Australia Australia - Norma Helen King, 33, Nollamara, WA, 1 Jan 1967

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Norma Helen King



Case Classification: Missing
Missing Since: circa 1967 - actual date unknown
Location Last Seen: Nollamara, Western Australia, Australia

Description:

• Date of Birth: circa 1934
• Age: 33
• Race: White/Caucasian
• Gender: Female
• Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
• Weight: Unknown/Stout build
• Hair Color: Dark/Auburn/Thick/Wavy
• Eye Color: Light brown
• Nickname/Alias: Her maiden name is Small. She may be using the surnames Small, Trezise, Kilpatrick, or Williams.
• Distinguishing Marks/Features: Light freckles below eyes and across bridge of nose and upper cheeks.
• Clothing & Personal Items: She is reported to have been dressed in ordinary house clothing for the era, wearing an apron, and believed to be carrying a contemporary shopping basket.
• Identifiers: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance:
King went missing from Nollamara near Pearce RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) military base in Western Australia, sometime in 1967. She was last seen at her residence when she told her children she was taking a quick walk to the shops in the course of preparing the evening meal. She has never been heard from again. None of her personal effects or clothing appeared to be missing from the family home.

King has eight children who were aged 13 to approximately three months old at the time she went missing. She was possibly observed by one of her children entering a Holden motor car which was parked some distance down the road.

The details of King's disappearance are extremely limited and are based on anecdotal recollections of her family. Her whereabouts remain unknown.

Investigators:

• New South Wales Police: 02-60239268
  Reference Case Number: Not available

NCIC Case Number: Not available
NamUs Case Number: Not listed

Norma Helen KING
The Doe Network: Case File 577DFWAU
Missing Western Australians

 

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577DFWAU - Norma Helen King

The Doe Network
International Center For Unidentified and Missing Persons

VERSION 1:


Norma's mother and brother were informed of her disappearance by her then husband, Lawrence King, then serving at the Pearce RAAF base in Western Australia. The family took Lawrence King at his word that Norma had simply "walked out". Neither Norma's mother nor her brother reported the matter to the Police both being under the impression at the time that Lawrence King had reported her disappearance and that the police were acting accordingly.

Lawrence King died within three years of Norma's disappearance. The New South Wales Police are attempting to liaise with the Western Australia Police with a view to establishing whether or not a missing person report was ever filed in relation to Norma. Initial investigations have failed to disclose any such report having been filed. Accordingly, Grave concerns are held as to what actually occurred to Norma King.

VERSION 2:


Norma King was supposed to have left her 8 children with an orphanage in Western Australia and simply walked out on her family. If this account is to be given credence, the orphanage made no contact with either Norma's mother or brother. The children are known to have grown up in foster home placements. The origin of this account appears to be Lawrence King.

It is known that the children were placed in various informal "foster home" type placements by Lawrence King himself and NOT through any government or government affiliated agency.

Lawrence King is reported to have been a somewhat moody and sometimes hot tempered man, prone to not infrequent drinking binges and unexplained absences from the family home for several days at a time. This behavior is likely to have arisen as a consequence of head injuries he received in a motor vehicle accident around 1960 reputedly in the Wanda Beach region of New South Wales.

It appears that Norma King had grown increasingly concerned at the behavior of her husband by the time of her disappearance. Divorce had apparently been discussed and Lawrence King had threatened that he would not allow Norma to have the children.

 

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Article from 2006

Porchlight International for the Missing & Unidentified-King,Norma 1967

http://www.users.bigpond.com/pvlmcahill ... ersons.htm NORMA HELEN KING (nee Small) Date missing: circa 1967 Height: 165 cm/5'5" Hair: Dark or Auburn,

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Several of Norma's children have tried to establish the whereabouts of their mother over the years by various means such as the Salvation Army and Red Cross services. A number of unreliable accounts have been put forward as to Norma's "location".
The fact of the matter remains that no confirmed sighting or reliable placement of Norma King have been established for over thirty years.

 

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577DFWAU - Norma Helen King