Sitting at work talking to my coworker about my cousin that went missing when I was 5 years old. I decided to google her, although nothing ever comes up. But this time was different, I found her high school picture and followed it to this site. Thank-you, All! For your effort to solve this horrible mystery that my family has lived with for 38 years. Gail's mother Norma and my grandmother were sisters. My aunt Norma outlived all of her siblings despite illness, in hopes of finding her daughter.
I don't have much to add, as I was 5 at the time. But I can confirm that Gail is still missing. Her two brothers are still alive. One resides in the Skelton family home in Galt, but I am not in touch with him. However, I am in contact with her older brother and he is also in Northern California.
As for the address in Stockton, that is a real head-scratcher, as I grew up in Stockton and don't recall any of the family members living on Carlton Ave between 1995 and 2004, but I texted my older cousin and don't quite understand her reply. She said her cousins on her father's side (not related to Gail) lives on Carlton Ave. According to Spokeo, Gail is listed as a current resident if I am reading it correctly. I am tempted to drive by and see for myself. The Carlton address is interesting because we have cousins who live nearby. Somebody would have recognized her. And doesn't seem like Gail would take-off and never return... Her immediate family has suffered so many losses, from her first nephew Aaron Skelton (in 93 in a car accident), to her father, sister, and mother. My aunt never moved in case Gail was found or returned. My heart grieves for my aunt Norma, as she died not knowing what happened to her daughter.
As I mentioned I was 5 when she disappeared, so I don't know anything about prior marriages, but I can also ask my older cousin, since Gail and her are in the same generation. I may ask her brother as well. I know he took her disappearance very hard. Not knowing is extremely painful for the family, especially for her immediate family. I was in-tow when my grandmother was out looking for her. I believe we spoke to a landlord at the Marina, where she lived on a houseboat. I remember visiting her a few days prior to her disappearance. She was in relatively good spirits considering the tragedy that had befallen her fiancé Pat, and by all accounts was managing her grief. But it was still fairly new from what I remember. And she could have been pretending to be a little upbeat, so my aunt and grandma did not worry about her.
Anyway, thank-you again for getting her case posted. I can't believe that after 38 years, we still do not have answers. :'(
*Correction: nephew Erran (not Aaron) Skelton
Gail Deann Skelton Here she is on the website!!!!
Awesome job for entering her on Namus!! It seems they were able to get a DNA sample from her family.By the way, I put her in NamUs. There has been some activity on her case file (some pictures removed) but other than that absolutely nothing. She will be MP case 50180 when posted.
Is anyone willing to submit Gail to Doe network?
Can anybody check Namus if there is DNA available for Gail?
Yep, I’m guessing they must’ve gotten a sample from LE because it took months for them to publish her case.That information is no longer made public. Apparently it's considered the missing person's private medical data.
Hi J Rubio, Thankyou for your blog, so sad they had a great life ahead of them. I have found Patrick’s Memorial which has some more information for you, also just noting his birthplace was California (which is also in Ancestry Records)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190921953/patrick-robert-malone
Patrick Robert Malone
BIRTH 5 Sep 1949
Santa Ana, Orange County, California, USA
DEATH 20 Jun 1980 (aged 30)
Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, USA
BURIAL Cremated, Ashes scattered, Specifically: Ashes scattered from an airplane flown by his fiancee, Gail Skelton
MEMORIAL ID 190921953 · View Source
The ashes of Patrick Malone, 30, a houseboat rental employee who drowned in the Mokelumne River, will be scattered over the Delta, which had become the focus of his life.
A funeral services for Mr. Malone will be held at 1 p.. Tuesday in the B.C. Wallace & Son Chapel. His father, Robert Malone, said the ashed will be scattered from an airpane flown by his son's fiance, Gail Skelton.
Mr. Malone's body was found in the water by sheriff's deputies Thursday, about 200 yards from where a boat he had operated was found empty six days before. The boat was nosed into the west bank of the Mokelumne River across from Hog Slough.
