MA MA - Sandra Crispo, 54, Hanson, 7 August 2019 #2

[ZiggyZaggy]

Interesting. I hope they thoroughly checked out your tip. Correct me if I'm wrong but you only know Sandra through news about her disappearance, correct? She's technically a stranger to you? If so, maybe that's the reason they haven't contacted you for more info or to update you on what they found.

Correct, I did not know her, just through some facebook posts I had seen her missing person stuff on, but since I was a regular visitor to that particular place and I never saw her before, she stood out to me. We were standing in line over over one hour waiting to receive our food baskets. I was looking at her for a quite a while since she was directly in front of me. She was also talking to my friend, so I had looked at her quite a bit in that hour or so.

 

[ZiggyZaggy]

Interesting. I hope they thoroughly checked out your tip. Correct me if I'm wrong but you only know Sandra through news about her disappearance, correct? She's technically a stranger to you? If so, maybe that's the reason they haven't contacted you for more info or to update you on what they found.

Correct, I did not know her, just through some Facebook posts I had seen her missing person stuff on, but since I was a regular visitor to that particular place and I never saw her before, she stood out to me. We were standing in line over over one hour waiting to receive our food baskets. I was looking at her for a quite a while since she was directly in front of me. She was also talking to my friend, so I had looked at her quite a bit in that hour or so.

 

[IHAVENOCLUE]

I have just caught up on these threads of the mysterious... and seemingly possible tragic...
disappearance of Sandra Crispo...
I have appreciated all ideas and facts presented by the many Websleuthers on these threads...
Of the many points of interest to me...
one stands out quite consistently...

ZiggyZaggy has shared with us her very possible sighting of Sandra in a food basket line...
Not only has she shared this information with us...
but she has also reported this sighting to LE...
I am NOT discounting the professionalism of the LE on this case...
as I am mostly very pro LE...
But...
I DO understand the situation of not being legitimately listened to in my many walks of life...
Not whining here...
just stating that there may be reasons for that...
AND... NEVER have I been in a situation such as ZiggyZaggy's that may have such importance as the discovery of a missing person...

I just want to make a point that there may very well be credible information from Ziggy Zaggy...
And that I wish I was more equipped to help her continue her eye witness reporting of being in the vicinity of SC...

As there are so many questions surrounding this case...
with minimal verifiable facts....
(I can only refer to MSM and LE reports...
as Social Media is not always credible, nor allowed...
and I really do not follow it for some of those reasons...)

I feel like our fellow poster should be listened to...

All... JMO...

 

[Mahoney-Wright]

I literally just found Websleuths and the various conversations about Sandra Crispo's disappearance. I understand her family and friends don't want folks posting theories on the FB page. It could hinder the investigation greatly. So many people in the public have offered up plausible insight and suggestions as to what may have happened to Sandra. The Hanson and Quincy PD's, and the MSP have all done (IMO) a good job so far. There may be far more details on this case that have not been provided to the general public and that definitely makes sense. I grew up in Hanson and know the area well. Like other folks have suggested, did Sandra take a walk after being dropped off? Did she indeed smoke? If so, could have walked to get cigarettes? What about alcohol? Could have gone to purchase wine, beer or hard spirits? Was she hungry? Did she perhaps walk south along route 58 heading towards BR's restaurant? It is roughly a 16 minute walk from 47 Spofford to BR's. Could someone have stopped and taken her via abduction? Could she have been hit by a car (accidentally by the operator) and taken that way? Walking north on route 58 from Crispo's home....there are few businesses in the Monponsett neighborhood that would seem to have held interest: Post Office, Woodlawn Insurance, etc. I have also wondered if perhaps she had an altercation with someone while she was watching her grandkids at her home? Could someone have approached the kids when they were outside and she confronted whomever? And that person returned to confront her? I am assuming investigators spoke to the kids. I would also assume law enforcement have interviewed those individuals in the Sex Offenders Registry who reside in close proximity to 47 Spofford. I am not insinuating that any of these individuals are/were involved, but all possibilities should be considered. Crispo did not vanish from the face of this earth. She has to be somewhere and in all likelihood, local.

So many questions? She's been gone a year, so unless she literally walked away from her life to start over somewhere it would seem unlikely she's still alive. I hope the family gets closure and Sandra Crispo is brought home.

