MO MO - Jackson Co, WhtFem 35-50, UP5299, topaz ring "KI66" & T&C ring #1220, wallet with RMK , Apr'79

[MadMcGoo]

I found a MP whose stats match but details seem off. What do you all think?

Name: Dixie May Forrester
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: July 11, 1971
Location Last Seen: Springfield, Greene County, Missouri

Physical Description
Date of Birth: August 10, 1939
Age: 30 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 112 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Hazel
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown

Identifiers
Dentals: Available. She wore upper and lower dentures.
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance
Dixie May Forrester dropped her daughter off for babysitting at a cousin's house in Springfield, Missouri. Later that evening, Dixie's vehicle was located abandoned near the intersection of Atlantic Street and Missouri Avenue in Springfield near her ex-husband's home. Dixie has not been seen since since.

The ex-husband was arrested in connection to her disappearance, but later released. He is now deceased.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Dixie May Forrester – The Charley Project
3457DFMO - Dixie May Forrester
Dixie May Forrester - Newspapers.com

Stats match up for the most part. My only question would be how’d she go almost 8 years living nearby without anyone noticing. And did she willing leaving her child/children behind?

 

[devertere]

Stats match up for the most part. My only question would be how’d she go almost 8 years living nearby without anyone noticing. And did she willing leaving her child/children behind?

go for it. there can be a lot of reasons. she might have come back to the area...

 

[UnlicensedPI]

I wonder if KI stands for K---- Institute, instead of K---- I---- High School. I found a few K-something Institutes, but I think the ones I found had changed their names since 1966.

Also wondering if this could be a mother's ring, but I've never seen one with initials before. It would be really helpful if we had a picture of it...

 

[Laughing]

I wonder if KI stands for K---- Institute, instead of K---- I---- High School. I found a few K-something Institutes, but I think the ones I found had changed their names since 1966.

Also wondering if this could be a mother's ring, but I've never seen one with initials before. It would be really helpful if we had a picture of it...

Could it be H I????

Haskell Institute was founded in nearby Lawrence, Kansas as a BIA boarding school. The school was renamed Haskell Indian Junior College around the 1970's and is now Haskell Indian Nations University:

Home | Haskell Indian Nations University

 

[devertere]

oh wow, it could be.. good find. unfortuneately their 1966 yearbook is not on classmates, only on "e-yearbooks", which i still have to check out..

 

[devertere]

i contacted the alumni association on fb. th eyearbook thing costs 5 dollars.

 

[Laughing]

An alumni association is terrific! Just saying yeah or nay on the ring would help & a missing woman would be a big step.

Thanks!

 

[devertere]

I'm thinking on getting on the nerves of LO. Maybe they'd be willing to upload some photos....

 

[Laughing]

I'm thinking on getting on the nerves of LO. Maybe they'd be willing to upload some photos....

Photos would be helpful.

I've only contacted the LE listed on NAMUS a couple times -- but both responding officers were prompt & very nice about the whole thing!

IMHO, no LE agency has enough $$$ to pay someone to work all these cases. They don't mind us looking at the details & trying to match things up.

Seems to be a different Medical Examiner now:

Medical Examiner | Jackson County, MO

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[lonewanderer]

KI66:

George Gershwin Junior High School, Brooklyn, NY.

Junior High School K166 George Gershwin

Junior High School K166 George Gershwin

Maybe?

 

[devertere]

Photos would be helpful.

I've only contacted the LE listed on NAMUS a couple times -- but both responding officers were prompt & very nice about the whole thing!

IMHO, no LE agency has enough $$$ to pay someone to work all these cases. They don't mind us looking at the details & trying to match things up.

Seems to be a different Medical Examiner now:

Medical Examiner | Jackson County, MO

jmho ymmv lrr

Sleepless nights are productive nights. I wrote to the ME. Now we wait....

 

[bombardier]

KI66:

George Gershwin Junior High School, Brooklyn, NY.

Junior High School K166 George Gershwin

Junior High School K166 George Gershwin

Maybe?

Good find! When I look up the school, though, I see it called 'JHS 166' (standing for Junior High School) or 'IS 166' (dont know what that stands for) without a K? Do you know what the K would stand for?
Also, for all you Americans out there, would it be normal to get a class ring for middle school?

 

[lonewanderer]

Good find! When I look up the school, though, I see it called 'JHS 166' (standing for Junior High School) or 'IS 166' (dont know what that stands for) without a K? Do you know what the K would stand for?
Also, for all you Americans out there, would it be normal to get a class ring for middle school?

