20 Years Ago Her Brother’s Friend Drove Her To Her Friend’s House For A Movie Night And Then This Teen Went Missing
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was June 3rd, 2001, and 15-year-old Erin Kay Pospisil was thrilled that the school year was finished and summer was officially about to begin.
To celebrate, she wanted to go to her friend Brit’s home so they could have a movie night together.
Their night in was also supposed to be dedicated to getting some work done too…though not schoolwork. It was something much more fun than that.
The girls were in the process of organizing a party for one of their other friends as a surprise, so they were happy to be finalizing those plans that evening as well since they only had 4 days to get it all done.
On the night of June 3rd, Erin’s older brother had a friend hanging out at their house named Curtis. When Curtis learned that Erin was trying to get a ride over to Brit’s, he offered to get her there.
Iowa Missing Person Information Clearinghouse; pictured above is Erin
At 8:45, Erin and Curtis walked out of the home Erin shared with her family, and they got into Curtis’s car.
Erin never made it to Brit’s though. She disappeared, and it’s now been 20 long years since she went missing.
“When they got to Brit’s house, no one answered the door. (Turns out that she had “run to the store” for chips and soda.),” Erin’s family said on a website they dedicated to finding her.
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“As Erin was walking back to Curtis’ truck, a dark-colored Chevrolet Cavalier with tinted rear windows car pulled up to the curb.”
“Erin went up to the car and had a short conversation with someone in the car. She told Curtis, “These guys will give me a ride.” Erin got in the back seat.”
Now, everything you just read from Erin’s family is the account that Curtis provided, but nobody else had witnessed Erin get into the Cavalier.
Since Curtis noted that it really did look like Erin knew the people in the Cavalier, when Erin’s family reported her as missing to the police later that night, she was immediately labeled as a runaway.
Erin’s family does not think that this is the case at all. If Erin had been planning to run away, why didn’t she pack some essentials?
Her backpack, her clothing, her makeup, her planner, and all of her other personal effects were inside of her home.
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Those are things she certainly would have taken if she was set on leaving her family behind.
Another thing that doesn’t sit right with Erin’s family is the fact that Erin was extremely close to her friends, and she spoke to them every single day. None of Erin’s friends have heard from her since the night she vanished, and that’s just not like Erin.
Unfortunately, since Erin was labeled as a runaway child, the media pretty much refused to cover her story.
Taking matters into their own hands, Erin’s family painstakingly printed flyers and distributed them around Cedar Rapids in the hopes that their efforts would lead to some information on Erin.
Some evidence that authorities gathered shortly after Erin’s disappearance led them to believe that Erin perhaps went missing due to gang activity, but those leads went nowhere.
Then, in 2002, there seemed to be quite a promising lead.
National Center For Missing & Exploited Children; pictured above is an age-progressed photo of Erin
“Our one reliable sighting came in the spring of 2002,” Erin’s family mentioned. Erin was spotted at a convenience store in Cedar Rapids.”
“She was riding in the back seat of a car with Illinois license plates. This tip was provided to Cedar Rapids Police, however, the car was not found.”
Was it Erin in that car? The individual that spotted her was absolutely certain that it was since this person did know Erin.
Despite that, neither the authorities nor Erin’s family have been able to confirm she really was sitting in that back seat.
Erin’s family is still holding out hope that she is out there, somewhere, and that they will soon have answers in her case.
“She was last seen wearing beige overall shorts,” the Iowa Missing Person Information Clearinghouse explained in a profile of Erin.
“She has a small scar above her left eye. Erin had red highlights in her hair. She was last seen leaving in an early 90’s model, black Chevy Cavalier.”
Erin is 5’03” and around 130 pounds. She has brown eyes and brown hair and turned 35-years-old this year.
If you know where Erin Pospisil is, or if you have any information related to her disappearance, the Cedar Rapids Police Department is asking that you call them at 319.286.5350.
You can also check out the website that Erin’s family created for her here.
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