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It's not uncommon for valuables to be taken from a dead person. Somebody thinks, "Well they won't need that any more" and just walks off with it.
In July of 1982 almost every town in the US had a bus station.
I haven't posted on Websleuths in a hot second, but I've been thinking of this case quite a bit recently, so I'm going to page @othram: if you're still open to requests for cases to take on, I'll put forward the case of this poor woman.
Could this possibly be Thelma Polly Melton who disappeared a year earlier while hiking?
OT:Genetic genealogy would certainly solve this. This woman may have had no close living family at that point in her life and more distant relatives likely did not keep in touch or maybe they were estranged and she may have been a widow and went through life at least by her age largely alone. It would certainly seem that way as apparently she was never reported missing despite dying of natural causes at a place that might be known to someone close to her if they knew she was taking a trip. Or perhaps this lady may have had siblings she just didn't keep in touch with much or something. Some families are like that. Her family may actually have looked for her at some point and unaware of where she might be living or traveling found nothing. Now she maybe someone's aunt or great aunt who was never heard from again and family wasn't sure were to look or if she even wanted be looked for, perhaps. The case of the older woman who committed suicide as a Jane Doe in a cemetery around Christmas in 1996 comes to mind. That case was solved earlier this year and of course, that lady wanted to die as a Jane Doe and chose her death. This woman didn't. But maybe this lady too was estranged from family and in her case never thought she would die in circumstances were she couldn't be I'd or perhaps she didn't care if her relatives would be notified if she died. Whoever stole this woman's wallet is or was such a loser(it must have been a woman as it was a woman's restroom, presumably). Stealing cash if she had cash on her is one thing as I can see their line of thought that she wasn't going to be needing it ( in a immediate sense anyway, although funeral costs can be expensive) but taking her ID as well as checks or credit cards that could then be used fraudulently perhaps? That's even worse, probably. This woman deserves her name back and it would likely solve some family's mystery too even if she only had distant cousins who she didn't keep in touch with ( like if she was the only child of only children or something).
Helen was mentioned earlier in the thread. I think she’s a good possibility. If I recall correctly, there is no DNA available.Helen Eileen Robinson could be a potential match:
Helen Eileen Robinson – The Charley Project
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
What do you think?