Found Deceased MN - Gloria Rieken, 18, Minneapolis, 16 Nov 1970

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[h=1]3429DFMN - Gloria Frieda Rieken[/h]
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Name: Gloria Frieda Rieken
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: November 16, 1970
Location Last Seen: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
[h=2]Physical Description[/h]Date of Birth: November 21, 1951
Age: 18 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'0"
Weight: 120 lbs.
Hair Color: Blond/Strawberry
Eye Color: Blue
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
[h=2]Identifiers[/h]Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available
[h=2]Clothing & Personal Items[/h]Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
[h=2]Circumstances of Disappearance[/h]According to Gloria's husband Larry Smith, Gloria left for school at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities on Monday November 16, 1970 and never returned. It was reported that she was not in her classes the day of her disappearance. Gloria's brother Edward says she often hitch hiked to school from her apartment.
[h=2]Investigating Agency(s)[/h]Agency Name: Minneapolis Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Unknown
Agency Phone Number: 612-673-3000
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 13294181
NCIC Case Number: Unknown
NamUs Case Number: 22839
[h=2]Information Source(s)[/h]NamUs
Family Search
Doe Network Link case
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3429dfmn.html




 
Hello I would like to inform all the people that follow Gloria’s case that she is being compared to a Jane doe found in New Jersey on December 6th 1971. I have submitted the possible match to the doe network.
 
Mysteries1974 said:
Hello I would like to inform all the people that follow Gloria’s case that she is being compared to a Jane doe found in New Jersey on December 6th 1971. I have submitted the possible match to the doe network.
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668UFNJ - Unidentified Female
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Reconstructions of the victim by NCMEC and the New Jersey State Police; victim's watch.

Date of Discovery: December 6, 1971
Location of Discovery: Galloway Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey
Estimated Date of Death: Months prior
State of Remains: Skeletal
Cause of Death: Possible strangulation

Physical Description
Estimated Age: 12-18 years old; most likely under 15
Race: White
Sex: Female
Height: 5'1" to 5'4"
Weight: 105 to 130 lbs.
Hair: Light brown or auburn, straight and shoulder length. Possible wig - shades of blonde, brown and red brown with the presence of a coloring additive.
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Extra sacral vertebrae (lower back). Petite build.

Identifiers
Dentals: Available. No restorations; good occlusion. Her teeth were described as “almost perfect”. She had only one carious lesion starting in her lower right molar.e
Fingerprints: Not available.
DNA: Available.

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Ribbed blue polo shirt, white/blue/orange vertically striped canvas or cotton hip-hugger bell bottoms slacks, underwear, white bra, and brown leather sandals.
Jewelry: A brown wide leather band bracelet with small brass eyelets all around the band. Attached to the bracelet through some of the eyelets was a small ladie's Westclock watch. The watch did not appear to have been originally attached to the leather band but secured separately.
Additional Personal Items: Found inside her pants was a key to a local motel along the Garden State Parkway.

Circumstances of Discovery
Three hunters discovered the victim's skeletal remains in the woods off of Jim Leeds Road near milepost #42 of the Garden State Parkway.

Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: New Jersey Southern Regional Medical Examiner Office
Agency Contact Person: Anna Delaney
Agency Phone Number: 609-584-5054 ext: 5656 or 609-861-3355
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 71-A-388

Agency Name: New Jersey State Police
Agency Contact Person: Donna Fontana or NJSP Office of Forensic Sciences
Agency Phone Number: 609-584-5051 ext 5656 or 609-584-5054
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: H1102014-34

NCIC Case Number: U130022970
NamUs Case Number: 5221
NCMEC Case Number: 1122754

Information Source(s)
NamUs
NCMEC
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Mysteries1974 said:
Hello I would like to inform all the people that follow Gloria’s case that she is being compared to a Jane doe found in New Jersey on December 6th 1971. I have submitted the possible match to the doe network.
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Hi, thought you’d like to know, the the Galloway Twp Jane Doe is currently off the list on NJSP. It was there a few weeks ago and yesterday it was gone. I’m watching the news to see if any info released. Maybe you found the match!! Fingers crossed!!
 
Dreadede said:
Hi, thought you’d like to know, the the Galloway Twp Jane Doe is currently off the list on NJSP. It was there a few weeks ago and yesterday it was gone. I’m watching the news to see if any info released. Maybe you found the match!! Fingers crossed!!
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I hope so to! They do share a strong resemblance. According to her relative, she also sees the match
 
So sorry to hear that. 100 years old? God bless him. But omg, how weird!! I’m gonna take it as a sign!!

