Just an update on WF:
Back in June of last year, I posted a message on the City-Data online community asking if anyone there would be able to locate WF.
In February of this year, I received an e-mail from a man who said that his father is the cousin of WF. He said that his father is now 92 years old, and neither of them had seen WF or WF's sister since the early 1970's, and he was trying to locate them. He said that the last he heard of WF, she was attending college at SUNY Buffalo in the early 70's. He gave me the names of WF's parents, who are both now deceased. He added that WF's mother passed away in 2006 in Hawaii, and both sisters were mentioned in their mother's obituary.
I looked up her mother and found the obituary with WF and her sister listed as surviving relatives. I did some further inquiry and found several of the mother's prior addresses, including one in a rural town in Western NY. I did a property inquiry on that address and found that the current owners are a husband and wife SO and WO (with the "W" being the same first name as WF's first name). A search on WO revealed that her DOB was in Oct'53, which would have made her 16 years old during most of the 1969-1970 school year.
(All along, I had presumed that the WIHS yearbook showed only seniors, but it is possible that the school portraits were not segregated by grade, and that all classes might have been shown in a single section).
Being pretty certain that I had found WF, I attempted to call her. S.O. answered. I asked if I could speak with WO, and he said that she was "on vacation". I asked if her maiden name was F---. He wouldn't answer, and asked why I was calling. I explained the whole story about Rodney Alcala, and how I believe that WF is one of the persons in Alcala's photo collection.
S.O. gave me his e-mail address, and asked me to send him the whole explanation and photos via an e-mail. He added that if his wife felt like responding, she would. I sent him a detailed e-mail along with the photos of TGFCG, and WF's high school pic. I also indicated that I don't need to know the circumstances under which the photos were taken I told him that just wanted to know if his wife was WF, and if so, whether she was TGFCG. I never received a response.
I am almost certain that WO and WF are the same person. Otherwise, her husband would have simply said that her maiden name was not F---, and he wouldn't have instructed me to send him the e-mail.
But to my great frustration, I still cannot pin down whether TGFCG is WF. :banghead:
