Barbara Lenz
Barbara Lealyn Lenz
Case # 89-03215
Age at Report: 31 YOA
DOB: August 30, 1957
Weight: 130 lbs.
Height: 5′ 07″
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing From: Logan/Woodbine, IA
Harrison County
NCIC Number: M-360981053
Missing Since: May 6, 1989
Harrison County in Iowa
Barbara Lenz was last seen by her boyfriend, who dropped her off at her apartment on May 6, 1989. Barbara said she was going to visit an old boyfriend in Omaha that afternoon, but never arrived. On May 17, 1989, the victim’s family called the Woodbine Police Department and reported they had not had contact with her since May 3, 1989.
(The IA Missing Persons Clearinghouse also states that Lenz was reported missing to the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office in Logan, Iowa.) Lenz lived about 17 miles northeast of Missouri Valley in Woodbine.
At the time of Lenz’s disappearance, her mother was hospitalized in Missouri Valley with pneumonia and Lenz visited her every day. When she did not visit her mother for two days in a row, her mother sent relatives to check Lenz’s residence. Inside the home they found Lenz’s coffee pot half-full and switched on, her laundry half-folded, and Lenz’s keys and purse left there.
Barbara Lenz in her early 20s
Lenz, who left behind a three-year-old daughter, has never been heard from again and investigators believe she was taken against her will.
In May 2006, mushroom hunters in Council Bluffs, Iowa, found a 55-gallon barrel with a woman’s skeletal remains inside, but dental records concluded the woman was not Lenz.
Lenz has a purple-colored scar two inches below her left elbow. Her case remains unsolved.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of this individual, please contact the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office at 712-644-2244.
Did the police question Barbaras boyfriend in her disappearance?? Sounds to me like he could maybe be withholding information and why would she be visiting an “old boyfriend” in Omaha????? That seems really strange. Maybe she told her boyfriend this and he got upset with her and jealous and maybe did something to her? Also it says that her coffee maker was left on, her laundry half-folded and she had left her purse and keys @ her apartment…Like the investigators said it does look like she either left somewhere in a hurry, or was taken against her will…Where was her 3-year old daughter @ the time??
I hope that this case will be solved soon and that her family and friends will find some closure…………………………………………….
This is just my speculation.
Also why would Barbara be reported missing to the Harrison County Sheriffs Office in Logan, Iowa when she lived in Woodbine???