Any reason you think Gloria could have ended up outside Atlantic City? The casinos weren’t built yet, the shore hot spot was Ocean City, NJ. My dad and mom were 21 and 18 yo in 1971 and they didn’t go to AC for anything. All the cool bars/music were in OC.
I’m also wondering if the Galloway Jane Doe could be an 18yo prison escapee from Michigan, who name escapes me at the moment.
 
Dreadede said:
So sorry to hear that. 100 years old? God bless him. But omg, how weird!! I’m gonna take it as a sign!!

Any reason you think Gloria could have ended up outside Atlantic City? The casinos weren’t built yet, the shore hot spot was Ocean City, NJ. My dad and mom were 21 and 18 yo in 1971 and they didn’t go to AC for anything. All the cool bars/music were in OC.
I’m also wondering if the Galloway Jane Doe could be an 18yo prison escapee from Michigan, who name escapes me at the moment.
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No, Not that I’m aware of. I just know she hitchhiked often to and from school....
I am from/born on the west coast so I’m unfamiliar with the area.... I have MUCH research to do
 
8michellerenee9 said:
No, Not that I’m aware of. I just know she hitchhiked often to and from school....
I am from/born on the west coast so I’m unfamiliar with the area.... I have MUCH research to do
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Was there anything wrong with Glorias marriage to Larry Smith? Something that may have caused her to leave on her own accord?
 
That’s what I was wondering, but why stay “missing” from your family for soooo long!?

But my grandpa Edward did say the husband was not very cooperative/eager to talk with the private detective the family hired themselves because they felt the local police weren’t worried/really looking for her, maybe she was of age to go freely...?
I felt in conversation my grandpa stressed that the husband Larry Smith (nor his immediate family) were very cooperative or willing to talk much?? But why not talk if you've nothing to hide? Also he (Larry) insisted she left for school as a normal day . School insists she never made it to campus..... it’s all so vague and kinda fishy.. I haven’t pryed as much as I should. Personally I’ve wondered why there hasn’t been more “pressure” to solve what happened/where she is ?!!
 
Mysteries1974 said:
Maybe she ranaway and ended up in New Jersey and then met with foul play.
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Obviously there was no investigation performed here by anyone in LE. I am not bad mouthing their reactions to an of-age 18 year old wife. Thankfully much has changed in our laws! Our LEAs have matured in so many ways.

I get the feeling she either attracted the wrong kind of driver (hmmmm?), or the last person who actually saw her, was never thoroughly investigated. Or even tracked down? All IMO of course.
 
According to a New Jersey medical examiner, Gloria is not a match to the Jane doe:( here is an email that I got:

Thank you for sending the comparison. I can tell you that they are not a match.
Anna

Anna W. Delaney, M.A.
Forensic Anthropologist
New Jersey State Police/
Office of Forensic Science
Forensic Anthropology Unit
1200 Negron Road
Hamilton, NJ 08691
lppdelaan@gw.njsp.org
609-584-5054 ext: 5656 or 5655
cell: 609-475-5094
 
Mysteries1974 said:
According to a New Jersey medical examiner, Gloria is not a match to the Jane doe:( here is an email that I got:

Thank you for sending the comparison. I can tell you that they are not a match.
Anna

Anna W. Delaney, M.A.
Forensic Anthropologist
New Jersey State Police/
Office of Forensic Science
Forensic Anthropology Unit
1200 Negron Road
Hamilton, NJ 08691
lppdelaan@gw.njsp.org
609-584-5054 ext: 5656 or 5655
cell: 609-475-5094
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Man, what a Bummer!
 
What if Gloria never left Minnesota. Even though the Jane doe isn’t Gloria that doesn’t mean all hope is lost. Do remember that Timothy Joseph Crosby was 15 at the time of Gloria’s Disappearance, he may have had a drivers license at the time. Things were different 48 years ago, maybe he got his license when he turned 15. I’m referencing to a post 8michellerenee9 made in the Galloway Jane doe thread. Since Timothy May have looked so young, Gloria May have trusted him and got into the car with him. Timothy is still alive so he can be questioned for possible involvement in Gloria’s case. Do remember that one of Timothy’s suspected victims looks very much alike to Gloria. I’m referring to Belinda VanLith who vanished in 1974. I’m thinking that Gloria May have been his first victim. If he is truly responsible for her disappearance then he needs to be questioned.

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Was her husband, Larry Smith, ever a suspect in her case? I’m just wondering because he was the last one to see her alive.
 
I’m not sure a suspect necessarily but he was definitely questioned. I don’t think the local police ever really cared about her at all.
How do I get them to actually take the time to revive the case?

A little off subject but I saw Netflix was/is rebooting the old show “unsolved mysteries” or whatever it was... I was thinking I could find a way to get her info into them??
 
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