Missing La Crescenta Woman: $500K Reward For Info

LA CRESCENTA, CA – Thanks to an anonymous donor, a $250,000 reward offer has been extended and increased to $500,000 Friday for information leading to a missing 20-year-old La Crescenta woman. Relatives and friends had said the original $250,000 reward for information leading to Elaine Park would be offered only until Friday. However, since the amount has since boosted to $500,000, the offer will now be on the table until Sept. 24 – Park's 21st birthday.

Jayden Brant, a private investigator working with Park's family, also released footage from a security camera showing a vehicle in the area where Park was last seen in Calabasas around 6 a.m. Jan. 28, when she left the home of her on-again, off-again boyfriend.

On March 2, Park's 2015 Honda Civic was found on Pacific Coast Highway near Corral Canyon in the Malibu area, with the keys in the ignition and her belongings still inside, including a phone, computer and cash, according to her family.

Glendale police said earlier this year they questioned Park's boyfriend, who was "completely cooperative."
Police have mounted "exhaustive searches" using bloodhounds, cadaver dogs, drones, helicopters, all-terrain vehicles, divers and search-and-rescue teams that have scoured the area and ocean near Park's car as well as the adjacent mountains, but have found no trace of the young woman, Glendale police Sgt. Robert William said last month.

Detectives have also followed up on all of the information and tips that have come in, William said.

"None of those have led to any type of evidence to a crime," he said, adding that no evidence has been found to suggest that Park took her own life.

With the case going cold, Park's family hired Brant, who told reporters in August that new leads have been developed that suggest foul play and that have "taken the case back to very active status."

Williams said the case is still open, but said it's "not entirely accurate that we are following up on new leads."
Park is Korean-American, 5-foot-6 and about 125 pounds, with brown eyes and long brown hair with blonde tips. She often wears heavy makeup and has a cow skull tattoo on her upper left arm and another tattoo on her lower left arm.

The family asked anyone with information to call a tip line at (800) 551- 3080, or visit the website www.elainepark.tips.

City News Service and Patch staffer Emily Holland contributed to this post; Photo courtesy of Glendale Police Department; Video courtesy of Investigator Jayden Brant