09/14/2025
Woman Detective Vanished in 1994 — 8 Years Later Worker Found Her Vest in Compacted Vehicle…
On a cold March morning in 2002, Miguel Santos Rodriguez was working his routine shift at Patterson Auto Salvage when the unexpected happened. As he operated the hydraulic compactor on a faded white-and-blue 1993 Ford Crown Victoria—once a Detroit Police patrol car—a dark object tumbled from the crushed interior.
It was a standard-issue Kevlar vest, bearing a name tag: “Detective R.
