The Missing
Cynthia Dawn Constantine
Oakdale, New York
15 year old Cynthia Dawn Constantine was last seen in Oakdale, New York on the evening of July 11, 1969 taking her dog for a walk on the railroad tracks in the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Railroad. Just minutes after Cynthia left, her dog returned home without her, still wearing its collar, dragging the leash. Police were called and she was reported missing.
Cynthia has never been seen again.
Earlier that day, her and her brother had ventured into the woods and had seen a muskrat den. She said she wanted to go back and find the muskrat. Three young boys stated they saw Cynthia enter the forest north of the railroad station with her dog.
Officers organized searches with volunteers, fire fighters, search dogs, and groups from the St. John’s Lutheran Church, all to no avail. They searched the woods, a nearby lake was dragged, but nothing was found.
Her brother led authorities to the muskrat den, and found some tracks consistent with Cynthia and the dog being there. But they didn’t seem to lead in any direction, and were already wiped out by the rain before they could be examined.
Cynthia is described as a white female with long strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes; 5’3” in height and weighing approximately 117 pounds. She was last seen wearing a white blouse with black Bermuda shorts and orange tennis shoes. She always wore a metal chain with a cross pendant around her neck. She also wears glasses.
She has a mole on her throat, has a discolored front tooth, and had broken her right forearm the summer before she vanished.
Family members did not think Cynthia ran away from home. She was said to be a good kid who rarely ever got into trouble. She left everything she owned behind, and had no previous history of running away. Her pet rabbit was about to give birth which she was excited for. It was believed she was kidnapped.
Her father was once suggested as a suspect. He owned a bicycle shop on Montauk Highway in Oakdale, and had just laid a new cement floor in the basement of the building around the same time Cynthia went missing. It seems nothing ever came of this.
Around the same time of Cynthia’s vanishing, an article in the Suffolk County Newspaper reported that a 14 year old girl in the nearby town of Sayville, had a terrifying encounter with a 30 to 40 year old man wearing a suit and driving a red car asked her to get into his vehicle. She refused and ran away. As strange as it is, there is no evidence proving that this incident was connected with Cynthia.
Both of Cynthia’s parents passed away, but her brother is still looking for her.
If you have any further information, please contact the Suffolk County Police Department at 631-852-6040.
Sources:
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/4532/details?nav
https://int-missing.fandom.com/wiki/Cynthia_Constantine
https://www.facebook.com/groups/longislandmissingpeople/posts/1591695891161442
https://www.missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/1161743/1
https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2193dfny.html
http://www.trackmissing.org/Cases/Details?id=285
https://websleuths.com/threads/ny-cynthia-constantine-15-oakdale-11-july-1969.137216/
https://uncovered.com/cases/cynthia-constantine
https://websleuths.com/threads/cynthia-dawn-constantine-15-oakdale-ny-1969.119841/
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