Flyers of Missing Couple Distributed

Friends and family members of two college students from Thousand Oaks who disappeared Monday fanned out in Westwood, Santa Monica and Los Angeles on Saturday to distribute flyers in hopes of learning what happened to the couple.

More than 30 gathered Saturday in Thousand Oaks and formed a caravan to pass out 3,000 handbills bearing photographs and descriptions of Michelle A. Boyd, 18, and Brian E. Harris, 20.

Boyd, a UCLA student, and Harris, a California State University, Northridge, student, were last seen Monday night as they left Boyd’s Westwood apartment on Gayley Avenue, police said. Boyd’s roommate told police that Harris had said he was going back to his parents’ home in Thousand Oaks, where he also resided.

“Apparently Boyd accompanied Harris to his car as he was about to leave the UCLA area, and that’s the last anyone saw either of them,” Detective Warren Haines said.

On Tuesday morning, Harris’ brown 1981 Honda Civic was found burned behind a store at 1669 E. Florence Ave. Inside the car, police found Harris’ wallet, identification papers and keys, Haines said. Flyers were circulated in that area Saturday.

Police describe Boyd as 5-foot, 5-inches tall, weighing 125 pounds with blond hair and green eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink blouse and pants. Harris, at 6-foot-2 and 185 pounds, has long brown curly hair. He was last seen wearing jeans and a T-shirt, police said.