Jacqueline Winfred Kinney (NamUs MP#23628) - Case details

NamUs doesn't have a lot of information posted for those looking at the case of Jacqueline Kinney. The site says she went missing on December 5th, 1969 from Canton, Connecticut. At time of writing, 50 years are about to pass since she went missing. I've decided that 50 years is my deadline for working on a MP's case so I thought I'd give her case an hour of research tonight.


From Namus:

  • She was 35 when she went missing
  • She was 5'4"
  • She was 150 pounds
  • Last known location was 41.8534128,-72.88699299999999
  • Red/auburn hair, blue eyes
  • Surgery-related scar on right side of abdomen
  • Scar on back of her left leg below the knee
  • Vaccination scar on one of her legs above the knee
Information I gathered from reading articles in historical newspaper articles:
  • From The Hartford Courant. September 2nd, 1977. Page 5.
    • She was of 7 High Street, Collinsville section
    • Her husband's name was Gerald; he reported her missing on December 8th, which is three days after she was last seen
    • She was reported missing from her home
    • The police searched around a place called "the old Werner homestead" for her after receiving a tip they wouldn't elaborate on in the fall of 1977 (nearly eight years after she was last seen)
    • Family didn't think she would run off
  • From The Hartford Courant. September 18th, 1977. Page 3.
    • They stopped searching "the old Werner homestead" for her
Note: vanished December 5th according to NamUs.
December 8th was when she was reported missing.
  • From The Hartford Courant. Feb 2, 1979. Page 2.
    • The police sought a warrant for her murder.
    • No name of the suspect given but he was called "a man who once lived in Canton and who knew Mrs. Kinney."
    • Same article says the husband, who reported her missing three days after she was last seen, was reported to be living in Maine as of September 1977 (maybe Bridgewater, Maine)


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