Curious what is your source for this information? I have not seen this information in ANY newspapers.
I've been doing research into this case for several months and live in Bloomington. I am not going to state her employer's name here but he only lived 5 or 6 blocks away from her on S Fee Lane. I believe by this time he was in his 40's and divorced, and lived alone. Margie was said to work three days a week at his residence doing housework. I believed he also owned a couple of properties in town that he rented out likely to students. Although he wasn't originally from Bloomington he graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington with a degree in Journalism. In the Bloomington phone book for 1977 he was listed as being a "Construction worker" which I found odd for someone with a degree. I could not find any indication that he had a criminal record in the Indiana court records other than being cited a couple of times for having unmowed grass on a couple of his properties. He lived in his house on S Fess Avenue until his death in 2002. Most of my information comes from the Bloomington newspaper called the "Bloomington Telephone" in 1977. They later changed their name to the "Bloomington Herald" (which is what it is called today). For some reason the newspaper has never been digitized which makes research difficult. I had to go through a year's worth of microfilm to find the couple of articles about Margie's case. And I found one article in the Fort Wayne newspaper which is where she is from. On the other hand there were dozens of articles about Ann Harmeier, the IU student who also went missing several months after Margie. Ann's body was found 5 weeks after she went missing. She had been raped and strangled. Just like Margie's case Ann's was never solved. Although in Ann's case there were several decent suspects. I'm not aware of ANY named suspects in Margie's case. I could find no mention of her employer as a suspect. His name was only mentioned in the newspaper because he was basically her employer at the time. The police were quoted a few years after she went missing as saying there were no witnesses in her disappearance and no clues were left. It's as if she stepped off the face of the earth.
BTW, it blows my mind that she could have disappeared in that area. The house is still there and it's literally just a few blocks from where she walked to. The business she walked to is today a Starbucks. I used to work around that area. Though it has changed a little bit the area was said to be well lit even back in 1977, and its on the edge of campus. It's not like its in the middle of nowhere. There are houses and university buildings all around that area. It was 11pm on a Thursday evening when she went out. And literally one of the largest bars in Bloomington is just a couple of blocks away which I'm sure would have been open at that time of night. I also understand that the following week after her disappearance was spring break for the campus.
