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'I think about her every day' — Kent State student still missing after 40 years
Nancy still has the card, 40 years after Judy was last seen alive leaving a dorm at Kent State University.
Now living in suburban Columbus, neither Nancy (Martins) Baer nor her brother Steve Martins, retired and living in Florida, know what happened to Judy on the night of May 24, 1978, when Judy apparently left a party in Dunbar Hall on her way home to Engelman Hall.
University officials have told the family the case file on Judy’s disappearance was disposed of in 2000, in accordance with university records retention policy. The paperwork the family obtained prior to that may be all that is left of the still-open case file.
Born on July 15, 1955, Judy was the eldest daughter of Arthur and Dolores Martins of Avon Lake in Lorain County. Nancy and Steve were born over the next three years.
The sisters were “really, really close,” Nancy said, talking often on the phone.
Judy was last seen at about 2:30 a.m., May 24, 1978. Witnesses told police she left a party headed for Engelman Hall, only four to six minutes away on foot.
She was wearing a curly red wig over her long, dark hair, gaucho-style jeans, a brown and yellow blouse, beige trench coat, brown boots, and carried a large, white imitation leather shoulder bag.
The following day, Judy was supposed to travel home to Avon Lake to get her new car. When she didn’t call home by that Friday, Dolores called Judy’s room “every hour” without success, Nancy said.
A fellow student officially reported Judy missing on May 26, 1978. When her room was searched, nothing was missing. Left behind were her glasses, clothing, books and cosmetics.
Wearing contact lenses when she vanished, “no way would Judy have left her eyeglasses behind,” Steve Martins said. And she rarely went anywhere without makeup, Nancy said.
Nancy still has the card, 40 years after Judy was last seen alive leaving a dorm at Kent State University.
Now living in suburban Columbus, neither Nancy (Martins) Baer nor her brother Steve Martins, retired and living in Florida, know what happened to Judy on the night of May 24, 1978, when Judy apparently left a party in Dunbar Hall on her way home to Engelman Hall.
University officials have told the family the case file on Judy’s disappearance was disposed of in 2000, in accordance with university records retention policy. The paperwork the family obtained prior to that may be all that is left of the still-open case file.
Born on July 15, 1955, Judy was the eldest daughter of Arthur and Dolores Martins of Avon Lake in Lorain County. Nancy and Steve were born over the next three years.
The sisters were “really, really close,” Nancy said, talking often on the phone.
Judy was last seen at about 2:30 a.m., May 24, 1978. Witnesses told police she left a party headed for Engelman Hall, only four to six minutes away on foot.
She was wearing a curly red wig over her long, dark hair, gaucho-style jeans, a brown and yellow blouse, beige trench coat, brown boots, and carried a large, white imitation leather shoulder bag.
The following day, Judy was supposed to travel home to Avon Lake to get her new car. When she didn’t call home by that Friday, Dolores called Judy’s room “every hour” without success, Nancy said.
A fellow student officially reported Judy missing on May 26, 1978. When her room was searched, nothing was missing. Left behind were her glasses, clothing, books and cosmetics.
Wearing contact lenses when she vanished, “no way would Judy have left her eyeglasses behind,” Steve Martins said. And she rarely went anywhere without makeup, Nancy said.
