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Incident
Rose Peterson, Calumet, Michigan. Click on photo for high-resolution imagery. Photo courtesy of The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) Rose Peterson, Calumet, Michigan. Click on photo for high-resolution imagery. Photo courtesy of her family.
Rose Peterson, age 41, a resident of the West Side Adult Foster Care Home in Calumet, Michigan, walked away from an employee's home around noon on Friday, July 28, 1989.
On Saturday, July 29, she was spotted by friends walking south along US-41, south of Calumet, near the Houghton County Memorial Airport.
When the friends stopped to offer Rose a ride, she reportedly declined the offer, stating she was headed for Hancock, Michigan.
Click on map to view high-resolution imagery of where the search area is located in the Great Lakes area. Click on map to view high-resolution imagery of where the search area is located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. (Michigan Road Map courtesy of the Michigan Department of Transportation) Rose, who was considered an endangered adult at the time, was wearing a blue sweatshirt, black sweatpants, and a pair of glasses.
- Name: Rose Peterson
- Age: 41
- Race: White
- Sex: Female
- Height: 5' 0"
- Weight: 140
- Hair: Brown
- Eyes: Hazel
A search of the area around the foster care home, along US-41, and at the homes of friends in Hancock by troopers from the Michigan State Police (MSP) Calumet Post failed to locate Rose.
Despite a subsequent investigative effort by a Calumet Post detective, no trace of her has ever been found. If you know anything about Rose Peterson's whereabouts, or the circumstances surrounding her disappearance, please report it to the authorities.
News media archive
- Daily Mining Gazette (Houghton, Michigan) July 31, 1989
- Daily Mining Gazette (Houghton, Michigan) August 1, 1989
- Daily Mining Gazette (Houghton, Michigan) November 13, 1993
National missing-person database
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Report a tip
Report a tip to the Michigan State Police (MSP) Calumet Post at 906.337.5145 Report a tip anonymously via Crime Stoppers USA at 800.222.8477 or via their Internet-based E-tips program.
Operational cartography
Geo-Magnetic Compass beta — The Quint-North Bush Compass Rose — for field operations
USGS 1:24,000 quadrangles for the Bliss search area
USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for Peterson search sector 1 USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for Peterson search sector 2 USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for Peterson search sector 3 USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for Peterson search sector 4 USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for Peterson search sector 5 USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for Peterson search sector 6 USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for Peterson search sector 7 USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for Peterson search sector 8
Team MibSAR
Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue (MibSAR),
Long Range Special
Operations Group (LRSOG)
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Marquette, Michigan
United StatesThe founder of Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue (MibSAR), Michael Neiger of Marquette, Michigan is the lead investigator with MibSAR's Long Range Special Operations Group (LRSOG)
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A 26-year veteran Detective/Sergeant with the Michigan State Police (MSP), Michael holds a Ph.D. from Wayne State University, and is certified by the National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR) as a SAR Tech I and SAR Tech Field Team Leader (FTL), the top two, field-deployable, search-and-rescue certifications offered by NASAR.
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