Anna Christian Waters
| Anna Christian Waters | |
|---|---|
| File:Anna Waters.jpgFile:Anna Waters.jpg Photograph (left) and age progressed image of Waters | |
| Born | September 25, 1967 San Francisco, California |
| Disappeared | January 16, 1973 (aged 5) Purisima Canyon, California |
| Status | Missing for 51 years, 10 months and 5 days |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Disappearing |
| Height | 3 ft 8 in (1.12 m) |
| 💪 Weight | 40 pounds (18 kg) 40 lb (18 kg) |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Michaele Benedict George Waters |
Anna Christian Waters (/ˈɑːnə/)[1] (September 25, 1967 – disappeared January 16, 1973) was an American child. She was five years old when she disappeared from Purisima Canyon, a rural area near Half Moon Bay, California, on January 16, 1973. Her disappearance was highly covered by the press of that time. However, she has not been found.
Background[edit]
Anna's parents were married in March 1965. In 1967, Anna's father, Dr. George Waters, met an older man who called himself "George Brody" and began a relationship with him.[1][2]
Anna was born at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco, on September 25, 1967, at 4:44 pm local time.[3] Her parents decided to pronounce her name with a broad A, "as in swan".[3] At home, Anna had two half-brothers, Nonda, 9, and Eddie, 6, born in Athens and Thessaloniki, from the time their mother spent in Greece.[3] In 1968, George Waters left the family home and divorced Benedict in November 1969. In 1971, Benedict met Joseph Ford, who would later become active in the search for Anna. (Ford died January 16, 2011.) In September 1972, Anna started kindergarten at Hatch School in Half Moon Bay.[4] Her 1972 kindergarten picture would later become the picture on her missing persons poster. In December 1972, Anna was walking with her brothers towards the end of the canyon, when a couple tried to lure Anna into their car. This memory was repressed by Nonda for more than 30 years.[1][2] It is unknown if the couple had anything to do with Anna's disappearance.
Disappearance[edit]
On January 16, 1973, Anna returned home from kindergarten by school bus at about 12:20 pm.[5] Earlier that day, some family friends came for a visit.[5] After coming home, Anna put on a pair of jeans, a blue and white striped T-shirt, oversized black rubber boots and a red coat.[1][5] At about 1:30 pm, Anna went inside and took off the red coat. At approx. 2:00 pm, Benedict heard Anna talking outside, possibly to the family cats.[5] However, between 2:15 and 2:20 pm, Benedict no longer heard Anna making any sounds. The family dog, Saturn, was a puppy and didn't always bark at strangers, so Benedict wasn't alarmed by anything of the sort.[5] At 2:20, Benedict and Ford went outside to search for Anna. At 2:45, after having found nothing, the San Mateo police department was called and the official search began.[5]
Theories[edit]
Purisima Creek[edit]
One original fear was that Anna had simply wandered off and fallen into the nearby Purisima Creek and drowned. It had been raining that day and the creek was in a flooding state.[6] Benedict had remarked that she somehow felt that the Creek was a danger for the family. Divers thoroughly searched the water for four days, but no trace of Anna was found.[6] Family friend Doug French has been active in the search for Anna and he believes that the Purisima Creek had nothing to do with the disappearance. The Half Moon Bay Review published an article on January 25 and called the search for Anna "the greatest search in coastside history".[7] The article also implied that Anna had indeed fallen into the Creek and drowned.
George Waters and "George Brody"[edit]
Both Anna's family and Doug French have felt strongly that Anna's birth father and his friend are involved with Anna's disappearance.[1][8] "Brody" is described as manipulative over Anna's father, having allegedly caused the divorce between him and Benedict. "Brody" was interested in Anna and believed her to be the reincarnation of a woman he had once lived with. He tried to make Benedict change her daughter's name to "Eifee", a word in which had no meaning. "Brody" simply wanted to do this so, numerologically, Anna's name would add up to his own name.[1]
Bibliography[edit]
- Benedict, Michaele (2008). Searching for Anna. California: Lulu.com. ISBN 1-4357-1017-7. Search this book on
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Good, Meaghan (October 12, 2004). "Anna Christian Waters". The Charley Project. charleyproject.org. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Benedict, Michaele. "Time Line: 1967-1973". Anna Christian Waters official site. searchingforanna.com. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Benedict 2007, p. 8.
- ↑ Benedict 2007, p. 10.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Benedict, Michaele. "Time Line: 16 January 1973". Anna Christian Waters official site. searchingforanna.com. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Longpre, Marc (September 20, 2006). "Three decades later, family still searches for Anna". Half Moon Bay Review. hmbreview.com. Archived from the original on November 5, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
- ↑ Benedict, Michaele. "Time Line: 1973-2004". Anna Christian Waters official website. searchingforanna.com. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
- ↑ French, Doug (January 16, 2006). "Anna Christian Waters: missing since 1973". Missing Pieces (Interview). Interviewed by Meadows, Eric; Matthews, Todd.
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External links[edit]
- Anna Seek, a blog maintained by Joe Ford, Anna's stepfather.
- "Anna Christian Waters". WebSleuths forum.
- Anna Waters at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
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