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Aida Ruth Calfee
Missing since October 2, 1981 from Lumpkin County, Georgia
Classification: Endangered Missing



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Vital Statistics
•Date Of Birth: November 6, 1955
•Age at Time of Disappearance: 25 years old
•Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'5-5'7"; 125-130 lbs.
•Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown eyes; brown hair.
•Marks, Scars: Pin put in left elbow from fall as child.
•Clothing: Jeans, gray sweatshirt, white sneakers.
•Dentals: Available
•Fingerprints: Available



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Circumstances of Disappearance
Aida was last seen in the company of her boyfriend. She allegedly got out of the car in Dalonega, Georgia to hitchhike home. She was seen heading south on Highway 19 & 41.
Aida Calfee took out a warrant in Cobb County in 1981 against her boyfriend, stockbroker Jim Pruitt, 32, for beating and choking her. Saying she had not taken out a warrant after prior beatings because of fear, she told prosecutors that Pruitt was trying to get her to drop charges. She disappeared five days before Pruitt's arraignment and has been missing ever since. Pruitt was found guilty of battery.
Foul play is suspected.



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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

GBI Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office
Investigator Scott Martin
706-864-0414, ext 514

Source Information:
Family Member
The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution


http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/calfee_aida.html


https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/1300/0/
NamUs Profile:
Dental: Available and entered
DNA: NA
Fingerprints: NA

No archived articles found. Two pay per views that were about her BF's court case.

Aida has been missing almost 29 years. Come home soon.
 

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International Network of Prison Ministries - Demonslayer Deliverance Ministry Just having my coffee; I see Todd is her contact. I found her brothers FB & ministry page; gonna see if he can get DNA. Not sure if her mom is still alive
Aida Calfee NamUs
Calfee was last seen in the company of her boyfriend on October 2, 1981. She allegedly got out of the car in Dalonega, Georgia to hitchhike home. She was seen heading south on Highway 19 and 41.
 
Aida's brother Carl didn't reply to my email so I sent him a FB PM. When he did not reply to that (it went to his inbox); I looked on his wall; saw a post by his daughter that he had passed away 6 months ago from heart disease. :( I sent his daughter a PM; going to put her in touch with Todd.
Aida's mom is still alive to give a DNA sample!

I'm sorry her brother passed away without answers. </3
 
Aida will have a DNA sample shortly. I hope that her mom will have answers before she passes. I can't even imagine being a parent & not knowing where my child was killed; not being able to bring them home to be buried.
 
