Missing Midwest City girl would turn 25 this year

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MIDWEST CITY, Okla. - The case is seventeen years old.

Kirsten Hatfield disappeared from her home in the 1100 block of Jet Drive in Midwest City in 1997. She hasn't been seen since.



Rick Dawkins was the principal at Kirsten's elementary school when she disappeared.


"You always think you're going to turn the news on and they're going to say, 'We've had a break in the case.' Just something. You know?" Dawkins said. "The fact that this has gone on 17 years now. It's mind-boggling that nothing ever happened."

Early on Kirsten's family members were suspected to be involved.

According to forensic analysis the case was just too clean.

The family's theory that a stranger crept into her bedroom through a cracked window didn't seem to add up.

"Everybody that was there that day that has worked on this case, responded to the scene. It still haunts all of us because we want to know what happened to Kirsten Hatfield." said Midwest City Police Chief Brandon Clabes. "That's the answer I want to know before I retire."

Kirsten Hatfield would be 25 years old this year.

"I was at the scene." said Clabes. "I was involved with the case and have been involved with the case for 17 years. Nothing has changed. My opinion is that those pieces of evidence at the scene were most likely put there to give us the impression that she was kidnapped by a stranger, and I don't think that's what happened to her, by any means."





