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2006 Cotton, Victoria 7-15-2006; Goleta
Topic Started: Oct 28 2006, 12:09 AM (289 Views)
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Endangered Missing Adult



If you believe you have any information regarding this case that will be helpful in this investigation please contact:
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept. at (805) 681-4150

Name: Victoria Cotton

Classification: Endangered Missing Adult
Alias / Nickname: Vicky
Date of Birth: 1955-12-07
Date Missing: 2006-07-15
From City/State: Goleta, CA
Missing From (Country): USA
Age at Time of Disappearance: 50
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 65 to 67 inches
Weight: 135 pounds
Hair Color: Blonde
Hair (Other): Straight.
Eye Color: Blue
Complexion: Light
Glasses/Contacts Description: Glasses with plastic frames.
Identifying Characteristics: Small mole above upper left corner of mouth, surgical scar on hip from replacement.
Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Victoria, also known as Vicky, was last seen in the morning hours leaving her residence on foot in the vicinity of the 7400 block of San Carpino Ave. in Goleta, CA. She may have been enroute via bus to the Farmer's Market in Santa Barbara, CA. Vicky suffers from a medical condition.
Investigative Agency: Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept.
Phone: (805) 681-4150
Investigative Case #: 06-12301
NCIC #: M-455866600

http://www.theyaremissed.org/
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On Saturday, 07-15-06, 50 year old Victoria Cotton left her residence in Goleta to go to the Farmers Market or possibly the French Festival in Santa Barbara. As of this date, August 9th 2006, she has not been seen or heard from.

Victoria Cotton is described as a white female, approximately 5'-7" tall, 135 lbs, with blond hair and green eyes. She sometimes wears glasses. Victoria suffers from memory loss due to a prior illness and has difficulty keeping track of time and her surroundings.

Victoria Cotton frequents the Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) area and often uses public transportation to get around town. Cotton has gone missing in the past, but has returned within a day of her disappearance.

The Sheriff's Department continues to actively investigate this case. Although the circumstances surrounding her disappearance are unknown, her disappearance itself is suspicious.

Sheriff's Detectives have retraced Victoria Cotton's last known steps, used aerial surveillance, and K9's in attempt to locate her. Detectives have combed homeless shelters, searched homeless camps and countless other locations. Detectives have also interviewed numerous subjects who may have seen her. The department has expanded the search to include the Tri-Counties area. The Cotton family has also been active in the search for Victoria and has assisted with the Sheriff's Department investigation.

Help Find Vickie Website

The media interest has generated numerous leads which detectives continue to investigate. We encourage the public to remain vigilant, and report any possible sightings of Victoria Cotton to the Detective Scherbarth at the Sheriff's Department, 681-4150.



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please contact Sgt. Erik Raney, Public Information Officer.

Business Hours: (805) 681-4100
EMAIL:pio@sbsheriff.org
http://www.sbsheriff.org/wn/index.html
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Last seen on her way to the farmers market in Santa Barbara on Saturday morning, July 15th.
Family members believe that after the farmers market Vickie may have gone to the local French Festival, at Oak Park.

Vickie is white, 50 years old, blonde, blue eyes, 5ft 5in, 135 lbs. She was wearing:
glasses, fading black cotton pants, large sun-hat with strap under chin, white long-sleeve shirt embroidered with small red roses
She suffers from memory loss and may be disoriented.

If you have seen her or have any information about her whereabouts please contact:

Santa Barbara Sheriff Department
Detective William Henebry
(805) 681-4150 or (805) 681-4167
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Victoria Anne Cotton


Above Images: Cotton, circa 2006


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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance



Missing Since: July 15, 2006 from Goleta, California
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: December 7, 1955
Age: 50
Height: 5'3"-5'7"
Weight: 135-145 lbs.
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Race: White
Gender: Female
Distinguishing Characteristics: Wears eyeglasses.
Small mole above upper left corner of mouth, surgical scar
on hip from replacement.
Medical Conditions: Suffers from short term memory
loss due to an acquired brain injury.
Clothing: Fading black/dark gray cotton pants, large
sun-hat with strap under chin, white long-sleeve shirt
embroidered with small red roses. May have been wearing
a white plaid skirt.
AKA: "Vicky"
NCIC Number: M-455866600
Case Number: 06-12301


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Details of Disappearance
Victoria was last seen at the intersection of Nectarine Ave. and Hollister Ave in Goleta, CA on July 15, 2006. She was dropped off by an MTD bus driver at her request to get a paper and asked if he could wait for her; he could not. That was the last anyone saw of her, and she has not been heard from since. Her family is concerned for her welfare.

