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Mary Belle Henley, property 25, was past known to beryllium successful Wichita, Kansas successful June 1951.
Mary, who had been joined since her teens and had 3 children, near the children with her parent successful Cookville, Tennessee, informing her that she was moving to Wichita, Kansas to beryllium with a “gentleman friend” named Houston West, who worked for Boeing.
Mary’s parent received a fewer letters from Mary; they were written connected stationery from the Royce Hotel successful Wichita. In the last missive she sent, she requested that her household nonstop her immoderate summertime clothes. Her household sent a bundle of clothing, but it was returned arsenic non-deliverable. No 1 has heard from Mary again, but for a constabulary interaction successful Wichita connected June 5, 1951. The Royce Hotel closed successful 1961, and the gathering was aboriginal demolished.
This, of course, leaves america with galore questions. Was the instrumentality address/address the apparel were sent to the aforesaid code arsenic the hotel? Is it believed that the edifice was wherever she was living?
What caused her to person interaction with constabulary connected June 5, 1951? Unfortunately, the constabulary person been unwilling to stock this accusation with Mary’s family.
Was she inactive legally joined to her children’s father, giving her a crushed to privation to alteration her individuality truthful she could wed idiosyncratic else?
Has anyone been capable to verify that Houston West really existed? Did helium already unrecorded successful Wichita, oregon did the 2 relocate determination together? In the 1970’s, Mary’s daughter, who had lone been 11 years aged erstwhile she vanished, contacted Boeing, but they couldn’t find immoderate grounds of a Houston West.
Mary’s maiden sanction is Davis, which has led to immoderate disorder since a Mary Davis Godsey is recorded arsenic having died successful 2004 successful Florida, with a akin birthdate and parents. The anticipation that this is the aforesaid Mary is inactive being considered, but there’s nary mode to corroborate 1 mode oregon the different astatine this point.
This disappearance has respective similarities to the lawsuit of Mary Jane Croft Vangilder, who near West Virginia successful the 1940’s, traveling to Ohio, and vanishing aft sending aggregate letters to her family. The glaring difference, however, is that Mary Vangilder’s lawsuit has an astonishing detective who truly wants to assistance and isn’t secretive. I privation determination were much detectives successful instrumentality enforcement similar Detective Adam Turner of Shelby, Ohio.
I deliberation astir of you who work my articles cognize my feelings connected constabulary being secretive and trying to person america that failing to stock accusation connected wherever a missing idiosyncratic could be, volition someway assistance successful uncovering them. They accidental they don’t privation to jeopardize the investigation, blah blah blah .. but really, I often fishy it’s much similar they don’t privation the nationalist to cognize that the lawsuit record is sitting successful a retention country determination gathering dust. This benignant of proves my point. This lawsuit is implicit 70 years old. Mary would beryllium 98, if inactive alive. Are they truly readying to marque an apprehension oregon something, wherever the circumstances of a constabulary interaction are specified a cardinal portion of grounds that they can’t stock it with Mary’s family? Good grief.
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