WA Barbara Kay Jolly 19 missing from Seattle, WA 1976

[Moonwalker9]

Missing Person Case
Barbara Kay Jolly – The Charley Project
3937DFWA - Barbara K Jolly

• Missing Since08/22/1976
• Missing FromSeattle, Washington
• ClassificationMissing
• Date of Birth08/03/1957 (61)
• Age17 years old
• Height and Weight5'8, 130 pounds
• Distinguishing CharacteristicsAfrican-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Jolly has a widow's peak on her forehead.

Details of Disappearance
Jolly was last seen in downtown Seattle, Washington on August 22, 1976. She has never been heard from again. Few details are available in her case.

 

[glamourkitty1922]

Here is a picture of her

from The Charley Project.

 

[Al Ka]

Just to add that in 2019 Barbara Kay Jolly has been exluded by DNA to be Seneca Jane Doe also known as Grundy Jane Doe found in 1976 in Illinois.

Link - Who was Jane Seneca Doe?

 

[CarbonPeach]

After browsing the Doe Network one unidentified woman stood out to me as a possible match. I’m vey new to this, so I may be completely off base and appreciate guidance.
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Eye color matches as well as hair, weight and height have some discrepancy though. The doe’s age is listed as 15-30, but appears to be in her early 20s. What throws me most is the glasses; do we know if Barbra ever wore glasses?
I wish there was more information available about Barbra I hope one day she’s found.

 

[Aurora90]

After browsing the Doe Network one unidentified woman stood out to me as a possible match. I’m vey new to this, so I may be completely off base and appreciate guidance.
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Eye color matches as well as hair, weight and height have some discrepancy though. The doe’s age is listed as 15-30, but appears to be in her early 20s. What throws me most is the glasses; do we know if Barbra ever wore glasses?
I wish there was more information available about Barbra I hope one day she’s found.

Came here to suggest thus same jane doe. Has it been ruled out?

 

[HopeRains]

Came here to suggest thus same jane doe. Has it been ruled out?

This is what is on Namus.

 

[Diane Redfern]

Barbara Jolly, 19: Teen Disappeared From Seattle In 1976

Very little i known about Barbara Jolly or her missing person case, but it has been shared that the teen vanished from Seattle in 1976.

ourblackgirls.com

 

[MavsMonarch]

Was it known for her to have a kid?

 

[sunflowermomma]

I was just thinking about Barbara this morning, and then a new post pops up for the first time in over a year.

I can't find anything in any historic Seattle area newspapers about Barbara going missing at all - I was checking last night.

 

[sunflowermomma]

A few thoughts

1. It says she disappeared from downtown Seattle - is that where she lived or was she visiting, shopping etc from a different town or neighborhood?
2. I know 19 is young, but was she married? Did she have a different last name at some point?

This could be unrelated and a different Barbara Kay Jolly, but I did find this newspaper clipping from 9/21/74 in Columbia MO:

 

[alb1on]

A few thoughts

1. It says she disappeared from downtown Seattle - is that where she lived or was she visiting, shopping etc from a different town or neighborhood?
2. I know 19 is young, but was she married? Did she have a different last name at some point?

This could be unrelated and a different Barbara Kay Jolly, but I did find this newspaper clipping from 9/21/74 in Columbia MO:

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I am pretty sure the clipping is unrelated as there is an entry on Ancestry linking to a Columbia Daily Tribune article in Newspapers that reports a 1972 marriage of Barbara Kay Bynum to Arthur Jolly and notes she was a 1969 graduate of Hickman.

 

[Pennysmom1]

 

[Alaric86]

Is it possible that she was a victim of Robert Lee Yates, Jr.? He had a victim, Stacy Elizabeth Hawn, who on December 28, 1988, her partial skeleton, was found near Big Lake. She was last seen on July 7, 1988, in Seattle. His serial killing began in 1975 and was active in WA at the time that Barbara Jolly went missing.

In 1975, he was hired by the Washington State Department of Corrections to work as a correction officer at the penitentiary in Walla Walla. He didn't enlist in the Army until October of 77. So, the timeframe works. He is now incarcerated at the very same penitentiary that he worked at. Fitting. But perhaps LE, if they haven't already done so, can speak to him. Since Barbara's murder would have occured at the beginning of his serial killer acts, he might recall. Perhaps I'm being naive.

I found a facebook page where a childhood friend said she suspected Jolly's boyfriend at the time.

I searched the unidentified remains DB in NamUs looking for potential matches in WA, OR, ID, and MO and found no potential matches. Unfortunately, Canada is also an option.

Just some random ideas with the hope of keeping Barabara in our thoughts.

 

[Caring1]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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