MI MI - Sandra June Horwath, 33, Ann Arbor, 1 Oct 1973

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

New entry in NamUs; 46 years is a looong time to be missing

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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Sandra June Horwath

Female
White / Caucasian
Date of Last Contact: October 1, 1973
Missing From: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Missing Age: 33 Years
Current Age: 78 Year


Case Information

Demographics
First Name: Sandra
Middle Name: June
Last Name: Horwath
Nickname/Alias: Sandy

Sex: Female
Height: 5' 6" (66 Inches)
Weight: 135 lbs
Race / Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

Map
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108
County: Washtenaw County

Circumstances of Disappearance:
Mrs. Horwath was last seen by her children when they went to bed on 10/1/1973 (10 pm). When they woke up in the morning on 10/2/1973 (6-6:30 am), she was not home and did not report to work at University of Michigan Hospital.

Physical Description
Hair Color: Brown
Head Hair Description: Long brown hair
Body Hair Description: --
Facial Hair Description: --
Left Eye Color: Brown
Right Eye Color: Brown
Eye Description: --
Distinctive Physical Features
No Information Entered

Clothing and Accessories
Clothing
May have been wearing a dress or blue tank top pullover, blue stretch dress pants, white blazer, wooden base sandals with beige strap & purse.

Additional Case Info

Transportation
No Information Entered

 

[Two for the road]

Looks like she may have been a victim of Gary Taylor and buried on one of his properties in Instead, MI.

Scroll down at link:
Joke Gone Bad | Ann Arbor District Library

 

[Richard]

Sandra June Horwath
Missing since October 1973

 

[Richard]

Gary Addison Taylor

A likely candidate for suspect in the disappearance and probable murder of Sandra.

LINK:

Gary Addison Taylor | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

 

[YaYa_521]

Scroll down for a write up about Sandra's case.
Joke Gone Bad | Ann Arbor District Library

 

[Diane Redfern]

Sandra June Horwath – The Charley Project

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Nearly 50 years ago an Ann Arbor mother put her 3 children to bed and disappeared by morning

Nearly 50 years ago the children of an Ann Arbor woman woke up and could not find their mother

www.clickondetroit.com

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Nearly 50 years ago the children of an Ann Arbor woman woke up and could not find their mother

Sandra “Sandy” Horwath has been missing since Oct. 1, 1973. That day she took her children to a Sears store at the Briarwood Mall in Ann Arbor. The family returned home at 8:30 p.m. She took a phone call from a male friend at 9:30 p.m. and put the kids to bed at 10 p.m.

When they woke up at 6 a.m they could not find her and she had not reported to her job at the University of Michigan hospital.

 

[dotr]

Lengthy article.

Daughter of missing Ann Arbor, Michigan woman Sandra Horwath speaks out for first time on 50-year anniversary of disappearance

The 33-year-old mother of three vanished on October 1, 1973. She was reported missing the next day.

www.nbcnews.com

Oct. 1, 2023, By Veronica Fulton

''Robin remembered that she was the first one of her sisters up that Tuesday morning. “I ran to her bedroom. She wasn’t there. And I looked out front and her car was there,” Robin said. “And I just didn’t understand where she was.” Robin said she grabbed the phone and began calling anyone she could think of.

She called the hospital to see if her mother was already at work, but they told her that Sandy had not yet come in that Tuesday morning.

She called their babysitter. “She said she hadn’t heard from her.” With Sandy gone, the babysitter came over right away to take care of the Horwath girls and get them ready for school.

Robin told Dateline she remembers how her mother’s disappearance just made no sense to her. “It’s just like -- you wake up and everything looked normal, but she was just not there,” Robin said. “It was just the weirdest thing to me that she was not there and I looked out and her car was parked in front.”


Giordano confirmed that Sandy was last seen on October 1, 1973. She took a phone call around 9:30 p.m. and then put her children to bed at approximately 10 p.m. Giordano also confirmed that Sandy was reported missing on October 2, by the family’s babysitter. According to the Ann Arbor Police Department, it is believed that Sandra may have last been seen wearing a “blue pullover tank top, blue dress slacks (stretch), white blazer, beige clog-style sandals,” or a house dress.

''Authorities stated that once they arrived at the home, they did not see anything that was out of place, but said that “a neighbor reported hearing a noise outside the rear of her residence around 10:50 p.m. (10/1/1973) but the noise stopped, and she did not check on it,” Giordano told Dateline. They also noted that the flowerbeds outside the home were later found trampled. Both Sandy’s watch and vehicle were left behind, but her purse, checkbook and the clothing listed previously were all missing from the home.''

 

[Caring1]

8 Unidentified Person Exclusions

 

[Richard]

Fifty years missing...

 

[imstilla.grandma]

“I think of how young she was,” Robin said. “For being 33 years old, she was just so put together and so refined, and patient and loving and she made us feel so loved and protected and safe. She never yelled. She was just so patient with three little girls that were all basically within two years of each other… she just loved being a mom.”

50 years of silence: A mother’s mysterious disappearance and a serial killer connection

Sandra Horwath went missing from her home in Ann Arbor 50 years ago. Her daughter has not spoken publicly about the case until now.

www.mlive.com

 

[Caring1]

 

[Pennysmom1]

Joke Gone Bad | Ann Arbor District Library

aadl.org

<<Houston detectives had arrested a subject named Gary Taylor for sexual assault. While he was in jail, his wife told authorities that he had killed and buried three women and a man outside a rented house in Onstead, Michigan, which is in Lenawee County. Based on their investigation, it was believed that Horwath's body was one of those buried.

Due to this information, Michigan authorities dug up the site and discovered two of the bodies, both of whom had been shot. Horwath's body was not one of the two, but it was believed she was buried somewhere nearby. It was found that Horwath had dated Taylor when she worked at the university, while Taylor was on leave from the Center for Forensic Psychiatry at the Ypsilanti State Hospital.>>

<<Obviously it was suspected that Taylor was involved in the Horwath disappearance, but police could find no body and with no evidence, the case remains unsolved. I happened to speak with Lt. Tieman about the case when doing research and he stated, coincidentally, that he had read the Horwath file and was thinking of re-opening it.

It is still believed that Horwath's body is buried at the Onstead site and Taylor is responsible for her disappearance. In recent years the Onstead property has been excavated on two different occasions in the search for Horwath's body. Both of these searches have been unsuccessful, but it is still felt she was killed and buried in the area.>>





Added 3/22/24

4710DFMI - Sandra June Horwath

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Available