KRISTINE LOUISE JOHNSON
Female White, 21-Years, 5’09”, 140 lbs., Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes  

THE Santa Monica Police Department IS SEEKING THE ASSISTANCE OF THE PUBLIC TO IDENTIFY AND LOCATE THE INDIVIDUAL DEPICTED IN THIS COMPOSITE DRAWING.  IT IS OUR BELIEF THAT THIS PERSON IS INVOLVED IN OR HAS INFORMATION REGARDING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF KRISTINE JOHNSON, AGE 21, WHO DISAPPEARED AFTER LEAVING HER RESIDENCE IN SANTA MONICA ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 15, 2003.  THE SUBJECT IS DESCRIBED AS MALE, WHITE, IN HIS 30’s, 6’0 TALL, THIN TO MEDIUM BUILD, CLEAN SHAVEN, LIGHT COMPLEXION.  HE WAS LAST SEEN WEARING A DARK SUIT.

ON FEBRUARY 15, 2003, AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM THE CENTURY CITY MALL, MS. JOHNSON INFORMED HER ROOMMATE THAT SHE WAS GOING TO MEET A PHOTOGRAPHER LATER THAT AFTERNOON IN BEVERLY HILLS FOR AN AUDITION.  THIS AUDITION WAS TO BE A PHOTO SHOOT RELATED TO A SPECIFIC MOVIE PRODUCTION.

MS. JOHNSON’S ROOMMATE RELATED THAT AFTER LEAVING FOR THAT MEETING, KRISTINE NEVER RETURNED.  ON FEBRUARY 17, 2003, THE ROOMMATE CONTACTED THE SANTA MONICA POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WE INITIATED A MISSING PERSON’S INVESTIGATION.  MS. JOHNSON’S VEHICLE DESCRIPTION AND LICENSE PLATE WERE ENTERED INTO THE NATIONAL MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED PERSON’S DATABASE.

ON FEBRUARY 18, 19, AND 20^TH, THE SMPD NOTIFIED THE MEDIA SEEKING ASSISTANCE FROM THE PUBLIC IN LOCATING MS. JOHNSON.  POLICE DETECTIVES CONDUCTED INTERVIEWS WITH THE JOHNSON FAMILY, HER ROOMMATES, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS.  A TIP LINE INTO THE SANTA MONICA POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS ESTABLISHED.  DETECTIVES ALSO OBTAINED SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM THE VARIOUS LOCATIONS VISITED BY KRISTINE PRIOR TO HER DISAPPEARANCE  (CENTURY CITY/WEST LOS ANGELES).

ON FEBRUARY 20^TH, DETECTIVES RECEIVED A TIP ON OUR HOT LINE FROM A FEMALE WHO MET A PERSON (DEPICTED IN THE COMPOSITE) AT THE CENTURY CITY MALL WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS A PHOTOGRAPHER IN LATE JANUARY OF 2003. THIS WITNESS SAID THAT THE SUBJECT IN THIS COMPOSITE STATED THAT HE WISHED TO PHOTOGRAPH HER IN A PHOTO SHOOT RELATED TO A SPECIFIC MOVIE PRODUCTION.  THIS WAS THE SAME MOVIE PRODUCTION THAT MS. JOHNSON STATED SHE WAS GOING TO AUDITION FOR.

THIS WITNESS WAS INSTRUCTED TO MEET THE PURPORTED PHOTOGRAPHER ON A STREET CORNER IN WEST HOLLYWOOD.  THE WITNESS HAD HER BOYFRIEND (A FORMER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER) DRIVE HER TO THE LOCATION AND WAIT IN THE CAR WHILE SHE CONTACTED THE MAN. 

WHEN THE WITNESS WALKED TO THE LOCATION, THIS SUBJECT  APPROACHED HER AND INSISTED, IN A VERY AGGRESSIVE MANNER,  THAT SHE COME WITH HIM IMMEDIATELY.  THE WITNESS THEN SIGNALED HER BOYFRIEND, WHO CONFRONTED THE SUBJECT AND DEMANDED THAT HE IDENTIFY HIMSELF.  THE SUBJECT THEN RAN AWAY AND WAS CHASED DOWN BY THE WITNESS’ BOYFRIEND, WHO FRISKED HIM FOR IDENTIFICATION.  NO IDENTIFICATION WAS FOUND, AND THE SUBJECT BROKE FREE AND FLED, NOT TO BE SEEN AGAIN.  THE WITNESS AND HER BOYFRIEND PARTICIPATED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS COMPOSITE SKETCH, WHICH WAS PREPARED BY A COMPOSITE SKETCH ARTIST FROM THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT.

ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2003, SANTA MONICA POLICE DEPARTMENT DETECTIVES WERE NOTIFIED BY THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT HOTEL SECURITY FROM THE ST. REGIS HOTEL IN CENTURY CITY REPORTED THAT A WHITE 1996 MAZDA MIATA WAS PARKED IN THEIR PARKING STRUCTURE AND HAD BEEN THERE SEVERAL DAYS.  THEY RAN THE PLATE, DISCOVERED OUR HOLD AND CONTACTED THE SANTA MONICA POLICE.  WE RESPONDED AND SUMMONED LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S CRIME LAB PERSONNEL, WHO PROCESSED THE CAR FOR EVIDENCE THAT MIGHT BE RELATED TO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF KRISTINE JOHNSON. 

ADDITIONALLY, SANTA MONICA POLICE DETECTIVES CONDUCTED A BLOODHOUND SEARCH IN CENTURY CITY WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF BLOODHOUND HANDLERS FROM THE VENTURA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT, TORRANCE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT.

THE VALET PERSON ON DUTY THE DAY THAT MS. JOHNSON’S CAR WAS LEFT AT THE ST. REGIS HOTEL WAS INTERVIEWED.  HE STATED THAT HER CAR WAS PARKED IN THE VALET AREA BY A MALE SUBJECT.  WHEN HE APPROACHED THE SUBJECT TO ADMONISH HIM THAT THE PARKING AREA WAS VALET ONLY, THE SUBJECT STATED, “HERE’S THE KEY,” AND TOSSED HIM THE KEYS.  THE VALET STATES THAT THE MALE WHO DROPPED OFF THE CAR STRONGLY RESEMBLES THE SUBJECT IN THIS COMPOSITE SKETCH.

WE CONTINUE TO SEARCH FOR MS. JOHNSON HOPING THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO RETURN HER TO HER FAMILY AND LOVED ONES.

For more information, please contact:
Lieutenant Frank Fabrega
(310) 458-8418