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Karas sent me two more photos of Laurie, so I am posting them here:
Definitely not her. She had a tattoo of a pegasus on her shoulder, weighed about 120 lbs was 5'4".This is probably not Allison, but she was the first unidentified female to come to mind when I saw her photo and the 1977 Date LKA.
She was found in Washington State a few months after Allison was last seen.
She looks alot like Allison, but Allison was a little shorter than this woman, and there is no reason to believe that she would end up in Snohomish County WA. Also, the authorities know who killed this girl. They just don't know who she was.
http://doenetwork.org/cases/516ufwa.html
it was a pegasus tattooCan you try for a unicorn? I might have got it wrong.
yeah. She left from her home on Blacklidge in a rented blue maverick. She drove out west to her friend's house who lived way out of town. If I look at a map, I might remember the road, Ajo maybe? She left there with 200 lbs in the trunk. She likely took Speedway as the car was found in an apt complex on Country Club,near the the ex-landlord's house, which was in the 2200 block of Camilla. Whether she actually went to his house and drove the car to the complex herself, there's no way of knowing. Supposedly they found a hairbrush in the driveway of his home, but no one knows what happened to it, and no DNA in those days.Do you know where was the "route she was to have taken"?
Not a butterfly or a unicorn, it was a pegasus. She also had a ring on her toe and a diamond and sapphire ring I had just given her as she was pulling out the driveway, wearing her glasses which was proof that she intended on coming home very soon. She wore contacts and didn't like being seen in glasses.How updated is NamUs? I mean - I understand AZ has neglected to update the national database with the records of people who medically should not own guns. In the news Az seemed particularly unwilling to share that information nationally. Are they better at UID's?
@Carl never mind the unicorn, I'm sure it was a butterfly. The unicorn was probably a poster on the wall.
Okay so I got a handful. I wish they had her dental charts or some sort of dental information on her page. I'd do anything to know if she had her wisdom teeth removed or not, that'd help me narrow it down quite a bit.
The only one I could find on namus that fit the circumstances that was also in Arizona was this one:
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/1979
The chances that this is her are ridiculously low.
So I instead thought about the Boise possibility, there are no UIDs matching her circumstances in Idaho, so maybe he dropped her off somewhere? So I then started checking UIDs on the way to Boise and found several who actually appeared to be dumped there. So here are those:
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/391
This one seems the most promising in my mind, she was found on the side of the road on I-15 (Which, on the drive to Boise, he would have been on).
Reasons why it might not be her:
It does say that her estimated year of death is 1979 (She was found in October 1979), AND it says that her estimated height is 5'4 and her weight was 127, BUT she was a "Partial skeletal parts only," I'm interested on how accurate all that information would be.
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/234
Here's another one found in Las Vegas. She was found in 2001 and there's no real evidence pointing that this is not Laurie.
On May 14, 1965, she did execute a formal typewritten will in which her signature was attested and in which her husband received all income for life with the right to invade the principal.
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Four days later on May 18, 1965, Mrs. Mast executed a Second Codicil to her holographic will. In this codicil she very positively revoked the formal attested will of May 14, 1965, and reaffirmed and republished the provisions of her original holographic will.3
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She also, in this will, referred to the insurance policy in question in these words:
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"During the past week I have also signed at the insistence of my husband a Power of Attorney and an application for an insurance policy with the Franklin Life Insurance Company whose local agent is Mr. Tracy Prater. "At my death, I assume the Power of Attorney will be null and void, which is my wish.
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"The beneficiary of the insurance policy is listed as my husband, Chancey Lee Mast or C. Lee Mast. Since I was induced to sign this policy because of concern for the welfare and educational needs of the children, I would like to direct — and do so direct if at all legally possible — that the proceeds of this policy be distributed as follows: $5000 to my husband Chancey Lee Mast; the remainder to be considered a part of my estate to be used for payment of just expenses after which the remainder shall go into the body of the trust or trusts to be used for the benefit of my designated heirs."
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On July 1, 1965, she executed a Third Codicil in which she republished her holographic will with the two prior codicils.4
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In all of these handwritten instruments she had expressed fear for her own safety, her concern that she might die a death which had been made to look accidental, her fear of her husband, and her concern to provide for her children with a minimum of regard for her husband's participation in her estate. She died in an automobile accident on November 19, 1965. Her husband was indicted for murder but the charges were subsequently dismissed.
