A new $140,000 reward was recently offered for 21-year-old La Crescenta resident Elaine Park on the one-year anniversary of when she went missing in Calabasas.
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La Crescenta resident Elaine Park has been missing since January, 2017. (Images courtesy of private investigator Jayden Brant.)
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La Crescenta resident Elaine Park has been missing since January 2017.
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A $500,000 reward is being offered in connection with the Jan. 28, 2017 disappearance of La Crescenta resident Elaine Park. Her car was found abandoned on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Feb. 2. (Courtesy photo)
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The reward was announced Sunday in Malibu with a deadline of 11:59 p.m. June 1.
“Somebody out there knows what happened to her,” said private investigator Jayden Brant of Origin Investigations on Monday. “We’re hoping those people do come forward. There’s a way for people to claim the reward anonymously. Our goal is to find out what happened to her.”
A special tipline that Brant says guarantees anonymity and confidentiality has been set up at 800-551-3080 as well as the website elainepark.tips with more information.
On Sunday, friends and family gathered in Malibu to mark the one-year anniversary of the disappearance, Brant said.
“It’s tough on the family for sure,” Brant said. “We spent the last two days on the beach starting around 6 a.m” Saturday when Elaine Park would have arrived.
Brant is hoping someone who took photos or has video of parked cars around 26048 Pacific Coast Highway between 6:20 a.m. Jan. 28, 2017 and 3:30 p.m. Feb. 2, 2017 and contact the tip line.
“There’s somebody with photos,” Brant said. “That might be the picture that solves the case.”
Elaine’s mother, Susan Park, declined to comment on Monday.
Her daughter was last seen at 6:05 a.m. Jan. 28, 2017, after she left the home of her ex-boyfriend in Calabasas in the 2600 block of Delphine Lane.
On Feb. 2, her car—a charcoal gray 2015 Honda Civic—was found on Pacific Coast Highway on the ocean side of the street just south of Corral Canyon Road in Malibu.
The doors were unlocked, the keys were in the ignition and her backpack, phone, computer and cash were inside the car, family and officials have said.
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In December, Susan Park tried to find photos that showed the area of Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Jan. 28 or Jan. 29 last year where the car was parked.
Brant said a photo from 1:30 p.m. Jan. 28 and another one from Jan. 30 were found and being analyzed.
Park, who is Korean-American, has a thin build and is 5 foot 6 inches tall and 125 pounds, authorities have said.
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Glendale Police Department Sgt. Dan Suttles said the missing person case remained open.
Suttles said when tips come in—which they do periodically—they “follow up on those exhaustively. It’s definitely an active case.”
Anyone with information about the disappearance of Elaine Park can also contact the Glendale Police Department at 818-548-4911.
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