Police: No Sign of Missing California Woman Who Vanished in St. Maarten
Thursday, January 17, 2008
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Police have found no trace of an Orange County woman reported missing almost a week ago in the Dutch Caribbean territory of St. Maarten.
Officers say 49-year-old Leta Lynn Cordes of Mission Viejo was last seen walking into a casino alone Friday night. Her husband reported her missing the next day.
Police dogs were brought in to aid the search but failed to pick up a sign of the woman. Police say Cordes lived in St. Maarten, but friends and relatives told a California newspaper she had been traveling to the island the past 10 years.
A friend, Cary Honstein, says Cordes and her husband returned from dinner before she left to gamble at the casino.