 

[Yemelyan]

I have also wondered if perhaps she had an altercation with someone while she was watching her grandkids at her home? Could someone have approached the kids when they were outside and she confronted whomever? And that person returned to confront her? I am assuming investigators spoke to the kids.

The kids were all under 5 years old at the time. At least one was in diapers. However, yes, I'm sure they were asked in case the oldest knew anything.

 

[Yemelyan]

So in thinking more about @ZiggyZaggy and her experience, I wanted to pose a question here. We know that there was a similar tip called in to Hanson PD about a person seeing a woman who he thought was Sandra panhandling in Fall River, MA. This is in the same direction from Sandra's home, roughly, as Warwick, RI where @ZiggyZaggy reports a similar encounter. Sandra's family have said on their official "missing" page that the Fall River sighting was looked into and could not be corroborated.

What I find interesting about both "sightings" is that the woman in question was panhandling in one and seeking free food in another. We know that Sandra's bank accounts have been untouched since her disappearance.

Can we list under what types of speculative scenarios a woman who has a home, a job that she likes (full time caregiver for grandkids) and a bank account would walk away from that in order to live a new secret life where she struggles to find food? The family has said there is no history of mental illness per the interview in the "Missing" podcast.

 

[momrids6]

She is in my age group, and I know many women who haven’t worked since they were married. Some have had spouses pass, some divorced. Some did go to work, but some went back to their parent(s) and took care of them, the household, etc. My mom is almost 80- even she has a cell phone ( and a computer), but maybe Sandra was frugal, on a budget, didn’t feel the need as she was a homebody and the Landline was sufficient.

Someone knows. I wish they would come forward

 

[Yemelyan]

She is in my age group, and I know many women who haven’t worked since they were married. Some have had spouses pass, some divorced. Some did go to work, but some went back to their parent(s) and took care of them, the household, etc. My mom is almost 80- even she has a cell phone ( and a computer), but maybe Sandra was frugal, on a budget, didn’t feel the need as she was a homebody and the Landline was sufficient.

Someone knows. I wish they would come forward

I would think the lack of a cell phone was different, but not odd except for the fact that she was a primary caregiver of such small children. With toddlers you could walk around the block and have a serious emergency for one reason or another. It just surprises me that the parents didn't insist that she have one for emergencies. So that elevates the lack of a cell phone to a big question for me.

 

[Mahoney-Wright]

The kids were all under 5 years old at the time. At least one was in diapers. However, yes, I'm sure they were asked in case the oldest knew anything.

Thank you. There are a million different scenarios in what may/could have/did happen to her. A young teen (James Rogers) vanished in Hanson in 1981. He was 14 or 15 at the time. He has never been found.

 

[oviedo]

Thank you. There are a million different scenarios in what may/could have/did happen to her. A young teen (James Rogers) vanished in Hanson in 1981. He was 14 or 15 at the time. He has never been found.

Welcome to WS !
I’ve been following her case and IMO she was abducted - the question for me is did she know this person? I think so
JMO

 

[Yemelyan]

Thank you. There are a million different scenarios in what may/could have/did happen to her. A young teen (James Rogers) vanished in Hanson in 1981. He was 14 or 15 at the time. He has never been found.

I remember reading about this. They thought at first he cut through the bogs, correct?

My feeling on Sandra is that the family may have a little bit of an idea of the why but possibly don't know who she left with. JMO

 

[Mahoney-Wright]

Welcome to WS !
I’ve been following her case and IMO she was abducted - the question for me is did she know this person? I think so
JMO

In so many cases, the person abducted has some sort of connection to their captor....even if it was distant.

 

[Mahoney-Wright]

Welcome to WS !
I’ve been following her case and IMO she was abducted - the question for me is did she know this person? I think so
JMO

In so many cases, the person abducted has some sort of connection to their captor....even if it was distant.

 

[Mahoney-Wright]

Welcome to WS !
I’ve been following her case and IMO she was abducted - the question for me is did she know this person? I think so
JMO

In so many cases, the person abducted has some sort of connection to their captor....even if it was distant.

 

[Yemelyan]

Welcome to WS !
I’ve been following her case and IMO she was abducted - the question for me is did she know this person? I think so
JMO

I think she left with someone voluntarily, a person she knew quite well. I think she didn't expect to be gone very long.

