Identified! MA - Granby, off Route 116, WhtFem 15-26, UP14969, shallow grave, clothes, gold ring, Nov'78 - Patricia Ann Tucker

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A very brief update: Police provide another update on “Granby Girl” case

Laura Holmes' family located and spoken to by police.

She was not "spoken to" - she is deceased.

 

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Woman found shot dead in 1978, known for decades as 'Granby Girl,' is finally identified

A young woman whose remains were found in the woods in Granby, Massachusetts, in 1978 and known for decades only as "Granby Girl" has finally been identified.

abcnews.go.com

There’s a bit more information in this. The August date for Coleman dumping the son on someone—I wonder if it’s really correct.

August 8, 1978 he was left with a woman to be "watched" while they took care of some things..

 

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Has the other child be found?

He was never "lost" he was with other relatives.

 

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Woman found shot dead in 1978, known for decades as 'Granby Girl,' is finally identified

A young woman whose remains were found in the woods in Granby, Massachusetts, in 1978 and known for decades only as "Granby Girl" has finally been identified.

abcnews.go.com

There’s a bit more information in this. The August date for Coleman dumping the son on someone—I wonder if it’s really correct.

August 8, 1978

 

[RickshawFan]

She was not "spoken to" - she is deceased.

The article states: "...investigators have located Laura Holmes and spoke with her family".

The deceased in this case is Patricia Ann Tucker.

 

[UnderSea]

She was not "spoken to" - she is deceased.

Yes, as noted, "Laura Holmes' family located and spoken to."

 

[RickshawFan]

He was never "lost" he was with other relatives.

Source?

 

[RickshawFan]

Woman found shot dead in 1978, known for decades as 'Granby Girl,' is finally identified

A young woman whose remains were found in the woods in Granby, Massachusetts, in 1978 and known for decades only as "Granby Girl" has finally been identified.

abcnews.go.com

There’s a bit more information in this. The August date for Coleman dumping the son on someone—I wonder if it’s really correct.

What concerns you about the date?

 

[wary]

What concerns you about the date?

I was reacting to these two articles.

Mother ID'd in 1978 'Granby girl' cold case; was shot in head, dragged by neck

The previously unidentified woman's grave has been marked as "unknown" for nearly 50 years. Using DNA analysis, officials have finally figured out who she was.

www.masslive.com

Son of 'Granby Girl,' ID'd Monday, recalls last memory before mother's 1978 disappearance

Police identified a woman found dead in the woods of Granby in 1978 as Patricia Ann Tucker, a drifter who left her son at an orphanage that year.

www.masslive.com

In the first one, the DA says confidently that she was killed in June.

In the second one, her son describes her saying goodbye to him, and leaving him. And his biological father picks him up the next day, and raises him.

So when I posted that comment, I didn’t think that those two stories were compatible with the August date. Since then, the August date seems to have won.

 

[RickshawFan]

I was reacting to these two articles.

Mother ID'd in 1978 'Granby girl' cold case; was shot in head, dragged by neck

The previously unidentified woman's grave has been marked as "unknown" for nearly 50 years. Using DNA analysis, officials have finally figured out who she was.

www.masslive.com

Son of 'Granby Girl,' ID'd Monday, recalls last memory before mother's 1978 disappearance

Police identified a woman found dead in the woods of Granby in 1978 as Patricia Ann Tucker, a drifter who left her son at an orphanage that year.

www.masslive.com

In the first one, the DA says confidently that she was killed in June.

In the second one, her son describes her saying goodbye to him, and leaving him. And his biological father picks him up the next day, and raises him.

So when I posted that comment, I didn’t think that those two stories were compatible with the August date. Since then, the August date seems to have won.

I thought you might be angling in that direction. I also was caught up short because there's not a long space of time between August when she was killed and when the body was found. There would have been much more time for the remains to deteriorate if she'd been killed in June. In my head, over the years, I'd been imagining the remains were in the woods much longer.

 

[Sillybilly]

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[imstilla.grandma]

The fundraiser was organized by Erin Desrochers of Private Investigations for the Missing. The nonprofit organization provides free investigative services for loved ones of missing people.

“As soon as I knew Patricia Ann Tucker was identified, I talked to Erin and told her we gotta get her name on that stone, and they were more than glad to help out,” said Barry, who has volunteered for the nonprofit since its inception in 2018.

Effort underway to update ‘Granby Girl’ headstone from Unknown to Patricia Ann Tucker

GRANBY — The mystery that surrounded the case of the murder victim who came to be known as “Granby Girl” was one that struck a lot of people, including the town’s retired police chief, Lou Barry.Though he took the helm at the Police Department in 1987...

www.gazettenet.com

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping, today is Patricia’s birthday.

 

[HmmMysterious]

IMO Patricia's case is closed- her killer is obviously the 3rd husband, Gerald Coleman. He didn't report Patricia missing and he had a history of violent and disturbing behavior. At least Coleman died locked up in prison

 

[theshadow45]

Patricia was found 45 years ago today.

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping, yesterday was Patricia’s birthday.