MI MI - Diane Lee Peckham, 25, Baroda, 20 July 1976

[Romulus]

Missing Person/NamUs #MP118332
Diane Lee Peckham, Female, White/Caucasian
Date of Last Contact: July 20, 1976
Missing From: Baroda, Michigan
Missing Age: 25 Years

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Circumstances of Disappearance: This case involves the disappearance of DIANE “DIANA” LEE PECKHAM. She was 5’05”, 106lbs, with brown eyes and brown hair. She was reported missing on 7/21/1976 after her husband returned home from work finding her missing. All of her belonging were left behind at the residence. She has never been seen or heard from since.

 

[SimsGuy67]

The only possibility I could find is a case being investigated by @othram, Kane County Jane Doe who was found in the walls of a home in 1978. Distance is a bit far, but there's no other cases in the area I could find that match.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

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Who is Kane County Jane Doe (1978)?

Batavia Police Department and the Kane County Coroner’s Office Team with Othram to Identify 1978 Jane Doe

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[DS2021]

Husband filed for divorce in 1980

Diane & Vern Divorce

Clipping found in The Herald-Palladium published in Benton Harbor, Michigan on 4/19/1980. Diane & Vern Divorce

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[chaddylex]

4708DFMI - Diane Lee Peckham

Here is another picture of Diane from her Doe Network Profile.

 

[alb1on]

She was born Diane Lee Elmore and married Blair Vernon Peckham in 1975 when he was 18 and she was 25. There is a family tree on Ancestry with a Don Elmore as the owner and I wonder if he is a sibling since that was also her father's name (who died in 1968). I do wonder about Blair. He remarried in 1981 to Kim Tio (and must have divorced as he married again at least once, in 1988). The 1981 marriage explains the divorce. However he had been with Kim Tio since at least 1978 and in December 1978 was sentenced to 15 days in jail for assaulting her - so he was a domestic abuser (see attachment). He subsequently moved to Tennessee and in 2010 was arrested as part of a group selling prescription drugs (see The Jackson Sun from Jackson, Tennessee). None of this means he had anything to do with the disappearance of Diane but it does make me think he is worth a closer look. However he died in 2021 so any questions are simply for providing answers to the family.