Missing Persons

George Carpenter, 74, of San Luis Obispo was reported missing Dec. 23, 2009, after he took the family dog to Laguna Lake Park and didn't return home.

Helen Thompson, 81, was last seen going for a walk from her home on Capistrano Avenue in Shell Beach on Aug. 5, 2008. She was heading west, toward the ocean, just as she did almost every day.

Janet DeFelice, 88, went missing June 1, 2007, from her son's home along Santa Rita Ranch Road south of Highway 46 west of Templeton.

Vern Erno stepped out of a car in San Luis Obispo in 2003 and was never seen again.

Kristin Smart was a freshman at Cal Poly when she vanished over Memorial Day weekend in 1996.

Atascadero police have been stumped since 1994. The disappearance of 48-year-old Sandi Ann Peck-Guerrero left them with few clues.

Hugh Harlin, 51, of Morro Bay disappeared Nov. 1, 1986, while driving from San Simeon to Morro Bay. Four years earlier, his wife, Dian Harlin, had been killed in Morro Bay. No one was ever arrested in her death.