superunknown
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So cool that they were identified finally! FWIW, It was not uncommon for people to take off and leave spouses/children back then. The family courts were not very effective and it was not uncommon for men in particular to leave kids/wife and not pay a dime in child support. It happened to a few kids I grew up with. My father used to refer to men when they did that as "they went to get a loaf of bread". Not suggesting the male victim did so, but it was a lot harder to find people who left back then. (Obviously!) The ads in the paper about his estate might have been placed years later so that he could be declared legally deceased. I (think) you had to wait 7 years.