OH PATRICIA ANN ADKINS: Missing from Marysville, OH - 29 June 2001 - Age 29

Patricia Ann Adkins

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Adkins, circa 2001; Uniform similar to Adkins's

Missing Since: 06/29/2001
Missing From: Marysville, Ohio
Classification: Endangered Missing
Sex: Female
Race: White
Date of Birth: 05/04/1972 (47)
Age: 29 years old
Height and Weight: 5'8, 120 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description: Steeled-toed sneakers and an all-white Honda work uniform consisting of pants and a long-sleeved shirt with two red outlined patches on the upper chest; one of the patches says "Patti" and the other says "Honda of America." Photos of a similar uniform are posted below this case summary. Carrying a small teal-colored duffle bag, a maroon coin pouch and a keychain with her Honda identification card.
Distinguishing CharacteristicsCaucasian female. Blonde hair, hazel eyes. Adkins's navel and ears are pierced. Her nickname is Patti. She has a tattoo of a flower design on her lower middle back; the design is of three orchids colored blue, green, purple and peach with leaves, arranged horizontally across her back. Adkins has had corrective laser surgery to her eyes.

Details of Disappearance
Adkins was last seen departing her place of work at the Honda of America automotive plant in Marysville, Ohio. She clocked out a few seconds after midnight on June 29, 2001, at the end of the second shift.

She had worked for the plant for nearly ten years and had become a supervisor at the assembly line, and she was anticipating a promotion when she disappeared. The plant closed down that night for a week because of the Fourth of July. She has never been heard from again.

Adkins had been having an affair with a married co-worker at the time of her disappearance; they'd dated periodically for years. His name has not been released to the public. She told her loved ones and acquaintances about the relationship and said the man planned to leave his wife to be with her.

She gave him approximately $90,000 over several years, depleting her savings accounts and borrowing against her 401k retirement fund. The money was supposed to be so the boyfriend could buy out his share of his and his wife's jointly owned business when he divorced her to be with Adkins. Shortly before she went missing, Adkins told her boyfriend she would need to start repaying the 401k loans soon.

Just before her disappearance, Adkins told her family and friends she was going on a vacation to Canada with her boyfriend. She put her pets in a kennel and asked her sister to look after her seven-year-old daughter while she was gone. She said her boyfriend had told her they were going to a cabin in a remote area without phone service, so she wouldn't be able to call her family. He also told her not to pack anything because they would buy whatever she needed once they arrived there.

Adkins asked a female friend to drive her to work the night she disappeared so she could leave with her boyfriend to start their vacation. She told her friend that her boyfriend had to give a male coworker a ride home and had told her to hide in the bed of his pickup truck until he dropped the other man off.

In spite of her boyfriend's instructions not to take anything, Adkins had packed a small teal-colored duffel bag. She told her friend it contained something she'd bought at Victoria's Secret and that the item was blue. The bag and its contents have never been found.

Adkins was scheduled to see her hairdresser after her vacation was over; she never kept the appointment. She was reported missing by her sister on July 8, after she failed come home and pick up her daughter. She left her car behind in her garage and all her belongings undisturbed inside her house.

When her boyfriend was questioned, he said he and Adkins had no plans to go on vacation together, he had never had an affair with her and he only knew her slightly. He and his friend said they left the plant together on June 29, drove 30 miles in the direction of their hometown of Canton, Ohio, stopped at a Burger King restaurant, waited 45 minutes in the drive-through line, got their food and went home.

The boyfriend's wife backed up their story, saying her husband arrived home at 2:30 a.m., the usual time, and that she didn't know anything about an affair. The Burger King manager, however, said they were never busy in the early hours of the morning and no one would have had to wait 45 minutes in the drive-through to get their food.

Adkins's boyfriend gave the police permission to search his home and they found a new truck bed cover in his garage. The boyfriend had bought it on June 26 and he said he used it to cover some fishing gear in his truck bed; he put it on the truck on the morning of June 29 and removed it on July 8. He normally didn't drive the truck much, but he drove it to work the night Adkins disappeared.

Police took the cover for analysis and found cat hairs on it and a small spot of blood. Adkins's veterinarian determined the hair came from her cats, but authorities haven't been able to test the blood for DNA because the spot is too small. Police also found some items at the boyfriend's residence that Adkins told people she had given him, which contradicted his story that they barely knew each other.

The boyfriend took a polygraph test about the case and failed it. Shortly after Adkins disappeared, he quit his job at the Honda plant and never returned to work there.

Adkins was declared legally dead in 2006. There's been no activity on her financial accounts since she went missing. Her loved ones stated she was happy with her life and her job, and maintained a good working relationship with her ex-husband. Both authorities and her family believe she was the victim of homicide. Her case remains unsolved.

Investigating Agency
Marysville Police Department 937-642-3900
Union County Sheriff's Department 937-644-5010

Source Information
City of Marysville
WKTN FM 95.3
Rino Kids Online
NBC 4i Columbus, Ohio
America's Most Wanted
NamUs
The Columbus Dispatch
Facebook Page for Patricia Adkins
Whereabouts Still Unknown
NBC News

 
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Does the boyfriend have a name and he was off work too, as it was a regular annual shutdown. That would be the first thing to check. Then ask his wife if she knows if he was away for that week or not. These basic things must have been checked. Did LE check her and his bank accounts re the $90k?

He certainly has motive - the money and the affair- and means and opportunity - the holiday nobody knew about.
I don’t remember ever seeing the boyfriend‘s name. I feel like they’ve always hidden it from the public. But this case has been around a long time and I’m not all caught up so they may have released it by now.
 

Cold case of missing Union County woman last seen in Marysville reaches 25 years​

The cold case in the disappearance of a Union County woman has now reached a quarter century.

Union County authorities and Central Ohio Crime Stoppers continue to seek new information in order to locate Patricia (Patti) Adkins, who was last seen on June 29, 2001, in Marysville.

Adkins, who has been declared legally dead, was last seen leaving the Honda of America Manufacturing plant at the end of her shift late that night. Adkins was reported missing by her sister on July 8 after failing to pick up her 7-year-old daughter.

According to NBC News, Adkins was scheduled to take a trip to Canada with her boyfriend, but no one, including family members, heard from her. Additionally, there has been no reported activity with respect to financial or personal records since her disappearance.

NBC News reported that police interviewed Adkins’ boyfriend, but he denied having anything to do with her missing. Though the Union County Sheriff’s Office said her boyfriend remains the primary suspect, there has not been enough evidence to connect him to a crime.

The investigation later revealed that Adkins had given her boyfriend about $90,000 in the months leading to her disappearance.

Adkins, who was legally declared dead in 2011, would be 54 years old today, and the Union County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate leads. Adkins had pierced ears, a pierced belly button and a tattoo of a blue-green flowers on her lower back.

“I don’t have hope that my sister’s alive,” Patti’s sister Marcia told NBC4 in June 2016. “I knew when she didn’t return that she was not alive, but I have hope that justice will happen, that someone will be held accountable for her death.”

Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the Union County Sheriff’s Office at (937) 645-4110, Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477) or visit www.stopcrime.org and submit your tip.
 

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