Mary Ann Mariz -- Missing From Sacamento Since 1982? Or found deceased in 1985?

Paraphrased details from government source**: Mary Ann Mariz was last seen by her mother leaving their shared residence on 04/14/1982 to go out with friends.

Missing Person: Mary Ann Mariz
Last-contact date: April 14th, 1982 (Wednesday)
The area where the MP was last seen: Sacramento, California
Link to government source: NamUs MP87396

VITAL DETAILS

Ethnicity: Caucasian
Sex: Female
Age at time of disappearance: 23 years old
Birthdate: Mary Ann Mariz was born between April 15th, 1958, and April 14th, 1959 based on her reported age at the last date of reported contact. She might have been born on November 14th, 1958. Someone named "Mary A. Mariz" was born in San Bernardino County at that time according to a file at Ancestry that I found.
Hair: Brown, shoulder lengthed
Eyes: Brown
Scar: None known
Height/weight: 5-foot-6 and 120 to 125 pounds
BMI*: Mary Ann Mariz was in the normal range for BMI.
Tattoos: Mary Ann Mariz did not have any tattoos associated with her profiles.
Clothing and Accessories: This missing person was associated with a lot of clothing articles and/or possessions. Note the following with this case: a rust-colored jacket, blue jeans, a printed shirt, a silver watch, a birthstone ring with a pink stone, and a choker-type chain necklace.

By: Shane Lambert

Mary Ann Mariz has not been seen since April 14th, 1982 when she was 23 years old. This individual has now been missing for about 39 years as of the original publication date of this blog post.

This case is a fairly recent addition to NamUs, at the time of writing. It was added in December 2021, making for a nearly 40-year gap between Mary Ann's disappearance and the uploading into NamUs.

What stood out with this case during my research was that this person, at one time, appeared to have been identified as a deceased individual. On February 12th, 1985, The Auburn Journal apparently reported that her skeletal remains had been found. There is an age mismatch of one year between NamUs and the article, however, I really think this is the same case based on all the other details.

12 Feb 1985, Tue Auburn Journal (Auburn, California) Newspapers.com
I wondered where the mistake was: was Mary Ann Mariz not actually the decadent mentioned in the article? Did they realize at a different time that they had made a mistake in identifying her? Or has she been found deceased and there was a clerical error that lead to her case being uploaded into NamUs?

I emailed the sheriff for this case and learned that Mary Ann Mariz is partly missing. They have not recovered all of her remains.To quote Deputy Sheriff Christine (Paige) Kneeland's email from December 27th, 2021:

"Yes, MARIZ is deceased, however, only partial remains were discovered. There is still a great deal of remains that have not been found, or might be DOE remains somewhere. So we have initiated a missing person protocol investigation due to the still outstanding amount of remains."

Thank you for reading. If have any information about this case, consider contacting the authorities.

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*For BMI values, I use the UPPER or HIGHER ranges that are given for height and weight.
**Might not be the exact meaning that NamUs or Canada's Missing conveys. I improve upon their descriptions with my research.
Disclaimer: To determine whether a person is missing or not, this site relies heavily on government sources. If you are described as missing when you are not, I recommend simply having your missing person report updated or removed. When that happens, updates at this site can follow.

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Margaret Peters -- Missing Since March 1962 From Seattle, Washington

Missing Person: Margaret Peters
Last-contact date: March 1st, 1962
The area where the MP was last seen: Seattle, Washington

Link to government source: NamUs #MP25713

Ethnicity: White

Sex: Female

Age at time of disappearance: 40 years old

Birthdate: between March 2nd, 1921 to March 1st, 1922
Hair details: Brown
Eye details: Brown
Scars: None known
Height/weight: 5-foot-4 to 5-foot-5 and 110 pounds
BMI*: In this case, the missing person was underweight by BMI at the time of the disappearance.

*For BMI values, I use the UPPER or HIGHER ranges. BMI is body mass index. It relates to an individual's height and weight. Even with photographs, getting an idea of what a person's body might have looked like might help with a missing person's case.

