My page of pre-1960 cases has cases from 25 different years in it and I would like to be able to separate it out some more, take the 1950s cases and make their own page, and then have a page of pre-1950 cases. The problem is I only have cases from 1951-59, and it seems like to have a page of 1950s cases I should have at least one case for every year. And I can’t find any cases from the year 1950.
Before you ask, yes, I did check the NamUs database and found no cases listed from that year, and no, I don’t want to add Richard Colvin Cox because I read the book about him and if you believe what it says, he’s not really missing.
The Charley Project Blog 
Here’s a missing person from 1950 in Canada: http://www.unsolvedcanada.ca/index.php?topic=5338.5;wap2
A long time ago, I bought a book titled “Among the Missing: An Anecdotal History of Missing Persons from 1800 to the Present” by Jay Robert Nash, which was published in 1978. One of the persons they had profiled was a woman named Dorothy Forstein who was the wife of a judge in Philadelphia. She was apparently abducted from her house in front of her children by an unidentified man on October 18, 1950 and never seen again. The book has her photograph.
I wanted to submit her to the Doe Network and tried to get the Philadelphia PD to respond to see if this was an active missing persons case, but got nowhere. Apparently, whomever I talked to couldn’t access records going back that far. I’m pretty sure she is still missing, but I couldn’t tell you if the Philadelphia PD is handling it or if it was handed off to the FBI since it was a kidnapping. But that was over ten years ago and perhaps now with better online databases like ancestry.com, someone can find out more.
Story coming out in California of girl found alive after 10 years..
I checked it out and although I won’t know for sure until they release the girl’s name, I don’t think I have her. I don’t have anyone who disappeared from Santa Ana, CA in August 2004.
I think it may be Jaquelina Carrillo missing from Compton on your info
The news said that the girl was 15 when she was taken. Jacquelina Isabel Carrillo was 17 when she went missing in February 2004.
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/carrillo_jacquelina.html
I read a news outlet that named her
And sometimes ages given are a little off
Can you find that article for me? I have read several articles but none that named her.
What book is this about Richard Colvin Cox? From what I have found he’s still considered missing. I’d like to read more.
Read the bottom of the link on the Wikipedia page. It’s “Oblivion: The Mystery of West Point Cadet Richard Cox” by Harry J. Maihafer
The book’s author claims he kind of “found” Richard Cox and that Cox had disappeared to do some kind of undercover government work, spy stuff I guess, before dying of natural causes in the nineties.
I do have some suggestions from earlier times, based on the books I have that go way back, the ones that got me interested in MPs when I was about ten or so. I mentioned these books a LONG time ago to you, Meaghan, I’m talking years, so if any of these cases are hoaxes or solved I apologize, I didn’t do any research right now I just dug out the books.
Thomas Riha 1969
Dr. Charles Brancati 1928
Dr. Bernard M. Bueche 1955
Also, the books have good info (at least for then), on Alice Van Alstine. Lost..and Never Found by Anita Gustafson, and Lost and Never Found 2, Anita Larson (same person as far as I can tell, copyrights 1985 and 1991). Sorry if these are a waste of time.
The info about Alice Van Alstine from the first book is already on the site; I read the book and passed the information on.
Paul Jepson, one of the Bennington Triangle victims, disappeared 10/12/1950.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennington_Triangle
Most sources say Dorothy Forstein disappeared in 1949. Also, her family apparently doesn’t want her case publicized.
http://troytaylorbooks.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-vanished-housewife-on-january-25.html
Aargh. You are right about the 1949 missing date of Dorothy Forstein. The book I mentioned definitely said she went missing in 1950 and I went with that. Newspaper article proved otherwise.
Sorry Meaghan.
Here is the article if anyone is interested.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zbwhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s5wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6743,2404128&dq=dorothy+forstein+missing&hl=en
I found this…!
http://newyorkstatemissingpersons.ning.com/page/missing-between-1900-1950
Off topic but did you read Sante Kimes died in prison at 79?
Would that Irene Silverman have been given the dignity in death that Sante Kimes will now be given.
I saw a programme with her son Kent Walker on, he came across as a nice guy, sparing a thought for him today also.
Off topic but did you read Sante Kimes died in prison at 79?
Would that Irene Silverman have been given the dignity in death that Sante Kimes will now be given.
I saw a programme with her son Kent Walker on, he came across as a nice guy, sparing a thought for him today also.
Yeah, I did read about that.
I found this one on the doe network
Mabel Crumback
Missing since May 28, 1950 from Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/906dfon.html
I don’t do Canadians.
Have the police checked basement. Just recently 2 mediums have stated they think she is buried under the house
Meaghan to follow -up on libraryjobber post
From The Bennington Triangle
by Davy Russell
POSTED: August 8, 99
“On October 12, 1950, 8-year old Paul Jepson, Jr. became another victim of the Bennington “black hole”. His parents were caretakers for a dump. His mother was tending to some pigs, leaving Paul unattended for no more than an hour, only to find him gone…without a trace. According to Paul’s father, the boy had a strange “yen” to go into the mountains. Although Paul was wearing a red jacket, which would have made him more visible, intensive search parties found nothing. Blood hounds traced his scent to a highway and suddenly lost it, suggesting that Paul was picked up, or maybe vanished into thin air.”
Sorry I can’t find a picture, nor any indication Paul’s case is still open.
I did find this archived news reports that at least gives you something to go on.
From: Newport Daily News – VERMONT HAS AREA OF MISSING PEOPLE: 5 Persons In 5 Years Vanish Near Bennington – 30 November 1950
Its difficult to decipher but here goes
“On October 16, this year, little Paul Jepson, 8, of Shaftsbury wandered away from his mothers truck in a wooded tract not far from where Paula Welden vanished
The lad, unable to attend school because of a handicap he’s had since birth, was last seen near an abandoned mine in Bennington’s Brooklyn section. A bloodhound-aided search petered out on a rain-obliterated trail. If you should swing a circle with a six-mile radius around this Vermont region so that its western-edge took in the site where the Jepson boy dropped from sight, the circle would include: (1) The spot where Middle Rivers last was seen (2) The section of the Long trail (a mountain trail to Canada) which Paula Welden apparently walked into oblivion. (3) An area in lonely Somerset where, on October 28 of this year, Mrs. Frieda Langer, 63, of North Adams, Mass. vanished. General Merritt A. Kdson, Vermont public safety commissioner, and head of the state police, reported no new clue had yielded any further light on any of the disappearances. All five persons are listed in state police files as “missing ”
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/57033289