OR PEM YATES: Missing from Portland, OR - 1978 - Age 15

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I am trying to help my boyfriend, Denny Wehrli, locate his half sister Pem Michelle Yates, she also went by Pem Wehrli. The story of Pem has me floored, as I am sure many of you may feel too. She was 15 and ran away from Portland OR to look for her dad in California. Her mom was contacted by Cali police asking if she had permission to be in another state. That w.as the last time they heard from her. Her mom (Bo Monique Bradbury aka Barbara Cecile Briggs) has since passed away. Before she passed she had reached out on social media asking for help locating Pem, apologizing and letting her know she had changed her name, and her half sister posted on many sights giving some info also in search of Pem. Pem was born on March 31, 1963 in Norfolk VA to Barbara Cecile Briggs, and J Yates. Pem went to Hood River High school, and also to school in Portland OR. She has not been seen or heard from since. She is not on the missing persons website, because she has no case number, and I am not sure if we can file one now, after all these years. Denny is willing to submit DNA if it would help in finding out what happened to his sister. I am a mom, and I cannot fathom not looking for my missing child or filing a missing persons report for my missing 15 year old...I want to help in any way I can to brin answers to Denny and his sister. If any of you have any advice to help in my search for Pem, or how to get her on the national missing persons list without a case number, or how to get her one. She has been missing since 1978-ish.


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I am trying to help my boyfriend, Denny Wehrli, locate his half sister Pem Michelle Yates, she also went by Pem Wehrli. The story of Pem has me floored, as I am sure many of you may feel too. She was 15 and ran away from Portland OR to look for her dad in California. Her mom was contacted by Cali police asking if she had permission to be in another state. That w.as the last time they heard from her. Her mom (Bo Monique Bradbury aka Barbara Cecile Briggs) has since passed away. Before she passed she had reached out on social media asking for help locating Pem, apologizing and letting her know she had changed her name, and her half sister posted on many sights giving some info also in search of Pem. Pem was born on March 31, 1963 in Norfolk VA to Barbara Cecile Briggs, and J Yates. Pem went to Hood River High school, and also to school in Portland OR. She has not been seen or heard from since. She is not on the missing persons website, because she has no case number, and I am not sure if we can file one now, after all these years. Denny is willing to submit DNA if it would help in finding out what happened to his sister. I am a mom, and I cannot fathom not looking for my missing child or filing a missing persons report for my missing 15 year old...I want to help in any way I can to brin answers to Denny and his sister. If any of you have any advice to help in my search for Pem, or how to get her on the national missing persons list without a case number, or how to get her one. She has been missing since 1978-ish.
in the photos below Denny and Pem and his sister..
 
I am trying to help my boyfriend, Denny Wehrli, locate his half sister Pem Michelle Yates, she also went by Pem Wehrli. The story of Pem has me floored, as I am sure many of you may feel too. She was 15 and ran away from Portland OR to look for her dad in California. Her mom was contacted by Cali police asking if she had permission to be in another state. That w.as the last time they heard from her. Her mom (Bo Monique Bradbury aka Barbara Cecile Briggs) has since passed away. Before she passed she had reached out on social media asking for help locating Pem, apologizing and letting her know she had changed her name, and her half sister posted on many sights giving some info also in search of Pem. Pem was born on March 31, 1963 in Norfolk VA to Barbara Cecile Briggs, and J Yates. Pem went to Hood River High school, and also to school in Portland OR. She has not been seen or heard from since. She is not on the missing persons website, because she has no case number, and I am not sure if we can file one now, after all these years. Denny is willing to submit DNA if it would help in finding out what happened to his sister. I am a mom, and I cannot fathom not looking for my missing child or filing a missing persons report for my missing 15 year old...I want to help in any way I can to brin answers to Denny and his sister. If any of you have any advice to help in my search for Pem, or how to get her on the national missing persons list without a case number, or how to get her one. She has been missing since 1978-ish.
Hi, just acknowledging seeing this. What a sad story. So was she with the cops when they called and disappeared after that?

There are people here who know a lot more about the missing person reports and lists/websites than I do and they will see this post shortly I'm sure. I don't now which one is best at it but will tag one now @Kimster
 
Hi @jenni4hays and welcome! I'm sorry you're finding us under these circumstances, though.

