New $140K Reward For Missing La Crescenta Woman

LA CRESCENTA, CA – On the one-year anniversary of her disappearance in Calabasas, a new $140,000 reward was offered for 21-year-old La Crescenta resident Elaine Park. The reward was announced Sunday in Malibu, with a deadline of 11:59 p.m. June 1.

“Somebody out there knows what happened to her,” said private investigator Jayden Brant of Origin Investigations to Daily News on Monday. “We’re hoping those people do come forward. There’s a way for people to claim the reward anonymously. Our goal is to find out what happened to her.”

A special tipline has been set up at 800-551-3080 that guarantees anonymity and confidentiality, Brant says, as well as the website elainepark.tips with more information.

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, 2017 when she left the home of her on-again, off-again boyfriend.

On March 2, 2017 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 year.

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 2017 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.

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