Missing: April Cooper, 45
Missing from: Temecula, California
Last seen: Dec/13/1986
Created: August 28, 2024 1:26 pm
Updated: August 28, 2024 1:26 pm
MPIA ID: 2578
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Riverside County Sheriff (909) 955-5400
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Case Information
April was last seen walking to an arcade at Woodchuck RV Campground in Rancho, California. She and her mother lived there. She has never been heard from again. She was missing her upper front teeth. She was last seen wearing a white leotard, a lavender dress, a white sweater and white leather dress shoes. April was being supervised by a neighbor, William James Bannister, at the time she disappeared. He was employed as a truck driver from Colorado in 1986. He had offered to babysit her when her mother went to work in Temecula, California that day. He said he gave April $5 to play video games at the arcade and she never returned home.