Recovered/Located AZ - Stella Horrell, 18, Phoenix, 22 Aug 1943

[Mysteries1974]

According to the Doe network, Stella has been found:

• Stella May Horrell
  
  
  
  
  Stella May Horrell (3228DFAZ) is no longer missing per NamUs. No further information is available.
  
  Located & Identified Persons
  

 

[steff13]

This site says she died of natural causes in 1990.

Justice for Native Women: Stella Horrell, Missing from Arizona since 1943.

 

[Mysteries1974]

This site says she died of natural causes in 1990.

Justice for Native Women: Stella Horrell, Missing from Arizona since 1943.

She lived for 47 years after her disappearance.

 

[AZ Native Cat]

She lived for 47 years after her disappearance.

So as a matter of simply trying to understand, can any of the family members tell us what happened? Who reported her missing originally?

 

[AZ Native Cat]

Any updates on what may have happened?

 

[DeathbyBoobie]

Does this mean that she is technically not missing anymore?

 

[ariaharlow]

i wonder why she chose to just disappear?

 

[Richard]

Stella Horrell, 18 (right) and US soldier friend circa 1943

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Updated article:
Others outside the area could help as well. Janet Franson, a retired homicide investigator who runs the Lost and Missing in Indian Country Facebook page, has been in touch with Towell about getting DNA samples from three sisters of Native descent in the Yakima area whose grandmother, Stella Horrell, went missing in 1943. Horrell was living in Phoenix at the time.

“We worked with (Franson) and collected DNA from family here and sent it to Texas, where it’s going to be analyzed,” Towell said.

The swabs have gone to the University of North Texas, Franson noted, and processing them for DNA usually that takes about six months because of a backlog.
Cold cases heating up again as Yakima County sheriff plans task force

 

[alb1on]

Updated article:
Others outside the area could help as well. Janet Franson, a retired homicide investigator who runs the Lost and Missing in Indian Country Facebook page, has been in touch with Towell about getting DNA samples from three sisters of Native descent in the Yakima area whose grandmother, Stella Horrell, went missing in 1943. Horrell was living in Phoenix at the time.

“We worked with (Franson) and collected DNA from family here and sent it to Texas, where it’s going to be analyzed,” Towell said.

The swabs have gone to the University of North Texas, Franson noted, and processing them for DNA usually that takes about six months because of a backlog.
Cold cases heating up again as Yakima County sheriff plans task force

Unfortunately I cannot access the two links so am unable to check their dates. What is confusing me is that unless they predate 2017 such effort seems unnecessary. The prior posts on this thread reference family trees on Ancestry from no later than that date which had already confirmed her life after 1943 and made it obvious that at least some members of her family knew of it (although when they knew is not clear). I assume either that these are old articles or there is some other, not obvious, reason for working on an already solved case.

 

[cenazoic]

The news article is from 2019, archived here.

It is peculiar, and I wonder if no one checked either Ancestry themselves or saw your compelling research here, @alb1on .