MI MI - Adele Wells, 7, Flint, 21 Nov 1958

[Nina Michigan]

@Slater612 , is this thread for a missing person, or unidentified remains?

I don't see a thread for Adele Wells. Starting a thread for her, linking this one.

November 21, 1958, Adele Maries Wells, age 7, missing from Flint, Michigan

Adele Marie Wells – The Charley Project

@Nina Michigan , any advice?

jmho ymmv lrr

she is still missing. What sort of advice are you looking for?

 

[Laughing]

she is still missing. What sort of advice are you looking for?

A poster started another thread, included an IUD. I couldn't find Adele's thread, so started -- a third one (embarrassed.)

Always good to bring a thread to the top, right?

Thanks a bunch for checking Adele's thread!

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Adele Wells has been missing for 63 years.

 

[Richard]

Missing for over 63 years...

Adele Wells, age 7
Last seen: 21 November 1958

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Adele Marie Wells – The Charley Project

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Have you seen this child?

CASE NUMBER - Adele Marie Wells

Adele Marie Wells, 7: May Have Been Kidnapped While Walking To School

 

[CastlesBurning]

They have been missing in Michigan the longest: 12 people last seen before 1970



Adele Marie Wells was last seen on Nov. 21, 1958, in Flint.

Police said Adele was walking to Jefferson Elementary School after staying home that morning with a slight cold.

She stopped at her grandmother’s house first, just blocks from her school, to show her how her mother had nicely done up her hair that day for school.

She left her grandmother’s home and was never seen again.

She was last seen wearing a grey cotton coat, a bluish dress with small animal figures along the lower hemline and red knee-length socks.

Adele Marie Wells	Details
Missing Age	7
Current Age	70
Height	3′6′'
Weight	45-60
Hair	Black
Eyes	Brown

Anyone with information should contact the Flint Police Department at 810-237-6800.

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Anniversary of disappearance today.

 

[heartanium]

Source: "Chums Say Man in Car Seized Her" Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI) November 24, 1958, pg 3.

Adele lived at 929 E. Marengo

The address of her grandmother (where she was last seen before walking to school) was 1021 E. Marengo

Mapping it out it is about 450 feet from her grandmothers house to her parents house, and .5 miles to her school

 

[Alleykins]

Thank you for the map.

 

[spacegoatz]

it’s great to see people still looking into this case. There used to be a convenience store called Mazie’s on the corner of North and Marengo. My dad grew up in that neighborhood and knew Adele’s family. He remembers a man living in the house next door to the convenience store who tried to abduct him a few years before Adele went missing. Sadly it was a pretty bad neighborhood even back then.