[FONT=&quot][h=1]Pruitt v. State[/h]Annotate this Case
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[FONT=&quot]164 Ga. App. 247 (1982)
296 S.E.2d 795
PRUITT v. THE STATE.
64904.
Court of Appeals of Georgia.
Decided November 2, 1982.
Peter J. Anderson, David C. Jensen, R. Hal Meeks, Jr., for appellant.
Herbert A. Rivers, Solicitor, J. Lynn Rainey, Assistant Solicitor, for appellee.
QUILLIAN, Chief Judge.
Defendant appeals his conviction and sentence in a bench trial for battery.
Evidence at trial pertinent to the enumerations was as follows: defendant and the victim, Aida Calfee, had been going together for approximately two and a half years and terminated their relationship *248 on July 6, 1981. Defendant had had for sometime dinner reservations for July 12 at Nikolai's Roof, an Atlanta restaurant, which Calfee had expected to attend with defendant before they ended their relationship. On July 11, at Calfee's request defendant tried without success to arrange for her to go with his dinner party with someone else as a date, defendant having arranged to take another woman and another couple. On July 12, Calfee called defendant's apartment several times, finally reaching defendant who was preparing to take his guests to the restaurant, and said she wanted to come to his apartment to speak to him in person. Defendant said he did not have the time to speak to her and did not want her to come to his apartment. After defendant's dinner guests arrived at his apartment Calfee began a persistent loud knocking on the apartment door. Defendant was called to the door by his brother and prevented Calfee from entering to talk to him, going outside instead to talk on the stair landing. In the next 3 to 5 minutes raised voices, commotion, and screams were heard by the persons in defendant's apartment and the next two apartments below his, all of which shared a common exterior stairway in the 3-story building. One witness in defendant's apartment looked out a window and saw defendant and Calfee scuffling in front of the apartment door, with Calfee striking at defendant apparently trying to get into the apartment and defendant trying to keep her back. Two witnesses in the apartment below heard screams and noises. They looked through a door peephole and one saw defendant and Calfee "slinging each other around." The other saw Calfee in a crouched position with defendant standing. A witness in the bottom apartment upon hearing the screams came out on the stairway and looked up to the next landing where she saw defendant, who was holding Calfee with his tie around her neck, strike Calfee in the face with his hand. She then called the police. Calfee was not available to testify having been reported as a missing person in October. Defendant testified that when he went outside his apartment to talk with Calfee, he tried to keep her from going in and when he tried twice to go back in she grabbed his arm each time and restrained him. Calfee was upset and talking loud. Defendant suggested that they go down to the parking lot and talk and they started down the stairs with Calfee leading. Defendant then said he was going back in the apartment and Calfee grabbed his arm with both hands and pulled him downwards. He pulled away and Calfee fell down a few steps to the landing in front of the apartment below. He went down to help her up and she started hitting and kicking at him. He fended her off. She grabbed his necktie and twisted it, choking him. He pulled her hands off and looped his tie around her neck to scare her. They struggled some more and she kicked *249 defendant in the testicles. Whereupon he slapped her hard in the face with his hand, the only time that he struck her. Calfee walked out in the parking lot screaming and defendant returned to his apartment, leaving a few minutes thereafter with his guests to go to the restaurant. Held:
1. The first enumeration of error alleges that the trial court improperly admitted expert testimony of the battered woman syndrome.
The court apparently relied on Smith v. State, 247 Ga. 612 (277 SE2d 678), where it was held that it was error to refuse to admit expert testimony on the battered woman syndrome to assist the jury in evaluating a female defendant's defense of self defense in her prosecution for murdering her live-in-boyfriend.
The facts of the instant case are distinguishable as there is no woman defendant asserting the defense of self defense, nor any evidence that Calfee was a battered woman. The admission of this evidence was therefore error as it was irrelevant to the issues in the case. The error was harmless, however, because "`[e]ven if the testimony had been objectionable, since the judge was acting as both judge and jury, it must be presumed that he "has sifted the wheat from the chaff and selected the legal testimony from that which is illegal and incompetent," unless from the judgment itself it appears that consideration was given to testimony that should have been excluded. [Cits.]' [Cit.]" Bunn v. State, 144 Ga. App. 879 (2), 880 (243 SE2d 105). It does not appear that the trial court gave any consideration to this testimony in this case.
2. The second enumeration complains of the admission of the statements of Calfee made to several witnesses in the 30 minutes following the altercation, because the statements were hearsay which related an apparent prior offense by defendant, that the statements were not part of the res gestae and were self serving, and that Code Ann. § 38-302 was misapplied as to statements made to a police officer.
Since many of the statements were made within a short period of time after the offense and while Calfee was still very upset, they were properly admissible as part of the res gestae. Zilinmon v. State, 234 Ga. 535 (2) (216 SE2d 830); Salleywhite v. State, 133 Ga. App. 170 (1) (210 SE2d 334). The statement that defendant had once broken Calfee's wrist was also admissible as part of the res gestae even though it indicated a possible prior similar offense. Spurlin v. State, 228 Ga. 2 (4) (183 SE2d 765).
Some of the statements made to the police officer were also part of the res gestae as he heard them within 30 minutes after the incident along with some of the other witnesses. However, other statements to *250 the police officer were not admissible under Code Ann. § 38-302 to explain conduct as the officer took no action after hearing the remarks, and thus were irrelevant hearsay. See Momon v. State, 249 Ga. 865 (294 SE2d 482).
Although some of the statements may have been improperly admitted, we find any error harmless on the same basis as found in the foregoing division.
3. The trial court did not err in denying a motion for mistrial made on the ground that prejudicial testimony of publicity concerning the defendant and the victim's disappearance was admitted. Since this testimony was initially brought out by defendant's cross-examination of a state's witness there was no error. Key v. State, 147 Ga. App. 800 (5) (250 SE2d 527).
4. The trial court did not err in denying motions for a directed verdict and a new trial made on grounds of insufficiency of evidence. We find the evidence sufficient to authorize a rational trier of fact to find defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560).
5. After presenting strong mitigating evidence, defendant was sentenced to pay a fine of $1000 and to be confined for 12 months, with 45 days to serve and the remainder on probation. Contrary to defendant's contention the sentence is not excessive or contrary to the evidence and the principles of law and equity. Because the sentence was within the limits authorized by law and was lawfully imposed, this court is not authorized to modify it. Yarbrough v. State, 151 Ga. App. 474 (3) (260 SE2d 369).
Judgment affirmed. Shulman, P. J., and Carley, J., concur.

