MUS-2026-0560
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MUS-2026-0560
Missing person
- Incident
- 2020
- Indexed
- Oct 30, 2026, by MuseUnsolved
- Agency
- San Francisco Police Department
- Location
- San Francisco CA
Public record. Index entry.
Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.
Summary
What happened, as the record shows.
Sydney Kaitlyn West, 19, grew up in Pleasanton, California and was living in the Bay Area in the fall of 2020 after deferring her start at the University of California, Berkeley. On the evening of September 29, 2020 she had a lengthy phone conversation with her father and planned to speak with him again the next day. At about 6:45 a.m. on September 30 she took a rideshare to Crissy Field and was captured on surveillance walking toward the Golden Gate Bridge in dense fog and wildfire smoke. Her backpack was later found near the bridge and turned over to San Francisco police, and her cell phone has not been located. San Francisco police said they found no evidence of foul play in her disappearance. She remains missing, and no arrest appears in the sources reviewed.
Timeline
What the record establishes.
- September 29, 2020
West has a lengthy phone conversation with her father and plans to speak with him again the next day.
- September 30, 2020
At about 6:45 a.m. she takes a rideshare to Crissy Field. Surveillance shows her walking toward the Golden Gate Bridge in dense fog.
- October 2, 2020
San Francisco police prepare a missing person report after a family member reports her missing.
Key people
The people in the file.
19, who had deferred her UC Berkeley enrollment to fall 2021. Last seen on September 30, 2020, walking toward the Golden Gate Bridge.
Her parents, who run the Find Sydney West effort and offer the family reward.
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Investigating agency
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