Missing From: State College, Pennsylvania
Missing since: November 1, 2001
Age at disappearance: 21
Height: 5′ 2″
Weight: 120
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Distinguishing Characteristics: Scars, Marks, Tattoos: Asian female. Pierced ears and navel. Full Name: Hyun Jong Song, may also be spelled Hyun Jung, Hyunjong or Hyunjung. Goes by Cindy Song.
Details of Disappearance: Song was raised in Seoul, South Korea. She moved to the United States in 1995 to live with relatives in Springfield, Virginia near Alexandria. Song graduated from high school and enrolled in Pennsylvania State University, where she majored in integrated arts. She was scheduled to graduate during the spring of 2002.
Song attended a Halloween party during the early morning hours of November 1, 2001 at the Player’s Nite Club in the 110 block of West College Avenue. She departed from the party at 2:00 a.m., then stopped by a friend’s home for two hours. Another friend dropped Song off outside of her residence in State College Park Apartments in the 340 block of West Clinton Avenue at approximately 4:00 a.m. She had been drinking that evening and was mildly intoxicated when taken to her apartment. Song’s friends reported her as a missing person when she failed to contact anyone by November 4, three days after her disappearance. Nearly all of her personal belongings were inside of her residence, including her backpack and the cellular phone she normally carried and her backpack. Song’s keys and her purse, containing her credit cards and driver’s license, was the only item missing from her home. Her cellular phone was turned off, and she did not place any phone calls from her apartment after returning home. There was no indication of a struggle or foul play at the scene.
Authorities received a tip from a woman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, nearly 200 miles from Song’s apartment, shortly after Song disappeared. The witness claimed that she saw a woman matching Song’s description inside a vehicle with an unidentified male in the city’s Chinatown district. The witness said that the woman called for help, but the man interrupted her and told the witness to leave. Investigators said that the witness’s story changed several times and they have been unable to verify her statements. Authorities are continuing to attempt to identify the man allegedly seen by the woman. He is described as having an olive or light brown complexion with medium-length hair. Investigators stated that the man is not a suspect in Song’s case, but they would like to question him.
Investigating Agency: Ferguson Township Police Department at (814) 237-1172 or (800) 479-0050
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