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I checked NAMUS and there is a sample submitted and completed, so that is huge that they got it in. I always thought she looked like our Hernando Jane Doe for 72, but we put in DNA about a year ago, but no hits yet.
After Ida was released from the hospital, she and Kenneth Anderson attempted to regain custody of their children for the next six months. Ida was scheduled to receive custody in September 1958. A plane ticket to Florida had been purchased for her and the children; however, on the 18th of September, she vanished and has never been heard from again, the plane tickets never used.
The judge told her, "you can hire all the private detectives you want, but you'll never find her." Why I think this is pertinent is because Ida wasn't legally declared competent by the Probate Judge until one month AFTER our adoptions were finalized - two years after her 'disappearance.' The psychiatrists who examined her in 1958 at the judge's orders determined her to be competent but obviously distressed by the situation. I feel the judge may have kept her in the mental institution to keep her from taking us kids back to Florida to live with her mother.
They never heard from her again. All of which leads me to believe the Probate Judge in Washtenaw County, MI kept her in the mental institution to cover up the fact he'd adopted her kids out and to keep her quiet. That or something happened in the Ypsilanti State Hospital they didn't want anyone to know about.
It's a bizarre thing, the judge said. That, coupled with the fact he didn't declare her competent until 2 years later (despite the psychiatrists finding her competent in 1958), does indeed raise a lot of questions.
It seems we've tracked down Carol Moser, although at present, she is unwilling to get involved. All we'd like to know is what she knows of Ida's last days before her disappearance.
... Many hospitals/prisons have been referred to as "Michigan State Asylum". There were once 16 State-operated psychiatric facilities in Michigan. Between 1987 and 2003 Michigan closed three quarters of its 16 state psychiatric facilities. Here is a partial list.
Wayne County was the only one of Michigan's 83 counties that operated a psychiatric hospital, a general hospital, and an infirmary division all at the same place.
- Traverse City State Hospital in Traverse City - Northern Michigan Asylum
- The Newberry State Hospital in Newberry - Michigan State Asylum for the Insane
- Ionia State Hospital, Ionia, Michigan, now Riverside Correctional Facility - Michigan State Asylum
- Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital in Kalamazoo - Michigan State Asylum for the Insane
- Northville State or Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital in Northville, Michigan - Michigan State Asylum
- Pontiac State or Eastern Michigan Asylum, later renamed the Clinton Valley Center in 1973 in Pontiac, Michigan - Michigan State Asylum
- Lapeer State Home and Training School in Lapeer, Michigan
- Ypsilanti State Hospital, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Michigan's three remaining State-operated in-patient psychiatric facilities are:
- Caro Center, Caro, Michigan
- Kalamazoo Psychiatric Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Walter Reuther Psychiatric Hospital, Westland, Michigan...
Ida Dean Anderson | Details |
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Missing Age | 21 |
Current Age | 85 |
Height | 5′2′' |
Weight | 110 |
Hair | Brown |
Eyes | Blue |