MN MN - Charllotte Lysdale, 68, Walker, 14 June 1985

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[h=1]3772DFMN - Charllotte Irene Lysdale[/h]

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Name: Charllotte Irene Lysdale
Case Classification: Missing
Missing Since: June 14, 1985
Location Last Seen: Walker, Cass County, Minnesota

[h=2]Physical Description[/h] Date of Birth: circa 1917
Age: 68 yrs old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'1"
Weight: 135 lbs
Hair Color: Gray
Eye Color: Hazel
Nickname/Alias: None
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Walks with a limp due to injured right ankle.
[h=2]Identifiers[/h] Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available
[h=2]Clothing & Personal Items[/h] Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
[h=2]Circumstances of Disappearance[/h] On June 14, 1985, 68-year-old Pine River resident Charlotte Lysdale was reported missing from her Pine River apartment.
[h=2]Investigating Agency(s)[/h] Agency Name: Cass County Sheriff Office
Agency Contact Person: Lieutenant Scott Thompson
Agency Phone Number: 218-547-1424
Agency E-Mail: [email protected]
Agency Case Number: 85002965
NCIC Case Number: N/A
NamUs Case Number: 12977
[h=2]Information Source(s)[/h] NamUs

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3772dfmn.html

 

[alb1on]

Jerome Edwin Bye was charged with her murder in 1987 (see https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/225973791/ ). He was found not guilty but there are records of his further criminal activities in 1997 and 1999 at https://www.courtrecords.org/people/JEROME+BYE+MN/ . There is a bit more information on the case in a 2002 article on unsolved murders in the area at http://www.brainerddispatch.com/content/unsolved-crimes . Given that Bye was convicted in 1988 of theft from Lysdale I suspect the 1987 murder acquittal was more due to lack of a body than a real belief that he was innocent.

 

[Coffee56]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Anthony vanishing recalls memories of Lysdale case

Charllotte Irene Lysdale - Minnesota Missing Person Directory

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Maiden name Meyer, born in Worden, Wisconsin.

 

[MadMcGoo]

26 Jun 1985, Page 17 - Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

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2 Jul 1985, Page 40 - Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

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24 Jun 1986, Page 14 - St. Cloud Times at Newspapers.com

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8 Sep 1987, Page 19 - Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

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9 Sep 1987, Page 17 - Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

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28 Oct 1987, Page 27 - Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

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13 Feb 1988, Page 4 - Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

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21 Feb 1988, Page 4 - Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

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[MadMcGoo]

28 Apr 1988, Page 47 - Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

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4 Apr 1989, Page 60 - Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

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Her name appears in subsequent articles across the USA with headlines such as “No body, No case”.

 

[MadMcGoo]

I can’t find a photo of her to save my life.

 

[Pennysmom1]

Charllotte Irene Lysdale - Minnesota Missing Person Directory

Details and Pictures of Charllotte Irene Lysdale, Missing since June 1985

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Missing Person / NamUs #MP12977

View NamUs missing person case MP12977 for Charllotte Irene Lysdale missing from Walker, Minnesota. Date of last contact: Jun 14, 1985. NCMEC case number: --.

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[mlhenn]

Charlotte Irene Lysdale – The Charley Project

Charlotte Irene Lysdale​

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Details of Disappearance​

Lysdale was last seen in Crow Wing, Minnesota on June 14, 1985. She lived alone at the Woodglen Apartments in Pine River, Minnesota; she had moved there about a year earlier after putting her rural home on Lower Hay Lake up for sale. She was a widow, her husband having died in 1965.

On the evening of her disappearance, Lysdale went to visit her former home on Lower Hay Lake to meet Jerome Edwin Bye, a real estate agent and tavern owner who was buying the property from her. She arrived between 6:10 and 6:20 p.m. The property was priced at $78,500. Bye later said he paid Lysdale a down payment of $10,500 and agreed to pay her at least $10,000 a year until 1987, when the full balance would be due.

Bye stated that during the meeting, he gave Lysdale another $10,000 and she gave him the deed to the property "because she liked him." She left about two hours after her arrival, he said, and this is the last time anyone saw her. Bye registered the property deed three days later. The $10,000 he says he gave her on the night of her disappearance has never been recovered.

When Lysdale's niece went to visit her at her apartment on June 16, the door was locked and the Sunday newspaper was lying there unread, which is uncharacteristic of Lysdale's behavior. Her vehicle was left in the garage, and there were no indications of foul play. Inside the apartment, there were fresh coffee grounds in the kitchen, everything seemed to be in order and only Lysdale's purse was missing. She has never been heard from again.

In 1987, Bye was indicted for first-degree murder in Lysdale's case, and for another charge of theft pertaining to the deed. More charges were made against him: second-degree murder, first-degree assault, receiving stolen property, theft by swindling, false pretense and aggravated robbery. The assault charge was dismissed before the case went to trial. This case the first case in Minnesota to go to trial without a body.

In 1988, Bye was acquitted of first- and second-degree murder, aggravated robbery, theft by swindle, and theft from a person, but convicted of theft and receiving stolen property. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

Lysdale's body has never been found, but foul play is suspected in her case due to the circumstances involved.