Ramona Lynn Fey (Attempt to Match) - Missing Since 1995 After Self-Harm

Details from a government source (might be paraphrased): Ramona Lynn Fey left her sister's residence in Spanaway, WA after she, Ramona, cut her own throat. She was later involved in a single-vehicle car accident at Mount Rainier National Park and had to be towed from a ditch. Her car was later found in Mount Rainier National Park with the door open and the engine running. Witnesses saw her on a trail in the park. An extensive search failed to locate the MP. She may have had brown-wire-rimmed glasses.

Missing Person: Ramona Lynn Fey

Last contact: July 17th, 1995 (Tuesday)

Age when Ramona Lynn Fey disappeared: 39

Sex: Female

Height in Inches: 64-65, which is 5'4" to 5'5"

Weight in pounds (lbs): 115

Ethnicity: White/Caucasian

Hair color: Brown but graying

Eye Color: Brown

Scar or distinctive characteristic: Scar on the leg. Had cut her own throat.

Birthdate: probably November 30th, 1955.

Link to government source: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/14348?nav

Ancestry Webpage: Ramona Lynn Fey

Vehicle Information: 1984 Jeep Cherokee. Wagon style. Tan color. 379DCY plates.

Commentary and Research

By: Shane Lambert

Ramona Lynn Fey has not been seen since July 17th, 1995. Her vehicle was found in Mount Rainier National Park, making her a case of "Car found person missing," which is a popular tag on this blog. 

This missing person case is not as clouded in mystery as some other ones. In my opinion, suicide is the most likely reason for her disappearance. However, the whereabouts of her remains is the question at hand.

The journalism on this missing person, by my research, started on July 19th, 1995. A short blurb appeared in The News Tribune out of Tacoma, Washington. She had left her car running in the park's parking lot, which shows some indifference to the vehicle. That may have been a call for help.

This individual was depressed and had a doctor for the matter. A blurb written a day after the one below stated that she had stopped taking her medication. The family described the woman as mentally ill and possibly suicidal.

Has Ramona Lynn Fey been found?

There is a chance that body parts of hers were found on September 13th, 2013. Some human remains were found on that day that have not yet been linked to an individual yet.

The NamUs Unidentified Person is #12200. The authorities are uncertain of the sex or other details of these body parts. However, I will point out that the coordinates given for where Ramona Lynn Fey was last seen and the coordinates of the body parts that were found are extremely close to one another when I pull them up on Google Maps. I'm not sure if this has to do with just a kind of "default" coordinates for the area or not.

The missing person has a webpage at Ancestry. There is a separate picture there of her which I decided to publish here. It may show the glasses that are associated with her case. Also, there appears to be a mole on her chin/cheek. Her date of disappearance is listed as her date of death at Ancestry, suggesting that her family members are satisfied to some extent that she died at the time of her disappearance.

Louise N. Zunker - Missing in Wisconsin Since 1976

Paraphrased details from government source**: The missing person, Louise N. Zunker, had a scheduled dentist appointment for August 17th, 1976 in Portage, Wisconsin. Louise's sister, Hilda Zunker, took her to the dentist appointment (ie. disputed: I think they were just planning to go there). They were in the parking lot (possibly of a shopping center) when her sister turned around and Louise was gone. There were reported sightings of Louise walking east on Albert Street in the Mud Lake vicinity several hours after becoming separated from her sister. There has been no known contact with Louise since this time.

Missing Person: Louise Zunker
Last-contact date: August 17th, 1976 (Tuesday)
The area where the MP was last seen: Portage, Wisconsin, possibly walking east on Albert Street in the Mud Lake district of town. 
Link to government source: NamUs MP84012

VITAL DETAILS

Ethnicity: Caucasian
Sex: Female
Age at time of disappearance: 56 years old
Birthdate: Louise Zunker was born between August 18th, 1919, and August 17th, 1920 based on her reported age at the last date of reported contact.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Scar: None
Height/weight: 5-foot-3 to 5-foot-5 and 125 to 135 pounds
BMI*: Louise Zunker was in the normal range for BMI.
Tattoos: Louise Zunker did not have any tattoos associated with her profiles.
Find-a-grave: There is a Louise N. Zunker on find-a-grave.com for the Columbia County area of Wisconsin. This person has an unknown date of death. It may reference the same person, however, it's likely a cenotaph memorial and not a final resting place.

