CANADA Marilyn Ann Neely, 33, Peterborough, Ont. 18 September 1983

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Case File 1197DFON

The Doe Network: Case File 1197DFON
Marilyn Ann Neely
Missing since September 18, 1983 from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Classification: Endangered Missing

Vital Statistics

• • Date Of Birth: March 18, 1950
  • Age at Time of Disappearance: 33 years old
  • Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'7" (170 cm); 131 lbs. (58 kg)
  • Distinguishing Characteristics: Red hair short to collar length hair; Green eyes. She has freckles.
  • Clothing: A red ski jacket, blue jeans or crème or yellowish pants, white sweater and beige cowboy boots, carrying a green soft vinyl purse with a white shoulder strap.

Circumstances of Disappearance
Neely was last seen at approximately 3:30 p.m. on September 18th 1983. She was seen by a friend driving her gold colored 1983 Dodge Dart southbound on Goodfellow road in the county of Peterborough. Her vehicle was located on September 23rd on the Fine Point Trail access road, north of Buckhorn, and approximately 11 km west of highway 507. A group of hunters going to a hunting camp found the Dodge Dart in their way, they pushed it out of the way and notified police.

Neely is a mother of two children and was an employee of Call-A-Cab. She was reported to be in a depressed and suicidal state. The morning after her disappearance her family reported her missing.

Investigators say that a couple who drove by police while they searched the woods for Neely, reported that a mile later they spotted a woman walking the road in the opposite direction of the police. The couple said that as they drove by, the woman turned her head towards the woods and they were unable to see her face. In another report police say a cab driver searching for Neely along the road, spoke to a camper at Otter Lake who saw a woman walking along the highway days earlier. The man described the woman as "disoriented," and said the woman climbed into a blue car.

Four other people have vanished from the same area in 1983. Neely has not been heard from since and no items of hers have been found.

 

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June 27 2019
ONTARIO COLD CASE: Missing woman's daughter uses Facebook page for tips
"Living the same nightmare as thousands of families across the country, Ann-Marie Neely can’t help but feel connection with others who have had a loved one vanish.

“I know what these families are going through, and I know what it is like not having the answers,” she said when explaining why she created a Facebook page called Missing People of Canada Unsolved Cold Cases.

Neely said she sees the page as a support group where people can come and know their loved ones aren’t forgotten.


“These people need to be found and have a proper resting place,” she said.

Her mother, Marilyn Ann Neely, disappeared in September 1983. Ann-Marie was 10 years old when her mother went missing in Peterborough. Her case remains unsolved after nearly 36 years.

“If I am not going to get the answers, and we can’t find my mom, let us at least help someone else and bring piece of mind for them,” she said.

Neely launched the page in early June and has posted almost 100 cases, reaching from Victoria to St. John’s, N.L.

“It takes a little bit of reading and little bit of research, but names keep pooping up. I find it so shocking, because there are so many unsolved cases and unfound people.”

Peterborough police don’t know what happened to the Call A Cab employee and probably never will.

“We don’t know specifically if there is an offence there. There may or may not be,” Peterborough police Insp. Lynne Buehler said in a 2015 interview about the case."

"A handful of days after her disappearance, Neely’s 1975 Dodge Dart was found in a remote area on the Five Point Trail access northeast of Bobcaygeon".

Marilyn Ann Neely was driving a car similar to this one when she disappeared in 1983. It was found near Bobcaygeon, but she has never turned up.

 

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2018
COLD CASE: 'Dead bodies don’t bury themselves' says daughter of missing woman Marilyn Ann Neely | HamiltonNews.com

Marilyn Neely on her wedding day. - courtesy of Ann-Marie Neely

''Murder, suicide or a woman that wanted to escape life and create a new identity?

“Dead bodies don’t bury themselves,” says Ann-Marie Neely, who believes her mother Marilyn Ann Neely was murdered 34 years ago.

In September 1983, the then 33-year-old Peterborough woman vanished.


Police say they don’t know what happened to the Call A Cab employee and probably never will.

“Every day I wake up in the morning and it is the first thing I think about it. It is like a puzzle and the pieces are missing. I am just trying to put it together."
“We don’t know specifically if there is an offence there. There may or may not be,” Peterborough police Det.-Insp. Lynne Buehler said in a 2015 interview about the case.

“We couldn’t classify it as a homicide because we just don’t have the evidence to support that theory.”

Ann-Marie was 10 years old when her mother disappeared.

“It is just too odd that someone would disappear off the face of the earth and you never hear from them again,” says Ann-Marie.

Neely was last seen by a friend on Sept. 18.

“Right away, my first thought was she was abducted and being held hostage,” recalls Ann-Marie''

''Ann-Marie has visited the area where her mother’s car was found. The secluded location terrified her.

“I can’t grasp that she would drive herself there all alone. I think her car was planted there and it was all staged,” she says.''

 

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ONTARIO COLD CASE: Missing woman's daughter uses Facebook page for tips

Marilyn Ann Neely's daughter Ann-Marie created a Facebook page called Missing People of Canada Unsolved Cold Cases. Her mom disappeared almost 36 years ago.

www.mykawartha.com

 

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July 3 2022

ONTARIO COLD CASE: Missing woman's daughter uses Facebook page for tips

Marilyn Ann Neely's daughter Ann-Marie created a Facebook page called Missing People of Canada Unsolved Cold Cases. Her mom disappeared almost 36 years ago.

www.mykawartha.com

“We couldn’t classify it as a homicide because we just don’t have the evidence to support that theory.”

A handful of days after her disappearance, Neely’s 1975 Dodge Dart was found in a remote area on the Five Point Trail access northeast of Bobcaygeon.


Insp. Buehler said ground searches were done but the rugged terrain in the remote area made it difficult. Today, helicopters and drones with heat-seeking devices could detect traces even days after someone has died.

Neely is hopeful the Facebook page will help lead to tips in both her mother’s case and other unsolved mysteries across Canada. She said people might have heard or seen something years ago and thought it wasn’t relevant until the case pops up on a Facebook page.

“I am hoping some memories will be triggered and they have the conscience to come forward, especially in some of these cases that are decades old."

 

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Poor daughter who is still looking for answers about her mother... I can't imagine what could have happened to her but I hope her death wasn't so painful...
whatever the case
may she rest in peace