AZ AZ - Diane Webb, 18, Phoenix, 1960

[Satch]

Gone a lifetime, sister searches for Diane Marie Webb

Missing Arizona children: Gone a lifetime, sister searches for Diane Marie Webb, missing since 1959

Greetings,

I think that Bennie knows what happened to Diane. His refusal to take a polygraph and the way that Thomas was treated by Bernie's Uncle the chief of police, are immediate red flags. Why wouldn't Bennie's family help unless they had something to hide? And Bennie doesn't remember marrying Diane? Yea, right! I don't even believe that he put her on a bus because she wanted to go back to her family. Were the letters that Diane got proven to be from her in her handwriting? The letter that Diane's family got from supposedly Bennie asking and hoping she was OK, MAY have been him or someone in the family trying to divert attention from him as a suspect.

I am not saying that Bennie is guilty of Diane's disappearance... yet, But he is the #1 red flag suspect in the case concerning her vanishing.

A question I have, is that some reports have Diane last seen on May 6, 1959, (She and Bennie's wedding, correct?) Others give a time in 1960 for example Charlie Project here and our own Websleuths community. Where does the year of 1960 come into play in this case Here is Charley Project's account: Diane Marie Webb – The Charley Project

Thanks in advance, and really hoping to find closure for Diane and her family!

Satch

 

[Ozoner]

Greetings,

I think that Bennie knows what happened to Diane. His refusal to take a polygraph and the way that Thomas was treated by Bernie's Uncle the chief of police, are immediate red flags. Why wouldn't Bennie's family help unless they had something to hide? And Bennie doesn't remember marrying Diane? Yea, right! I don't even believe that he put her on a bus because she wanted to go back to her family. Were the letters that Diane got proven to be from her in her handwriting? The letter that Diane's family got from supposedly Bennie asking and hoping she was OK, MAY have been him or someone in the family trying to divert attention from him as a suspect.

I am not saying that Bennie is guilty of Diane's disappearance... yet, But he is the #1 red flag suspect in the case concerning her vanishing.

A question I have, is that some reports have Diane last seen on May 6, 1959, (She and Bennie's wedding, correct?) Others give a time in 1960 for example Charlie Project here and our own Websleuths community. Where does the year of 1960 come into play in this case Here is Charley Project's account: Diane Marie Webb – The Charley Project

Thanks in advance, and really hoping to find closure for Diane and her family!

Satch

I agree. I am 100% convinced that Bennie murdered Diane. He probably buried her out in the desert or left her for the vultures. I doubt she will ever be found.

 

[Satch]

I agree. I am 100% convinced that Bennie murdered Diane. He probably buried her out in the desert or left her for the vultures. I doubt she will ever be found.

I agree, if I were on a jury I would vote to convict Bennie of Diane's murder. You might wonder why the slight hesitation from me? We still don't have that one piece of substantiated physical evidence that puts Bennie at the crime scene, and that could be enough for the minds of reasonable doubt in the eyes of some jurors in a trial. (Bennie could have hid this along with Diane's body.) But the circumstantial evidence against Bennie is overwhelming! I think we might be on the way to that smoking gun of physical evidence, if we could get some DNA forensics. We need that physical evidence to stop reasonable doubt. Although one never knows how a jury could look at this.

Satch

 

[Laughing]

Took a little time in NAMUS:

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Unidentified remains, white females, young adult, located in Arizona.

There are more....

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Bumping up for Diane.
She was mentioned on the bottom of page 29 of this thread:
DE - DE - Bear, WhtFem UP7097, 16-25, pregnant, in laundry bag, Mar'67

 

[LauHanSch]

Diane Marie Webb

Endangered Missing from Phoenix, Arizona since 1960

Age: 18 -- Height: 5'2" - 5'4" -- Weight: 110 - 120 lbs -- Hair Color: Brown -- Eye Color: Gray

Diane's maiden name is White. She may have been pregnant at the time of her disappearance and possibly had a miscarriage afterwards.


Diane married Bennie Milton Webb in 1959, when she was 17 and he was 16. In 1961, Bennie wrote a letter to Diane's mother in response to one she'd sent him. He said he hadn't seen or heard from Diane in a long time. The last time he saw her was when he gave her $100 and put her on a bus to visit her parents in Kingman, Arizona. He said she wrote him once to say that she had been pregnant but had lost the child. He never heard from her again. Bennie suggested that her parents try to contact a female friend of hers in California because she might have some information.

In August 1961, 8 months after Bennie's letter, Diane or someone using her name visited a dentist's office in California. That was the last sign of her, and Bennie's current whereabouts are also now unknown. Diane's family continues to search for her.


