Thursday, August 2, 2018

One of Michigan's oldest cold cases. Can you help solve it?

Paige Marie Renkoski

She was born February 2, 1960, in Lansing Michigan.

She disappeared from Okemos, Michigan,  on May 24, 1990 on her way to her boyfriend's baseball game.
She had dropped her mother off at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport around 11:30 a.m. and then visited a friend in Canton.
She was seen around 2:30 p.m. at a store west of Interstate 275 in Canton.
She bought a beer.
She was last seen talking to two African-American men, in an agitated manner, on the shoulder of Interstate 96 near Fowlerville, Michigan.
Then men were driving a maroon colored minivan.
Someone had reported seeing Renkoski near her car at about 3:00pm.

Later, the 1986 silver Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais she had been driving was found still idling, with her shoes and purse inside.
It was not processed as a crime scene because the responding officer to be an abandoned vehicle.
There was no damage found to the vehicle.
There doors were unlocked.
Police found several fingerprints and palm prints, but no matches  on any law enforcement databases.

There were many different reports of people thinking they saw Renkoski.
Some of them said they thought they saw her driving west on I-96.
Some claims to have seen her at a restop.

She was last seen wearing a white silk shirt, with a long beaded necklace, and silk patterned pants.

UPDATES
May 2011, after a woman reported seeing a pair of cement-covered boots around the time of Renkoski's disappearance, a search began of a pond in Handy Township using ground-penetrating radar.
Nothing was found.


November 2011, the FBI, state and local police began a dig operation in Conway Township, Michigan.
Cadaver dogs identified the site a week before the dig started. 
There was a 1999 case file, that included a "hand drawn map indicating Renkoski's remains were buried there", that led investigators to that spot.
Nothing was found there either.


The police have ruled the case a homicide.
Her body has never been located and no one has been charged in her disappearance or death.
The Michigan Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $2,500 for any information.

On February 2, 2018, a dual memorial service was held for Renkoski and her mother, who died in December 2017.

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