Brianna Maitland | |
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| Born | Brianna Alexandra Maitland[a] October 8, 1986 |
| Disappeared | March 19, 2004 (aged 17) Montgomery, Vermont, U.S. |
| Status | Missing for 20 years, 7 months and 4 days |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Missing person |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
| Parent | Bruce Maitland
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44°54′41″N 72°39′34″W / 44.911307°N 72.659527°W Brianna Alexandra Maitland (born October 8, 1986; disappeared March 19, 2004) is an American missing person who disappeared at the age of 17 after leaving her job at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, Vermont. Her car was discovered the following day, backed into the side of an abandoned house about a mile (1.6 km) away from her workplace. Maitland has not been seen or heard from since. Due to a confluence of circumstances, several days passed before Maitland's friends and family reported her missing.
In the days and weeks following Maitland's disappearance, numerous tips were investigated by state law enforcement, including a claim that she was being held captive in a house occupied by local drug dealers of whom she was an acquaintance; however, none of the tips resulted in her discovery. An alleged 2006 sighting of Maitland at a casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, brought renewed interest to the case, but the woman seen was never properly identified. In 2012, law enforcement investigated a possible connection between Maitland's disappearance and serial killer Israel Keyes, who was active in Vermont, but he was ultimately ruled out as a suspect by the FBI.
Maitland's case was profiled across various local media, on Dateline NBC and the documentary series Disappeared. In 2017, the case was discussed in the documentary series on missing college student Maura Murray, who vanished a month prior to Maitland in Woodsville, New Hampshire. Maitland's disappearance remains unsolved.
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- ^ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2008," database with images, FamilySearch (6 December 2014), Brianna Alexandra Maitland, Birth, 08 Oct 1986, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States; from "Vermont, Birth Records, 1909-2008," "Vermont, Death Records, 1909-2008," "Vermont, Marriage Records, 1909-2008," and "Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908." (Ancestry 2010); citing Vital Records Office, Vermont Department of Health, Burlington and New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.