Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: Rhonda Yocom

In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, I am profiling one Asian or Pacific Islander MP for every day of the month of May. Today’s case is Rhonda Lynn Yocom, a 19-year-old woman of Filipino descent who disappeared from Oroville, California in February 1985.

Rhonda left Oroville on February 7 with a man, Odis Garrett, who said he was going to drive her to Oregon so she wouldn’t have to make a court appearance. It’s possible he took her to Vallejo, California instead. She called her boyfriend on February 11, but no one has seen or heard from her since then.

Both Rhonda’s boyfriend and Garrett she was last seen with were Hells Angels, and Garrett’s doing multiple life sentences right now for crimes unrelated to her disappearance.

Curiously, although Rhonda’s boyfriend isn’t a suspect in her disappearance, another woman he dated, 29-year-old Paget Renee Barr, disappeared from Oroville a year later and was never found, and he was the last person seen with her.

3 thoughts on “Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: Rhonda Yocom

  1. Patrick Kerrigan May 28, 2019 / 3:36 pm

    The boyfriend sounds like a real class guy. I wonder if he was connected to a motorcycle gang, like Mr. Garrett. I wonder if the authorities ever did a real good look at him. Also, I wonder if he has a criminal history.

  2. Rita Jumalon March 4, 2021 / 11:28 pm

    I love you Charlie Project and value your help. I have been working on Rhonda Yocom’s disappearance. Per chance, would you know who reported her missing?

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