NamUs

Charley Project

I know Benny

 

[LauHanSch]

I know where Bennie Webb is. The FBI interviewed him after they found the bones that apparently were not hers. He stuck to his old story. He had a stroke now and is unable to talk well. If you want his address for the family, I can give it to them.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Diane is not forgotten.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Missing Arizona children: Gone a lifetime, sister searches for Diane Marie Webb, missing since 1959

Terri Whitney continues to search for her long-missing sister, Diane Marie Webb, who disappeared near Phoenix in 1959.

eu.azcentral.com

Diane Marie Webb – The Charley Project

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4561DFAZ - Diane Marie Webb

 

[Pennysmom1]

2016 AZ Diane Marie Webb2

Clipping found in Arizona Republic published in Phoenix, Arizona on 10/17/2016. 2016 AZ Diane Marie Webb2

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Diane Marie Webb

Clipping found in Arizona Republic published in Phoenix, Arizona on 10/17/2016. Diane Marie Webb

www.newspapers.com

https://www.phoenix.gov/policesite/Documents/088035.pdf

Diane Marie Webb – The Charley Project

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Diane, circa 1960; Age-progression to age 72 (circa 2014)

• <<Height and Weight 5'2 - 5'4, 110 - 120 pounds
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• Medical Conditions Diane may have been pregnant at the time of her disappearance and possibly had a miscarriage afterwards.
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• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown/gray eyes. Diane's maiden name is White. One of her breasts is larger than the other. She has a freckle at the tip of her nose, and her ears are pierced.>>

<<Diane lived with her parents and siblings in San Bernardino, California until 1959. In March of that year, her family moved to Dolan Springs, Arizona. Diane decided to remain in California with her boyfriend, Bennie Milton Webb, who was then sixteen years old.

She visited her family in Arizona on at least one occasion and stayed for a week. She told her parents she was pregnant and was going to marry Bennie, who was then in the Phoenix, Arizona area. Diane's father disapproved of the relationship and her pregnancy, but her mother and younger brother traveled to Indio, California to attend her wedding. This was the last time her parents and siblings actually saw her.

For several months after her marriage, Diane wrote letters home. The last letter to her family was mailed on August 22, 1959, her younger sister's birthday, and included some handkerchiefs Diane had crocheted as a gift.>>

<<Sometime after Diane disappeared, her father went to Bennie's hometown of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico to see if he could learn anything about her. Bennie's brother was chief of police at the time. He allegedly threatened Diane's father and made him leave town.>>

 

[alb1on]

There were earlier posts wondering about Pecos Jane Doe as a possible match. Unfortunately this is not the case as she was identified by forensic genealogy in 2021 as Jolaine Hemmy of Kansas (see After 55 years, Pecos Jane Doe is Identified!)

 

[blayneyyy25]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) to me this profile matches up with her case. In pictures, it seems Diane has the same cheek structure as the sketch and age and location match up. I feel like it is worth looking into! could this be dianne webb?

 

[snooptroop88]

Last letter from her in CA received by family in AZ end of August, 1959. I'm going by that as the date for when she may have disappeared.

Diane Marie Webb – The Charley Project

charleyproject.org

So could this be her? August 21 1960 West Sacramento PMI 1 year 5'3" light brown hair. Fragments of clothing, no socks or shoes. Found near County Road 16 and County Road 117, Yolo County.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

I'm trying to search this area and figure out exactly where this would be and I'm seeing (??) probably near (?) Fremont Weir Wildlife area. Making me wonder if the Doe or someone she was with was into hiking/hunting/fishing. Am basing belief that this wildlife area is near this Doe's location based on directions I see here for getting to the wildlife area from Sacramento:

• From Sacramento: Travel I-5 north toward Woodland. Take the County Rd. 22 Exit after crossing over the Sacramento River. Turn right or east on County Rd. 22 take the first left, County Rd. 117, over the railroad tracks. Travel on County Rd. 117 for 5.8 miles and turn left (west) on County Rd. 16 (unpaved). County Rd. 16 will terminate at the parking lot on the east levee of the Fremont Weir Wildlife Area (Yolo Bypass).

Diane was married in Indio and had lived in San Bernardino, these locations are both about six or seven hours away from where this Doe was found.

Both married and maiden names for Diane were pretty common, if all they're saying about the dentist is that someone by that name visited, I wouldn't see this as dispositive for identification. And what was the date for this letter Diane is said to have sent after the AZ bus?

For the life of me, I can't understand why no CA ruleouts on this, and why no NM ruleouts? These are locations Diane has known ties to. With all that said, think the Pecos Doe and the Tucson Doe were both really great guesses, jmo. (From what I am seeing on here, both these were ruled out ? But Diane being the Tucson Doe finally would have explaned that Doe's ring).

Best possible scenario would be if Diane's alive somewhere, obviously.