In one of the sources I saw, the "K" is actually the beginning of the building number K I66 for the particular school. "The school has been housed in building K166 (“K166”) located at 800 Van Siclen Avenue, Brooklyn since 2006." The UFT Charter School :: History Which in itself is confusing, as it is describing a charter school that opened in 2006, way after the death. Other sources make K166 the George Gershwin Junior High School.

For the class ring, it isn't completely unheard of. I would guess that the ring was more likely to be because she was a faculty member, teacher, etc.

 

[Laughing]

Good find! When I look up the school, though, I see it called 'JHS 166' (standing for Junior High School) or 'IS 166' (dont know what that stands for) without a K? Do you know what the K would stand for?
Also, for all you Americans out there, would it be normal to get a class ring for middle school?

Some places in the US have schools that only go to 8th grade (the students attend high schools in another town, usually a bigger one able to support the larger school,) and generally those students can purchase a class ring to mark completing 8th grade & their years in that school.

No idea how popular that was in 1966?

Not an expert in the New York Public Schools, but at one point they only had numbers, like PS 166 indicating Public School 166.

That building is not George Gershwin today but Richard Rodgers serving gifted & talented:

PS 166 - Home Page -


NO idea if schools in Kansas City where ever identified by numbers?

I could stand for Independent, ISD for Independent School District is common.

The city of Independence in is Jackson County. Does the I stand for Independence?

NO idea what buildings would have been active in 1966.

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[imstilla.grandma]

https://www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov/MSHPWeb/upphotos/A1001001A16E16B54849B662631.pdf

 

[subaw0067]

Maybe Ruth Muriel Egnoski?

The height and weight add up, she disappeared in 1964 (charley project says it may have been as late as 1966) as an 18 year old, she'd be 33 at the time Jane Doe died. Hair color matches; brown. Muriels eye color is not noted. She disappeared from Delavan, Wisconsin which is a 7.5 hour drive. Maybe she left her family, got married to someone with the last initial K, and her family never heard from her again.

 

[subaw0067]

Maybe Ruth Muriel Egnoski?

The height and weight add up, she disappeared in 1964 (charley project says it may have been as late as 1966) as an 18 year old, she'd be 33 at the time Jane Doe died. Hair color matches; brown. Muriels eye color is not noted. She disappeared from Delavan, Wisconsin which is a 7.5 hour drive. Maybe she left her family, got married to someone with the last initial K, and her family never heard from her again.

This is from November of 2002. Kind of a misleading title; she wasn't matched to any remains but police identified her as the subject of investigation. Also this article says she disappeared in 1966, as opposed to the NAMUS entry which says 1964.

There are a few more articles that show she was an active member in the local Baptist Youth Fellowship.

 

[smeijles]

Sleepless nights are productive nights. I wrote to the ME. Now we wait....

I came upon this case today in NamUs and saw you reached out to the ME. Did you hear anything back?

 

[Romulus]

882UFMO - Unidentified Female​

Date of Discovery: April 6, 1979
Location of Discovery: Jackson County, Missouri
Estimated Date of Death: Hours prior to discovery
State of Remains: Not recognizable - Decomposing/putrefaction
Cause of Death: Homicide

Physical Description​

Estimated Age: 35-50 years old
Race: White
Sex: Female
Height: 5'4", Estimated.
Weight: 100 lbs, Estimated.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Hazel
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown

Identifiers​

Dentals: Not available. Upper and lower dentures.
Fingerprints: Available. RT: PM PM 10 18 20; LT: 12 55 52 55 16.
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Bra (size 38), Miss Kay sweater, and a gold/brown Glennbrook blouse.
Jewelry: Gold ring with brown rectangle and topaz initials "KI66. Town and Country ring # 1220.
Additional Personal Items: A tan wallet with the initials "RMK" inscribed was found near the body.

Circumstances of Discovery​

The decedent was found on the 12th-floor roof of the Continental Hotel located at 12th and Baltimore Streets in Kansas City on April 6, 1979. Police believe she was thrown from the 19th floor fire escape of an adjoining section of the hotel. Her throat had been cut.

During the intitial investigation, police theorized the decedent was from the Joplin, Missouri area. They believed she may have arrived in Kansas City by bus and met her killer soon after that.

Investigating Agency(s)​

Agency Name: Missouri State Highway Patrol
Agency Phone Number: 573-526-6122
Agency Case Number: 0M046524

NCIC Case Number: U230004670
NamUs Case Number: 5299
Former Hot Case Number: 1749

Information Source(s)​

NamUs
The Kansas City Star - Apr. 8. 1979

882UFMO

 

[devertere]

I'm an idiot.. T&co may not stand for town&country but TIFFANY&CO.... It might not even bei a class ring but rather a wedding ring... Oof

also, i never heard back from anyone...