– I am not sure how we can help other than keep Sylvia on our radar, watch the news events like a hawk, search through the unidentified, and keep her thread alive on WS. I am not sure what to make of the decades of silence in her case. But when Sylvia’s only surviving immediate family relative became involved and the cold case squad reviewed it in 2010, it brought some facts and some suspicions to light. In all fairness to NYPD, maybe it was the first time LE heard it, too.
Run away, suicide, accident, inside murder, or random murder is impossible to know without finding her body, or getting a confession, or finding her alive.
It is so heartbreaking for sure and I cannot imagine what the ongoing uncertainty has done to Sylvia’s nearest and dearest, but unless that critical piece reveals itself and points to a direction either suspected or not, we may never know what happened to Sylvia Lwowski.
I think an age progression will help bring a certain reality to her, like a step in visualizing her, not in the imagination but through forensic interpretation. I imagine this is an emotional piece, too. Did Sylvia look like her mom?
It is good to hear that there might be useful photos of EL to submit to NamUs.