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12-09-2007, 12:21 PM
Seventeen years after a mother of three disappeared without a trace, authorities are considering charging her husband with her murder.
When Alice Hummel vanished from her Alabama Hill home in October 1990, Bruce Hummel told the couple’s children their mother had left them for California or Texas in search of work.
The kids received correspondence from their mother for years afterward, including birthday cards and possibly wedding presents. But when Alice Hummel’s father died a decade later and the children tried to find their mother to let her know, Bruce Hummel’s story began falling apart.
Bellingham Police detective Glenn Hutchings said his department has wrapped up a six-year investigation into the disappearance and has forwarded the case to Whatcom County Prosecutor Dave McEachran, who will decide whether there is enough evidence to charge Bruce Hummel with the murder of his wife.
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/102/story/257737.html
When Alice Hummel vanished from her Alabama Hill home in October 1990, Bruce Hummel told the couple’s children their mother had left them for California or Texas in search of work.
The kids received correspondence from their mother for years afterward, including birthday cards and possibly wedding presents. But when Alice Hummel’s father died a decade later and the children tried to find their mother to let her know, Bruce Hummel’s story began falling apart.
Bellingham Police detective Glenn Hutchings said his department has wrapped up a six-year investigation into the disappearance and has forwarded the case to Whatcom County Prosecutor Dave McEachran, who will decide whether there is enough evidence to charge Bruce Hummel with the murder of his wife.
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/102/story/257737.html