Sierra LaMar: The Morgan Hill Record
A teenager’s school morning and a changing court record.
Abstract
California’s Department of Justice lists March 16, 2012 as Sierra Mae Lamar’s Date Last Seen in Morgan Hill, under sheriff’s case 120760368.1
A Teenager and Her Family
Tiffany Liou’s August 2026 KGO report describes Sierra as fifteen when she disappeared. It revisits her parents Marlene and Steve’s public appeals from 2012. Those archival words express their concern for their daughter; they are not newly given August 2026 interviews.2
The DOJ profile says Sierra was heading to school and did not arrive. Its short account does not identify the original witness statement or document a complete route.1
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you identify the original school-morning observation before filling gaps in Sierra’s movements?1
Can you keep an archival family appeal attached to its original year when a later report reuses it?2
Can you identify which action a court conference result addresses before treating it as a trial finding?3
Can you date a court report before using it to describe the case’s current status?4
Keep the event date, document and unanswered question together in a Research File in Almost Solved. A careful chronology preserves both the person and the limits of the record.
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Later Evidence and Court Record
The DOJ profile records a phone found a few miles from Sierra’s home. An object’s location does not establish her complete route.1
The California Supreme Court’s May 13, 2026 conference results list S296111, associated with H045484, as a denied petition for review. That entry concerns the review request, rather than a new trial verdict.3
Liou’s August report described an expected October 5 opening date, expressly subject to change.2
Dustin Dorsey’s November 3 KGO report says retrial opening statements began Monday, November 2. It describes the February reversal of the earlier conviction. This is a report of new proceedings, not a new verdict. The complete appellate opinion and trial transcripts were not inspected.4
These dated records do not establish a confirmed recovery or a final outcome of the new proceedings.
Scope and Method
The complete investigative file, appellate opinion and trial transcripts 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
- California DOJ, Sierra Mae Lamar profile, case 120760368; reviewed November 3, 2026.
- Tiffany Liou, KGO, retrial preview, August 22, 2026.
- California Supreme Court, conference results, May 13, 2026, page 3; S296111/H045484.
- Dustin Dorsey, KGO, retrial-opening report, November 3, 2026.