WA WA - Lyn Marie Ohana, 49, Port Townsend, 8 December 2005

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Lyn Marie Ohana​

Ohana, circa 2005

• Missing Since 12/08/2005
• Missing From Port Townsend, Washington
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Date of Birth 08/22/1956 (66)
• Age4 9 years old
• Height and Weight 5'4, 105 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description A dark-blue mid-length winter coat. Possibly carrying a small backpack.
• Medical Conditions Ohana suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome and a heart condition.
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Ohana wears wire-framed eyeglasses. Her upper incisors protrude slightly. She has several scars on the inside of one of her elbows. Ohana may use the alias Marilyn Marie Carter.

Details of Disappearance​

Ohana was last seen at approximately 6:00 p.m. on December 8, 2005, walking away from her residence in the vicinity of the 1400 block of Monroe Street in Port Townsend, Washington. She said she would return later in the evening, but she did not and has never been heard from again. All her belongings, including her debit card, credit card, $100 in cash, her pull-cart, and her clothing, were left behind at her home.

Ohana is described as a private person. She was living with her mother at the time she went missing, led a minimalist lifestyle and didn't have a driver's license, relying on public transportation to get around. She was a self-employed massage therapist in 2005 and her clients were mostly in the Seattle, Washington area. Her loved ones do not believe Ohana was dating anyone at the time of her disappearance. Her mother stated it's uncharacteristic of her to go out at night like she did on the date she went missing. Her case remains unsolved.

Investigating Agency​

• Port Townsend Police Police Department 360-385-2322

Lyn Marie Ohana – The Charley Project
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

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Barney Burke of the Port Townsend Leader wrote a great piece about Lyn Ohana’s disappearance back in April of 2006

“Wednesday, April 12, 2006



By Barney Burke, Leader Staff Writer



After four months of searching, the only clue in the disappearance of Lyn Marie (Carter) Ohana might be the indications of a scent-tracking dog brought in by a private investigator her family hired.



Ohana, 49, has been missing since Dec. 8 from the home she shared with her mother in Port Townsend. That evening, she asked her mother, Tillie Carter, to leave the porch light on, saying that she would return later without indicating where she was going.



She never came home.



Three weeks after her disappearance, the family hired Harry Oakes, a private investigator from Longview, Wash., said Lyn’s brother, Bob Carter.



The dog tracked Ohana’s scent from her Monroe Street home to the former Golden Age Club next to Chetzemoka Park, a few blocks away, Carter said. That’s where the trail stopped, “like she got into a car,” said Carter.



Ohana did not have a driver’s license. She usually walked or took public transit, including trips to Seattle, where she worked part-time as a massage therapist. The owner of that business called the family home several days after Ohana disappeared, inquiring as to why she had not shown up for work.



At Fort Worden State Park, the dog didn’t just pick up her scent, it picked up a “death scent,” Carter said. The dog is trained to communicate with body language when it detects a death scent associated with the person it is tracking, he said. The scent was coming from the city side of Fort Worden, said Carter.



The dog was brought to Rat Island, the Portage Canal Bridge at Indian Island, the Resort at Port Ludlow, and the Hood Canal Bridge. In each location, the dog indicated finding the death scent, and it seemed to be coming from the direction of Seattle, he said.



“That leads me to believe Lyn was taken to Seattle,” Carter said. The dog also found the death scent in the vicinity of the Edmonds ferry terminal, he said.



There have been no further attempts to track Ohana with dogs, said Carter and Port Townsend Police Sgt. Ed Green.



“We have nothing to support any theory at this point,” Green said. There is no evidence that she was harmed, and no evidence that she disappeared of her own volition, as people sometimes do, he explained.



“I can’t emphasize enough,” Sgt. Green pleaded, “Anybody who’s got anything” should contact Port Townsend police at 360-385-2322”

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