On the phone the other day I could tell that she believed it to be
> possible, She didn't skip a beat when I told her about Allison's
> disappearance and I was quite sure she believed he killed her mother.
> She confirmed that she had heard "stories" about his getting involved
> with pot.
Laurie grew up in Las Cruces, never lived in Chapparal. She attended Alameda Elementary, Alameda Junior High for one year before we moved and then she went to Zia Junior High and Las Cruces High School, graduated in 1972. She moved to Tucson to go to U of A where our dad was a professor. She transferred to Pima County Community College where she was attending when she disappeared.With Ricochet's help, we found out two key bits of info. (1) Her middle name (and the name that she went by), was Allison. And (2), she was originally from Las Cruces, NM.
With that info, I was able to find her sophomore and junior year photos from the 1970 and 1971 Las Cruces High School yearbooks.
Here is another photo of her from the drama club (i.e., The "LCHS Thespians"). She looks quite different with glasses, but this appears to be the same person who appears in the portraits.
I am pretty sure that I have the right Laurie Smith (despite that it is a common name). The following article comes from the 11-Apr-1968 edition of the Las Cruces Sun News, and tells of the first place award she received from her Girl Scout group for her artwork. She is named using her full name (Laurie Allison Smith), and this corroborates that she lived near Las Cruces (in the city of Chapparal) at that time.
Ricochet
1. Yes I did at the time, I do not any longer
2. No I did not know about John and I lived next door to her when she disappeared. We shared a driveway, she was leaving in a rental car as I was pulling in and said she would be back later. It was the last time I saw her.
3. Yes I know who Greg Chandler is and what role he played in her disappearance. I have been in recent communication with him.
4. Yes, she transported marijuana for him to make money. She was to get $50 for the transactions. She knew buyers and he was a seller, except for the very last deal, in which he was the buyer. That was a red flag she didn't see.
I find it odd, considering Karas shared a driveway, that she was unaware John was more or less living with her sister. John certainly seems to know something about Allison, recalling the tattoo (I can see how a pegasus might be recalled as butterly+unicorn), for example, and that he and Karas tried to get the police interested and get the info they developed to them.
This is certainly one of the most fascinating threads I've read here, because of John and Karas and Ricochet, and I hate to see it go cold.
I've still got some questions. I'm unclear on the "undercover officer" sting. As I understand it, in that case she was delivering 200 lbs with the car of the designated buyer driving out front.
When she disappears, she's off to purchase a similar amount, and the tire in the back seat suggests that it was moved to fill the trunk at the friend's way out west of Tucson. The car returns to the area to be discovered 10 months later with a seed in the trunk, but she's been missing this whole time. Is that correct, or have I misunderstood?
I find it odd, considering Karas shared a driveway, that she was unaware John was more or less living with her sister. John certainly seems to know something about Allison, recalling the tattoo (I can see how a pegasus might be recalled as butterly+unicorn), for example, and that he and Karas tried to get the police interested and get the info they developed to them.
I'm not sure revenge would be the right word. The people involved, excluding Laurie, dealt large quantities of pot and two shipments had been lost.I agree with Karl that as far as motive goes, revenge is likely enough,
but Mast might have been more utilitarian than just that. Is it possible that he tried to set up a repeat meeting with the people involved the prior time, representing to them that he thought Allison was to blame? Might he have been arranging some 'justice' for those people, to which Allison was a witness who had to be eliminated? Did he get his 200 lbs back, settle the score, use her as bait to do it?
Very tantalizing that Ricochet has the name Greg Chandler, and Karas knows what it means in the context of this case. Will respect their choice not to share more than that, but it's good to have that included in this thread, in case someone at some time, recollecting and wondering, would search for those names together. It seems that Karas gave Allison a ring at the time she was departing, by coincidence. There's an oblong silver ring on her right hand in one of the pics that she supplied Karl, which could probably use some description, if she recalls.
Charllie Project has updated their page based on your information. How does one get NamUs to do the same?
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/smith_laurie.html