Patricia "Patti" Ann Adkins

Endangered Missing

Missing since: 29 June 2001

Missing from: Marysville, Ohio

Sex: female

Race: Caucasian

D.O.B.: 4 May 1972

Age at time of disappearance: 29

Height: 5'8"

Weight: 120lbs

Eyes: Hazel

Hair: blonde

Clothing/ jewelry description: Patti was last seen wearing steel-toed sneakers and an all-white Honda uniform consisting of pants and a long-sleeved shirt with two red outlined patches on the upper chest; one of the patches says "Patti" and the other says "Honda of America".

She was seen carrying a small teal colored duffle bag, a maroon coin pouch and a key chain with her Honda identification card. 

Distinguishing characteristics: Patricia's naval and ears are pierced. Her Nickname is Patti. She has a tattoo of a flower design on her lower middle back; the design is of three orchids colored blue, green, purple, and peach with leaves, arranged horizontally across her back.

She has had corrective laser surgery done to her eyes. 

Details of Disappearance: Patti was last seen leaving her place of work at the Honda of America Automotive plant in Marysville, Ohio. She clocked out a few seconds after midnight on 29 June 2001, at the end of the second shift. 

She had worked for the plant for nearly ten years and had become a supervisor at the assembly line, and she was anticipating a promotion when she disappeared. 

The plant closed down the night for a week because of the Independence Day holiday. 

Patti had been having an affair with a married co-worker at the time of her disappearance; they had dated off and on for years. His name has not been released to the public by law enforcement. She had told her sisters about the relationship and said the man planned to leave his wife to be with her. 

Over a period of several years, she loaned him approximately $90,o0o, depleting her savings account, borrowing against her 401k retirement, and taking another mortgage out on her home so she could help him buy his business partner out of the other half of his business. 

Within days prior to her disappearance, she told her boyfriend that he was going to have to start repaying her back so she could start paying back her 401k loans.

Just before her disappearance, she told her sisters that she was going on a week-long getaway to Canada with her boyfriend and would not be able to contact her family due to no cell service at the cabin in the remote location they were going to be. 

She put her cats in a kennel and asked her sister to look after her 7-year-old daughter while she was gone. 

Her boyfriend also told her that she would not need to bring anything on the trip because they would buy everything while they were there. 

The plan for the night of the 29th, was that she was going to carpool with a friend of hers, so she didn't have to bring her vehicle to work.

Her boyfriend normally takes a friend of his to work every day and he was going to have to take the friend home before they left which was a 40-minute drive from where they worked at the Honda plant, so after she clocked out, she was seen climbing in the bed of her boyfriend's pick-up truck that was covered with a tonneau cover so she wouldn't be seen.

Despite her boyfriend telling her not to bring anything, she brought a small, teal-colored duffle bag that contained a blue piece of lingerie she purchased especially for the trip. The bag and its contents have never been recovered. 

Prior to their trip, Patti made a hair appointment for after she returned from her trip. She failed to show up to that appointment. 

She was reported missing by her sister on July 8th, after she failed to pick up her daughter after her trip. She left her vehicle behind in her garage and all of her belongings were left undisturbed inside her house. 

When police questioned Patti's boyfriend, he denied having an affair with Patti and said they had no plans of going on a trip to Canada together. He claimed to only be an acquaintance of hers.

He recounted his alibi for the evening of June 29th and told police that he gave his friend and co-worker a ride home 40 miles away in Canton, Ohio, and on the way, they stopped at Burger King, waited in line for 45 minutes in the drive thru, got their food, and went home. 

His wife backed up his story when she told police that he arrived home at 2:30 a.m., which was the usual time he arrived home, and she didn't know anything about an affair.

The Burger King manager, however said their sales for that evening was $18, and there was no way anyone would have waited for their food for 45 minutes at that time of night. 

The boyfriend gave police permission to search him home and they found a new tonneau cover in his garage. He told police that he bought it on June 26th to cover some fishing equipment in the bed of his truck. 

He put it on the bed of his truck on the morning of the 29th of June and removed it on July 8th. He normally didn't drive the truck as it was the work truck for his business, but he drove it the night Patti disappeared. 

Police took the tonneau cover for analysis and found cat hairs on it that matched the DNA of Patti's cats, as well as a small spot of blood. The DNA results determined that the blood was that of the boyfriend's and not Patti's. 

Police also found items at the boyfriend's house that Patti told people she bought for him (boyfriend), which unfortunately for him, contradicted his story of them only being acquaintances. 

He agreed to take a polygraph and failed it. Shortly after Patti disappeared, he quit his job at the Honda plant and never returned there to work.

Patti was declared legally dead in 2006 at the request of her family. There has been no activity on any of her financial accounts since she went missing. 

Patti's family and friends told police that she was happy with her life and her job and maintained an amicable relationship with her ex-husband. She loved her daughter more than anything and always made sure she was well taken care of as well as her pets and would not just leave them behind. 

Her loved ones also believe that she would not voluntarily leave when she was receiving a promotion at work. 

Her loved ones and police believe Patti was the victim of homicide.

Patti's case remains unsolved, and her boyfriend is still considered a person of interest in her case.