Sgt. Wil Vieira, commander of the Sheriff's Department boat patrols, theorized that Mr. Malone lost his balance and fell out of the boat, which was found with its ignition on and at nearly full throttle. The accident occured shortly after midnight June 19.
Mr. Malone and his father had been working for nearly four years to obtain permits to build a marina, to be called Irish Isles, on Headreach Island in the Stockton Deepwater Channel. Mr. Malone and his fiance planned to be married there next St. Patrick's Day.
Born in Santa Ana, Mr. Malone graduated from Anaheim High School and obtained an associate in arts degree in computer technology from Fullerton Junior College. He worked in the insurance field in Southern California but moved to the Stockton area in August 1975 and made the Delta his primary interest.
He lived first on a house-boat and then in a two-story boathouse at Holiday Floatels-Delta on Disappointment Slough and worked in various capacities at many area marinas.
He was active in the San Joaquin Delta Marine Association, of which his father is president, and was doing research for a book on the history of the Delta.
Mr. Malone handled rental reservations and assisted renters on shakedowns for Holiday Floatels-Delta and made service calls for customers when necessary.
Besides his parents, Mr. Malone is survived by a brother, Michael Malone of Stockton; a son, Kelly, in Orange County, and his grandmother.
Stockton Record June 30, 1980
Sitting at work talking to my coworker about my cousin that went missing when I was 5 years old. I decided to google her, although nothing ever comes up. But this time was different, I found her high school picture and followed it to this site. Thank-you, All! For your effort to solve this horrible mystery that my family has lived with for 38 years. Gail's mother Norma and my grandmother were sisters. My aunt Norma outlived all of her siblings despite illness, in hopes of finding her daughter.
I don't have much to add, as I was 5 at the time. But I can confirm that Gail is still missing. Her two brothers are still alive. One resides in the Skelton family home in Galt, but I am not in touch with him. However, I am in contact with her older brother and he is also in Northern California.
As for the address in Stockton, that is a real head-scratcher, as I grew up in Stockton and don't recall any of the family members living on Carlton Ave between 1995 and 2004, but I texted my older cousin and don't quite understand her reply. She said her cousins on her father's side (not related to Gail) lives on Carlton Ave. According to Spokeo, Gail is listed as a current resident if I am reading it correctly. I am tempted to drive by and see for myself. The Carlton address is interesting because we have cousins who live nearby. Somebody would have recognized her. And doesn't seem like Gail would take-off and never return... Her immediate family has suffered so many losses, from her first nephew Aaron Skelton (in 93 in a car accident), to her father, sister, and mother. My aunt never moved in case Gail was found or returned. My heart grieves for my aunt Norma, as she died not knowing what happened to her daughter.
As I mentioned I was 5 when she disappeared, so I don't know anything about prior marriages, but I can also ask my older cousin, since Gail and her are in the same generation. I may ask her brother as well. I know he took her disappearance very hard. Not knowing is extremely painful for the family, especially for her immediate family. I was in-tow when my grandmother was out looking for her. I believe we spoke to a landlord at the Marina, where she lived on a houseboat. I remember visiting her a few days prior to her disappearance. She was in relatively good spirits considering the tragedy that had befallen her fiancé Pat, and by all accounts was managing her grief. But it was still fairly new from what I remember. And she could have been pretending to be a little upbeat, so my aunt and grandma did not worry about her.
Anyway, thank-you again for getting her case posted. I can't believe that after 38 years, we still do not have answers. :'(
I doubt it, IRA did launched several attacks in Europe in 70's and 80's, but their targets were always either British military (sometimes their families) or British diplomats, as far as I can remember, they never do a hit in US, and killing an ordinary citizens in a foreign country who had no tie to UK government was not IRA's styleMaybe my imagination is far to big, but could there be an IRA connection?