WI WI - Helen Stark, South Milwaukee, 23-26 years old, 12 January 1946

[WIMurderChronicles]

I found out her mother died in 1936, and her younger siblings were put in an orphanage.
Maybe that's why her family believed she'd never abandon her children?

Also, if there ever was a missing person report it might have been lost, and maybe a relative filed a new one in 2013, when she was entered into Namus.
By then there was only one sibling left who was only 13 when Helen disappeared, hence the few details and "sketchy facts."

Mother/ findagrave
1940 census (St Joseph Orphan Asylum)

Dorothy died in 2015. Sophia in 2013. In Sophia’s obit Helen and the three brothers are listed as deceased .

 

[Keiri]

DOB was 18 JAN 1920, not sure why they kept saying unknown.

 

[Keiri]

I have submitted her information to Doe Network to be added

 

[alb1on]

DOB was 18 JAN 1920, not sure why they kept saying unknown.

According to the Wisconsin birth record on Ancestry (under Borkowska rather than Borkowski) that should be 18 Jan 1921. That is also consistent with the age of 9 in the 1930 census (shown as Burkowski!). The 1930 census record must be the right person as the parents and siblings are correct as shown.
If the William P Stark suggested as her husband is correct there is a divorce record on Ancestry from 16 October 1946 in Wisconsin. This seems remarkably fast after she went missing and could mean either some sort of mutual decision to go separate ways or place suspicion on the husband.

 

[Keiri]

Doe Network has added her: https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-main.html?id=4950DFWI

 

[Pennysmom1]

Helen Borkowski Stark (1922-1946) - Find a Grave...

Helen was last seen in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin on or about January 12, 1946. She was having marital issues at the time of her disappearance. She never came to pick her two young children up at the babysitter's and has never been heard from again. Oddly, the date given for Helen's...

www.findagrave.com

 

[Keiri]

disregard, i want to fidn further proof before I share

 

[blayneyyy25]

was this jane doe ruled out for her? time and location fit perfect.

 

[Keiri]

was this jane doe ruled out for her? time and location fit perfect.

Location? Helen went missing in Milwaukee. Cassian is way further north, about 5 hrs away. Someone would have had to really travel far to dump her in the forest rather than the much closer and probably easier lake or river.

There was talk in the file that the family read about a Jane doe in Lake Michigan shortly after Helen went missing, fueling suspicions that she was dumped in water. I have looked but not been able to find Jane does that fit the right specifications (either on NaMus or newspaper sites).

 

[Quoththeraven]

Helen's maiden name was spelled wrong on the Wisconsin Census 1930. I thought it odd that she disappeared on the same day he was discharged from the Army and that he was responsible for her disappearance that same day. And if you look at the family tree, the males last name was Borkowski and the females last name was Borkowska. Birth of daughter Helen Borkowska 18 Jan 1921 • Wisconsin, USA

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/36840874/person/142162200517/facts?_phsrc=zmA9979&_phstart=successSource

 

[Keiri]

Helen's maiden name was spelled wrong on the Wisconsin Census 1930. I thought it odd that she disappeared on the same day he was discharged from the Army and that he was responsible for her disappearance that same day. And if you look at the family tree, the males last name was Borkowski and the females last name was Borkowska. Birth of daughter Helen Borkowska 18 Jan 1921 • Wisconsin, USA

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/36840874/person/142162200517/facts?_phsrc=zmA9979&_phstart=successSource

That’s a polish naming convention. Females used a at the end, like “Adamska” and men used an I, Adamski. Eventually that distinction was Americanized/standardized to use just the I, but it was still common then, which can make genealogy tricky.