Louise Zunker was last heard from on August 17th, 1976 when she was 56 years of age. This individual has now been missing for about 45 years as of the original publication date of this blog post.

The NamUs description of Louise's circumstances isn't great. It's hard to tell from that source if she disappeared before or after the dentist appointment. According to some journalism I read from 1976, she and her sister Hilda appeared to be on their way to the appointment, presumptively from their shared residence or from a shopping center. One source gave her address as 619 W. Franklin Street while another newspaper article gave her address as 56 Franklin Street. The individual that reported her missing was her brother Albert on August 18th, 1976.

21 Aug 1976, Sat Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wisconsin) Newspapers.com

The article below mentions that Louise was despondent at the time of her disappearance. In my view, that increases the chances of a voluntary disappearance or even suicide and decreases the chances of something clandestine happening to her. However, everything appears to be in play. One thing that stood out with this case is the way Louise seemingly just went "poof" into thin air. In picturing the disappearance, I imagined Louise and Hilda walking in stride and then Louise disappearing when Hilda wasn't paying attention to her.

07 Sep 1976, Tue Waukesha Daily Freeman (Waukesha, Wisconsin) Newspapers.com

20 Aug 1976, Fri Portage Daily Register (Portage, Wisconsin) Newspapers.com

Given the missing person's footwear (ie. low heels), it's hard to picture her planning on walking all that far. I considered the Albert Street sighting and examined the bridges in the area as prospective suicide points. However, none appeared to be of sufficient height. However, Google Maps in the area only went back to 2008. 

The marshy area to the east of Mud Lake could be the focal point. However, if she was planning to kill herself, the method is the question. It would be interesting to learn about her purchases on the shopping trip that she was reportedly on. That they searched the marshy area to the west of the town and did not find her does not mean that she could not still be there. Police searches fail quite often.

This was an individual who was in Ancestry's files with simple searches (ie. first and last name) as she appeared in a few censuses with her original family. She had at least two sisters by my research, one of which is likely the one referenced in the NamUs description as being the last person that knew Louise to see her alive.

Louise's whereabouts were sought for legal matters that developed following the death of her mother in 1977. She was referred to as "deceased" in a 1983 classified ad, which isn't unusual given the circumstances.

25 Jun 1977, Sat Portage Daily Register (Portage, Wisconsin) Newspapers.com

17 Dec 1977, Sat Portage Daily Register (Portage, Wisconsin) Newspapers.com

12 Nov 1983, Sat Portage Daily Register (Portage, Wisconsin) Newspapers.com

Louise Zunker may have had the following articles when she disappeared: a blue and white square patterned sleeveless dress; a blue/black raincoat, dark-rimmed and tinted glasses, and beige low-heeled shoes.

Furthermore, she was thought to only have 15 cents in her purse. These are items that can be cross-referenced against Jane Does or reports associated with unidentified remains in hopes of finding a reason for further comparison between Zunker and the Jane Doe.

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Author: Shane Lambert

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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: Whenever possible, government sources are preferred for getting the details of a missing persons case. However, any source that the article writer deems reputable may be used.

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Darian Michelle Hudson -- Missing Since October 2017

 

Missing person: Darian Michelle Hudson

Alias: D or DBaby

Last-contact date: October 26th, 2017 (Thursday)*
Disappeared from: northwest of Stillwater, Oklahoma at the intersection of Country Club and McElroy

*October 26th, 2017 is according to a Facebook post from her group.

Link to Government Source: NamUs #MP40719

Ethnicity/Race: Black
Sex: Female
Age at time of disappearance: 23 years old
Hair: Black
Eye color: Brown
Height and weight at the time of disappearance: 5'3" and 120 pounds

Tattoo: As pictured
Clothing: White t-shirt, jeans

Piercings: Nose and ear

Facebook group: Darian Hudson's Missing Person Facebook Group

Circumstances as per Kake.com:

"Stillwater Police have been searching for Darian Hudson since Oct. 22, 2017. She was suspected missing after not showing up for work.

Detectives in Stillwater...were able to track Darian’s movements through the evening of Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. On that date, she was last seen sitting in a wooded area and walking toward an intersection northwest of Stillwater.

'A Human Recovery Dog and handler were brought into the area on Monday, December 4,' Stillwater Police shared online. 'For two days they searched a large portion of the wooded area south, east and west of the intersection. Some of her belongings were found abandoned in the area but Darian was not located. At this point police have no leads indicating what has happened to Darian or where she may have gone after being seen on the 26th.'