Details from NamUs**: Last seen by her daughter in the spring or summer of 1962. May have gone to Nevada where she lived from 1958-1961.
**Grammar or spelling errors are not corrected from original sources.

Margaret Peters has not been seen since March 1st, 1962 when she was 40. At about that time, she was known to have been from the Seattle, Washington area.

What stands out, in this case, is the NamUs description. It injects some hope into the case that the missing person might have been alive after her last-seen date. Websleuths or amateur investigators can look for a record of this person in Nevada after her disappearance. If you know this individual's middle initial or middle name, then it would be useful information.

I found someone named Margaret Peters who was born on January 28th, 1922 that had an association with a residence in Nevada. The birthdate is in the range of the MP, however, I was not able to authenticate the profiles as being of the same person. This person died in March 1996.

Thank you for reading. If have any information about this case, consider contacting the authorities.

James Hugh Wilson -- Missing Since Plane Crash in 1970

Missing Person: James Hugh Wilson
Last-contact date: January 28th, 1970
Area MP was last seen: Cleveland, Ohio

Link to government source: NamUs #MP62284

Ethnicity: White
Sex: Male
Age at time of disappearance: 48 years old
Hair details: gray or graying
Eye details: blue
Height/weight: 6-foot to 6-foot-1 and 180 to 220 pounds

Details from NamUs: this individual was on a plane that crashed into Lake Erie on the day of his disappearance.

Note: this article is not about the musician, James Hugh Wilson, who plays the cello.

James Hugh Wilson, a missing person, was last heard from on January 28th, 1970 when he was 48 years old. When James disappeared, he was of the Cleveland, Ohio area.

What stands out in this case, is the elephant in the room: James was on a plane that crashed. They recovered most of the bodies, however, James was not among those recovered.

Someone lost in a plane crash might be lost for all time. However, his remains might turn up someday. From what I read, the fuselage of the airplane may have gone under the water of Lake Erie and sunk.

This certainly is not the biggest mystery out there regarding missing persons as James' fate appears to be known. However, it's still a good case to be aware of when it comes to finding John Does in Lake Erie. I don't think bodies lost at sea would be likely to remain intact over several decades, however, bodies in freshwater may be different. Conversely, parts of James may be found.

The flight was from Cleveland, Ohio to Detroit. It departed at 738am and went off the radar about 10 minutes later. James and another passenger have never been accounted for.

Wed, Jan 28, 1970 – Page 1 · Traverse City Record-Eagle (Traverse City, Michigan) · Newspapers.com

Marion Alice Morton -- Missing Since 1937

Missing Person: Marion Alice Morton
Last-contact date: December 30th, 1937

Birth year: either 1884 or 1883
Disappeared from: Georgetown, Delaware

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Link to Government Source: NamUs #MP5405

Ethnicity: White
Sex: Female
Age at time of disappearance: 53
Hair: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Height/weight at the time of disappearance: 5'0" to 5'6" and 100 to 140 pounds
Details as per NamUs: "Marian Morton was seen and known to be alive by granddaughter on a winter evening in either 1938, 1939 or 1940 at 114 W Market St Georgetown, Delaware."

Maron Alice Morton does not have a profile photo available at NamUs. Those that are working on this case, could direct themselves to looking for one to include with her missing persons profile. Typically, Ancestry Yearbooks are a great place to look. However, in this case the individual went missing when she was 53 years old. Newspapers.com and other sources at Ancestry might serve the researcher better.

This individual would be deceased at the time of writing. If you are working on this case, then be aware that it will be exceedingly difficult with little hope of making any contribution to justice.

There were a couple of same-named individuals that appeared at Ancestry that were both born in 1883. However, I could not authenticate either as being the missing person.

Author: Shane Lambert (Facebook profile)

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Identification of Sumter County Does Highlights Shortcomings of Database Records

Author: Shane Lambert

January 22nd, 2021

The Sumter County Does have been identified. For fans of unsolved mysteries, this has been a very long time coming. For Websleuths and amateur investigators, it's a huge sigh of relief. The male and female murder victims that were found dead in August of 1976 now have names: they are James Paul Freund and Pamela Mae Buckley.

