Here are the known circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Lonene Rogers after watching YouTube videos of the Lonene Rogers case and the Justice For Lonene web page on Facebook.
Sometime after Lonene's small children are in bed for the night, Lonene and her husband had an argument in their home.
The husband claimed that he last saw Lonene during the early morning hours on Wednesday January 7, 1981. The husband also claimed after their argument, Lonene had left their home.
Prior to their argument, the couple had been separated in late 1980. The couple had a troubled marriage and Lonene was contemplating leaving her husband. The couple ended their separation for the sake of their two small children for the Christmas holiday.
Lonene had allowed her husband to stay with her and the children for the Christmas holiday with the stipulation that the husband leave their home on New Years Day.
The argument that Lonene and her husband had was likely over the issue of the husband overstaying his welcome and the current situation of their troubled marriage.
Lonene lived at a duplex home in the rural Little Corners area of Hayfield Township in Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
At the time of Lonene's disappearance, there was a blizzard with white out conditions in that area. Lonene left behind her purse, car keys, hearing aids, eyeglasses, and prescription medication. Lonene also left behind her two small children.
Lonene had a profound hearing impairment and she was almost totally deaf. Along with using her hearing aids to hear some sounds and spoken words, Lonene also used lip reading and sign language to communicate.
The husband who is also deaf, owned a four wheel drive Ford Bronco. The husband wakes the children up during the early morning hours, tells the children to get dressed, and then drives them to their babysitters home. The husband and children arrive at the babysitters home at approximately 3:00 A.M. in the morning during a blizzard.
The husband tells the children's babysitter that Lonene had left them for another man and purported that he was going to search for Lonene after dropping the children off.
Then sometime after dropping the children off at the babysitters home, the husband goes to work at his place of employment. The husband does not tell anyone at his workplace about the situation that his wife Lonene is missing.
The babysitter who was Lonene's friend and also was deaf, waited a few hours for her hearing daughter to wake up and make a telephone call to Lonene's father about the situation concerning Lonene.
Lonene's father and grandfather later arrived that day at Lonene's home. They frantically broke down the door after getting no response.
After entering Lonene's home, they are astonished to find everything is in pristine condition. All of the beds are made up and there are no dishes in the kitchen sink. Nothing is out of place or disturbed and everything is neat and tidy. All of Lonene's personal belongings that she left behind are on the dresser in her bedroom. Fearing for Lonene's safety, the police are contacted by Lonene's father and grandfather.
The husband picks up the children after work from the babysitter and goes back home. The husband arrives at Lonene's home to find Lonene's father, grandfather, and police are already inside the home.
The day before Lonene disappeared, her grandfather had visited Lonene and gave her sixty dollars when she asked for financial help for her and the children to leave her husband.
And when the police searched the husband at Lonene's home, sixty dollars are found in the husband's wallet. The husband claimed that Lonene had given him the money when the grandfather asked how the money was obtained.
Lonene Rogers was never seen or heard from again by her close relatives or friends since her disappearance. There also has been no activity on Lonene's social security number.