 

[Mahoney-Wright]

I think she left with someone voluntarily, a person she knew quite well. I think she didn't expect to be gone very long.

Yeah, that would seem plausible.

 

[Mahoney-Wright]

I think she left with someone voluntarily, a person she knew quite well. I think she didn't expect to be gone very long.

It would seem that she had to have left her home on foot or in a vehicle (whether voluntarily or by force). Even if she had left the house alone on foot and was walking along route 58 in either direction, someone driving by would have noticed her if she was walking close enough to the road. It is a fairly busy roadway with vehicle traffic.

 

[Mahoney-Wright]

On a different note, Melissa Gosule from Brockton was murdered in 1999 by Michael Gentile. Her bike and backpack was found in the woods off of route 36 in Halifax (across the road from the lake). Her body was later discovered off of Oak Street in the bogs between the Hanson/Halifax line. Gentile lived minutes away from where Gosule's backpack and bike were found, and where her body was located. The point is that it's possible that if Crispo (if she is no longer living and was actually abducted) could have known her captor. Gosule accepted a ride from Gentile after her car broke down on the way back from the cape.

 

[Mahoney-Wright]

The area of Spofford Ave was all cottages at one time. I looked at buying a place there in 1992 when searching for my first home. A lot of side streets, but no dead end streets. Multiple streets that lead in and out of that area. Hopefully, the Hanson Police, MSP and every other agency involved are closer to solving this and bringing Sandra Crispo home. In 1990 (Kingston, MA), 13-year-old Melissa Benoit disappeared while visiting her father’s grave at a nearby cemetery. Dozens of volunteers searched for her, including her neighbor, Henry Meinholz Jr., a family friend and former church deacon. Benoit knew Meinholz. After an 11-day search, investigators found the girl’s body in a shallow grave in Meinholz’s basement, across the street from the police station. In 1991, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. This just reinforces that often the person who is abducted and killed knew their captor on some level. It does raise that same question..... if Crispo was abducted, did she know the person(s)? Was it an acquaintance? I have know doubt law enforcement is looking at every angle in the case.

 

[Yemelyan]

It does raise that same question..... if Crispo was abducted, did she know the person(s)? Was it an acquaintance? I have know doubt law enforcement is looking at every angle in the case.

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I have no doubt that Hanson PD and now Mass State PD are looking into everything. If you compare, for example, Sandra's disappearance to that of Echo Lloyd in Missouri (there is a Websleuths thread for her) you'll see that while the cases are extremely similar the level of searching that the police did in each case was far, far different, with Sandra's situation being looked into much more closely. Undoubtedly there are individual factors that play into this as well.

As to Sandra... according to her family she had a very small circle of friends and she mainly associated with family members. Having moved to the neighborhood three months before, she only had a "wave hello" relationship with her neighbors according to her daughter. I can tell you the part of Quincy where she lived almost her whole life is very insular in the most literal meaning of the term. Her own kids say they weren't even that close to her until approximately a year ago!

I feel like the number of people who knew her even just in passing would have been very, very small so hopefully police are able to examine this thoroughly.

 

[Mahoney-Wright]

Snipped for focus.

I have no doubt that Hanson PD and now Mass State PD are looking into everything. If you compare, for example, Sandra's disappearance to that of Echo Lloyd in Missouri (there is a Websleuths thread for her) you'll see that while the cases are extremely similar the level of searching that the police did in each case was far, far different, with Sandra's situation being looked into much more closely. Undoubtedly there are individual factors that play into this as well.

As to Sandra... according to her family she had a very small circle of friends and she mainly associated with family members. Having moved to the neighborhood three months before, she only had a "wave hello" relationship with her neighbors according to her daughter. I can tell you the part of Quincy where she lived almost her whole life is very insular in the most literal meaning of the term. Her own kids say they weren't even that close to her until approximately a year ago!

I feel like the number of people who knew her even just in passing would have been very, very small so hopefully police are able to examine this thoroughly.

There are many things with this case that don't sit well. It's possible that Sandra had circumstances in her life that the daughter ( Laina) is totally unaware of. It is fortunate the Laina's husband Tim McMahon's family runs the Hannon Foundation. They were able to help the family financially, so that Laina could take a leave of absence from her job as an RN. She serves as the primary contact for the investigation. This is one positive for the family during this horrific and stressful time. The Hannon Foundation