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3 Decades Old Cold Cases That Perplex Me

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I have a website that I use to profile missing person cases and unidentified people. I have operated the website for about five years but my interest in such mysteries goes back further. It mainly started as a teenager when I took an interest in forensic television shows. I have gravitated toward cases that are forty years old or more recent, believing that they are the ones that are most likely to be solved. However, from time to time I have not been able to help but look at older and colder cases. These are three old and cold cases that stand out in my memory. Paula Jean Welden Missing for 75 Years Something happened to Paula Jean Welden on December 1st, 1946 that, at the time of writing, has not yet been traced. The then 18-year old student at Bennington College in Vermont left her home after telling her roommate, a young woman named Elizabeth Johnson, that she was going to hike a trail known as The Long Trail. Many others besides Elizabeth would see Welden that day but no one has s