She is not on the missing persons website, because she has no case number, and I am not sure if we can file one now, after all these years.
Yes, a missing persons report can still be filed. In fact, it is ESSENTIAL that this gets done. Pem will not be able to be entered into NamUs, Doe Network, or any missing persons sites unless there is an official report. Her brother is probably the best person to do that right now. He should contact law enforcement, probably in Portland since that is where she left from.
 
Hi @jenni4hays and welcome! I'm sorry you're finding us under these circumstances, though.


Yes, a missing persons report can still be filed. In fact, it is ESSENTIAL that this gets done. Pem will not be able to be entered into NamUs, Doe Network, or any missing persons sites unless there is an official report. Her brother is probably the best person to do that right now. He should contact law enforcement, probably in Portland since that is where she left from.
I thought of you but knew Kimster had been on shortly before and figured she'd let one of you know if I tagged, etc. Now @jenni4hays is in good hands. You guys know so much about these things.
 
Hi @jenni4hays and welcome! I'm sorry you're finding us under these circumstances, though.


Yes, a missing persons report can still be filed. In fact, it is ESSENTIAL that this gets done. Pem will not be able to be entered into NamUs, Doe Network, or any missing persons sites unless there is an official report. Her brother is probably the best person to do that right now. He should contact law enforcement, probably in Portland since that is where she left from.
Thank you for the advice, I just relayed it to Denny. We will call Portland, though they are very understaffed, not sure they will be willing to take a report. We will see.
 
Thank you for the advice, I just relayed it to Denny. We will call Portland, though they are very understaffed, not sure they will be willing to take a report. We will see.
If you don’t get someone in Portland to take a missing person report, that is terrible! Can you try one of the surrounding towns like Beaverton?

I live in Oregon, but I live closer to the Eugene area. If you can’t get anyone to take a report, let me know and I’ll see if I can get some advice.
 
Thank you for the advice, I just relayed it to Denny. We will call Portland, though they are very understaffed, not sure they will be willing to take a report. We will see.
They may try to refuse or to give you the run-around. But simply put, it's ILLEGAL for them to refuse to take the report. If they are being stubborn, go up the ladder to Multnomah County Sheriff. Same thing there, if they give you the run-around, go up the ladder to Oregon State Police.

