Angela Meeker: A Tacoma Family’s Search
The planned outing, family memories and dated accounts.
Abstract
NamUs MP6391 records July 7, 1979, as Angela Mae Meeker’s Date of Last Contact in Tacoma, Washington. The entry identifies her as Angie.1
The Date and the Outing
The registry associates Tacoma Police Department reference 79191392 with the case. Its agency report-date field displays June 10, 1988. That administrative value does not establish that Angela first disappeared in 1988 or that her family waited nine years to seek help. The original report is needed to explain the field.1
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children lists NCMEC 603013 and NCIC M305699258. Its poster describes a black felt hat, jeans and sandals. Those identifiers and descriptions help match an archived item to Angela; repetition on several websites would not create several independent observations.2
FOX 13’s October 2016 page includes an earlier segment explicitly dated December 11, 2015. Tacoma detective Lindsey Wade described Angela leaving for Tacoma Mall to buy a friend’s birthday card. The outing was a reported intention, not a record of every movement that followed.3
Wade recounted an acquaintance’s statement that he drove Angela to the Payless area. She also said attendees at the planned joint birthday party had not reported seeing her. Those are attributed accounts; the original witness statements were not inspected here.3
A Birthday and a Family
Puneet Bsanti’s July 2024 News Tribune report includes father John Meeker and Angela’s siblings. Dee Knee recalled birthday presents and an expected concert. Shawna Mickunas remembered Angela taking her to the movies; brother John Meeker Jr. described the family’s hope for answers.4
The recollections preserve relationships and plans interrupted by Angela’s absence. They are accounts given decades later, not proof that she reached a particular destination. Her father’s recollection of realizing she was missing the next day or so describes recognition of an absence, which is a different event from filing a police report.4
The FOX 13 presentation says Angela was reported missing three days afterward. That historical report does not explain the later date in the registry’s administrative field.3
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you locate the original report or a dated agency explanation for the 1988 report-date field?1
Can you distinguish a planned destination, the reported ride and attendance actually documented at the party?3
Can you match a poster to NCMEC 603013 before treating its image or descriptive text as a newly obtained observation?2
Keep those sources and your questions in a Research File in Almost Solved. Preserve who supplied each account and when it was published. A useful next step is a record that clarifies an event or identifies what was directly observed. An unanswered question is not evidence against an acquaintance, relative or witness.
Show later developments and reported outcomes
Later Appeals and Image Limits
NCMEC labels the displayed age progression as showing Angela at fifty-one. That intended age belongs to a rendering. It is not a later photograph documenting contact, and it should not be substituted for the age shown elsewhere on a changing poster.2
In Bsanti’s 2024 report, detective William Muse said the last significant leads had arrived about five years earlier. His statement describes the investigation at that interview date; it does not establish what investigators received afterward.4
Scope and Method
Original witness statements and investigative files were not inspected.
Prepared with AI assistance. Sources and references checked against the cited public materials. This paper is an original synthesis of the identified public sources; it does not reproduce article bodies, transcripts, or an investigative file.
Footnote References
- NamUs, MP6391; reviewed November 2, 2026.
- NCMEC, Meeker, case 603013; reviewed November 2, 2026.
- FOX 13, Meeker report, October 2016; includes December 2015 segment.
- Puneet Bsanti, The News Tribune, Meeker family appeal, July 9, 2024.