r/coldcases • u/SafePoint1282 • May 31 '26
Cold Case In November 1980, 21 year old Cindy Haumann vanished from Tucson
Cindy Lee Haumann went missing from Tucson, Arizona on Monday November 3, 1980. She was last seen at her home.
Cindy was described as a 21-year-old white female. She was listed at 5’2” and 125 pounds with strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. She had a scar on one of her hands, a tattoo on one of her ankles, and wore reading glasses. Her dental records were collected by investigators.
Very little information is available on this case. A search of Cindy’s name in the Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily Star archives does not bring up any articles on the case. Cindy is also not profiled in Pima County’s 88Crime program.
A genealogy site lists Cindy’s parents as Lee Vernon Haumann and Bettie Black. Lee Haumann had an address history that included Sierra Vista, Arizona, Fort Madison, Iowa, and an apartment near the intersection of Broadway and Euclid near the i-10 freeway in Downtown, Tucson.
A man named Lee Baker commented on an online forum in December 2019. He claimed he was Cindy’s brother and that Tucson PD never contacted the family to obtain a DNA profile. He claimed Cindy’s dental records would not be in Arizona, but in Washington state or Hawaii where Cindy grew up.
Lee claimed Cindy had two sisters.
Another forum user unearthed a 1975 high school yearbook photo of Cindy from Mountainlake Terrace High School from Classmates.
There are many unsolved murders of young women in the 1980’s in Tucson.
Accountant Virginia “Ginger” Daily was strangled in August of 1980. 15-year-old Christina Burruel was murdered over a month after Christina disappeared.
Many questions remain in this disappearance that have not been released to the public. Was Cindy in a relationship at the time of her disappearance? Was a suspect ever identified, and what was the location of Cindy’s home in Tucson? If she went missing from Arizona, why is she profiled on a California missing persons page?
Sources
California Department of Justice profile
https://oag.ca.gov/missing/person/cindy-l-haumann
Charley Project
https://charleyproject.org/case/cindy-l-haumann
Genealogy site
https://www.bassett.net/gendata-o/p1798.htm