Recent content by alb1on

Just come back and found this. I think you misunderstood my original post. The records for the Dixie Schaefer in question are not attached to family records but identify an individual with that name in official records whose identity cannot be tied up with other records such as births. So this...

No. At that time NI numbers were sent by post, usually at age 15 due to school leaving age and a huge employer like Tate & Lyle would not have bent the rules. Also the reports confirm that she did have a social security number as they say that police have confirmed that her number has not been...

I would now be fairly sure that whatever happened to Layne was connected to the Vegas criminal world. The Joseph Statcher who was a minority partner in the Riverside where Layne was casino manager was actually Joseph Stacher. Stacher was not just associated with the mafia, he was their main man...

There are some limits to the possibility of a new employer. Her social security number was not used after she went missing. This means that either she took cash in hand work with no checks or obtained a new number as mainstream employers would need the number. The latter may have been possible...

In November an article appeared in the Scottish Daily Mail (PressReader.com - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions) claiming to have found her alive and living in Sacramento (and including picture). I do not know how reliable this identification is and it is odd that the article and story...

I have now found further Ancestry records which confirm she was born as Deborah Ann Helmontaller and that she married Roger Dale Binkley in Sumner, Tennessee on 27 October 1973. Presumably she divorced at some point as she then married David Eugene Murr on 4 December 1982. So she disappeared...

No. I do not believe it is related to his banking career but the scandal at the HBOS Reading branch in the noughties says it cannot be entirely discounted. In that case a local branch scammed many businesses and was only exposed after the Lloyds takeover, having been able to get away with it for...

The odd thing about the bullets is that they date from the 80s or 90s and so are not contemporaneous with the gun. This means they must have been sourced separately if the gun was a souvenir in the family of the gunman or the gun and ammunition were sourced together from a criminal source...

Thanks. I had missed that post. I have been thinking about this sighting. I would have recognised and registered a sighting of a minority of the pupils in the year ahead of me when I was at school so I think the confidence in this sighting rests on how well she knew Ruth. If they shared...

You have found another post from the witness which is useful. If the person I suggested as the witness is correct she would have been in the 5th form, one year below Ruth, at the time. The relevance of this is that, unlike 6th form, any younger sets are expected to be on the school site through...

Why do you think she does not know the time? It simply was not in her social media posts.

Unfortunately not.

A couple of small points; The notes exist. Apart from the contemporaneous reports of them in the press there is also the refusal of Surrey police to release them under a FOI request a few years back. If they did not exist they could have simply said so. Also the notes have been referred to in...

No. This has come up before. She was definitely 16. Her birth record is on Ancestry and she was also in the 6th form which starts at 16.

I have no idea why it is not coming up for you. It is still coming up for me with a simple search on Robert E Spurlock with his exact date of birth entered (which requires an initial filter to birth records as above that level only allows the year to be entered). The record is not from the SSDI...