NL007
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I wonder if they would consider testing her DNA for ancestry. It would have been pretty hard even in the early 80s for an American child to go missing without nobody noticing, much less a woman and her child. Nobody had a tenant that left all the sudden without paying rent and no neighbors noticed the people next door vanishing overnight? No one's employee just randomly stopped coming into work? Did a welfare check get sent back and nobody found out what happened to the mom and daughter receiving them? How about the IRS? They will not let anyone go unfound.
It could be that this woman was a runaway that got pregnant and nobody knew about her baby. But I would think a transient with a baby would have been noticed by someone in a year and a half of traveling. She could have been in an abusive relationship and left but why did her neighbors, co-workers, or her husband not report her missing? In the early 1980s domestic violence laws were not what they are today. If she simply took the baby and left unless she had a broken arm or something the police would have released her to her husband so he would have no reason not to report her missing. It's actually more likely he'd want her found so he could continue his abuse of her if he's that kind of guy.
I think perhaps this woman and her baby could be immigrants, perhaps from Russia, Poland, or another eastern European country. Maybe neither one of them were citizens and that's why they seem to have appeared and then disappeared out of thin air. Could they have come to the US to live with family and the family member couldn't be found or passed away unexpectedly before she found them? I can see how being destitute in a strange land with a toddler and no way to go back home could cause one to think there's no way out but to jump in the river.
Or maybe they were just from one of the more remote parts of the US so less people were around to notice a woman and her baby coming up missing? One thing is for sure, this little girl needs to be identified.
It could be that this woman was a runaway that got pregnant and nobody knew about her baby. But I would think a transient with a baby would have been noticed by someone in a year and a half of traveling. She could have been in an abusive relationship and left but why did her neighbors, co-workers, or her husband not report her missing? In the early 1980s domestic violence laws were not what they are today. If she simply took the baby and left unless she had a broken arm or something the police would have released her to her husband so he would have no reason not to report her missing. It's actually more likely he'd want her found so he could continue his abuse of her if he's that kind of guy.
I think perhaps this woman and her baby could be immigrants, perhaps from Russia, Poland, or another eastern European country. Maybe neither one of them were citizens and that's why they seem to have appeared and then disappeared out of thin air. Could they have come to the US to live with family and the family member couldn't be found or passed away unexpectedly before she found them? I can see how being destitute in a strange land with a toddler and no way to go back home could cause one to think there's no way out but to jump in the river.
Or maybe they were just from one of the more remote parts of the US so less people were around to notice a woman and her baby coming up missing? One thing is for sure, this little girl needs to be identified.