Crystal Ann Tymich

Case background and investigation

Crystal Ann Tymich was six years old when she disappeared from her South Los Angeles neighborhood on June 30, 1994. According to the FBI's missing person poster, she had been playing near her residence with her three older brothers that afternoon and was last seen picking peaches from a neighbor's tree. She vanished at some point between 2 and 5 p.m.

The Polly Klaas Foundation and the case summary published by Solve the Case place the disappearance in the 6000 block of Brynhurst Avenue, in the Hyde Park area of what was then commonly called South Central Los Angeles. The Solve the Case summary states that her brothers rode away briefly on their bicycles and that Crystal was gone when they came back. The same summary says neighbors had seen her wander off earlier that day and had brought her back to her brothers.

Crystal was born on September 23, 1987, in Los Angeles. The FBI describes her as a white girl with blonde hair and hazel eyes who stood about four feet tall and weighed about 60 pounds at the time. She was wearing a pink T-shirt, shorts with a floral print, and tennis shoes with a picture of a mermaid on them.

The Los Angeles Police Department is the investigating agency, and the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office has assisted. According to the Solve the Case summary, the LAPD and FBI carried out extensive searches that included door-to-door canvassing of the neighborhood and searches from the air, none of which produced any sign of her. The summary also states that a reward of up to $10,000 was offered and was raised to $25,000 in 1996, and that in 2005 investigators acting on a tip searched a home near where she had lived and recovered only animal remains.

No arrest has been announced and no suspect has been publicly named by police in the sources reviewed. Crystal remains listed as missing by the FBI, which files her case under its kidnappings and missing persons listings, and by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. NCMEC has issued age-progressed images showing how she might have looked at 18 and at 29. She would be 39 years old in 2026.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Los Angeles Police Department at (877) 275-5273, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678, or the nearest FBI office.