AZ AZ - Melody Wolf, 28, San Manuel, 20 October 1989

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http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1777dfaz.html
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/wolf_melody.html
https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/show/8694

http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special14/articles/0901coldcase0901.html

Melody Wolf's car was found abandoned with a flat tire Sunday, Oct. 22, 1989, on Sixth Avenue less than a mile from home. Preliminary investigation suggested she locked the doors and walked away under her own power.

Wolf was last seen Oct. 20, 1989, about 10:30 p.m. at her home in San Manuel, which is east of Oracle in southeastern Pinal County.

Wolf left for work early Oct. 21, a rainy Saturday morning, taking a coat, jacket, purse and lunch to her job in the pump house at Magma Mine.

Wolf filed for divorce from her husband of nine years about a week earlier and was about to complete a 90-day probation period at the mine, according to investigators.

She had qualified for, and would soon start, an electrician's apprenticeship at the mine, a job that would grant her more money, a regular schedule and more time with her two children, then ages 3 and 8, investigators said.

But Wolf never made it to work that morning, leaving everything but her keys in the car, including credit cards, personal identification, her coat, jacket, lunch and bank books needed to access the nearly $10,000 in her account. She has not been heard from since, and her body has not been found.

The investigation was soon classified as a homicide. But in August 1991, almost two years after Wolf's disappearance, investigators made their last activity entry in the case file.

In October 2005, the Pinal County sheriff's volunteer cold-case squad began reinvestigating the case. A month later, investigators had developed enough new information by re-examining evidence, re-interviewing old leads and uncovering new ones, to execute two search warrants at San Manuel-area homes.

Steve Carter, a retired detective volunteering with the Pinal County sheriff's cold-case team.

"The body of the victim has never been found," Carter said. "There's just no rhyme or reason for what she (Wolf) left behind and at that point in her life. She was on the brink of success of everything she was attempting to accomplish. With that much success, after that much effort, it's just not believable that anything else but a homicide could have occurred."

Carter said he believes forensic analysis of evidence gathered in November 2005 will provide crucial information and eliminate at least one of several suspects in Wolf's murder. Also, a previously unexamined bathrobe belonging to Wolf allowed investigators to develop a valid DNA sample, entering her for the first time in the FBI's Combined DNA Index System - a national database for identifying found bodies.

How you can help: Contact the Pinal County sheriff's cold-case squad at 1-(520)-866-5147. Tips can also be given anonymously by calling Silent Witness at 1-800-343-TIPS.

 

[pandaxpress]

Sounds to me like the husband did it he was pissed she wanted to divorce him.

 

[folieadeuxnola]

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Melody as we approach the 32nd anniversary of her disappearance

 

[spartanx]

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I think you are wrong it does not seem and I do not think she has had breast implants since her origin is humble. It is good that there are working women like her I hope she is somewhere but for the years that have passed I think she must be dead and Perhaps the husband, angry at the separation from such a beautiful and hardworking woman, did it out of jealousy or envy

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Melody Wolf (Thomas)
HS photo from San Manuel HS

 

[DesertSleuth]

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Melody Wolf (Thomas)
HS photo from San Manuel HS

Do you happen to know what year this was she graduated?

 

[DesertSleuth]

Melody's mom Della Parker wrote this letter published in the San Manuel Miner in 2010...

 

[Pennysmom1]

MP-AZ MP8694 - Melody Wolf, 20 Oct 1989 - San Manuel AZ

Clipping found in Arizona Republic published in Phoenix, Arizona on 9/1/2006. MP-AZ MP8694 - Melody Wolf, 20 Oct 1989 - San Manuel AZ

www.newspapers.com

1777DFAZ - Melody Cathleen Wolf

<<Distinguishing Marks/Features: DNA entered in CODIS.>>

Melody Wolf – The Charley Project

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Wolf, circa 1989

• Missing Since 10/21/1989
• Missing From San Manuel, Arizona
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Age 28 years old
• Height and Weight 5'5, 140 pounds
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Light brown hair, brown eyes.

Details of Disappearance​

Wolf last contacted her family on October 20, 1989. She spent the evening with her husband and two children before going to sleep on the couch. Wolf woke up at 6:15 a.m. the following day and left her house to go to work. A few blocks from her home, her 1979 Mercury Cougar developed a flat tire.

The vehicle was later found locked and parked next to the curb in the 100 block of Sixth Avenue in San Manuel, Arizona, two blocks from her home and two houses down from Wolf's sister's house. Inside the car were Wolf's coat, jacket, lunch, and purse; only her keys were missing. Wolf never arrived at work and has never been heard from again.

At the time of her disappearance, Wolf was in the process of a divorce from her husband of nine years. She had taken a job as a laborer at the pump house of the Magma Mine and had just completed her probationary period and qualified for an electrician's apprenticeship. She was looking forward to the apprenticeship, as it would give her greater income and a more regular schedule.

Wolf left behind her credit cards, identification, checkbook and other personal belongings. She had nearly $10,000 in her bank accounts; they have not been accessed since her disappearance.

Authorities believe Wolf is missing under suspicious circumstances. She was declared legally dead in 1994, but her disappearance remains unsolved.

Her case was reopened in 2005 and investigators searched her home and her mother-in-law's home. They stated that they hoped forensic technology which was unavailable in 1989 could solve Wolf's case.