NY NY - Norine Higuchi Brown, 31, Nassau County, 12 Dec 1990

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We tried to get the Nassau County Police Dept to
Look into this. They took the information and it went cold again.
 
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We tried to get the Nassau County Police Dept to
Look into this. They took the information and it went cold again.
 
  • #43
Don't give up!

Why didn't police get a search warrant to search their house?
 
  • #44
Don't give up!

Why didn't police get a search warrant to search their house?

The husband lawyered up pretty quickly and it stayed a missing persons case for way too long
 
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Today is the 31st anniversary of Norine's disappearance...

Eight years of Dateline's Missing in America: 169 still missing

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Norine Brown left her New Hyde Park, Long Island home around 11 p.m. on December 13, 1990, to go to the store to buy supplies to make cookies. The 32-year-old mother of two never came back. Norine’s husband, John, called her friend Elaine and asked her to drive by the local Pathmark. Elaine made a horrible discovery. Norine’s car was in the parking lot. It was locked and there were wrapped Christmas presents in the back of the car. Police took down a missing persons report and an investigation began. Norine’s husband, John, previously told News 12 Long Island that he believes his wife was murdered. No persons of interest or suspects have been named in Norine’s case. For updated information on Norine’s case, you can visit the FindNorine Facebook page. If you have any information on the circumstances regarding Norine’s disappearance, please call the Nassau County Police Department at (516) 573-8800.
 
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DEC 5, 2022

Norine Brown left her New Hyde Park, Long Island home around 11:00 p.m. on December 13, 1990, to go to the store to buy supplies to make cookies. The 32-year-old mother of two never returned. According to Norine’s friend Elaine Comando, Norine’s husband, John, called her on December 13, 1990, and asked her to drive by the local Pathmark. Elaine found Norine’s car in the parking lot. It was locked and there were Christmas presents, wrapped, in the back. Elaine told Dateline that John called police and they took down a missing persons report which began their investigation. John Brown told News 12 Long Island that he believes his wife was murdered and has denied having anything to with his wife’s disappearance. No persons of interest or suspects have been named in the case. Dateline reached out to Nassau County Police in November 2022 for an update, but has not yet received a response. You can follow Norine’s case on the ‘Find Norine’ Facebook page. If you have any information on the circumstances regarding Norine’s disappearance, please call the Nassau County Police Department at (516) 573-8800.
 
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DEC 5, 2022

Norine Brown left her New Hyde Park, Long Island home around 11:00 p.m. on December 13, 1990, to go to the store to buy supplies to make cookies. The 32-year-old mother of two never returned. According to Norine’s friend Elaine Comando, Norine’s husband, John, called her on December 13, 1990, and asked her to drive by the local Pathmark. Elaine found Norine’s car in the parking lot. It was locked and there were Christmas presents, wrapped, in the back. Elaine told Dateline that John called police and they took down a missing persons report which began their investigation. John Brown told News 12 Long Island that he believes his wife was murdered and has denied having anything to with his wife’s disappearance. No persons of interest or suspects have been named in the case. Dateline reached out to Nassau County Police in November 2022 for an update, but has not yet received a response. You can follow Norine’s case on the ‘Find Norine’ Facebook page. If you have any information on the circumstances regarding Norine’s disappearance, please call the Nassau County Police Department at (516) 573-8800.
I get this happened in New York, but it still blows my mind someone would go to the store that late at night, unless it was an emergency. I find it suspicious, but maybe that's the norm for that area?
Nearly all of our stores would have been closed by then, except for chain convenience stores which most likely wouldn't have cookie ingredients. Even now, my local Hannaford closes at 9. So here if a husband told the police his wife went to the store at 11:00 pm to buy cookie ingredients, of all things, I would hope they'd be skeptical.
 
  • #53
I don't think it's unusual if it truly was something she did regularly.

Did they ever search her house?
 
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Norine is discussed early on in the video.
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There are more than 100 open missing persons cases on Long Island. NewsdayTV's Shari Einhorn and Newsday senior law enforcement reporter Tony DeStefano report.
 
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Norine Higuchi Brown went to Pathmark in New Hyde Park on Dec. 12, 1990, to pick up Christmas items. She never returned home.

Authorities found the car she drove to the store the next day; it was at the far end of the parking lot. But the married mother of two toddlers — who would have turned 32 that day — was nowhere to be found.

For the past 33 years, the mystery of what happened to Brown has haunted her family and friends. Despite efforts by the Nassau County Police Department, which classifies the case as an active investigation, no leads have developed, and no remains matching hers have been found.
 
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1 Unidentified Person Exclusion
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