TN TN - Judith Ann Ehmke, 39, Ashland City, 26 Nov 1986

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Case File 695DFTN

Judith Ann Ehmke
Missing since November 26, 1986 from Ashland City, Cheatham County, Tennessee.
Classification: Endangered Missing

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Vital Statistics

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  [*]Date Of Birth: June 29, 1946
  [*]Age at Time of Disappearance: 39 years old
  [*]Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'8"; 180 lbs.
  [*]Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Dark brown hair, streaked with gray; brown eyes.
  [*]Marks, Scars: She has a pin-sized hole at the top of each ear. She has a scar on the right knee, a scar on the right finger and a scar on the left knee.
• Dentals: Complete dentures

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Circumstances of Disappearance
Judith Ehmke was last seen November 26, 1986. She worked as a nurse's aide at a nursing home, was married and had three children. In the morning, she was picked up by her husband from her overnight job at a nursing home. When her kids got home, her husband said Judith had taken off with another man.
He provided the children a typewritten goodbye letter.
At the time the couple were having a lot of marital difficulties, and Judith had met with an attorney two days before she disappeared. She planned on leaving her husband and taking her three children with her.
Police were notified about Judy Ehmke's disappearance when her daughter told a school counselor her mom was missing.
People close to Judith say she would never have abandoned her children. Foul play is suspected.

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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Cheatham County Sheriff's Department
615-792-4341
NCIC Number:
M-045215505
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.
Source Information:
Website dedicated to Judith Ehmke
WSMV News

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/695dftn.html

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/10549/

 

[Gardener1850]

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Unidentified skeletal remains found in a cistern in Dickson County, TN: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...Co-Adult-skeletal-remains-in-cistern-May-2018

This is about 16 miles from Ashland City: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Bla...20ffdf930c!2m2!1d-87.0641699!2d36.2742207!3e0

 

[fasteddy8170]

Recent interview with Judith's daughter:

Judith Ehmke: The Choice Is Yours | Free Podcasts | Podomatic"

 

[Coffee56]

The Doe Network: Case File 695DFTN

Judith Ann Ehmke
Missing since November 26, 1986 from Ashland City, Cheatham County, Tennessee.
Classification: Endangered Missing



Vital Statistics

• • Date Of Birth: June 29, 1946
  • Age at Time of Disappearance: 39 years old
  • Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'8"; 180 lbs.
  • Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Dark brown hair, streaked with gray; brown eyes.
  • Marks, Scars: She has a pin-sized hole at the top of each ear. She has a scar on the right knee, a scar on the right finger and a scar on the left knee.
  • Dentals: Complete dentures

Circumstances of Disappearance
Judith Ehmke was last seen November 26, 1986. She worked as a nurse's aide at a nursing home, was married and had three children. In the morning, she was picked up by her husband from her overnight job at a nursing home. When her kids got home, her husband said Judith had taken off with another man.
He provided the children a typewritten goodbye letter.
At the time the couple were having a lot of marital difficulties, and Judith had met with an attorney two days before she disappeared. She planned on leaving her husband and taking her three children with her.
Police were notified about Judy Ehmke's disappearance when her daughter told a school counselor her mom was missing.
People close to Judith say she would never have abandoned her children. Foul play is suspected.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Cheatham County Sheriff's Department
615-792-4341

NCIC Number:
M-045215505
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
Website dedicated to Judith Ehmke
WSMV News

Additional photo Tennessee Missing and Unsolved FB page. Additional comments from her daughter
Tennessee Missing and Unsolved

 

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[Pennysmom1]

Judith is still missing

Missing Person / NamUs #MP10549

View NamUs missing person case MP10549 for Judith Ann Ehmke missing from Ashland, Tennessee. Date of last contact: Nov 26, 1986. NCMEC case number: --.

namus.nij.ojp.gov

Judith Ann Ehmke – The Charley Project

• Medical Conditions- Judith may have been pregnant at the time of her 1986 disappearance, but this has never been confirmed.

Details of Disappearance​

Judith was last seen on November 26, 1986 at approximately 7:00 a.m. Her husband, Darrell "Tex" Ehmke, picked her up from the Cheatham County Nursing Home, where Judith was employed as a nurse's aide. She has never been seen again.

Judith and Darrell's three children returned home from school in the afternoon and discovered that the house was locked. This was unusual, since Judith was always home by that time. Darrell arrived shortly thereafter with groceries and opened the residence. He discovered that his wife's clothes had been removed from their bedroom closet. Photos were missing from albums and jewelry had been removed from Judith's jewelry box.

There was a note placed in a typewriter in the Ehmkes' residence, stating that Judith was tired of her husband "controlling" her and had decided to leave him for another man. The entire letter was typewritten, including Judith's signature, which is uncharacteristic of her; she usually hand-wrote all her notes. Darrell threw the letter away, but one of their children read it before it was destroyed.

Judith and Darrell were having marital problems in 1986 and Judith had met with an attorney about a possible divorce. She planned to leave her husband and take their children. Many of Judith's relatives and friends insisted that it was very uncharacteristic of her to leave her children and simply disappear of her own accord. Judith never returned to the nursing home to retrieve an awaiting paycheck.

Authorities focused on Darrell as the prime suspect in Judith's disappearance. He failed to report her as a missing person until two weeks after she was last seen, after one of their daughters told a school counselor her mother was missing. Authorities searched the Ehmekes' property several times, but evidence was not recovered. Their house has since burned down.

Darrell has been arrested several times for assault and theft since 1986. He was also convicted of rape in 1993, but the conviction was later overturned.

One of Judith's co-workers reported that Judith said she had an affair with a neighbor shortly before her November 1986 disappearance. The co-worker also stated that Judith suspected she was pregnant by the neighbor, but this was never confirmed. According to one of Judith's daughters, the neighbor was also viewed as a potential suspect in her mother's case.

Foul play is presumed in Judith's disappearance. Her case remains unsolved.

 

[Pennysmom1]

695DFTN - Judith Ann Ehmke

Identifiers​

Dentals: Complete dentures
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Article clipped from The Tennessean

Clipping found in The Tennessean published in Nashville, Tennessee on 8/6/1987.

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