WV WV - Mary O'dell, 33 to 34, Belle/Quincy, 14 October 1982

[Romulus]

Mary Ellen O'dell

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/40584/937

Age last seen: 33 to 34
Age now: 68
Race: White female
Hair color: Blond/strawberry
Eyes Color: Blue
Height: 63.0 to 65.0
Weight: 125.0 to 130.0
Scars and Marks: nothing

No photos disponible

Unknown circumstances

 

[folieadeuxnola]

Finding info on this MP has seriously me ... thought she may have been a Worley however that MEOW passed away in 1995. So very little info ... and there are a lot of O'Dell's in the tri area

 

[InquisitiveIndividual]

Doing a bit of a cross-reference here from the Samuel Little thread, but could this victim potentially be her? A lot of the descriptive characteristics seem to fit, though we don't have a photograph of Mary.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[kdh1227]

Mary was from Pratt, not Belle. It has been a rumor since the begining that her husband Jerry & his mistress Linda Buchanan were involved in her disappearance. He ran a funeral home in Montgomery. Very easy to get rid a small framed woman if you own a funeral home, just put her in the bottom of another person's casket.
It was also rumored that she was in Lisa Kees casket, however I'm not sure if the timing is the same.
This case has haunted me since I was a child. I wish we could find Mary & the people be held accountable.

 

[StarrChance]

So I found this in West Virginia newspaper 1970

Then in 1976,
Did he buy out the Howard Funeral home?

 

[StarrChance]

Now for the strange part I found...
Had they divorced and remarried ? Three months before she disappeared.

A marriage in Texas 1982

Name: Mary E Yates
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Birth Year: abt 1950
Marriage Date: 27 Aug 1982
Marriage Place: Wichita, Texas, USA
Spouse: Jerry C Odell
Spouse Gender: Male
Spouse Age: 34

 

[StarrChance]

His marriage certificate, interesting he says his last marriage ended January 1981? Can’t make sense of all this.

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Name: Jerry Clinton O'Dell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 35
Birth Date: 3 Feb 1948
Marriage Registration Place: Giles, Virginia, USA
Marriage Date: 29 Oct 1983
Marriage Place: Pearisburg, Virginia, USA
Father: James Clinton O'Dell
Mother: Marguerite Chapman
Spouse: Linda Jean Brown Buchanan

 

[StarrChance]

His marriage certificate, interesting he says his last marriage ended January 1982. Can’t make sense of all this.
Edit to add January 1982.
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Name: Jerry Clinton O'Dell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 35
Birth Date: 3 Feb 1948
Marriage Registration Place: Giles, Virginia, USA
Marriage Date: 29 Oct 1983
Marriage Place: Pearisburg, Virginia, USA
Father: James Clinton O'Dell
Mother: Marguerite Chapman
Spouse: Linda Jean Brown Buchanan

 

[folieadeuxnola]

His marriage certificate, interesting he says his last marriage ended January 1981? Can’t make sense of all this.

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Name: Jerry Clinton O'Dell
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 35
Birth Date: 3 Feb 1948
Marriage Registration Place: Giles, Virginia, USA
Marriage Date: 29 Oct 1983
Marriage Place: Pearisburg, Virginia, USA
Father: James Clinton O'Dell
Mother: Marguerite Chapman
Spouse: Linda Jean Brown Buchanan

I wonder if they were separated at the time (Jan 81) and later in the same time frame divorced then got back together.

Divorce's can be a love hate relationship and can become messy if their is money and assets at stake.