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I don't think so either, but a couple of people upthread mentioned they thought they had seen one way back when.
MA MA - Dr. Margaret 'Peg' Kilcoyne, 50, Nantucket, 26 Jan 1980
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I don't think so either, but a couple of people upthread mentioned they thought they had seen one way back when.
Human remains found on Nantucket
Nantucket police are investigating after human remains were discovered in a wooded area near the east end of Nantucket on Thursday. According to the Nantucket Police Department, two men were […]
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Yep, according to this article from 2021, the remains appear to be near the area where the items were found:
Here's hoping this is her. I'm sure Peg's case is on the local PD's radar, especially with so recent an article published about her disappearance.
Well, 2017 was way back when to me, LOL.
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The other case is Mary Macy. She had early onset Alzheimer's and apparently got lost while out for a walk in 2015, along the same road where the remains were found though from slightly farther away than where Dr. Kilcoyne disappeared.
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I don't think she has a WS thread.
Nantucket Woman With Early-Onset Alzheimer's Missing
Mary Macy, 60, hasn't been seen since Saturday afternoon when she went missing from her Sconset home.
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I don't think she has a WS thread.
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Started thread..The other case is Mary Macy. She had early onset Alzheimer's and apparently got lost while out for a walk in 2015, along the same road where the remains were found though from slightly farther away than where Dr. Kilcoyne disappeared.
Nantucket Woman With Early-Onset Alzheimer's Missing
Mary Macy, 60, hasn't been seen since Saturday afternoon when she went missing from her Sconset home.
I don't think she has a WS thread.
MA - MA- Mary Macy, 60, early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, last seen in Sconset, near Milestone Road & New Street, Nantucket, 13 June 2015
2015 rbbm https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2015/06/14/police-seek-missing-nantucket-woman/34280608007/ https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/nantucket-woman-with-early-onset-alzheimers-missing/ ''NANTUCKET (CBS) -- Nantucket police are asking for help to find a missing woman with...
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Thank you! You're the best!Started thread..
MA - MA- Mary Macy, 60, early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, last seen in Sconset, near Milestone Road & New Street, Nantucket, 13 June 2015
2015 rbbm https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2015/06/14/police-seek-missing-nantucket-woman/34280608007/ https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/nantucket-woman-with-early-onset-alzheimers-missing/ ''NANTUCKET (CBS) -- Nantucket police are asking for help to find a missing woman with...
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Dr. Kilcoyne’s NamUs was modified today. No exclusions listed.
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This case reminds me a little of Anthony Bourdain. She's kind of this out-there-in-left-field personality, a real character, and she's got a bit of an ego. I do agree with those that lean towards suicide. Not necessarily, though, and if it wasn't, she took what she needed in cash and got out of there, and started a whole new life somewhere. Excerpt from NYTimes article/1980, condensed with omissions:
...she had disappeared from her six-room $100,000 summer house near Tom Nevers Pond. No suicide note was found, and a search of her apartment at 330 East 33d Street in New York City turned up no additional clues. Left behind were her coat and boots... An air, sea and land search involving 100 volunteers was begun that day, but it turned up nothing. .... A week later, however, four island
residents found the neat pile of her belongings a mile inland from the pond and the ocean in an area that had already been searched by the volunteers, who had fought through the thickets in a line stretched out at 15-foot intervals. Included was a pair of Dr. Kilcoyne's summer sandals, a passport showing several trips to Toronto, a bankbook issued by the Nantucket Savings Bank showing a balance of $386.09 and a new, unsoiled white leather wallet. Inside were a crisp new $100 bill and a handwritten receipt for a $300 gold necklace issued by a jewelry store in Florence, Italy, last November.
Whether suicide or planned disappearance, she just didn't want to be found, jmo. So she was intelligent, and she made sure she wasn't. But this article suggests someone may have helped her, noting that authorities found those items of hers in an area already searched, with no footprints on the beach. And not just that. She "switched up" her usual practice in the days leading up to this:
Kilcoyne left New York midafternoon Wednesday, January 23, telling her colleagues that she intended to return to work the next week.Instead of flying direct, her usual practice, she decided to drive the route in her beat-up Volvo and arrived in Hyannis the next day. She left her car in the airport parking lot and flew on Gull Air to the island.
Why? Perhaps so she could have a little time to work out the logistics of a planned disappearance and refresh herself on the lay of the land in terms of flights between Hyannis & the island. And that ginormous grocery purchase? Maybe she had supplies for herself kind of "hidden" or buried in that order. And that crisp $100 bill in the wallet. Maybe it wasn't the only one, and the other bills had already been removed and pocketed by her for her needs as she left the area. And there is one flight mentioned that was something of a mystery because the airport was closed:
“We found that a light aircraft had left the island early that morning, before the airport opened, and we don’t know where it came from, whose it was, or where it was going,” he said. “There was no record of it because the airport wasn’t open, and the FAA wasn’t working at the time.
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Maybe she lived out the rest of her life in Europe with an alias after moving through either Canada or Mexico.
...she had disappeared from her six-room $100,000 summer house near Tom Nevers Pond. No suicide note was found, and a search of her apartment at 330 East 33d Street in New York City turned up no additional clues. Left behind were her coat and boots... An air, sea and land search involving 100 volunteers was begun that day, but it turned up nothing. .... A week later, however, four island
residents found the neat pile of her belongings a mile inland from the pond and the ocean in an area that had already been searched by the volunteers, who had fought through the thickets in a line stretched out at 15-foot intervals. Included was a pair of Dr. Kilcoyne's summer sandals, a passport showing several trips to Toronto, a bankbook issued by the Nantucket Savings Bank showing a balance of $386.09 and a new, unsoiled white leather wallet. Inside were a crisp new $100 bill and a handwritten receipt for a $300 gold necklace issued by a jewelry store in Florence, Italy, last November.
