Menger, Dayna

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Missing since: August 20,1999
Missing From: Nekoosa, Wood County

Age: 27 years old

Date of Birth: July 17, 1972
Sex: Female
Race: White
Height and Weight: 5'8, 140 - 160 pounds
Hair: Blonde

Eyes: Blue

Tattoos: one of a cross on her right shoulder and a tattoo of a cross on the fingers of her right hand

Father: Walter Menger
Exclusions: 1

Case Owner:

Nekoosa Police Dept

(715) 886-7897

Agency Case Number 1999-921/2004-412

Details of Disappearance

Dakota disappeared with his mother, Dayna Menger, and her friend, Junelle Marquard. They were last seen in Nekoosa when they dropped Dayna's four-year-old daughter off at the babysitter's home. The women left with Dakota, without saying where they were going or what they planned to do.

When Dayna didn't return to pick up her daughter as scheduled, the babysitter wasn't initially concerned; it wasn't uncommon for Dayna to leave the child at the babysitter's house for days at a time. But she never returned.

Both women were involved with drugs and had been estranged from their families as a result. Dayna eventually lost parental rights to her daughter and she was adopted and now lives out of the state. Although they went missing in 1999, it wasn’t until 2004 that the police were informed when Dayna’s brother reported her missing. Foul play is a possibility in their disappearances. Dayna’s loved ones do not believe that she would have abandoned her children.