Laureen Rahn

Fourteen-year-old Laureen Rahn was last seen on either April 26th or April 27, 1980 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

At the time of Laureen's disappearance, her mother Judith's boyfriend was a professional tennis player and they were out of town at a tennis tournament. Laureen normally went with them, but she asked to stay home which Judith agreed she could do during her spring break from school.

That night, she was in her apartment with a male and a female friend drinking alcohol. The male friend said that he heard voices in the hallway. He left through the back door because he thought that Judith was coming home from the tournament and was afraid that he would get in trouble. He heard Laureen lock the door behind him.

When Judith came from the tournament sometime at 1:15 a.m., she discovered that the light bulbs in the hallways on all three floors of their apartment building were unscrewed, making everything dark. She also discovered the front door of her apartment unlocked. Judith checked in Laureen's room and thought that she saw Laureen in her bed, but she found out the next morning that it was the female friend and not Laureen in her room. The female friend said that Laureen was in bed with her, but she took her pillow and blanket to sleep out on the couch in the living room.

Laureen wasn't in the apartment, but her clothes and new sneakers were in the living room, and the back door was open. Judith called her family members to see if she was there, and searched the neighborhood with her boyfriend. Around 3:45 a.m., Judith flagged down a police car to report Laureen missing.

Although Laureen was initially considered to be a runaway, Judith didn't think that she was because she left her belongings behind. After a few weeks, the police reconsidered the possibility that Laureen ran away from home.

Three months after Laureen's disappearance, Judith discovered that she had been charged for three phone calls from California. Two of the calls were placed from a motel in Santa Monica, California to another motel in Santa Ana, California. The third phone call was from a teen sexual assistance hotline. The doctor in charge of the hotline initially denied knowing anything about it, but he changed his story in 1985, saying that there were numerous runaway girls who would occasionally visit his wife at their home and one of the girls may have been from New Hampshire.

The doctor also said that a woman named Annie Sprinkle, a sex education and former pornography actress who allegedly knew the doctor's wife might have some information about Laureen's disappearance; however, the police were unable to link her to her case.

Judith kept getting mysterious phone calls throughout 1981 from an unknown person that continued for several years, especially during Christmas. The calls stopped after Judith changed her phone number several years after Laureen's disappearance.

In 1981, a close friend of Laureen's aunt claimed to have seen hear at a bus terminal in Boston, Massachusetts and in 1988, another witness claimed to have seen a sex worker matching Laureen's description in Anchorage, Alaska; however, none of these sightings have been confirmed.

In 1986, an investigator with the Wings for Children association located the two motels involved in the phone calls from 1980 and discovered that one of the motels may have been used to make child pornography, but it wasn't confirmed that Laureen was at either one of those motels.

Laureen's case is classified as a non-family abduction. Since then, Judith moved to Florida and remarried. The male friend that Laureen was drinking alcohol with the night she went missing committed suicide in 1985.