agree with this. some abusers keep their mates "homely" and some give constant pressure to look perfect... and put them down about how ugly they are. im thinking her mate was probably quite "pretty boy" and "mr. nice guy" to those around him but a monster behind closed doors. possibly older than her. chose a young pretty mate and kept her dolled up but put her down. and eventually killed her.
This is, almost verbatim, what I came here to post about what I think the killer and his M.O. were like.
Her haircut and dye job were pretty distinctive, even for the 80s...even after all this time, might some stylists somewhere remember her as their customer?
The main question, though, is this:
Where is that baby? Might he have killed it, too, and might it also have remained unidentified for this same length of time? Having a child with him(and one with a birth certificate, too, since her scar suggests she gave birth at a hospital) would more or less
guarantee he'd have a "trail" following him until it graduated high school, and he probably would have wanted to avoid that sort of thing. Even more pressing(to him, that is) would be the fact that - since she'd been nursing - he'd have to buy formula, take care of the baby, be a father, etc., all while disposing of its mother's body and maybe moving/hiding.
I mean, it's entirely possible that nobody but himself and the mother(well, and the staff at whichever hospital) ever even SAW that baby - at the time she died, it was still young enough to hide.
I can't think of any missing babies from this time period, but I can't help but wonder.
Babies abandoned to hospitals or etc. around that time period(especially anonymously) should maybe be looked at as well.