The only hiccup I can see is they may ask you to file where she was last confirmed to be. Wherever that phone call from California police came from.
 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEM!!! you know, it's so crazy that after these years of me searching for you that our little brother Denman has FINALLY decided to join my search!! I'm FLOORED!! What's it been...30 plus years I've been begging Mom to just admit the truth, but she took it to her grave. Of course she didnt confess what really happened. After I found her first two children (our brothers) 50 yrs after they were adopted because she abandoned them at one and two years old, she realized I wasnt messing around. She knew I would never give up. She forged birth certificate and ss info. Details of her story changed every time I'd ask her questions about Pem. Pem would've been forgotten long long ago if I had the continuously brought her name up. What kind of mother raises a child for 15 yrs and never mentions them unless someone else brings up the topic? ......our mother did just that. Denman(Denny), our brother has shown no interest in what happened to her all these years, saying her didn't even remember her? Suddenly he's jumping up offering to graciously give up DNA to aid in the search for her? Hm. Whenever Denny was within earshot of our mother and I speaking of Pem he would always become angry and demand I had no proof that what mom said wasn't the real story. But I know something tragic happened to my sister....and I'm pretty sure mom confided what happened to her with Denny. Our mother viewed her daughters as literally "competition" with the men she chose to bring into our lives. Denny is lucky that the men we had as "father figures" didn't like little boys. My family has never chosen to even hear the abuse my sister and I endured, and they portray Bo Bradbury "Nana Bo" as some sweet woman who they regard so highly, when in reality, she was far from a good mother. I have been pretty much exiled from the family because I have NEVER given up my search for the truth of what happened to Pem. I'm accused of being a monster and lied about when in reality the monster of our family hid the truth of what happened to her daughter all her life and refused to give us any more details other than three or four sentences she has repeated all my life to explain why I no longer had my sister in my life. Although.....the day after mom's death, bright and early the next morning, tmy brother demanded we go to moms apartment to begin the process of vacating the premises, even tho she died at the beginning of the month and had plenty of time to attend to things. I didn't go...but my daughter did. She told me Denny had taken a manilla envelope out of mom's apt that day. My daughter said it was clearly marked with Pems name. Denny has never mentioned what the contents were. I'm assuming her origional birth cert was one item in its contents. It had conveniently disappeared and was replaced with a fake document mom produced after she pretended that I had never seen Pems original birth cert. Mom and I both knew she was lying. As she has lied every time I ever questioned her about Pem. I have alot of info to share but no time today. I will be posting the details I have gathered over the last 30 yrs very soon on this website. I want to thank everyone, including my brother and his new girlfriend for your interest in this investigation. It's been a long hard journey alone. If Pem is still out there alive and well, I'd do anything to tell her I love her. But I know in my heart that the truth is grim. It makes me sick to my stomach that my mother chose child molester boyfriends over her own children. I hope we can work together to bring out the truth and justice be served before its too late. Pem deserves a decent burial. It's only right she gets one before anyone else involved in this story does. Love you Pem, Happy Birthday.
 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEM!!! you know, it's so crazy that after these years of me searching for you that our little brother Denman has FINALLY decided to join my search!! I'm FLOORED!! What's it been...30 plus years I've been begging Mom to just admit the truth, but she took it to her grave. Of course she didnt confess what really happened. After I found her first two children (our brothers) 50 yrs after they were adopted because she abandoned them at one and two years old, she realized I wasnt messing around. She knew I would never give up. She forged birth certificate and ss info. Details of her story changed every time I'd ask her questions about Pem. Pem would've been forgotten long long ago if I had the continuously brought her name up. What kind of mother raises a child for 15 yrs and never mentions them unless someone else brings up the topic? ......our mother did just that. Denman(Denny), our brother has shown no interest in what happened to her all these years, saying her didn't even remember her? Suddenly he's jumping up offering to graciously give up DNA to aid in the search for her? Hm. Whenever Denny was within earshot of our mother and I speaking of Pem he would always become angry and demand I had no proof that what mom said wasn't the real story. But I know something tragic happened to my sister....and I'm pretty sure mom confided what happened to her with Denny. Our mother viewed her daughters as literally "competition" with the men she chose to bring into our lives. Denny is lucky that the men we had as "father figures" didn't like little boys. My family has never chosen to even hear the abuse my sister and I endured, and they portray Bo Bradbury "Nana Bo" as some sweet woman who they regard so highly, when in reality, she was far from a good mother. I have been pretty much exiled from the family because I have NEVER given up my search for the truth of what happened to Pem. I'm accused of being a monster and lied about when in reality the monster of our family hid the truth of what happened to her daughter all her life and refused to give us any more details other than three or four sentences she has repeated all my life to explain why I no longer had my sister in my life. Although.....the day after mom's death, bright and early the next morning, tmy brother demanded we go to moms apartment to begin the process of vacating the premises, even tho she died at the beginning of the month and had plenty of time to attend to things. I didn't go...but my daughter did. She told me Denny had taken a manilla envelope out of mom's apt that day. My daughter said it was clearly marked with Pems name. Denny has never mentioned what the contents were. I'm assuming her origional birth cert was one item in its contents. It had conveniently disappeared and was replaced with a fake document mom produced after she pretended that I had never seen Pems original birth cert. Mom and I both knew she was lying. As she has lied every time I ever questioned her about Pem. I have alot of info to share but no time today. I will be posting the details I have gathered over the last 30 yrs very soon on this website. I want to thank everyone, including my brother and his new girlfriend for your interest in this investigation. It's been a long hard journey alone. If Pem is still out there alive and well, I'd do anything to tell her I love her. But I know in my heart that the truth is grim. It makes me sick to my stomach that my mother chose child molester boyfriends over her own children. I hope we can work together to bring out the truth and justice be served before its too late. Pem deserves a decent burial. It's only right she gets one before anyone else involved in this story does. Love you Pem, Happy Birthday.
Praying you get the answers, that she is found and/or identified and comes home to you for burial.
 
