The Disappearance of Jean Spangler
The Hollywood actress’ case is still unsolved seven decades later.
8 min readJun 5, 2020
On the 7th October 1949, Jean Spangler said goodbye to her daughter, walked out of the door of her apartment in Park La Brea and vanished. This would be the last time Christine would ever see her mother alive. What followed was one of the biggest manhunts in Los Angeles history.
Jean Elizabeth Spangler was born on 2nd September 1923 in Seattle, Washington to Florence and Cecil Spangler. Jean was a dancer, model and actress and when she…
