ID ID - Mildred Johnson, 31, Coeur D'Alene, 1954

Height (inches) 62.0 to 63.0
Weight (pounds) 120.0
Hair Blonde/Strawberry
Eyes Blue

Mildred Johnson was last seen at her residence in Couer D'Alene, Idaho in 1954. The date of last contact entered into NamUs is an approximation.

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NamUs:
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/19298/1?current_page=case_information

Article with more info:
http://www.inlander.com/spokane/who-is-jane-doe/Content?oid=2129969

Mildred Johnson, a young mother from Coeur d'Alene who disappeared in 1954. Mildred Johnson, wife of Harry Johnson, who was known to assault her. Mildred Johnson, whose children, now in their 60s, want to bring her home.

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in 1954, Mildred Johnson was 31, a mother of four living in Coeur d'Alene with her husband, Harry. She stayed at home while he worked as a pipe worker, regularly uprooting the family as he chased jobs from state to state. She was the type of mom who always reminded her kids to have clean underwear, just in case, says daughter Charlotte Kelley, who was 13 at the time.

Harry, however, drank heavily and often assaulted Mildred. In April of that year, after another beating, Mildred left for Spokane. She returned home briefly around May 11, her son's birthday, and then vanished for good. A few months later, it is believed, Harry was called to Spokane to identify a body found in the river. He said it wasn't Mildred, and her children never heard from her again. In 1987, after a life of chasing work, Harry Johnson died.

Then, in June 2007, a neighbor who had lived next to the Johnson family came forward with a 53-year-old secret. The neighbor told Coeur d'Alene police that one night in 1954 she and her mother heard the Johnson couple fighting. Then silence. Then they saw Harry Johnson carry a rolled rug or blanket from the house to a car. Then, as he placed the roll in the car, what appeared to be a human arm fell into view. The neighbor had kept the secret, she said, because Harry Johnson had threatened her mother not to talk.

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More at link about them comparing DNA to a Jane Doe that turned out not to be Mildred.

Sixty years ago Mildred went missing.

1954 - Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

Mildred Johnson was 31, a mother of four living in Coeur d'Alene with her husband, Harry. She stayed at home while he worked as a pipe worker, regularly uprooting the family as he chased jobs from state to state. She was the type of mom who always reminded her kids to have clean underwear, just in case, says daughter Charlotte Kelley, who was 13 at the time.

Harry, however, drank heavily and often assaulted Mildred. In April of that year, after another beating, Mildred left for Spokane. She returned home briefly around May 11, her son's birthday, and then vanished for good. A few months later, it is believed, Harry was called to Spokane to identify a body found in the river. He said it wasn't Mildred, and her children never heard from her again. In 1987, after a life of chasing work, Harry Johnson died.

Then, in June 2007, a neighbor who had lived next to the Johnson family came forward with a 53-year-old secret. The neighbor told Coeur d'Alene police that one night in 1954 she and her mother heard the Johnson couple fighting. Then silence. Then they saw Harry Johnson carry a rolled rug or blanket from the house to a car. Then, as he placed the roll in the car, what appeared to be a human arm fell into view. The neighbor had kept the secret, she said, because Harry Johnson had threatened her mother not to talk.

Source: Inlander .com

Mildred has been given an arbitrary missing date of January 1, 1954.

LINK:
Idaho Cold Cases

Memorial headstone

Mildred Louise Franklin Johnson​

BIRTH 8 Sep 1921
DEATH May 1954 (aged 32) Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai County, Idaho, USA
Location of memorial stone: Bay Minette Cemetery Bay Minette, Baldwin County, Alabama, USA

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How many lives have to be lost to domestic violence? God bless her, I hope there was something better beyond.

This is probably the Jane Doe he was asked to identify. It is the only one within about 100 miles that fits at all. So either he misidentified her, or she hasn't yet been found.