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Missing

Disappearance of Sydney West

Year
2020
Where
California
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
1
What the record says

Sydney Kaitlyn West, a 19-year-old student at the University of California, Berkeley, disappeared near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, on September 30, 2020. West was last captured on surveillance footage walking toward the bridge amid heavy fog and wildfire smoke. The case remains unresolved.

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