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[h=1]Pruitt v. State[/h]Annotate this Case
[/FONT]
[FONT="][/FONT]
[FONT="]164 Ga. App. 247 (1982)
296 S.E.2d 795
PRUITT v. THE STATE.
64904.
Court of Appeals of Georgia.
Decided November 2, 1982.
Peter J. Anderson, David C. Jensen, R. Hal Meeks, Jr., for appellant.
Herbert A. Rivers, Solicitor, J. Lynn Rainey, Assistant Solicitor, for appellee.
QUILLIAN, Chief Judge.
Defendant appeals his conviction and sentence in a bench trial for battery.
Evidence at trial pertinent to the enumerations was as follows: defendant and the victim, Aida Calfee, had been going together for approximately two and a half years and terminated their relationship *248 on July 6, 1981. Defendant had had for sometime dinner reservations for July 12 at Nikolai's Roof, an Atlanta restaurant, which Calfee had expected to attend with defendant before they ended their relationship. On July 11, at Calfee's request defendant tried without success to arrange for her to go with his dinner party with someone else as a date, defendant having arranged to take another woman and another couple. On July 12, Calfee called defendant's apartment several times, finally reaching defendant who was preparing to take his guests to the restaurant, and said she wanted to come to his apartment to speak to him in person. Defendant said he did not have the time to speak to her and did not want her to come to his apartment. After defendant's dinner guests arrived at his apartment Calfee began a persistent loud knocking on the apartment door. Defendant was called to the door by his brother and prevented Calfee from entering to talk to him, going outside instead to talk on the stair landing. In the next 3 to 5 minutes raised voices, commotion, and screams were heard by the persons in defendant's apartment and the next two apartments below his, all of which shared a common exterior stairway in the 3-story building. One witness in defendant's apartment looked out a window and saw defendant and Calfee scuffling in front of the apartment door, with Calfee striking at defendant apparently trying to get into the apartment and defendant trying to keep her back. Two witnesses in the apartment below heard screams and noises. They looked through a door peephole and one saw defendant and Calfee "slinging each other around." The other saw Calfee in a crouched position with defendant standing. A witness in the bottom apartment upon hearing the screams came out on the stairway and looked up to the next landing where she saw defendant, who was holding Calfee with his tie around her neck, strike Calfee in the face with his hand. She then called the police. Calfee was not available to testify having been reported as a missing person in October. Defendant testified that when he went outside his apartment to talk with Calfee, he tried to keep her from going in and when he tried twice to go back in she grabbed his arm each time and restrained him. Calfee was upset and talking loud. Defendant suggested that they go down to the parking lot and talk and they started down the stairs with Calfee leading. Defendant then said he was going back in the apartment and Calfee grabbed his arm with both hands and pulled him downwards. He pulled away and Calfee fell down a few steps to the landing in front of the apartment below. He went down to help her up and she started hitting and kicking at him. He fended her off. She grabbed his necktie and twisted it, choking him. He pulled her hands off and looped his tie around her neck to scare her. They struggled some more and she kicked *249 defendant in the testicles. Whereupon he slapped her hard in the face with his hand, the only time that he struck her. Calfee walked out in the parking lot screaming and defendant returned to his apartment, leaving a few minutes thereafter with his guests to go to the restaurant. Held:
1. The first enumeration of error alleges that the trial court improperly admitted expert testimony of the battered woman syndrome.
The court apparently relied on Smith v. State, 247 Ga. 612 (277 SE2d 678), where it was held that it was error to refuse to admit expert testimony on the battered woman syndrome to assist the jury in evaluating a female defendant's defense of self defense in her prosecution for murdering her live-in-boyfriend.
The facts of the instant case are distinguishable as there is no woman defendant asserting the defense of self defense, nor any evidence that Calfee was a battered woman. The admission of this evidence was therefore error as it was irrelevant to the issues in the case. The error was harmless, however, because "`[e]ven if the testimony had been objectionable, since the judge was acting as both judge and jury, it must be presumed that he "has sifted the wheat from the chaff and selected the legal testimony from that which is illegal and incompetent," unless from the judgment itself it appears that consideration was given to testimony that should have been excluded. [Cits.]' [Cit.]" Bunn v. State, 144 Ga. App. 879 (2), 880 (243 SE2d 105). It does not appear that the trial court gave any consideration to this testimony in this case.
2. The second enumeration complains of the admission of the statements of Calfee made to several witnesses in the 30 minutes following the altercation, because the statements were hearsay which related an apparent prior offense by defendant, that the statements were not part of the res gestae and were self serving, and that Code Ann. § 38-302 was misapplied as to statements made to a police officer.
Since many of the statements were made within a short period of time after the offense and while Calfee was still very upset, they were properly admissible as part of the res gestae. Zilinmon v. State, 234 Ga. 535 (2) (216 SE2d 830); Salleywhite v. State, 133 Ga. App. 170 (1) (210 SE2d 334). The statement that defendant had once broken Calfee's wrist was also admissible as part of the res gestae even though it indicated a possible prior similar offense. Spurlin v. State, 228 Ga. 2 (4) (183 SE2d 765).
Some of the statements made to the police officer were also part of the res gestae as he heard them within 30 minutes after the incident along with some of the other witnesses. However, other statements to *250 the police officer were not admissible under Code Ann. § 38-302 to explain conduct as the officer took no action after hearing the remarks, and thus were irrelevant hearsay. See Momon v. State, 249 Ga. 865 (294 SE2d 482).
Although some of the statements may have been improperly admitted, we find any error harmless on the same basis as found in the foregoing division.
3. The trial court did not err in denying a motion for mistrial made on the ground that prejudicial testimony of publicity concerning the defendant and the victim's disappearance was admitted. Since this testimony was initially brought out by defendant's cross-examination of a state's witness there was no error. Key v. State, 147 Ga. App. 800 (5) (250 SE2d 527).
4. The trial court did not err in denying motions for a directed verdict and a new trial made on grounds of insufficiency of evidence. We find the evidence sufficient to authorize a rational trier of fact to find defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560).
5. After presenting strong mitigating evidence, defendant was sentenced to pay a fine of $1000 and to be confined for 12 months, with 45 days to serve and the remainder on probation. Contrary to defendant's contention the sentence is not excessive or contrary to the evidence and the principles of law and equity. Because the sentence was within the limits authorized by law and was lawfully imposed, this court is not authorized to modify it. Yarbrough v. State, 151 Ga. App. 474 (3) (260 SE2d 369).
Judgment affirmed. Shulman, P. J., and Carley, J., concur.

