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Polk County in Iowa
Des Moines in Polk CountyLouise Cruise
Missing Person
Louise Cruise
Age At Report: 15
DOB: May 2, 1997
Weight: 140 lbs.
Height: 5’01”
Race: White
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Sex: Female
Incident Type: Juvenile
Missing From: Des Moines, IA
Polk County
Missing Since: May 8, 2012
Louise Cruise, 15, was reported missing to the Des Moines Police Department in Des Moines, Iowa, on May 8, 2012.
At the time of her disappearance, Louise was described as a 5-foot-1 white female with black hair, brown eyes, and weighing about 140 pounds.
She was last seen wearing a black Harding School shirt.
Information Needed
If you have information about Louise Cruise’s unsolved disappearance, please contact the Des Moines Police Department Detective Bureau at (515) 283-4864 or The Missing Person Information Clearinghouse / Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at 1-800-346-5507.
Are there no pictures or no other facts about this missing girl that can be posted?
Tricia, the police should have requested a photograph. It begs the question, was she active on social media. Which many of these young people are.
What frustrates me in many missing person’s cases, is the lack of details. Quite often investigators,hold back some details especially with certain crimes such as homicides. However, this is a missing juvenile, and the more information they obtain, can help them find her.
So, the question is that they just assumed she ran away, and did make the effort to obtain as much information as possible.
We don’t what she was doing, when she was last seen. When she was last seen. Did she have a job, a boyfriend, was she in school.