Dentals and fingerprints are not available.


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Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department
Det. Scherbarth
(805) 681-4150



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Source Information
The Family of Victoria Cotton
California Department of Justice
National Center for Missing Adults


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COTTON STILL MISSING:
By Indy Staff, August 10, 2006

The search continues for Victoria Cotton, the former Raytheon physicist last seen disembarking a bus near a 7-11 store in Goleta on July 15. Cotton developed bacterial meningitis 20 years ago, causing brain damage, and although she has vanished without notice in the past, she has always returned within 24 hours, according to her family. Cotton is 50 years old, 5’7”, 135 pounds, with blonde hair and green eyes.

http://www.independent.com/news/2006/08/co...ll_missing.html


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September 01, 2006 - Reason to be neighborly


As I wandered the part of Goleta where Vickie Cotton was last seen in mid-July, I was surprised that no flyers were visible in any of the storefront windows. A neighbor has disappeared, but somehow, with the passage of a few weeks, we have chosen to simply accept her absence. Have we come to believe that “these things happen?”

I cannot accept this. Our society cannot have become this dysfunctional. However much we treasure our liberty, independence and privacy, a person should not be able to simply “disappear” from our midst and generate a mere shrug of the shoulders from her neighbors.

As I’ve walked the streets, parks and alleys of Goleta, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Ojai looking for Vickie, staring hard into the faces of people I would ordinarily ignore, I know now that we are doing something wrong. We are too many strangers and too few neighbors; too many drawn curtains and too few handshakes. We are too many iPods and too few smiles. I feel ashamed of my own alienation, and I am worried for my community.

So I am begging you, my neighbors, to help us make a new start. Walk next door and ask your neighbors, “Have you seen Vickie?”

Details about Vickie are available at http://members.cox.net/helpfindvickie/Site...kie%20home.html. Someone out there can help, and if enough of us try, we can find Vickie. Maybe we can find a better way to live together at the same time.

Good luck to us all,

— Dean Zatkowsky Ojai

(Vickie Cotton was last seen July 15 on her way to the farmers market in Santa Barbara. According to Santa Barbara police, family members believe the 50-year-old woman might have gone to the French Festival in Santa Barbara’s Oak Park. — Editor)


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My organization received an email copy of the flyer from Jodi House just a few days after Vickie Cotton went missing.

For what it's worth, I not only posted the flyer but forwarded the email to everyone in my email address book, which includes many service providers throughout Ventura County.

We are still hopeful that she will turn up, and I'm sure a great many others also still have her flyer hanging.

Just wanted you to know that there IS a contingent of caring neighbors out there!

Cherie Phoenix
Executive Director
Brain Injury Support Group of Ventura County

Posted by: Cherie Phoenix at September 5, 2006 01:57 PM
http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/vcs/let...n_to_be_ne.html



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Missing Person Alert

Victoria (Vickie) Cotton

Last seen leaving a bus in Goleta on her way home on Saturday morning, July 15th. Vicki got off at the 7-Eleven in Goleta and asked the bus driver to wait for her while she bought a paper. He explained he couldn't do that and that's where the trail stops at this time.

Help Find Vickie
Vickie is white, 50 years old, blonde, blue eyes, 5ft 5in, 135 lbs. She was wearing:
glasses, fading black cotton pants, large sun-hat with strap under chin, white long-sleeve shirt embroidered with small red roses.

If you have seen her or have any information about her whereabouts please contact:

Barbara County Sheriff's Department at
(805) 681-4100.
email: gentlewar678@aol.com

http://www.biaofsantabarbara.org/



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