SANTA ROSA — The Santa Rosa police department is using social media to breathe life back into missing-person cases that have gone cold.
The family of Terra Trunick believe she disappeared somewhere near a Santa Rosa shopping center three years ago.
Since then, they’ve discovered she was last seen in the Forestville area in Feb. 2021. The family just want to know where she is and bring her back home.
Terra Trunick disappeared at age 28. As a child, she was in and out of several foster homes. When she was 15 she found Kim Mapes.
“Terra had a unique ability to make fun happen wherever she was in whatever situation she was in,” Mapes recalled.
Mapes fondly remembers the young girl having a big smile and big heart. Trunick was a mother to a boy who just turned seven last October. While she battled drug addiction and was unhoused at the time of her disappearance, Mapes is certain Trunick wouldn’t just walk away from her little boy.