Thank you so much for your Interest and kind words. I remember her so well. I was young but i still have so many moments in my thoughts. Some wonderful. Some terrible. But I do remember she loved me, and I loved her.
In hood river, ore, I mustve been idk 4 urs old?? We lived in the Benton Orchards in employee housing. It was just a tiny little shack. Studio I believe. Anyways, mom was working there picking cherries with the immigrant workers. Not sure how long she had been separated from Denman E. Wehrli Sr. exactly..... Must not have been very long. I remember him vaguely. I remember our former baby sitter more. Denman Sr. (Mty brother Dennys father) ended up fancyin' the sitter. Her name is Sharon. Denman Sr. (Aka"Doc") ended up eventually marrying Sharon. They stayed together having 3 more children (my brothers half sisters and brother). Anyways, Sharon told me that my mom "neither condoned, nor condemned" the sexual molestation of Pem. Even tho Sharon (our sitter) was aware if the sexual abuse of my older sister, she either chose to be the reason my mom (Bo) and Doc(my younger brothers father) split ways, or scooped him up for her own after they separated. Either way, I was told by one of Sharon's daughters that "you're mom was already pregnant " when my mother and Doc got together.
...even tho my mother literally named me after the child molester..took his initials, added "Ana"...and gave me his last name. I was 38 yrs old when I brought Denny and his siblings together. I was 38 when I realized I wasn't related to any of them. I was 38 when my mother told me I was a product of rape. Her exact words were" I smoked meth on weed at a basement party. Your father could been one guy..or 5 guys." I was relieved when I found out that the child molester who raped my sister for years was not my father. I hadn't allowed even my mom to call me the name I was born with since I was about 12 yrs old. But I also realized Denny was only my half brother, and that she had led me to believe I was the daughter of the man who she allowed to rape my big sister all my life. If I was 4 when I recall my memory of my sister in the orchard, and there was once a pic of me as a tiny baby with my sister Pem at the migrant worker housing, I wonder where she knew Doc from? My guess is in Hood River? Spose that's a question that should be addressed to Mrs. Sharon Wehrli? Anyways,the pic of me as a toddler with my sister on the porch of the tiny shack inthe orchards of Hood River, she must've known Doc in Hood River? I've always wondered who exactly I am since she couldn't bring herself to tell me the truth. Am I Hispanic perhaps? Whoever my father is she apparently didn't want to admit it. Smoke coke on weed mom. Not Meth. Wanna start that story over Ma?? Please? T

Anywho. I remember Pem taking small apples off the trees and peeling the skins. Then she would take a knife and carefully carve a small face in the side. Then we would take the carved apples to a shed with a small light and let the apples dry under a light bulb. They would twist into an impish face, all ditires I remember being so delighted when she >give me a new "doll face" to play with.
As long as I stayed out of her word find books her and I were always close.
But not all of out memories are days illed with. Cherries and doll faces.
When I was 5 we lived I. Portland in a big whole house with an upstairs and basement. I don't remember living there before the next "father figure" was there. Mom met Wayne Allen Schutt of James Town , north dakota met mom thrlll)u her good friend Aunt Jean Lewis, because Jean Was Dating Leroy Schutt, Wayne's Brither. Jean has since deceased. But while she was alive she denied ever knowing my sister. Her absolute denial makes her a liar, because Wayne Schutt was the next man mom chose and the newest step-molester that would sexually assault Pem repeatedly until she finally disappeared and was never to be heard or seen again. Mom told me that Wayne had a daughter once. I'm not going to mention her name, but u was told that he had his way with her as well. She told me once when I was a child that he would make her do weird sex acts. He was an alcoholic, a woman abuser, a child molester, and if what I believe is true, he has everything to do with Pems disappearance.
Mom was working in Portland at the Portland community College as the front desk secretary. Typically we would go to.work with her, and as the day went by she would make a tally list for us for every time we did something to deserve "whoopin". 1 tally =1 swat. We were spanked with a belt or spoon every night after she got off work by either her or Wayne. When we were punished we would be stripped totally naked and then spanked. One day I remember my sister Pem watched us. Not sure what it is I had dome "wrong" but apparently it deserved another naked physical punishment. Mom asked Mt sister if she had spanked me. Pem said No!?!? And that's when my clothes were torn from my and my 5 yr old naked butt got multiple swats. My sister had curled up.into a fetal position in the Couch, crying frantically, begging for them to stop hurting me.. I remember Pem tearing out handfuls of her own hair as she begged for their mercy. I have never been able to get that image out of my head my entire life. 45 years later...I still remember I felt her suffering. I can only imagine the horrors that poor girl endured. It haunts me every day of my life. My sisters disappearance has affected every day of my life. My search for the truth has cost me dearly. All the lies my mother told trying to cover up the truth over all those years needs to be exposed. I have so many things I need to tell the world about my sister that it's almost overwhelming. Almost every time I'd speak to my mom about Pem, we were alone, no witnesses, which makes it difficult, but I promise to do my best to get as many details as I can remember out in the open for everyone to hear. They say every family has skeletons in the closet. In this family, it's not a figure of speech. Please ask me as many questions as you like to help me through this journey. Thank you and God bless you all for having the compassion to hear Pems story. It means everything to me to somehow find closure to this nightmare.
 