Darian was in the process of moving to Kansas. 

Family and friends told police that Darian does not have a vehicle. She may be suffering from a mental health crisis."

By Kansas, specifically, they meant Wichita, Kansas. If you are tweeting this case, then use Hashtags for that city.

Police were alerted to the "wooded area" mentioned above after they discovered someone that tried to use her debit card. This person, a male, stated "he found the card in a purse near the construction site of a church in Stillwater."

I'm sure the police would have had some questions for this person. For me, there is the question of how he planned to use the debit card without the PIN. It seems pretty futile to try and guess it.

This case detail, where someone was discovered trying to use a missing person's bank card, is similar to the missing person case of Emma Filipoff. That case is from Vancouver Island and involved a purchased debit card, the kind you get at the store with a balance on it. In Filipoff's case, the individual who used her card had found it after it had been discarded or lost.

The man that took her bank card said that he took it from a purse in October 2017. He tried to use it in December 2017. In my opinion, taking a card from someone's purse and then trying to use it involves Mens Rea. In contrast, the individual who found the debit card in Filipoff's case does not, in my view.

The best news source I found on this missing person's case is from NBC: Read More. All descriptions, in this case, suggest despondence and themes of depression involving the missing person. Those factors would make a reasonable person think that the potential for suicide is in play with Hudson but it's important not to be closed to other possibilities.

If you read the playing card below, there is a caption that reads "INMATE ACCESS #20." I'm taking that to mean that these are playing cards that are distributed to prisoners. The 5 of hearts in the deck is Darian Hudson.

Author: Shane Lambert (Facebook profile)

Twitter: @UncoolNegated (Twitter)

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All articles are subject to editing after the original posting.

I am not a Private Investigator, however, I am currently studying to be one as of February 2021.

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Maura Murray -- Newspaper Clippings from the Baffling Unsolved Missing Person's Case

Author: Shane Lambert
Original Time of Writing: Sunday, December 20th, 2020

All articles are subject to editing after the original posting.

Introduction to Maura Murray's Disappearance

Maura Murray is one of this century's most famous cases of missing people. She was last known to have been in New Hampshire, where she was involved in a single-vehicle car accident.

Murray then disappeared before the police arrived to find her vehicle locked. She has not been seen or heard from since.

Case Details

Missing Person: Maura Murray
Last Seen or Contact Date: Shortly after 7pm on Monday, February 9th, 2004
Where Last Seen: In the vicinity of Route 112 in Haverhill, New Hampshire, about a mile from Swift Water Village, about five miles from Wells River, Vermont (across the Connecticut River). She was taking a sharp turn on Wild Ammonoosuc Road between Old Peters Road and Bradley Hill Road (there’s a blue ribbon tied around a tree on Google Maps).

Maura Murray Saturday, February 14th, 2004 – 18 · The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) · Newspapers.com

Similar Cases

The case has some similarities to unrelated cases. Many times across America, someone has been involved in a car accident only to disappear in the immediate aftermath.

In 2020, Yvette Slim went missing after an accident. In 2018, Blair Minnifield (NamUs #MP52423) got in a single-vehicle accident, went to the hospital, and then disappeared. Stephan Chan (NamUs #MP50755) disappeared the same year after a single-vehicle accident. In 2016, Brandi Shontay Brown disappeared after hospitalization from an accident.

Psychological Context of Car Accidents

It is interesting to think about a car accident that is followed by the driver's disappearance. We can imagine that an individual who is near a breaking point might cross that point after a car accident, especially if the accident is his/her fault.

Life can be tough and car accidents are no small deal: even if you escape injury, dealing with the bureaucratic procedures after an accident can be very annoying. It follows that someone who is already mentally unwell might see this as the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Maura Murray Monday, February 10th, 2014 – 10 · The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, Colorado) · Newspapers.com

Maura’s Background and Possible Motives

But with Maura Murray, I’ve often wondered if the car accident wasn’t so much that straw but maybe she had already decided to disappear herself. The accident might have been the result of indifference to her life or maybe even a last-ditch call for help if she was in a suicidal state.

It was her second car crash in recent days and she was thought to be “distraught” at this time of her life. Months earlier, she faced legal problems for fraudulently using a credit card.

Witness Accounts and Investigation

The individual who spoke to Murray shortly after her accident (Butch Atwood, now deceased) suggested that she may have been intoxicated. Thus, Murray might have been facing a drunk-driving charge if she stuck around the accident scene. Other witnesses said that they saw her roadside and police dogs lost her scent about 100 yards from her car.

