There’s also another unsolved murder/missing person case of an 18 year old Green Bay, Wisconsin woman,
Jeanne Marie Melville, who also went missing September 24, 1970, from a Richmond (Wayne County), Indiana bus station just 15 miles east of Cambridge City, Indiana on the same bus route.
She was found October 11, 1970, in a cornfield just off Frazers Road in Arcanum, Darke County, Ohio, just 28 miles northwest of the Richmond, IN bus station, but her nude body wasn’t identified until July, 2009, 39 years later.
A wig was found near the body, along with a strange ring, silver in color, with raised studs lining the outside.
An article from the
Palladium-Item newspaper Richmond, Indiana · Thursday, October 29, 1970 stated she was wearing the ring and wig when found. Source: Newspapers.com
Perhaps we have a Wayne County, Indiana serial killer at work?
DARKE COUNTY — On Sept. 24, 1970, Phyllis Nichols of Wayne Lakes drove to the Greyhound station in Richmond, Indiana to pick up her niece, Jeanne Marie Melville, who was due to visit from Green Bay, Wisconsin. She waited, but her niece never showed. A few hours later, Nichols returned to the bus...
www.dailyadvocate.com
www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov
maps.app.goo.gl
Link to the Melville case on Websleuths:
Just came across this girl's link on Charley Project - http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/melville_jeannie.html - and for some reason, it really caught my attention. Jeannie grew up in the same era as my mother, and her photo looks like that of countless girls in my mother's hs yearbook...
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