectomies in the 1960s includes significant proportion of women in their 30s, so this factor may also align. Hair color looks likely to align.

Based on what I can find about Robert Weeks, he worked his way through school, and one of his jobs was as a mortician. When he was married to Patricia, he operated a limousine service. (I've wondered if he didn't cultivate contacts there that resulted in the British made robe and his Libyan passport) At one point, he launched a construction business.

REALLY wondering on that.

 

[snooptroop88]

Moreover on Robert and Patricia Weeks there is a William J. Fox Airfield just north of Lancaster. They did many commercial (maybe private/chartered?) flights out of that field in the 60s. In his work with the limousine service, I'm guessing he may have been familar with it. Also, aside from his work as a mortician while he was in school, he worked as a parachute stuntman. And as I'm researching further, I'm seeing one of the carriers operating out of that field merged with a certain airline (Bonanza) in 1968. (The headquarters of Bonanza were originally in Las Vegas, relocated to Phoenix AZ in 1966)