Thank you so much for your Interest and kind words. I remember her so well. I was young but i still have so many moments in my thoughts. Some wonderful. Some terrible. But I do remember she loved me, and I loved her.
In hood river, ore, I mustve been idk 4 urs old?? We lived in the Benton Orchards in employee housing. It was just a tiny little shack. Studio I believe. Anyways, mom was working there picking cherries with the immigrant workers. Not sure how long she had been separated from Denman E. Wehrli Sr. exactly..... Must not have been very long. I remember him vaguely. I remember our former baby sitter more. Denman Sr. (Mty brother Dennys father) ended up fancyin' the sitter. Her name is Sharon. Denman Sr. (Aka"Doc") ended up eventually marrying Sharon. They stayed together having 3 more children (my brothers half sisters and brother). Anyways, Sharon told me that my mom "neither condoned, nor condemned" the sexual molestation of Pem. Even tho Sharon (our sitter) was aware if the sexual abuse of my older sister, she either chose to be the reason my mom (Bo) and Doc(my younger brothers father) split ways, or scooped him up for her own after they separated. Either way, I was told by one of Sharon's daughters that "you're mom was already pregnant " when my mother and Doc got together.
...even tho my mother literally named me after the child molester..took his initials, added "Ana"...and gave me his last name. I was 38 yrs old when I brought Denny and his siblings together. I was 38 when I realized I wasn't related to any of them. I was 38 when my mother told me I was a product of rape. Her exact words were" I smoked meth on weed at a basement party. Your father could been one guy..or 5 guys." I was relieved when I found out that the child molester who raped my sister for years was not my father. I hadn't allowed even my mom to call me the name I was born with since I was about 12 yrs old. But I also realized Denny was only my half brother, and that she had led me to believe I was the daughter of the man who she allowed to rape my big sister all my life. If I was 4 when I recall my memory of my sister in the orchard, and there was once a pic of me as a tiny baby with my sister Pem at the migrant worker housing, I wonder where she knew Doc from? My guess is in Hood River? Spose that's a question that should be addressed to Mrs. Sharon Wehrli? Anyways,the pic of me as a toddler with my sister on the porch of the tiny shack inthe orchards of Hood River, she must've known Doc in Hood River? I've always wondered who exactly I am since she couldn't bring herself to tell me the truth. Am I Hispanic perhaps? Whoever my father is she apparently didn't want to admit it. Smoke coke on weed mom. Not Meth. Wanna start that story over Ma?? Please? T

