She said she had to run some errands and would be home in half an hour. She left her home on east 9th Street, walked down the street towards Inglewood Avenue, and got into a brown Buick sedan. Authorities later identified and interviewed the car's driver, an acquaintance of Patterson's who said they dropped her off somewhere else. She has never been heard from again. Her mother reported her missing at 6:00 p.m. Patterson has a dark-colored birthmark on the back of her right thigh and a tattoo of three birds in black ink on the back of her right shoulder