Thanks for finding that. He really was a piece of work. Of course he's going to try to make it look like everything was her fault. Yeah right, she choked him with his tie so he did it back to scare her? I wonder what his height is compared to hers. Wow. So glad there were a few people that witnessed as much as they did. I would love to hear more; such as their take on what he said happen compared to their version.

6-14-2014 -
Aida will have a DNA sample shortly. I hope that her mom will have answers before she passes. I can't even imagine being a parent & not knowing where my child was killed; not being able to bring them home to be buried.

I can't believe it's almost been 4 years that I've been trying to get her mothers DNA in NamUs.The last time was about May 2016, her mother was in really bad shape. Contacted Aida's niece today. I found our FB PM. I can't imagine why they didn't send someone out.
 
Were Lumpkin County officials paid off to cover up Aida's murder? (2009) http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-218079

Also, an email from her sister asking for help in this case
http://injesus.com/messages/content/332224

A further message was posted which gave a bit more information at http://injesus.com/messages/content/52874 . Perhaps the most interesting bit is the suggestion that Jim Pruitt had mob connections and was laundering dirty money, which Aida knew. as she worked with him I assume this information is reliable, assuming it is coming from a family member.
 
A further message was posted which gave a bit more information at http://injesus.com/messages/content/52874 . Perhaps the most interesting bit is the suggestion that Jim Pruitt had mob connections and was laundering dirty money, which Aida knew. as she worked with him I assume this information is reliable, assuming it is coming from a family member.

