Kortne Ciera Stouffer: The Palmyra Record
A young woman’s last contact and the limits of a published timeline.
Abstract
NamUs MP17800 lists July 29, 2012 as Kortne Ciera Stouffer’s Date of Last Contact in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. She was twenty-one.1
A Daughter in Palmyra
LebTown’s tenth-anniversary account begins with a family remembering a conversation with their daughter before she disappeared. Its written account places Stouffer’s return to her Palmyra apartment after a night out with friends.2
Contact and Reporting
The NamUs entry identifies Western Lebanon County Regional Police Department case 12-0002133. Its circumstances describe an early-morning return home on July 29, rather than provide an original statement establishing a precise final observation.1
LebTown reproduces a timeline attributed to Chief County Detective Jonathan Hess. It dates Scott Stouffer’s missing-person report to 2:42 p.m. on July 30. That reporting event is separate from the previous day’s last-contact field.2
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you identify the original observation supporting the database’s last-contact date?1
Can you distinguish an officer’s documented attendance from a later account of what someone inside the apartment observed?2
Can you keep a later records ruling’s approximate date separate from the precise reporting time in the published timeline?2,3
Keep each document, event date and unanswered question in a Research File in Almost Solved. A detailed published timeline still needs to be distinguished from its underlying records.
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Later Records and Their Limits
NamUs describes Stouffer’s purse, phone and keys remaining at home. Those items do not establish her subsequent movements.1
A February 13, 2026 Pennsylvania Office of Open Records determination transferred an appeal concerning Stouffer records to the county district attorney’s appeals officer. It did not decide what happened to her or order the investigative file released.3
The original witness statements, dispatch records and full investigative file were not inspected. No later result of that records appeal or present case outcome is established here.
Scope and Method
Original statements, dispatch records and the full investigative file 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, MP17800; reviewed November 3, 2026.
- LebTown Staff, tenth-anniversary report and attributed county timeline, July 28, 2022.
- Pennsylvania Office of Open Records, AP 2025-3842, determination, February 13, 2026.