Anywho. I remember Pem taking small apples off the trees and peeling the skins. Then she would take a knife and carefully carve a small face in the side. Then we would take the carved apples to a shed with a small light and let the apples dry under a light bulb. They would twist into an impish face, all ditires I remember being so delighted when she >give me a new "doll face" to play with.
As long as I stayed out of her word find books her and I were always close.
But not all of out memories are days illed with. Cherries and doll faces.
When I was 5 we lived I. Portland in a big whole house with an upstairs and basement. I don't remember living there before the next "father figure" was there. Mom met Wayne Allen Schutt of James Town , north dakota met mom thrlll)u her good friend Aunt Jean Lewis, because Jean Was Dating Leroy Schutt, Wayne's Brither. Jean has since deceased. But while she was alive she denied ever knowing my sister. Her absolute denial makes her a liar, because Wayne Schutt was the next man mom chose and the newest step-molester that would sexually assault Pem repeatedly until she finally disappeared and was never to be heard or seen again. Mom told me that Wayne had a daughter once. I'm not going to mention her name, but u was told that he had his way with her as well. She told me once when I was a child that he would make her do weird sex acts. He was an alcoholic, a woman abuser, a child molester, and if what I believe is true, he has everything to do with Pems disappearance.
Mom was working in Portland at the Portland community College as the front desk secretary. Typically we would go to.work with her, and as the day went by she would make a tally list for us for every time we did something to deserve "whoopin". 1 tally =1 swat. We were spanked with a belt or spoon every night after she got off work by either her or Wayne. When we were punished we would be stripped totally naked and then spanked. One day I remember my sister Pem watched us. Not sure what it is I had dome "wrong" but apparently it deserved another naked physical punishment. Mom asked Mt sister if she had spanked me. Pem said No!?!? And that's when my clothes were torn from my and my 5 yr old naked butt got multiple swats. My sister had curled up.into a fetal position in the Couch, crying frantically, begging for them to stop hurting me.. I remember Pem tearing out handfuls of her own hair as she begged for their mercy. I have never been able to get that image out of my head my entire life. 45 years later...I still remember I felt her suffering. I can only imagine the horrors that poor girl endured. It haunts me every day of my life. My sisters disappearance has affected every day of my life. My search for the truth has cost me dearly. All the lies my mother told trying to cover up the truth over all those years needs to be exposed. I have so many things I need to tell the world about my sister that it's almost overwhelming. Almost every time I'd speak to my mom about Pem, we were alone, no witnesses, which makes it difficult, but I promise to do my best to get as many details as I can remember out in the open for everyone to hear. They say every family has skeletons in the closet. In this family, it's not a figure of speech. Please ask me as many questions as you like to help me through this journey. Thank you and God bless you all for having the compassion to hear Pems story. It means everything to me to somehow find closure to this nightmare.
I don't have words but I hope it is healing to share it. I know getting things out and being heard is something that helps me process and work through things over time with things that are not the same as this of course--doesn't fix it but helps process maybe. Again I don't have words. I can tell you are committed to getting answers and I hope you get them. One thing I do know is there are some things in life that are just too much and one cannot leave them go even if others are telling you to. With what you have shared, I do know this much, I would be the same way I'm pretty sure, I wouldn't be able to let anything like you are talking about go until it was known/heard and there were answers.

I'm sorry your childhood was this way and that you had such a horrid loss.

So she was never reported missing or searched for or anyone questioned from what I've read in this thread?
 
Thank you so much for your Interest and kind words. I remember her so well. I was young but i still have so many moments in my thoughts. Some wonderful. Some terrible. But I do remember she loved me, and I loved her.
In hood river, ore, I mustve been idk 4 urs old?? We lived in the Benton Orchards in employee housing. It was just a tiny little shack. Studio I believe. Anyways, mom was working there picking cherries with the immigrant workers. Not sure how long she had been separated from Denman E. Wehrli Sr. exactly..... Must not have been very long. I remember him vaguely. I remember our former baby sitter more. Denman Sr. (Mty brother Dennys father) ended up fancyin' the sitter. Her name is Sharon. Denman Sr. (Aka"Doc") ended up eventually marrying Sharon. They stayed together having 3 more children (my brothers half sisters and brother). Anyways, Sharon told me that my mom "neither condoned, nor condemned" the sexual molestation of Pem. Even tho Sharon (our sitter) was aware if the sexual abuse of my older sister, she either chose to be the reason my mom (Bo) and Doc(my younger brothers father) split ways, or scooped him up for her own after they separated. Either way, I was told by one of Sharon's daughters that "you're mom was already pregnant " when my mother and Doc got together.
...even tho my mother literally named me after the child molester..took his initials, added "Ana"...and gave me his last name. I was 38 yrs old when I brought Denny and his siblings together. I was 38 when I realized I wasn't related to any of them. I was 38 when my mother told me I was a product of rape. Her exact words were" I smoked meth on weed at a basement party. Your father could been one guy..or 5 guys." I was relieved when I found out that the child molester who raped my sister for years was not my father. I hadn't allowed even my mom to call me the name I was born with since I was about 12 yrs old. But I also realized Denny was only my half brother, and that she had led me to believe I was the daughter of the man who she allowed to rape my big sister all my life. If I was 4 when I recall my memory of my sister in the orchard, and there was once a pic of me as a tiny baby with my sister Pem at the migrant worker housing, I wonder where she knew Doc from? My guess is in Hood River? Spose that's a question that should be addressed to Mrs. Sharon Wehrli? Anyways,the pic of me as a toddler with my sister on the porch of the tiny shack inthe orchards of Hood River, she must've known Doc in Hood River? I've always wondered who exactly I am since she couldn't bring herself to tell me the truth. Am I Hispanic perhaps? Whoever my father is she apparently didn't want to admit it. Smoke coke on weed mom. Not Meth. Wanna start that story over Ma?? Please? T

