CANDLELIGHT VIGIL PLANNED SUNDAY FOR MISSING SAN DIEGO WOMAN

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By Miriam Raftery

September 16, 2017 (San Diego) - Julia Jacobson, a 37-year-old Army veteran and San Diego resident, has been missing since September 2nd, along with her dog.  Family and friends are holding a candlelight vigil on Sunday, September 17 at Ventura Cover Park, 3209 Gleason Road in San Diego at 7:30 p.m.

Her corporate vehicle, a white Chevrolet Equinox, was found on September 7th on Monroe Avenue east of Texas Street in University Heights, a half mile from her home in Normal Heights, with all four windows down and the keys in the ignition. Her purse was on the seat, with some contents missing, NBC has reported.

The missing woman was seen at a 7-11 store in San Diego’s Mission Hills area at 6:30 a.m. on September 2nd in her car with her Wheaten terrier dog, Boogie.  Surveillance video has shown that at 8 p.m. she was in Ontario, California. Around 9:30 that evening, A friend received text messages from Jacobson’s cell phone saying she was in Palm Springs and heading to Big Bear, however there is no way to know if she is really the one who sent those messages. She has not been seen or heard from since.

Jacobson works for the 7-Eleven corporate office and is an U.S. Army Veteran who served two tours of duty in Iraq. She is 5-foot-7 and about 150 pounds with long blond hair and brown eyes. She has a tattoo on her hip of a crab holding a flower. She was wearing shorts and a tank top when last seen at 7-11 but it is unknown what she was wearing later when she went missing.

A Facebook page on the search for Julia Jacobson has been set up at https://www.facebook.com/search4julia.  Posts on Twitter have the handle @search4julia.

Police ask that anyone with information to contact the missing persons line at 619-531-2277, or you can call (701) 400-9924.


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