VT VT - Gracie Reapp, 5, & mother Grace Reapp, 32, Jericho, 6 June 1978

[monkalup]

Extensive Timeline here
http://z10.invisionfree.com/usedtobedoe/index.php?showtopic=5674&st=0

 

[ttrachel04]

I just found this case. Wow. How tragic.

have you guys seen Grace's sister's website?

http://www.julianawoodworth.com/

I hope they find Grace and Gracie ... and Michael Reapp so he can be brought to justice.

 

[phylliyum]

I have been looking at Jane's for Grace & Gracie, I came across this; http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1029umga.html
Does this photo not look like Gracie? If you think so, this John Doe had some connection to her, Strange?!!!
The photo of Gracie here; http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/r/reapp_gracie.html on the left looks alot like her (only in this pic her bangs are cut very high, like she might've taken scissors to her own hair and this is how it was remedied)... or this is how the photo was retouched, but the faces match!
Maybe Gracie was given to this fella, or he was related in some way. Did they have family liviing in Georgia? This John Doe may have known what happened to her and was murdered for that knowledge.
Another little note; Michael Reapp favors Franklin Delano Floyd (when Floyd was younger) could be a relation there, too! Has anyone looked into that possibility, maybe Gracie is (was)Sharon, I know her birthdate's not what LE expected but, wow, they look alot alike.....
Maybe I need to write some fictional mystery books or something! I could earn a better living with my vivid imagination!
Has Julianne taken all the websites down? Or have I just missed them somewhere? Got any links with updates?
Thanks!!!

WOW! That child does have a striking resembalence to Gracie... I want to say that her DNA was compared to Sharon, but I could be mistaken. IDK if she looks like Sharon, but its still a possibility...FDF may have continuously dyed Sharon's hair whens he was growing up...hmmmm

 

[tatertot]

Murder suspect Michael Reapp was discovered to be a UID from Yuma, NM. On January 10, 1997, he carjacked a victim who was able to escape and then Reapp shot himself when police stopped him:

http://www.yumasun.com/news/reapp-61914-vermont-police.html

 

[hmg]

Murder suspect Michael Reapp was discovered to be a UID from Yuma, NM. On January 10, 1997, he carjacked a victim who was able to escape and then Reapp shot himself when police stopped him:

http://www.yumasun.com/news/reapp-61914-vermont-police.html

Wow, what a turn of events. I hope they're still able to find Grace and Gracie.

 

[ScubaTwinn]

Michael is my half brother. This has been devastating to find out we will never know what happened to Grace and Gracie. My father did not tell us about Michael until I was 16 and we did not know about Grace & Gracie until after Michael disappeared when his son told us why.
As to the prior posts about Michael learning from his father and the accusation his father killed Michael's step-mother, those are my parents. The police did a horrible job on the investigation. After almost 25 years, he still has to take something to help him sleep as he relives that night over and over and over. He has never been the same man since.

 

[tatertot]

ScubaTwinn, thank you for posting. I am sincerely sorry for all the losses you have suffered in your family.

 

[AuburnPoet]

http://www.floridatoday.com/article...nd-25-years-after-wife-s-death?nclick_check=1

"almost 25 years after the killing of Wanda Reapp, the Brevard County Grand Jury has charged her now 87-year-old husband with her death."


updated (another article)

Husband suspected of killing wife dies before standing trial in cold case murder

Motive: financial.
Assistant State Atty believes he had help.

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/husband-suspected-killing-wife-dies-standing-trial/nZpnw/

 

[CatFancier]

http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...seNum=1149724&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US

 

[OkieGranny]

Feature article about the case:

http://www.hngn.com/articles/46885/...year-old-jericho-vt-double-murder-mystery.htm

The Florida town of New Port Richie, located along the central shores of Gulf has been described as idyllic for its sun, surf and palm trees, but to one middle-aged resident, Brian Reapp, 47, it could just as well be shrouded in gray fog. That's because his mind is always drifting north - 1,430 miles away to the small town of Jericho, Vt. That's where he spent the first 11 years of his boyhood until his mother and sister vanished from his and everyone else's life. That's where he believes the two are still buried - somewhere deep in the vast woods stretching off the backyard of the small house that was also home to his little brother Patrick, 8, and father Michael.

"I keep having visions and memories of leaves that shifted," Brian says. "I want to spend time with a metal detector and go around and see if I can't pick up mom's wedding ring or jewelry - or something. I have a good feeling about where they were in the woods. I need to find my mom and sister. I just do."

 

[CastlesBurning]

Grace & Gracie Reapp

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for the Reapps, now missing over 43 years

 

[Atombudd]

You can read the affidavit here
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/19873739/affidavit

 

[MadMcGoo]

I’m surprised there’s not more discussion on this case.