That message was from Aida's brother and how I ended up trying to contact him years ago but just missed him a few months after he passed. That's why I'm speaking to his daughter who is all that is left for DNA since Aida's mom passed away 2 weeks after NamUs was supposed to get her DNA. They knew she was on her deathbed. I'm so disgusted.

They have had 4 years to get DNA! I'm so pissed that it never happened! Total incompetence!

6-05-2014
International Network of Prison Ministries - Demonslayer Deliverance Ministry Just having my coffee; I see Todd is her contact. I found her brothers FB & ministry page; gonna see if he can get DNA. Not sure if her mom is still alive
Aida Calfee NamUs
Calfee was last seen in the company of her boyfriend on October 2, 1981. She allegedly got out of the car in Dalonega, Georgia to hitchhike home. She was seen heading south on Highway 19 and 41.

6-12-2014
Aida's brother Carl didn't reply to my email so I sent him a FB PM. When he did not reply to that (it went to his inbox); I looked on his wall; saw a post by his daughter that he had passed away 6 months ago from heart disease. :( I sent his daughter a PM; going to put her in touch with Todd.
Aida's mom is still alive to give a DNA sample!

I'm sorry her brother passed away without answers. </3

06-14-2014
Aida will have a DNA sample shortly. I hope that her mom will have answers before she passes. I can't even imagine being a parent & not knowing where my child was killed; not being able to bring them home to be buried.
 

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That message was from Aida's brother and how I ended up trying to contact him years ago but just missed him a few months after he passed. That's why I'm speaking to his daughter who is all that is left for DNA since Aida's mom passed away 2 weeks after NamUs was supposed to get her DNA. They knew she was on her deathbed. I'm so disgusted.

They have had 4 years to get DNA! I'm so pissed that it never happened! Total incompetence!

Thanks for this. I realised it was from the brother due to your previous posts. It was the additional information in the second message which had not been posted which seemed of interest. Obviously organised crime links puts a different shade on the case.
 
Aida Ruth Calfee
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Calfee, circa 1981

  • Missing Since10/02/1981
  • Missing FromLumpkin County, Georgia
  • ClassificationEndangered Missing
  • Date of Birth11/06/1955 (63)
  • Age25 years old
  • Height and Weight5'7, 125 pounds
  • Clothing/Jewelry DescriptionJeans, a gray sweatshirt and white sneakers.
  • Distinguishing CharacteristicsCaucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Calfee has a pin inserted in her left elbow.
Details of Disappearance
Calfee was last seen in the company of her boyfriend, Jim Pruitt, on October 2, 1981. She allegedly got out of the car in Dalonega, Georgia to hitchhike home. She was seen heading south on Highway 19 and 41.

Calfee had accused Pruitt of beating and choking her earlier in 1981. She told authorities he had beaten her before, but she had not reported him before now because she was afraid. She said Pruitt was trying to get her to drop the charges against him. She disappeared five days before his arraignment. He was later found guilty of battery.

Foul play is suspected in Calfee's case, which remains unsolved.
 
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(updated information from The Charley Project)

Details of Disappearance
Calfee was last seen in the company of her boyfriend, Jim Pruitt, on October 2, 1981. They had decided to cancel a fishing trip they'd planned. She allegedly got out of the car near the town square in Dahlonega, Georgia, refused to get back in, and to hitchhike home. She was seen heading south on Highway 19 and 41.

Calfee had accused Pruitt of assaulting her earlier in 1981; she said he beat and choked her and shoved her down a flight of stairs at their apartment complex in Marietta, Georgia in July. She told authorities he had beaten her before and once broken her wrist, but she had not reported him before then because she was afraid. She said Pruitt was trying to get her to drop the charges against him. She disappeared five days before his arraignment.

At Pruitt's trial for assaulting Calfee, he testified and admitted he'd wrapped his tie around her neck during their argument "to scare her, to get her to stop." He was found guilty of misdemeanor battery.

Since Calfee disappeared, her credit cards and bank accounts have not been used. She worked as a secretary at a brokerage firm in Atlanta, Georgia in 1981, and her family stated it's uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning. Foul play is suspected in her case, which remains unsolved.

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