IA IA - Audrey Eileen Dill, 32, Burlington, 16 Aug 1978

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3524DFIA - Audrey Eileen Dill

Audrey Eileen Dill – The Charley Project

Audrey Eileen Dill

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Dill, circa 1978

• Missing Since08/18/1978
• Missing FromBurlington, Iowa
• ClassificationEndangered Missing
• SexFemale
• RaceWhite
• Date of Birth04/08/1946 (74)
• Age32 years old
• Height and Weight5'3, 110 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry DescriptionA blouse and blue jeans.
• Distinguishing CharacteristicsCaucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Dill's maiden name is Watson. She goes by her middle name, Eileen, or use the surname Higdon.

Details of Disappearance
Dill was reported missing in Burlington, Iowa on August 18, 1978. She has never been heard from again.

Dill has two brothers and three sisters. One of her sisters died in infancy before Dill disappeared, and her father and two of her other siblings have died in the years since then.

She was declared legally dead after her disappearance; the date of presumptive death was given as August 15, 1978. Authorities believe she may have been taken against her will, but few details are available in her case.
Investigating Agency

• Des Moines County Sheriff's Office 319-753-8212

Source Information

• Iowa Missing Person Information Clearinghouse
• Iowa Cold Cases

 

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24th July 1978

 

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Interesting comment on her husband's online obituary.......

Robert Dill

 

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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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

www.namus.gov

Audrey Watson Dill (1946-1978) - Find a Grave...

Audrey Eileen (Watson) Dill, was reported missing to the Des Moines County Sheriff's Office in Burlington, Iowa, on Friday, August 18, 1978. Officials classified her disappearance as Involuntary, which describes a person of any age who is missing under circumstances indicating the disappearance...

www.findagrave.com

 

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Some yearbook pictures

 

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Audrey Eileen (Watson) Dill – NamUs

Audrey Eileen Dill, a 32-year-old woman, was last seen on August 16, 1978, at her residence in Burlington, Iowa. She was reported missing two days later on August 18. Audrey, who stood 5'3" and weighed approximately 110 pounds, was last seen wearing blue jeans and a blouse.

Information from Iowa Cold Cases website:

Name: Audrey Eileen (Watson) Dill
DOB: April 8, 1946
Age at Report: 32
Weight: 110 lbs.
Height: 5’03”
Race: White
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Sex: Female
Incident Type: Involuntary disappearance
Investigating Agency: Des Moines County Sheriff’s Office
Reported Missing: August 18, 1978
Case Number: 78-10307 File #1454
NamUs MP #: 17034
Estimated Date of Death: August 15, 1978

From The Des Moines Register (1985):

 

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Audrey Eileen Watson Dill

Though officials suspected foul play in Eileen’s disappearance, her mother, Marion Edith Watson, held out hope her daughter would return. Two months after Eileen went missing, Mrs. Watson filed a petition in the Iowa District Court for Henry County to be named conservator over all property belonging to her daughter. If Eileen was still alive, the notice to appear might prove effective in drawing her daughter home. The original notice of intent for Probate No. 14410 was published in area newspapers on Oct. 19, Oct. 26, and Nov. 2, 1978. Unless Eileen or her attorney appeared in court to defend and or dispute the petition by Nov. 22, 1978, conservatorship over all Eileen’s property would be granted to her mother. Courtesy Meyahna In October 1978, Eileen Dill’s mother petitioned the court for conservatorship over all her daughter’s belongings in hopes that Eileen, if still alive, would return. Eileen did not appear in court and later was presumed deceased. The United States Social Security Death Index lists Audrey Eileen Dill’s date of death as Tuesday, August 15, 1978. According to the NamUs Missing Persons Database, dental information and charting is available and entered in Ms. Dill’s case. A DNA sample has been submitted and tests are complete.

Audrey Eileen (Watson) Dill was born April 8, 1946, to Virgil “Everett” and Marion Edith (Garmoe) Watson. In addition to her parents, she was survived by her 2-year-old daughter, Mindy, two brothers, Dean and Virgil “Allen” Watson, and two sisters, Marilyn Jean and Cheryl. She was preceded in death by a sister, Lois Elizabeth Watson. Eileen’s sister Marilyn Jean passed away in July 2000. Eileen’s father died in May 2005, and her brother Virgil “Allen” passed away in August 2012.

 

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According the The Muscatine Journal (July 24, 1978), Audrey was granted dissolution of marriage from her husband just three weeks before her disappearance.