TX TX - Cathy Cole Sampson, 39, Paris, 27 Aug 1985

[Kat]

The Doe Network:
Case File 2398DFTX

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2398dftx.html

Cathy Cole Sampson
Missing since August 27, 1985 from Paris, Lamar County, Texas
Classification: Involuntary



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Vital Statistics

Date Of Birth: June 11, 1946
Age at Time of Disappearance: 39 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'7"; 130 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; brown eyes.
Marks, Scars: Pierced ears. A tattoo on her left breast of a Panda bear and a tattoo of a red rose on her buttocks.
Dentals: A full set of dentures
AKA: Cathy Bell Cole Sampson


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Circumstances of Disappearance
Cathy Sampson was last seen on August 27, 1985 in Paris, Texas. Foul play is feared.



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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Texas Department of Public Safety
512-424-5074

TDPS Case Number: M8803012

NCIC Number:
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
Texas Department of Public Safety

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/mpch/mpdetails.asp?id='M7/31/20071:13:14PM'

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/sampson_cathy.html

Cathy isn't listed in NamUs at this time.

Cathy doesn't have any archived articles that I can find.

I wish more details were available. Cathy has been missing 25 years. Come home soon.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Cathy has been missing for 30 years. Still very few details in her disappearance.

NamUs

 

[MadMcGoo]

• NamUs MP8603
• Cathy Cole Sampson – The Charley Project

Missing Since: August 27, 1985
Missing From: Paris, Texas
Classification: Endangered Missing
Sex: Female
Race: White
Date of Birth: June 11, 1946
Age: 39 years old
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 130 pounds
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Characteristics: Sampson may use the name Cathy Bell Cole Sampson. She has a panda bear tattooed on her left breast and a red rose tattooed on her buttocks. Her ears are pierced. She wears a full set of dentures.

Details of Disappearance
Sampson was last seen in Paris, Texas on August 27, 1985. She was preparing to move and left home to drive to a convenience store nearby and get boxes.

She never returned home and hours later, her twelve-year-old daughter called a family friend, who drove around looking for her until he saw Sampson's purple 1985 Pontiac at a roadside park on U.S. 82 west.

Her purse and its contents were inside the vehicle, and valuable equipment her employer had issued was in the trunk. There were no indications of a struggle. Sampson has never been heard from again.

At the time of her disappearance, Sampson lived alone with her daughter in Paris. They had moved there from Dallas, Texas the previously year and Sampson initially took a job at Kimberly-Clark Corp., but shortly before she went missing she started working as a service technician with General Electric Medical Services. She's described as a devoted mother who wouldn't have abandoned her child.

Sampson's ex-husband is not a suspect in her disappearance. Foul play is suspected in her case.

Investigating Agency:
Paris Police Department 903-737-4134

4 Unidentified Person Exclusions
UP6796 11/18/1985 Alleghany VA
UP6629 02/03/1991 Frederick VA
UP6150 11/07/1998 Stafford VA
UP12683 06/06/2014 Newport News VA

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping for Cathy, today is her birthday.

 

[ekardh]

Not much to go on here. She was in the process of moving home. What reason would she have for voluntarily disappearing?

The fact Cathy's purse and anything else she had of value was left behind in the car, would suggest a personal or sexual motive.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Bumping case up for Cathy.
What kind of searching took place where her vehicle was found back in 1985?

Was it really pure luck that the friend found her car, or was there a reason he searched that specific site?

Is her DNA on file for automatic matching on NamUs?

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Moving Cathy's case up.

 

[HopeRains]

Noting that the distance between Paris, TX and the Oklahoma state border is ~ 20 miles.

The Paris News, 4 Jan 95, pg 1

The Paris News, 16 Jun 86, pg 1. This article says she had told friends she was to meet someone at a roadside park.

Publicly listed exclusions on Namus:

 

[theshadow45]

Cathy has been missing for 38 years today.

 

[theshadow45]

Today is Cathy’s birthday.

 

[theshadow45]

Cathy has been missing for 39 years today.

 

[Pennysmom1]

Cathy is still missing, no new information found

Missing Person / NamUs #MP8603

View NamUs missing person case MP8603 for Cathy Cole Sampson missing from Paris, Texas. Date of last contact: Aug 27, 1985. NCMEC case number: --.

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2398DFTX - Cathy Cole Sampson

Identifiers​

Dentals: A full set of dentures
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

 

[JSolt1210]

Cathy's car was found near US 82, which is less than a 5-minute drive from her home near the Oak Park United Methodist Church, but no mention is made of boxes found inside, suggesting she either never made it to the store, or the store didn't have boxes to spare.

Was there, in a fact, a grocery store on the way to the highway?

I ask this because, according to the second article, Cathy told friends she was meeting someone at a roadside park, which is exactly where her car was found, but told her daughter she was going to the store. Could Cathy have just made up that excuse for her daughter because she didn't want her to know she was meeting someone?

 

[UniqueMichelle]

Still no updates. I'm from Paris and lived near the road side park when this happened. No one ever talks about this case. Maybe because she had only lived here a year or so and not many people knew her. She is the only missing person this town has ever had. Sad.

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping, today is Cathy’s birthday.,

 

[theshadow45]

Cathy has been missing for 40 years today.