MONTANA – When you walk in to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, you walk past a three decade old mystery.
“My gut tells me she is deceased,” said a somber Jefferson County Sheriff Craig Doolittle.
Rewind to a sunny spring afternoon in 1983 when Nancy and Kim Marshall brought their children to a ham, or amateur, radio gathering with other enthusiasts in a meadow in the Elkhorn Mountains outside of Boulder, off Warm Springs Creek Road.
Saturday, June 25 – A date that would change the lives of many. It was a very nice afternoon for a picnic, until she went missing.
Four-year-old Nyleen Kay Marshall vanished from the fields where she was catching frogs with other children. “Since then, we have gone back to the area where she went missing,” Doolittle said. Photo in Independent Record – Friday, July 1, 1983. Courtesy Lewis & Clark Public Library But no trace of Marshall has been found, not even a scrap of clothing she wore that day.
Doolittle explained, “We still have no solid leads.”