Erin Pospisil
Erin Kay Pospisil
Age at Report: 15 YOA
DOB: April 14, 1986
Weight: 130 lbs.
Height: 5′ 03″
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Missing From: Cedar Rapids, IA
Linn County
NCMEC #: NCMC919997
Missing Since: June 3, 2001
BALLOON LAUNCH PLANNED
On Saturday, May 25, 2013 (National Missing Children’s Day), Erin Pospisil’s family will gather at 9:30 a.m. to hold a balloon launch in Jones Park. The public is invited to attend.
Erin Pospisil was reported missing to the Cedar Rapids Police Department on June 3, 2001.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 1, 2009
The [then] 15-year-old was last seen at a friend’s home in the 100 block of 12th Street SE on late Sunday, June 3, 2001, getting into a dark-colored Chevrolet Cavalier with tinted rear windows. Friends said they didn’t recognize the car, but that Erin seemed to know the people inside and went with them willingly.
According to “Curtis” — a friend of Erin’s older brother — he was leaving the Pospisil home at the same time as Erin and agreed to give her a ride to her friend Brit’s home, where Erin and Brit planned to watch movies or go to the movie theater.
When they arrived at Brit’s house at 8:45 p.m., no one answered the door. As Erin walked back to Curtis’s truck, a dark-colored Chevrolet Cavalier with tinted rear windows pulled up to the curb. Erin went up to the car and had a short conversation with someone in the vehicle. She then told Curtis, “These guys will give me a ride,” and got into the Cavalier’s back seat.
No one has seen nor heard from her since.
Erin Pospisil age-progressed to how she might look at age 23. (Courtesy Iowa Dept. of Public Safety)
Erin — a freshman at Metro High School — lived with her father and stepmother, Jim and Carolyn Pospisil, and three siblings when she disappeared. The family distributed fliers and posted billboards with Erin’s photo and description, to no effect beyond a few tips that proved unfounded.
Erin has a small scar above one eye and had red highlights in her hair at the time she disappeared. She was last seen wearing a light-colored tank top and beige overall shorts.
In a KCRG TV-9 story that aired May 7, 2013, Erin’s grandparents, Joan and Doug Minney of Cedar Rapids, said they continue to hold out hope for Erin’s return. The family created the website HelpFindAChild.org and update it regularly with hopes Erin will one day come home.
The recent discovery of three missing women in Cleveland gave the Minneys a glimmer of hope.
“Our daughter called us and said ‘you are not going to believe this,’” Doug Minney told KCRG. “We got on the internet right away.”
Joan Minney empathized with the three women’s families. “Just knowing what those families had to be feeling, that they never gave up hope and now they have their children back … that’s what we pray every day,” she said.
Tuesday morning, May 7, Doug Minney passed out more than a hundred small missing persons cards.
“People think it will get easier; I think it gets harder,” Joan Minney told KCRG. “I know someday I’ll know where she is and all that happened, but I just want it to be today.”
On Saturday, May 25, 2013 — National Missing Children’s Day — Erin Pospisil’s family will gather at 9:30 a.m. to hold a balloon launch in Jones Park. The public is invited to attend.
If you have any information concerning Erin Pospisil’s whereabouts please contact the Cedar Rapids Police Department at 319-286-5400 or 319-286-5491.
From KCRG TV-9, May 7, 2013: Family Continues Search for Missing Cedar Rapids Woman
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