I appreciate everyone here thinking of my Mom. It gives me strength to know how much you all care, Thank You.
I have looked at the JD in Georgia and have often wondered if my Mom may have headed in that direction toward her sister's wedding in Illinois, or her home town in Michigan. She was not a usual hitch hicker, however while in the Keys I remember passing my Mom while on my school bus, she was hitch hicking to work. She may have chosen to try this if she lived after Gary smashed her head into the wall. I am told (not by police) by the ones I suspect as knowing what happened to my Mom, that there were blood splatters on the wall where my Mom's head was hit, there is no proof of this though. I sometimes wonder if her head was ever smashed into any wall because police said they saw no blood or hole in the wall and they said they checked the house and the woods that surrounded the home. This story was never heard of until her boyfriend, Gary died and couldn't defend himself. No one in my family ever heard this story until 2003 when I requested her 1995 re-investigation files. In 1995 when I asked police if they had any new evidence, they told me no, saying they'd contact me if they had any new info. Well, they never did tell me until I read the 95 files. My Mom was likely killed in the Florida Keys, however if she tried to escape this group or Gary, she may have headed toward MI. or Illinois. I am told by a few that they believe she was sold into slavery, people in the Florida Keys have said this. If this is true I'd have to believe still that she has passed on by now or she'd have found her way back to us. If she was sold I am she may have been sent to anywhere in Asia, Turkey or Mexico.
I do not believe that my Mom had a metal plate in her shoe or any problems with her ankle. I do not think this JD looks like my Mom. The hair color looks the same though.
The newest info I have been told was that the boyfriend Marty that she originally went to Florida with, he didn't leave the Keys before my Mom disappeared like I had always thought. His name is Marty Delong and I have looked for him all this time. Just last year I found him here in my town and spoke to him in person. I had always assumed he had nothing to do with her disappearance because I thought he left the Keys when my Mom broke up with him, he did not. He stayed and claims to not know a thing about her disappearance, saying that he used to still go into the place where she worked at the No Name Pub and talk to her. He said he continued to work with a group of construction workers in the Keys, saying they were all from California. He said he did go back to MI. and then moved to California where he joined a group of Bikers, he left after making them angry with him. He then moved to Lansing, MI. and joined another group of Bikers and made them mad also, he lost a leg from one of the groups. Maybe my Mom went with him or maybe Marty had her killed before he left the Keys, but I really believe that Mitchell Denker, Mark Ripin and Gary Argenzio had something to do with the disappearance and murder of my Mom. I think Gary was at the bottom of the entire group and was taken advantage of or used. I believe Gary was being framed by Denker and Ripin and that Ripin did the work for Denker, Gary did his part too, but messed up along the way. This is only my opinion. I also believe that Mark Ripin's 1981 wife, Bernie knows all of what happened to my Mom, she may have passed this info to her 1984 husband, Tom Stump....she was married to him from 1984 to 1995 and then he too disappeared in the Florida Keys. Tom was there in 1981 and I am told by an unknown that he also hung out at Denker's home, but this is questionable still. I think Tom was killed for what he knew about my Mom's disappearance.