Mon, Aug 9, 1982 – 1 · The Item (Sumter, South Carolina) · Newspapers.com

The case should highlight one glaring fact: the number of missing person cases that do not enter the online and searchable documentary record must be immense. I couldn't find missing person reports for either of the two individuals on the Internet nor in newspapers.com's database, a database that scours an immense volume of historical archives. 

I did find legal notices for James P. Freund but not news articles about his disappearance. The difference is important: more people read the news than the classifieds. The following legal notice pertains to the John Doe in the right gravemarker pictured above.

Thu, Sep 19, 1985 – 52 · Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com

The implications of James Paul Freund's and Pamela Mae Buckley's missing person details not entering the searchable archives cannot be ignored by those that work on missing person cases. These were not people on the fringe of society. If they go missing without entering the newspapers in authored articles or the databases like NamUs, then what should be expected of the more marginalized? There must be thousands and thousands of missing person's cases that aren't getting solved simply because no one is taking the time to get the reports into the newspapers or into databases.

That's important to note, especially in the case of James Paul Freund. He had a ring that bore his initials "JPF," a ring that was found on the John Doe. If James Paul Freund had been entered into NamUs, then I absolutely think that he would have been identified a very long time ago. I think that because the mystery of the Sumter County Does is not your standard John/Jane Doe mystery: this one had a huge following. 

Such was the interest in this mystery that I am convinced that someone, like a keener Websleuth, would have plugged the relevant dates into NamUs. You can do that by simply looking for someone who went missing prior to the discovery of the bodies. You select the date of death of the John Doe as the end date  for the search and for a start date you could go back a year if you wanted -- or more if you felt it was needed. While such searches would produce small hundreds of matches, it wouldn't take that long to look for someone with the initials JPF that went missing at about the right time. If James Paul Freund had a NamUs profile, then one-half of the Sumter County Does would have been identified ages ago -- I'm sure of that.

The lesson is clear: if you know someone who is missing that is not entered into your government's online resource for missing people, then that is something you should remedy. While it can take a long time to get these databases up to date, there are people that cross-reference missing person's details with John/Jane Does.

Some people who disappear can't be traced, however, many can. That missing person you wonder about needs to be in the searchable archives to stand a better chance of being found. The case of James Paul Freund shows that: he went unidentified for 44 years and, in my opinion, that could have been much shorter. Freund and Buckley were murdered: what a shame it would be if the murderer lived out his natural life when simple data-entry could have produced a break in the case a long time ago.

Newspaper Clippings for Kelly Lynn Disney -- Missing Person since 1984

Author: Shane Lambert

The case of Kelly Lynn Disney is not the most perplexing missing person's case. She was last seen on March 9th, 1984 at about 1AM, and she is known to be dead. Her head was found ten years later in 1994 and she is considered a missing person because the remainder of her body remains missing as of 2020.

Kelly Disney Thu, Aug 4, 1994 – 1 · Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, Oregon) · Newspapers.com

Missing Person: Kelly Lynn Disney

Last seen or contact date: At about 1AM on March 9th, 1984

Where last seen: Newport, Oregon, walking east on Highway 20

NamUs # and Link: #MP3927

Ethnicity/Race: White

Sex: Female

Age at time of disappearance: 17 years old

Hair: Strawberry blonde

Eye color: Blue

Height and weight at the time of disappearance: 5'4" and 110 pounds (5'6" by another source)

Newspaper clippings:

Kelly Lynn Disney Mon, Mar 12, 1984 – Page 9 · Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon) · Newspapers.com

Kelly Lynn Disney Mon, May 7, 1984 – 7 · Albany Democrat-Herald (Albany, Oregon) · Newspapers.com

Kelly Lynn Disney Wed, Aug 3, 1994 – Page 4 · Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon) · Newspapers.com

Kelly Lynn Disney Thu, Aug 4, 1994 – 1 · Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, Oregon) · Newspapers.comNote: the officer that saw Disney did not think she was drunk.

Kelly Lynn Disney Thu, Aug 4, 1994 – 1 · Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, Oregon) · Newspapers.com