Anywho. I remember Pem taking small apples off the trees and peeling the skins. Then she would take a knife and carefully carve a small face in the side. Then we would take the carved apples to a shed with a small light and let the apples dry under a light bulb. They would twist into an impish face, all ditires I remember being so delighted when she >give me a new "doll face" to play with.
As long as I stayed out of her word find books her and I were always close.
But not all of out memories are days illed with. Cherries and doll faces.
When I was 5 we lived I. Portland in a big whole house with an upstairs and basement. I don't remember living there before the next "father figure" was there. Mom met Wayne Allen Schutt of James Town , north dakota met mom thrlll)u her good friend Aunt Jean Lewis, because Jean Was Dating Leroy Schutt, Wayne's Brither. Jean has since deceased. But while she was alive she denied ever knowing my sister. Her absolute denial makes her a liar, because Wayne Schutt was the next man mom chose and the newest step-molester that would sexually assault Pem repeatedly until she finally disappeared and was never to be heard or seen again. Mom told me that Wayne had a daughter once. I'm not going to mention her name, but u was told that he had his way with her as well. She told me once when I was a child that he would make her do weird sex acts. He was an alcoholic, a woman abuser, a child molester, and if what I believe is true, he has everything to do with Pems disappearance.
Mom was working in Portland at the Portland community College as the front desk secretary. Typically we would go to.work with her, and as the day went by she would make a tally list for us for every time we did something to deserve "whoopin". 1 tally =1 swat. We were spanked with a belt or spoon every night after she got off work by either her or Wayne. When we were punished we would be stripped totally naked and then spanked. One day I remember my sister Pem watched us. Not sure what it is I had dome "wrong" but apparently it deserved another naked physical punishment. Mom asked Mt sister if she had spanked me. Pem said No!?!? And that's when my clothes were torn from my and my 5 yr old naked butt got multiple swats. My sister had curled up.into a fetal position in the Couch, crying frantically, begging for them to stop hurting me.. I remember Pem tearing out handfuls of her own hair as she begged for their mercy. I have never been able to get that image out of my head my entire life. 45 years later...I still remember I felt her suffering. I can only imagine the horrors that poor girl endured. It haunts me every day of my life. My sisters disappearance has affected every day of my life. My search for the truth has cost me dearly. All the lies my mother told trying to cover up the truth over all those years needs to be exposed. I have so many things I need to tell the world about my sister that it's almost overwhelming. Almost every time I'd speak to my mom about Pem, we were alone, no witnesses, which makes it difficult, but I promise to do my best to get as many details as I can remember out in the open for everyone to hear. They say every family has skeletons in the closet. In this family, it's not a figure of speech. Please ask me as many questions as you like to help me through this journey. Thank you and God bless you all for having the compassion to hear Pems story. It means everything to me to somehow find closure to this nightmare.
I can’t imagine enduring this nightmare as a child. My heart goes out to you.

My main question is also whether or not there is an active case opened for Pem?
 
