I'm not sure where the Highway 70-80 came in. US 70 it starts in Arizona and goes to the east coast(in a not straight line). One leaves Las Cruces to the NE towards Alamogordo on 70, it goes through Ruidoso and Roswell. This same EXACT road becomes US 380 outside of Hondo, NM (in between Ruidoso and Roswell). Before Roswell, NM you can head north/north east on 70 towards Portales, Clovis(Amarillo is to the East of Clovis). If you go through Roswell and head East you are on 380.She was seen with this other girl around March 14, the day after her disappearance on. I believe this is when they separated as I don't believe Ann was with the other girl when she flagged down this truck driver. I think it was in the west Las Cruces, NM area. I didn't find a "Highway 70-80" in the area.
I don't believe she made it to the sorority meeting. If she ran away, it could possibly have been a cover story but I'm not sure about that yet. There were records of her buying a bus ticket to El Paso, TX or Albuquerque, NM. We are not sure as there are conflicting reports but I believe it was El Paso so yes we believe she was in Texas at some point. Ann was never heard from again after this.I'm not sure where the Highway 70-80 came in. US 70 it starts in Arizona and goes to the east coast(in a not straight line). One leaves Las Cruces to the NE towards Alamogordo on 70, it goes through Ruidoso and Roswell. This same EXACT road becomes US 380 outside of Hondo, NM (in between Ruidoso and Roswell). Before Roswell, NM you can head north/north east on 70 towards Portales, Clovis(Amarillo is to the East of Clovis). If you go through Roswell and head East you are on 380.
What I'm grasping is it is believed she made it to Las Cruces and no one knows if she went to El Paso or Amarillo? She was never heard from again? Is it known if she made the sorority meeting? Where was that meeting? And from there she thumbed a ride on a semi and went to Cruces? Lot of desert.
Firstly, thank you so much!If nobody has reached out to Tucson PD, I'm willing to give it a shot in a few days. What info should I be asking for, other than confirmation she is still missing?
I don't believe she made it to the sorority meeting. If she ran away, it could possibly have been a cover story but I'm not sure about that yet. There were records of her buying a bus ticket to El Paso, TX or Albuquerque, NM. We are not sure as there are conflicting reports but I believe it was El Paso so yes we believe she was in Texas at some point. Ann was never heard from again after this.
I'm not sure where the Highway 70-80 came in. US 70 it starts in Arizona and goes to the east coast(in a not straight line). One leaves Las Cruces to the NE towards Alamogordo on 70, it goes through Ruidoso and Roswell. This same EXACT road becomes US 380 outside of Hondo, NM (in between Ruidoso and Roswell). Before Roswell, NM you can head north/north east on 70 towards Portales, Clovis(Amarillo is to the East of Clovis). If you go through Roswell and head East you are on 380.
What I'm grasping is it is believed she made it to Las Cruces and no one knows if she went to El Paso or Amarillo? She was never heard from again? Is it known if she made the sorority meeting? Where was that meeting? And from there she thumbed a ride on a semi and went to Cruces? Lot of desert.
I really don't think she was found in 1957. Why would they compare her to a dead body found in 1960? It makes no sense if they knew she was alive.You may be right that she didn't make it to the sorority party. I don't think it was ever established that she was actually at a sorority party on campus and I scanned numerous articles about her disappearance.
(It's a 275 mile/4 hour trip from the university to Las Cruces and a 46 mile/49 minute trip from Las Cruces to El Paso)
A truck driver said she waved him down on US 70-80 in western Las Cruces, picked her up, drove her to a bus station and walked into a bus station with her. He said she told him she was going to El Paso. He left her shortly after 6 am. (Arizona Daily Star, 20 Mar 1956, Tue · Page 22)
(US 80 was eventually replaced by Interstate 10 leading to the complete removal of US 80 in New Mexico.)
An article in the Arizona Daily Star, 30 Mar 1957, Sat · Page 2, stated she was located in Plainview, Texas. "Frank Miller, a warrant officer with the Plainview Police Department, said, "We belive that we have information on the girl's whereabouts and we don't want to say anything until we have talked to Miss Caldwell's parents." Miller would not disclose where the police believe Miss Caldwell was. "I can't say anything until we get the entire thing cleared up," he said. "We are just interested in letting her folks know where she is." Miss Caldwell's parents were unavailable for comment when the information was received from Texas.
(Plainview, Tx is 371 miles/6 hours west of Las Cruces, NM)
There was no follow up on the above 30 Mar 1957 article in the newspapers that I could find. IMO, this tells me she was found and didn't want to go back home to her parents.
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I really don't think she was found in 1957. Why would they compare her to a dead body found in 1960? It makes no sense if they knew she was alive.
El Paso Times 20 Jan 1960, page 8 - Newspapers.com
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I do think that maybe it was like the truck sightings where Ann was gone before they could find her or that the girl just wasn't Ann. Maybe they did follow up on it but the article is lost but considering the amazing amount of records it seems unlikely.It could be that the Plainview, TX sighting didn't pan out. It would have been nice if the newspaper followed up on the sighting.
No, I didn't make the account, I just saw that they made a post about Ann and I wanted to share it here.Did you make this account? I actually used this to find some old not in NamUs MP reports without knowing who made it! If you did, thank you for spreading awareness to a place her friends could find it in, like facebook.
If they have this photo then they have probably been seeing our progress as it was only recently discovered. Well they also have the thread so they have.No, I didn't make the account, I just saw that they made a post about Ann and I wanted to share it here.
In that Facebook account, cases of disappearances from the 50s are shown, I wonder if some of those cases were ever solved or not.