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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...lett-disappeared/story-e6frg6nf-1226651223685
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/found-after-50-years-remains-are-of-missing-judith-20130527-2n61c.html
http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/...ains-found-after-almost-five-decades/?cs=2452
I have read interviews with the family over the years and I was always struck by how devastated her children were when they spoke of the abandonment they felt. Understandable, but the interviews really stuck with me. When I read the news headline this afternoon I immediately knew who it was. I hope this brings the family some closure, though I doubt they'll feel the peace they were searching so desperately for, now that they have to move past 50 years of thinking they were abandoned, when really their mother had been murdered.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/found-after-50-years-remains-are-of-missing-judith-20130527-2n61c.html
http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/...ains-found-after-almost-five-decades/?cs=2452
I have read interviews with the family over the years and I was always struck by how devastated her children were when they spoke of the abandonment they felt. Understandable, but the interviews really stuck with me. When I read the news headline this afternoon I immediately knew who it was. I hope this brings the family some closure, though I doubt they'll feel the peace they were searching so desperately for, now that they have to move past 50 years of thinking they were abandoned, when really their mother had been murdered.
For 49 years, Francis Ryan thought that her loving mother had abandoned her one day without reason.
She held on to memories of cooking with her as a 10-year-old and lying in the hallway of their Bathurst home on hot days with their tops off to cool down - "just us girls," her mother would say.
"I had a mother that I thought loved me," Ms Ryan, now 55, said. "I had a mother who was my friend. She was my friend and she was was my mother and then I was told she'd gone away and I thought she'd left me."
Judith Bartlett vanished in March 1964 on her way to work at the Old Royal Hotel two blocks from her home in Bathurst.
Several investigations found no leads and an inquest in 2005 concluded with an open finding.
Her daughter Frances and sons Graeme, then six, and Daryl, then two, grew up thinking their mother had left them.
Daryl has since spent his life "almost hating on women for walking out on him", Ms Ryan said while their father Ronald, who died last year, raised them alone believing his loving wife had simply left them.
Ms Ryan spent 49 years desperately looking for a face in the crowd until a breakthrough came three weeks ago that took her breath away.
Half a century since the mysterious disappearance, remains found by a bushwalker on a remote Gooloogong property in 2009 had been positively identified as Mrs Bartlett's.