PA PA - Edward Hower Maps, 39, Stroudsburg, 21 June 1962

[mst]

STROUDSBURG ESCAPE ARTIST EDWARD MAPS IS STILL WANTED IN ’62 DEATHS OF WIFE, DAUGHTER

ore than 30 years ago, 38-year-old Stroudsburg artist Edward Howard Maps allegedly took a blunt object, fatally struck his 22-year-old wife, Christine, in the head and set their Stroudsburg home on…

www.mcall.com

Some interesting info here. If he murdered them, why not take stocks/bonds or something worth $? Why risk robbing a bank later and risking being caught?

 

[nostonepa]

STROUDSBURG ESCAPE ARTIST EDWARD MAPS IS STILL WANTED IN ’62 DEATHS OF WIFE, DAUGHTER

ore than 30 years ago, 38-year-old Stroudsburg artist Edward Howard Maps allegedly took a blunt object, fatally struck his 22-year-old wife, Christine, in the head and set their Stroudsburg home on…

www.mcall.com

Some interesting info here. If he murdered them, why not take stocks/bonds or something worth $? Why risk robbing a bank later and risking being

 

[rob525]

You're right. I can't understand why the file would be destroyed unless they were 100 percent sure he was dead. Then again there's good old bureaucratic ineptitude.

Then the next question has to be; Why would they just not come out and say it? Any chance that Maps was an informant for LE and this was the result?

 

[mst]

Then the next question has to be; Why would they just not come out and say it? Any chance that Maps was an informant for LE and this was the result?

I wondered that and wondered if he was in a program of some sort (like the lsd program of the 60s) that caused him to freak and they knew it

 

[victoriarobinson642]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Possible match - John Doe found in PA in January 1964 with baby shoes on his person

 

[rob525]

I wonder why the case file says that height cannot be estimated. They have a body. I thought they could estimate height based on the femur etc. I suppose, in this case, there may not be a femur found, and I am making erroneous assumptions.

 

[Richard]

Bumping this thread up. The FBI has maintained a "Most Wanted" list for the past 75 years or more, and they update it whenever someone on the list is captured or killed.

Sometimes, they simply drop a fugitive from the list when there has been no contact or clue for an extended period of time.