The Unsolved Disappearance of Elaine Park

Jennifer
13 min readJan 6, 2021

Elaine Park disappeared on January 28, 2017 from Calabasas, California. She was 20 years old. Her disappearance was both mysterious, and suspicious.

So who was Elaine?

Elaine was a 20-year-old girl from La Crescenta, California in 2017 and had attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as well as Crescenta Valley Senior High. She was popular and people described her as spunky and outgoing. She was a cheerleader and served as captain of her cheer squad throughout High School. Elaine loved dance and musical theater and dreamed of becoming an actress.

She had actually already had small roles or guest appearances on television shows like E.R., Mad TV, Desperate Housewives, Crazy Stupid Love and Role Models. With her connections and already having landed some acting jobs- she seemed to be off to a good start. She was a beautiful Korean American girl, very into beauty and fashion and totally seemed like the type of girl to make it in Hollywood someday.

Elaine was currently living in Glendale, CA, splitting time living between her mother’s house and her father’s. Her parents were divorced- and according to Susan, Elaine’s mother- she was having a hard time adjusting to her ‘new normal’.

She had been attending college, but recently dropped out- just citing that it ‘wasn’t for her’. Her job working at a restaurant had also recently laid her off. So Elaine was going through a bit of a rough time.

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Jennifer
Jennifer

Written by Jennifer

Jen is the host of the missing persons podcast: "Where are they?”

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