325DFVT - Grace Marie Canto Reapp

@SolVic would this man be someone you could add to your thread? Technically he wasn’t charged until after his death in 1997. Just a thought.

 

[SolVic]

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I’m surprised there’s not more discussion on this case.

325DFVT - Grace Marie Canto Reapp

@SolVic would this man be someone you could add to your thread? Technically he wasn’t charged until after his death in 1997. Just a thought.
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I’ll add him. Thanks!

 

[spartanx]

I'm under the impression that it's generally like trauma begets trauma, so I'd bet money that Michael Sr.'s dysfunction is a direct result of his own father's... the circumstances of his brother's death. of the flu and his wife in a car accident could be indirectly related to high-risk conditions fostered by growing up in that environment...for example, perhaps your brother has a compromised immune system due to poor health conditions caused by life stressors. living in an abusive family such as poor nutrition, substance use, anxiety, etc., and therefore died prematurely from something that a healthy individual would have survived. Or maybe "flu" is a euphemism for suicide. Maybe she self-selected to marry a person who engaged in risky behaviors like driving without a seat belt or speeding, etc. Absolutely NO EVIDENCE, this was the specific case of these losses, but just an example of how trauma tends to compound and repeat for individuals over time and seems like random bad luck, but may not be very random at all. ..
Grace and Gracie are surely dead and may have been crushed by some machinery and left to the animals...
either way
Rest in peace mother and daughter.

 

[summergirl1]

This case is quite the story. Sometimes tragedy just runs in families it seems. As a saying goes "Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood". I'm surprised Grace and her daughter's remains have never been found. I think Michael must have thought they would be or I doubt he would have fled, unless he feared bring charged even without them finding his wife and daughter's remains, as ended up happening.

This paragraph from a link posted earlier on here makes you wonder. The large hole sounds very suspicious. Perhaps he eventually decided that hole wasn't going to work or maybe her friend couldn't remember the exact location of the large hole, but perhaps that location has been checked over the years? "Spoke with Judy Thibault, who told of having visited the Reapp home about a week before Grace and Gracie vanished. Judy said that while visiting with Grace, she had noticed that Michael appeared to be digging a large hole in the backyard. She even recalled jokingly asking if he was digging a grave. Grace had explained that he was doing some landscaping. Judy described Grace as acting peculiar during this visit, using the term “zombie” to describe her demeanor"..

 

[Pennysmom2]

https://vsp.vermont.gov/unsolved/missing/a/reapp#:~:text=%26%20Grace%20Nicole%20Reapp,-Missing%20Person&text=On%20June%207th%2C%201978%2C%20Grace,the%20time%20of%20their%20disappearance.

July 17, 2023

Grace and Gracie Reapp

The former Reapp family home sits on a sprawling, 10-acre plot of land on Hanley Lane in Jericho, Vermont. The sylvan-setted locale was once home to Michael and Grace Reapp, and their three young children. Michael worked...

coldcasene.org

Gracie Noel Reapp – CUE – Community United Effort

ncmissingpersons.org

Article clipped from The Burlington Free Press

Clipping found in The Burlington Free Press published in Burlington, Vermont on 6/6/2001.

www.newspapers.com

 

[Pennysmom2]

Grace Noel “Gracie” Reapp (1973-1978) - Find a...

Born on February 10, 1973, in New London, Connecticut, Grace Noel Gracie Reapp was a light in the lives of those who knew her during her brief time on earth. Though she was only five years old when she disappeared alongside her mother from their home in Jericho, Vermont, the memories of her...

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Grace Marie Canto Reapp (1945-1978) - Find a...

Grace Marie Canto Reapp, born on October 1, 1945, in Fall River, Massachusetts, was a woman whose life reflected the quiet, enduring strength and dedicated love of a mother. Living amidst the picturesque landscapes of Jericho, Vermont, with her family, Grace was the epitome of warmth and caring...

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[Luce2842]

Grace Noel “Gracie” Reapp (1973-1978) - Find a...

Born on February 10, 1973, in New London, Connecticut, Grace Noel Gracie Reapp was a light in the lives of those who knew her during her brief time on earth. Though she was only five years old when she disappeared alongside her mother from their home in Jericho, Vermont, the memories of her...

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Grace Marie Canto Reapp (1945-1978) - Find a...

Grace Marie Canto Reapp, born on October 1, 1945, in Fall River, Massachusetts, was a woman whose life reflected the quiet, enduring strength and dedicated love of a mother. Living amidst the picturesque landscapes of Jericho, Vermont, with her family, Grace was the epitome of warmth and caring...

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Bumping for Grace and little Gracie Noel! Xxxx