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The only problem with the serial killer angle is there was only one operating in the southern Oregon area in the 70s (And I don't believe that someone from Northern Oregon would dump her that far south, that's close to a five hour drive from Portland). He actually sounds fairly plausible because of the fact that he killed a family of campers (And they found the camping maps in her back pocket)
So Sgt K Flynn called me back, anyone else have that moment where when an officer calls you you're convinced that they caught you doing something illegal? Even if you haven't been to that city in months? Because it took me a good five seconds to remember who she was. Haha.
Anyways, she had no idea who Ellen Louise McCollum Drake was and why I was calling her (She's the Eugene Sgt) instead of someone in Portland so I emailed her the link and she'll go find out who Ellen was and what happened to her file.
I believe this is my Aunt from Portland Oregon. We were living in the same aplenty complex when I was 8 years old. Can someone help me with this
This looks like a very plausible possible. She has been submitted, and a NamUs casefile has been created for Ellen Louise McCollum-Drake
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/37652/0
Until now, I had hidden the above post that Ellen's Niece wrote because she originally joined Websleuths using her real name as a monicker, and I didn't want everyone to look her up and try to contact her. I also wanted KLEE to have the chance to contact Ellen's family and get DNA samples (which they have done).
I am putting the following info up at the request of Ellen's Niece.
Ellen's Niece says that the Jan 1967 Date LKA is definitely too early. Ellen gave birth to a son in 1968, and the son was 1-2 years old when she was last seen. Ellen's Niece places the date LKA around 1970. She was about 19 years old when last seen.
Ellen's Niece was browsing the internet, and saw Deca's and EmmaliLucia's mention of Ellen's name. She saw my recon and showed it to her mother (Ellen's sister), and her mother said that the recon very strongly resembled Ellen. The family has very few photos of Ellen. The two below are of Ellen when she was about 15-16 , and at her wedding in 1967.
Ellen's hair was dyed black in the B&W photo, and it was pulled up for her wedding. Ellen's Niece said that she dyed her hair frequently, but it was red at the time of her disappearance, and normally it was "kinky curly", but she might have straightened it.
Here's the kicker. Remember the ring with the letters AL scratched into it? She had a boyfriend whose name is AL. Ellen's NamUs page says she was last seen in Portland. However, Ellen's Niece says that she was living in Coos Bay with Al, when she was last seen. She had broken up with him and was on her way back to Missouri to be with her child when she disappeared.
Ellen McCollum Drake has been added to the rule-out list. I was thinking she was a very good possible.