Maura Murray Thursday, February 19th, 2004 – Page 20 · The Burlington Free Press (Burlington, Vermont) · Newspapers.com

Theories and Speculation

This is a baffling case, and, like most difficult missing person’s cases, there are a lot of ways your mind can go. The father was always adamant that she met with foul play—so adamant that it is hard to disregard his opinion.

That would make you think that an abductor arrived at the scene of the accident and picked her up as she walked away. However, that in itself would be one Johnny-on-the-spot abductor as he/she would have arrived on the scene in the minutes between the crash and the arrival of the authorities.

That Murray told lies to her school and work in the time frame before she disappeared is interesting. It suggests that her life was not in balance. That she was drinking and driving adds weight to this, in my opinion.

Of course, if she fled the scene for legal reasons and hitched a ride, then why hasn’t she been heard from since? She would not likely flee a drunk-driving charge for years as first-time offenders can expect leniency. If she voluntarily entered a passerby’s vehicle, then why didn’t this driver contact authorities later?

Possibility of an Unknown Witness

In my opinion, the best chance of finding her is simply that she did enter someone’s vehicle and that this person has never confronted the story of her disappearance and doesn’t know he or she has valuable information.

But sometimes people who have valuable information regarding a missing person are unlikely to share it—even when they realize it. For example, in the case of Emma Fillipoff, there was a man who picked her up as a hitchhiker near the time of her disappearance. When he realized that he had information on her whereabouts, he kept it to himself until several years after she disappeared.

His reasoning was that he simply did not want to be cast in a false light (i.e., someone who picked up a hitchhiker who was never seen again would be considered a suspect in the disappearance).

Final Acts of Generosity

One possibility is that Maura, planning to end her life, gave away her possessions in a final act of kindness. There are a lot of instances when someone gives away possessions late in life, knowing that they do not need them anymore.

On Monday, February 9th, 2004, Maura withdrew about $280 from her bank account, nearly all she had, and this money was not found in her car. While her money could have been in her pocket as she left, she also bought alcohol that day, some of which—possibly bottles of Baileys, Kahlúa, or vodka—was missing from her vehicle. That seemed like too much alcohol to drink without going unconscious.

She may have given these items to homeless people, reflecting a generous impulse before her disappearance. While no one reported receiving such gifts, her distraught state suggests she might have felt free to let go of what she no longer needed. Late-life generosity, which certainly is not unheard of, would explain where the missing alcohol went and it would align with a suicidal frame of mind, in my opinion.

Considering Suicide as a Possibility

Maura Murray’s case remains baffling and I gravitate toward suicide as the most likely explanation for her disappearance. It doesn’t matter to me that her father thought this unlikely, as there is often a divide between what parents notice of their children and their mental reality. That she met with foul play is the opinion of the family, even as recently as Friday, February 9th, 2024 when People.com did an update on this case (Nicole Briese).

However, I don’t feel strongly about my opinion. Suicide by facing-the-elements doesn’t sound like a great way to go. There’s no reason to believe that Murray had a gun and it was evening when she went missing in February—a cold time of year in the northern USA. Hiking through the night-time forest for a cliff to jump off doesn’t sound like a great way to go either.

Conclusion

At the end of this case, I feel like we’re left with the facts and details of her case—all of which point to nothing but difficult-to-weigh speculation. Years have passed and we’re still waiting for that moment when things finally make sense.

Maura Murray Saturday, February 14th, 2004 – 18 · The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) · Newspapers.com

Maura Murray Sunday, February 15th, 2004 – 29 · The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) · Newspapers.com

Maura Murray Tuesday, February 17th, 2004 – 19 · The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) · Newspapers.com

Maura Murray Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004 – 17 · The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) · Newspapers.com

Maura Murray Thursday, April 4th, 2019 – A9 · The Burlington Free Press (Burlington, Vermont) · Newspapers.com

Identifying Information

NamUs # and Link: #MP54
Ethnicity/Race: White
Sex: Female
Age at Time of Disappearance: 21 years old
Hair: Light brown or brown
Eye Color: Greenish/bluish
Height and Weight at the Time of Disappearance: 5’7” and 120 pounds
Other: Dimpled cheeks
Scars: Right calf
Clothing: Possibly wearing a dark-colored coat and jeans, carrying a backpack.