Lynn Moran Still Missing

I've been following the disappearance of 24 year old former ballerina Lynn Moran. She was the topic of an initial entry of mine for Court TV's Crime Library. See link above.

There hasn't been a great deal of information coming out of Portland, though I do hope to have an update, soon.

Missing and Abducted will be following the case, too.

Comments

[PoorPaulaNNJ]

Excellent story, Dan. Thank you.
I am very interested in hearing more about this.
???I can't exactly remember the last time I left an aquaintance's home, leaving behind my shoes, cell phone, and my purse??? Fishy.

[L.]

Very good reading Dan.

[cindi in pa]

I can't exactly remember the last time I left an aquaintance's home, leaving behind my shoes, cell phone, and my purse??? Fishy.

Posted by: PoorPaulaNNJ | Oct 30, 2005 11:53:39 PM

I can remember many an instance of doing just that. Of course I was much younger than Lynn and those were very different times.

Dan, thanks for the link, I had not heard about Lynn before this thread. As a parent you, or at least I DO, think the dangers in life are over once the reach the magical age of 18. As we have seen, thanks to you and Steve Huff, getting the information out there about missing young people, that isn't the case.

Best of luck to you on your new task with Crime Library. And thanks for making a difference.

[!]

Good article. Thanks and good luck on the stories you do . :O)

[chip]

DAN :

thanks.......please keep us updated. i heard about this week & was afraid it would drop out of sight.

[VC]

Hey Dan,

Thanks for doing this story, i found it fascinating. Just one question...is there a reason you put that she was pretty in the title? Perhaps ive gotten sensitive over all the descriptions of "pretty" missing women, as if a woman who was overweight or had bad teeth wouldnt warrant the same attention in the media or elsewhere.

No offense, just wondering.

And add my congratulations to the others, for your work with Crime Library

[Kinsey]

Great read Dan...congrats again.I too will be following this story I had not hear of Lynn Moran before this.So Sad.

[Toth]

The start of the aberrant behavior appears to be the departure from the 'male acquaintance's apartment' with inappropriate attire and without the usual paraphernalia that a young female would have with her at all times.

The 'male acquaintance' is said to have been questioned a number of times and to have been cooperative.

While some of the later behavior is suggestive of a reaction to a variety of 'date rape' drugs, the only source for such drugs would be that male acquaintance since that is the start of the bizarre behavior.

The focus should be there in that apartment:

How is it he did not notice her departure?
Was he sleeping so heavily that he did not notice her getting out of the bed?
Is he missing a plaid shirt? Where in his apartment was it kept?
If it was not drugs, then whatever it was it started in that apartment! Women simply do not leave behind cell phones and handbags and go out for an excursion on a rainy and chilly evening while barefoot and attired for a single's bar but not the street.

[DarcyD]

Toth, I agree w/your remark but then I wonder if he was guilty of something, it seems very unusual that he would have returned her missing items to her family. On the other hand, what a great way to try to make yourself look concerned and innocent, by giving them the heads up that she left her stuff and never came back for it and maybe they should be worried. Wonder if they asked him to take a polygraph and if he was cooperative in that regard? If not, I hope they do, would be curious to see whether he refused and if agrees, what the outcome is.

[Dan]

Just one question...is there a reason you put that she was pretty in the title?

FYI, I don't write the headlines - advocated should be advocate, too.

[VC]

Thanks Dan. Gotta say it didnt quite fit what ive read of your writing. (the headline). The article was great

Kick the editor would u for that?

[kin]

This is a "news" story here in Boston too because Lynn lived & worked in the area. It was finally shown on Fox this week-end. The new 'Line Up' (in place of Geraldo's show) seems to focus mostly on missing women cases. I don't know if this is something they will continue to do but I hope so!

I asked in the update post (body found in Portland) why nobody got her help. It was obvious from her appearance and the condition she was in she desperately needed it. Her family must want an answer to this too?

I wouldn't let the guy she was with off the hook either. I agree, something does smell about the way she left his apartment.

[JEH]

Hi, I am writing in as Lynn Moran's best friend. In regard to the mention of her being "pretty," I can say that she absolutely was stunning.

However, I maintain even following her death, as was mentioned in a comment above, that her appearance is irrelevant to the human tragedy here. I have felt this way from the start.
While no one here will ever have the benefit of her company and friendship, I did for years, and contest her now being reduced to a mere sociological caricature of a missing woman. Unless one would write "average-looking cashier missing from Springfield," don't bother to mention that Lynn was pretty.