OR OR - Vida Mae Hirschy, 54, Medford, 2 Dec 1984

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Originally posted by dreamweaver
Vida Mae Hirschy, 1984
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs...NEWS/812210332
'snipped respectfully'

Hirschy walked out of her Griffin Creek Road home in her bathrobe in December 1984 to get some firewood. The next year, her body, weighted with a lead pipe, was found just beneath the surface of Applegate Lake when water dropped to an unusually low level. Investigators said they have built a circumstantial case against her husband and still hope for a break that will enable prosecutors to consider charges

 

[Lilibet]

I just ran across this case that is local to me. There have been several updates on this case over the years. No prosecution.

2003/2010

D.A. Huddleston was deciding whether to press charges against her husband.

[FONT=&quot]Hirschy’s husband, Donald Leslie Hirschy, told investigators that he didn’t notify police of her absence because she’d left him so many times in the past. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Donald Hirschy later served more than five years in federal prison on weapons charges. He was found riding in the trunk of a car in 1989 with two illegally altered guns and a homemade silencer made from a lawnmower muffler. Prosecutors said he was trying to kill a Medford woman he had dated.[/FONT]
http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20030504/BIZ/305049998

2004/2010

Investigators examined the saw cuts on the pipe used to weight Vida under the water of Applegate Lake.

http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20040321/biz/303219999

2017

As of 2008 Hirschy was living in a rest home and the D.A. declined to prosecute him because of age-related mental deficiencies. He could not understand the charges or remember the crime.

http://www.kdrv.com/content/news/452811323.html

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Vida as we pass the 35th anniversary...