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I spoke to a detective in Klickitat County where I believe she was buried. I've heard nothing from the detective since. Its been a couple yearsnThat county isn't known for being exactly law biding tho. They just kinda do what they want. I need to know exactly what it is I have to do to get things in motion, honestly I'm not well versed in legal things. I had always hoped mom would tell me the truth before she died...but I believe she was in fear of her own freedom or didn't want to admit what had really happened. She never spoke of Pem. Never had any stories about her. I asked her one day why. I asked her what her favorite color was? If she played sports in school? If she collected anything? Mom replied to those answered with malice. Her face twisted up and she screamed "she loved EVERY color!" And that was the end of that conversation. Mom only posted her cries for "help" online for my sister after I questioned why she hasn't even tried to help me in my search for her. Before that she had done nothing. Honestly I believe she did it as an act to continue covering the real truth, just as she took two years to produce three fake documents that were all coincidently issued about the same time she disappeared. Birth cert from a naval hospital in Norfolk VA. Pem Yates. Ss card from Oregon, Pem Briggs and an 8th grade graduation aware from a school in Post ore with the name Pem Wehrli. I had seen her origional birth cert with the rainbow colored paper and notify stamp. When I had happened across a detective willing to run her name for me I called mom to get the info from the origional document. Mom replied to my request with "What birth certificate??"

....lies. all lies.

So. Where do I start? The man I believe is guilty for her disappearance is still alive and everyone else that could possibly know anything are dropping like flies. I'm running out of time!! Thank you all so much for any help you can give me.
 
I can't understand why LE would not take a missing persons report. How can they not? Why would that be an issue. Take it, look into it and then list her as missing if things bear out. Put her in the databases etc. at that point but why wouldn't they at least take the report? I can't wrap my mind around not doing so or why it would be an issue. I guess I'm saying that's just plain wrong.
 
There is no reason a missing persons report can't be filed. I've said it before. THAT is the next step here. It is ESSENTIAL to get it done. There can't be any "case" or any "investigation" if there is no report. There won't be any entry into NamUs, Doe Network, or other sites if there is no report.

Law enforcement in Portland, Oregon would be the first contact. Since that is where she disappeared from. It is ILLEGAL for them to refuse to take a report. Even after all these years. Again, if they refuse you, go up the ladder to Multnomah County Sheriff. If they refuse you, go up the ladder to Oregon State Police. Last option would be to file the report where she was last confirmed to be, that location in California where police called home to see if she had permission to be away (but that would be a stretch, because I doubt there are records of that phone call.)

File a missing persons report.
 
There is no reason a missing persons report can't be filed. I've said it before. THAT is the next step here. It is ESSENTIAL to get it done. There can't be any "case" or any "investigation" if there is no report. There won't be any entry into NamUs, Doe Network, or other sites if there is no report.

Law enforcement in Portland, Oregon would be the first contact. Since that is where she disappeared from. It is ILLEGAL for them to refuse to take a report. Even after all these years. Again, if they refuse you, go up the ladder to Multnomah County Sheriff. If they refuse you, go up the ladder to Oregon State Police. Last option would be to file the report where she was last confirmed to be, that location in California where police called home to see if she had permission to be away (but that would be a stretch, because I doubt there are records of that phone call.)

File a missing persons report.
I agree and don't know as much or the area as you do so glad you said that. A family member I think definitely needs to make a report if that has never been done.
 
There is no reason a missing persons report can't be filed. I've said it before. THAT is the next step here. It is ESSENTIAL to get it done. There can't be any "case" or any "investigation" if there is no report. There won't be any entry into NamUs, Doe Network, or other sites if there is no report.

Law enforcement in Portland, Oregon would be the first contact. Since that is where she disappeared from. It is ILLEGAL for them to refuse to take a report. Even after all these years. Again, if they refuse you, go up the ladder to Multnomah County Sheriff. If they refuse you, go up the ladder to Oregon State Police. Last option would be to file the report where she was last confirmed to be, that location in California where police called home to see if she had permission to be away (but that would be a stretch, because I doubt there are records of that phone call.)

File a missing persons report.
True. Before I talk to the people I know in law-enforcement, help me understand exactly why a missing persons report hasn’t been made. That’s the first thing they’re going to tell me that needs to be done.
 

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