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Guidroz, circa 1983

Wallace Guidroz
Missing since January 10, 1983 from Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington.
Classification: Non-Family Abduction


Vital Statistics

  • Date Of Birth: March 24, 1980
  • Age at Time of Disappearance: 2 years old
  • Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 3'0; 35 pounds
  • Distinguishing Characteristics: Biracial male. (Asian and Black) Black hair; brown eyes.
  • Clothing: A gray knitted skull cap; a dark blue down jacket with a red collar; a dark blue vest; and purple corduroy overalls.
  • Dentals: Not Available


    Circumstances of Disappearance
    Guidroz was playing in Point Defiance Park with his father in Tacoma, Washington on January 10, 1983. He disappeared while he and his father was talking to another adult and has never been found despite extensive search.
    Kidnapping suspected, many leads received but none checked out.

    4:30 p.m. Father and son leave the boathouse and stop at the duck pond near the park entrance before heading home. Wallace sees a girl about his age with a man and a woman, and starts playing with her. Stanley walks over to the man, whom he thinks is the girl's father.
    Stanley Guidroz walks toward the waterfall area of the pond with the man, whom he thinks is the girl’s father. AT 5-5:30 Stanley and the other man split up to find the boy. The other man vanishes.

    Persons of interest:
    The man, white, in his late 20s to early 30s, about 6 feet tall, medium build. Shoulder length, sandy brown hair, a mustache and a beard. He wore a baseball cap.
    The woman white, in her early to mid-20s, 5 feet 2 and 115 to 120 pounds. Light blonde shoulder length hair and distinctively long eyelashes.
    The girl, white about 3 years old, long blond hair.


    Investigators
    If you have any information concerning Guidroz's whereabouts, please contact:
    Tacoma Police Department
    Gene Miller
    253-591-5674
    253-591-5940

    All information may be submitted anonymously.

    Agency Case Number: 83-010367

    NCIC Number:
    M-199529706
    Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

    Source Information:
    Operation Lookout
    Tacoma News Tribune
    Washington State Missing Persons
    The News Tribune
    For The Lost


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