Recent content by alb1on

I have just refound this case. I have little to add but for one small point related to my post #17 which raised the coincidence of names linked to a woman who married in Texas in 1959. 1959 is also the date where there is a claim of a possible phone call home breaking contact. It is also the...

Bump. His father died in 1989 (his mother in 1945 hence the stepmother in 1950). The fathers obituary is at...

Some time back I posted a report citing another case using precisely this weapon where the weapon was in the hands of criminals rather than being a chance use of a souvenir.

The MIB administers the UK claims database which started in the mid 1990s, but whether the records have been kept that far back and whether his insurer was a member at that time is another matter. But that would be the starting point.

The 1997 obituary for Juliette's mother can be found at Welcome to Knowvation. This is an archived page from the Oakland County History site which is now moribund. I assume the reference to Juliette being in Chicago refers to the possible sighting of her there in the 1980s noted in #15 above.

Bump. The remains found in 2024 were identified as those of 45 year old Shane Edwards, a local missing for 2 years - so Jefferie remains missing.

Just repeating 2 points made before. If there was evidence of life (or evidence either way) the police would not carry out multiple case reviews including the most recent by a superintendent. And checking her mother's death certificate would not require determination or resources. It required a...

Various Ancestry records confirm that Donald Edwin Walter Pauling married Yvonne Arnold and had a daughter Julie as in the latter's obituary cited in #10 above so I think we can be confident his real name is Donald Edwin Walter Pauling.

It is just possible (and I would not rule it out) but the times (both of the ammunition being available and the time lapse between the law change and the murder) suggest it is much less likely than illegality being involved. I have also previously posted pointing out that those suggesting this...

The difference between Cheetham and this case is that Cheetham killed with a legally held weapon (probably a .22 rimfire rifle as these are referred to in reports). In this case a pistol was used which was illegally held under UK law and, even if it was an old souvenir, the ammunition was modern...

It seems Christina McKechnie may be a non starter for happy reasons. 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...

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...