Whether suicide or planned disappearance, she just didn't want to be found, jmo. So she was intelligent, and she made sure she wasn't. But this article suggests someone may have helped her, noting that authorities found those items of hers in an area already searched, with no footprints on the beach. And not just that. She "switched up" her usual practice in the days leading up to this:
Kilcoyne left New York midafternoon Wednesday, January 23, telling her colleagues that she intended to return to work the next week.Instead of flying direct, her usual practice, she decided to drive the route in her beat-up Volvo and arrived in Hyannis the next day. She left her car in the airport parking lot and flew on Gull Air to the island.
Why? Perhaps so she could have a little time to work out the logistics of a planned disappearance and refresh herself on the lay of the land in terms of flights between Hyannis & the island. And that ginormous grocery purchase? Maybe she had supplies for herself kind of "hidden" or buried in that order. And that crisp $100 bill in the wallet. Maybe it wasn't the only one, and the other bills had already been removed and pocketed by her for her needs as she left the area. And there is one flight mentioned that was something of a mystery because the airport was closed:
“We found that a light aircraft had left the island early that morning, before the airport opened, and we don’t know where it came from, whose it was, or where it was going,” he said. “There was no record of it because the airport wasn’t open, and the FAA wasn’t working at the time.
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Maybe she lived out the rest of her life in Europe with an alias after moving through either Canada or Mexico.
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'On Nantucket island, on a frigid winter night in 1980, Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne disappeared without a trace. The film puts the pieces of the mystery together through research, interviews, and staying true to the timeline in which it happened. This island mystery will captivate and explore why so many questions were left unanswered.'
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'On Nantucket island, on a frigid winter night in 1980, Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne disappeared without a trace. The film puts the pieces of the mystery together through research, interviews, and staying true to the timeline in which it happened. This island mystery will captivate and explore why so many questions were left unanswered.'
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Much thanks to Ms. Dey, a local Nantuckian, who spearheaded the effort to make the documentary about Dr. Kilcoyne. Her case did seem close to being forgotten. I thought of it recently but couldn't recall her name, so its good to see it revived.
As the docu surmises, its hard to decide on any of the available possibilities. By several accounts, the doctor appeared to be having a psych break. At minimum, she was extremely agitated and delusional, all on her own. JMO, she didn't seem capable of engineering an escape from the island and her everyday life.
The discovery of her important personal papers and sandals (?) in the frozen, snowy marsh area is confounding. Is it possible she left them there, covered in some way that allowed them to be protected from the weather? IDK.
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Updated link to the Nantucket Magazine article from 2016:
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COLD CASE: The Disappearance of Margaret Kilcoyne, Nantucket's Greatest Unsolved Mystery - Nantucket Magazine
Few people on Nantucket remember her name now, all these years later. But for those that do, Margaret Kilcoyne is an enigma. She was...
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The remains found near Tom Nevers in 2024 to be Mary Macy:
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includes map showing location: Human remains found on Nantucket in dense woodland - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
A lot more information in the local paper: Human remains found in Tom Nevers
"[The two missing local people]...are Margaret Kilcoyne and Mary Macy, two women that both went missing around the...
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Men searching for deer antler sheds find human remains in Nantucket, police say
Two men searching for deer antler sheds Thursday in Nantucket, Massachusetts, discovered human remains, according to authorities. Police received a call just after 5 p.m. about human remains being found near the east end of the island, Nantucket police said Friday. When officers arrived, they...
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Police investigating after human remains found on Nantucket
Police have launched an investigation after human remains were found Thursday on Nantucket.
includes map showing location: Human remains found on Nantucket in dense woodland - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
A lot more information in the local paper: Human remains found in Tom Nevers
"[The two missing local people]...are Margaret Kilcoyne and Mary Macy, two women that both went missing around the...
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rapid cycling? I should really read the book but if she and her brother spent yrs hiding that she was sometimes manic, he could have just been done with trying to keep her pubic persona together. She also asked him to drop everything and go to Nantucket, right, so not like a murder plot? She was 50, so maybe age/hormones playing with her mental states- does the book cover whether she was medicated or non-compliant? The magazine article seems to say not diagnosed with anything.
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this is another article I found:
by the police chief who started his job the day MM disappeared. it says that she had a car on the Island (VW), not just the Volvo she left, and the people who found her things moved them- and it does not say that a small airplane did leave early- only that it could have and it does not support a Boston apt.
by the police chief who started his job the day MM disappeared. it says that she had a car on the Island (VW), not just the Volvo she left, and the people who found her things moved them- and it does not say that a small airplane did leave early- only that it could have and it does not support a Boston apt.
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Full text of what was said leading into the discussion of the light aircraft:
“My theory for this whole thing, and I still stick to it, is that she flew out undetected and went somewhere and just disappeared,” said Watts, the former fire chief. In fact, Watts once called the Kilcoyne case “the biggest scam ever perpetrated on this town.”
Former Nantucket Police officer Paul Smith, who was also involved in the Kilcoyne investigation, said he still believes Kilcoyne is out there somewhere, very much alive. “I feel Dr. Kilcoyne was depressed but is still alive somewhere today and that the suicide was staged between her and her brother Leo,” Smith said. “That is why her things were found at a place that was already searched... She probably was having some sort of mental breakdown and didn’t want to receive the prestigious award she was nominated to receive for her work. But I feel she is still alive and living in Canada or someplace under false identity.”
McGrady, the state police trooper, offered an alternative scenario. “We found that a light aircraft had left the island early that morning, before the airport opened, and we don’t know where it came from, whose it was, or where it was going,” he said. “There was no record of it because the airport wasn’t open, and the FAA wasn’t working at the time."
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