Song Im Joseph - NamUs #MP6936

By: Shane Lambert
Original Time of Writing: December 13th, 2020

Song Im Joseph went missing back in 1976 with a last-seen date that isn't clear. According to NamUs, she went missing on June 8th, 1975. According to a newspaper article, the date was June 6th. There's a small difference there and perhaps those looking at this case need to be aware of both dates. She disappeared from a place called Rehoboth, Delaware and her vitals are below:

• Asian female
• 20 years old when she disappeared
• 5'2" to 5'3"
• 100 - 105 pounds
• Black hair
• brown eyes

NamUs offers a description that states that the missing person is a native of Korea. It says that she went to the USA in November of 1974 with her husband, an American serviceman named Alton Edward Joseph. They called her disappearance "suspicious" and indicated that US immigration had no reason to believe that she went back to Korea.

Her disappearance wasn't well covered in the newspapers that are included in the database I searched. One short blurb about her appeared in 1983's The News Journal (October 31st, 1983 - page 9). This marginal said there was a $1000 reward "for information about the mysterious disappearance." Furthermore, this marginal indicated that Song had "told friends" that she had been "followed by a man who spoke Korean."

NamUs #MP6936 Mon, Oct 31, 1983 – Page 9 · The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) · Newspapers.com

The report of the man following Song Im Joseph is interesting. It may also be noted that her husband, Alton E. Joseph, was committing crimes in the 1970s that would land him a 30-month prison sentence in the early parts of the next century. Joseph, who remarried, was found guilty of stealing explosives from the military in the 1970s.

Thu, Feb 13, 2003 – Page 22 · The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) · Newspapers.com