MN MN - Milda McQuillan, 71, Bad Medicine Lake, 17 June 1975

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McQuillan, circa 1975

• Missing Since06/17/1975
• Missing FromPonsford, Minnesota
• ClassificationEndangered Missing
• Date of Birth12/23/1903 (114)
• Age71 years old
• Height and Weight5'3, 130 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry DescriptionA blue and white striped shirt, a blue jacket, blue slacks and a gold wedding ring with an oval setting and filigree around the stones.
• Distinguishing CharacteristicsCaucasian female. Light brown hair, blue eyes. McQuillan's nickname is Millie. She wears plastic-framed eyeglasses.

Details of Disappearance
McQuillan was last seen driving her pea-green two-door 1968 Dodge south on East Bad Medicine Lake Road near Ponsford, Minnesota on June 17, 1975. She has never been heard from again.

Her car was later found abandoned, stuck in the mud on an unused logging road approximately one hundred feet off east Bad Medicine Lake Road, 35 miles west of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

Authorities searched the area, which is described as heavily wooded and swampy, and found McQuillan's belt and scarf nearby; there was no other sign of her. Her case remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency

• Becker County Sheriff's Office 218-847-2661

Source Information

• NamUs
• The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Milda Dahl McQuillan – The Charley Project

Missing Person Case

Missing person case in Becker County remains a mystery: Family...

 

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1583DFMN - Milda Dahl McQuillan

 

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Missing - McQuillan June 23 1975 - Newspapers.com

 

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What happened to Millie? Northern Minnesota woman vanished 45 years ago

On a rainy June night 45 years ago, retired church secretary Milda McQuillan left her northern Minnesota lake cabin in a pea-green 1968 Dodge and headed out to visit friends 18 miles away on Bad Medicine Lake near Park Rapids.


She was 71, a longtime widow and mother of two.
No one has ever been arrested in what is still an open case. Her daughter and son assume she was murdered.

 

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Missing cold case continues to haunt Little Falls woman

Missing person case in Becker County remains a mystery: Family still looking for answers 43 years after woman vanishes near Bad Medicine Lake | Detroit Lakes Tribune

What happened to Millie? Northern Minnesota woman vanished 45 years ago

 

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OCT 4, 2022

Becker County still searching for missing individuals

If you have any information about Eagleshield and McQuillan, contact the Becker County Sheriff’s Office at 218-847-2661, or your local law enforcement agency immediately.

www.valleynewslive.com

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On June 17, 1975, 71-year-old Milda McQuillan left her residence on Round Lake in northern Becker County and was on her way to visit friends on the west side of Bad Medicine Lake.

Authorities say her vehicle was found in a heavily wooded area west of Bad Medicine, but McQuillan has been missing ever since that day.

Sheriff Todd Glander says, “there have been numerous searches for Eagleshield and McQuillan over the years, but neither have been located.”

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[Diane Redfern]

According to this Milda Dahl McQuillan: In The Sticks
Milda wasn't friend of the Williams, they just had a mutual friend. Why was she visisting them? On a very rainy day? What was the emergency?
Also it's weird their names are barely mentioned, he is a mystery, she was Jean Williams.
Her daughter seems to suspect of them, according to Charley Project:
Searchers who looked through the area right after McQuillan's car was found located no sign of her. Three days later, 52 members of the National Guard were deployed to search the same area and found her scarf and a belt hanging from bush in plain sight. Her daughter believes the items may have been planted after the location was originally searched.
According to her daughter, the couple McQuillan planned to visit that day never attempted to search for her. When a police officer interviewed the man three days after McQuillan was last seen, his clothes were wet. The officer asked him why and the man said he'd been walking on the road, but the officer thought the clothes were too wet for that, and that the man had probably been walking through tall grass in the woods.
Her daughter believes she may have been murdered.

Milda Dahl McQuillan – The Charley Project

 

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Milda Dahl McQuillan – The Charley Project

Details of Disappearance​

McQuillan was last seen driving her pea-green two-door 1968 Dodge south on East Bad Medicine Lake Road near Ponsford, Minnesota on June 17, 1975. She was on her way to visit a couple she knew.

Recent rain had made the unpaved roads muddy, and a few miles into the eighteen-mile trip, McQuillan's car stalled. A postal carrier she knew helped her get it started again. Later on in the trip, just a mile from her friends' home, she made a wrong turn and asked a truck driver for directions.

The truck driver was the last person known to have seen McQuillan. She never arrived at her friends' house and was never heard from again. Three days later her car was later found abandoned, stuck in the mud on an unused logging road approximately one hundred feet off east Bad Medicine Lake Road, 35 miles west of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. This was in a heavily wooded, swampy area across the street from her friends' cabin.

McQuillan was the youngest of ten children, was close to her children and grandchildren, and enjoyed cooking and playing cards. Her daughter believes she may have been murdered. Her case remains unsolved.

Milda Dahl Mcquillan - Minnesota Missing Person Directory

Details and Pictures of Milda Dahl Mcquillan, Missing since June 1975

www.missingin.org