MI MI - Adele Wells, 7, Flint, 21 Nov 1958

[Nina Michigan]

@Slater612 , is this thread for a missing person, or unidentified remains?

I don't see a thread for Adele Wells. Starting a thread for her, linking this one.

November 21, 1958, Adele Maries Wells, age 7, missing from Flint, Michigan

Adele Marie Wells – The Charley Project

@Nina Michigan , any advice?

jmho ymmv lrr

she is still missing. What sort of advice are you looking for?

 

[Laughing]

she is still missing. What sort of advice are you looking for?

A poster started another thread, included an IUD. I couldn't find Adele's thread, so started -- a third one (embarrassed.)

Always good to bring a thread to the top, right?

Thanks a bunch for checking Adele's thread!

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Adele Wells has been missing for 63 years.

 

[Richard]

Missing for over 63 years...

Adele Wells, age 7
Last seen: 21 November 1958

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Adele Marie Wells – The Charley Project

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Have you seen this child?

CASE NUMBER - Adele Marie Wells

Adele Marie Wells, 7: May Have Been Kidnapped While Walking To School

 

[CastlesBurning]

They have been missing in Michigan the longest: 12 people last seen before 1970

Adele Marie Wells was last seen on Nov. 21, 1958, in Flint.

Police said Adele was walking to Jefferson Elementary School after staying home that morning with a slight cold.

She stopped at her grandmother’s house first, just blocks from her school, to show her how her mother had nicely done up her hair that day for school.

She left her grandmother’s home and was never seen again.

She was last seen wearing a grey cotton coat, a bluish dress with small animal figures along the lower hemline and red knee-length socks.

Adele Marie Wells	Details
Missing Age	7
Current Age	70
Height	3′6′'
Weight	45-60
Hair	Black
Eyes	Brown

Anyone with information should contact the Flint Police Department at 810-237-6800.

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Anniversary of disappearance today.

 

[heartanium]

Source: "Chums Say Man in Car Seized Her" Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI) November 24, 1958, pg 3.

Adele lived at 929 E. Marengo

The address of her grandmother (where she was last seen before walking to school) was 1021 E. Marengo

Mapping it out it is about 450 feet from her grandmothers house to her parents house, and .5 miles to her school

 

[Alleykins]

Thank you for the map.

 

[spacegoatz]

it’s great to see people still looking into this case. There used to be a convenience store called Mazie’s on the corner of North and Marengo. My dad grew up in that neighborhood and knew Adele’s family. He remembers a man living in the house next door to the convenience store who tried to abduct him a few years before Adele went missing. Sadly it was a pretty bad neighborhood even back then.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Adele Marie Wells: Michigan's Longest Open Missing Child Case

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[Megsc]

it’s great to see people still looking into this case. There used to be a convenience store called Mazie’s on the corner of North and Marengo. My dad grew up in that neighborhood and knew Adele’s family. He remembers a man living in the house next door to the convenience store who tried to abduct him a few years before Adele went missing. Sadly it was a pretty bad neighborhood even back then.

Did your dad ever report it to LE?

 

[Richard]

Adele has been missing for over 65 years.

 

[Richard]

Bumping this thread up.

 

[mst]

1334UFFL Long shot

 

[PeriwinkleE]

It looks like they kept her till she reached maturity, and then disposed of her.

What do you think? See the dent in the forehead?

Did you submit this? I see it.

 

[Alleykins]

Adele has DNA available. So I'm thinking any UP that also has DNA available can be considered auto-ruled out. But I always say, when in doubt, submit.

 

[PeriwinkleE]

Adele has DNA available. So I'm thinking any UP that also has DNA available can be considered auto-ruled out. But I always say, when in doubt, submit.

I went ahead and submitted them. They have not been compared before.

 

[PeriwinkleE]

Adele has DNA available. So I'm thinking any UP that also has DNA available can be considered auto-ruled out. But I always say, when in doubt, submit.

It doesn’t seem like every case is automatically cross checked. The state of Virginia seems to have run their cases through. It probably requires a bunch of money to do that.

The uid didn’t have any comparisons. Neither did Adele. The doe was found in Detroit, about an hour’s drive from Flint, where Adele lived. It is haunting how similar the faces look. I’ve never felt compelled to submit a match before.

 

[PeriwinkleE]

It looks like they kept her till she reached maturity, and then disposed of her.

What do you think? See the dent in the forehead?

Add this composite to the collection.