OH OH - Barbara Frame, 38, Zanesville, 30 January 1985

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Huber was 14-years old when she says her 38-year old mother Barbara Frame left their Zanesville home on January 30th and then vanished. "She got her coat and said she was going to be back cook us dinner and she never came back," says Huber

Her daughter says just before her mother left, Barbara told her she received a call from an attorney about a meeting regarding her recent divorce. "There ended up being no appointment. They found her car next day, empty," she says. Police say her mother's blue Monte Carlo was found in front of a bar, across the street from United Technologies, where Barbara worked.

Her daughter believes her mother was a victim of foul play, but police say they can't prove that.

http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder....later-search-resumes-missing-mother/17856867/

Frame was 38 when she disappeared, and she was in the middle of a divorce from her second husband. Police questioned the estranged husband, but the results were inconclusive, reports show. Huber said that early in the investigation, he heard all kinds of stories about his vanished mother, mostly from random people and mostly macabre in nature. In the past 25 years, he’s heard almost nothing about the case.

After Frame went missing, her children were separated. The pain of losing his mother has eased, but Huber said holidays and old pictures often bring memories of her to mind.

FB missing page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-Find-Missing-Barbara-Frame/261107247411856

NamUs: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/25060
 
30 years later, community remembers missing mom
http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder....rbara-frame-missing-zanesville-ohio/22598843/
ZANESVILLE – On the anniversary of the disappearance of Barbara Frame, friends and family gathered at the county courthouse for a moment of prayer and the release of 30 balloons — one for each year she has been missing.
At the moment the balloons were released, a gust of wind blew one in a different direction from the other 29. Just like that, it was separated from the others just as Frame was on one tragic evening three decades ago.

photos and more at link.
 
A local private investigator and a team of volunteers which includes 2 anthropologists are working tirelessly to finally close a cold case.

Private investigator Lilly Paisley has been tracking leads regarding the disappearance of Barbara Frame that happened over 30 years ago. Lilly and her team of volunteers are hoping to hit pay dirt. Paisley received a lead stating Frame's remains are in a well located on Langan Line. And with approval of the homeowner; Paisley and her team are searching the well.
https://www.whiznews.com/content/news/local/2016/05/16/private-investigator-hopes-to-close-cold-case
 
https://www.whiznews.com/content/news/local/2016/05/16/31-years-and-still-searching-for-frame

A private investigator and a team of volunteers which includes 2 anthropologists are working tirelessly to finally close a cold case.

Private investigator Lilly Paisley has been tracking leads regarding the disappearance of Barbara Frame that happened over 30 years ago. Lilly and her team of volunteers are hoping to hit pay dirt. Paisley received a lead stating Frame's remains are in a well located on Langan Line. And with approval of the homeowner; Paisley and her team are searching the well.

"When we started into the well, we've found 20 ton of debris," said Paisley. "That had to be taken out by hand bucket by bucket. It was very time consuming. And it just took coming. The more debris we got the more time it was going to take to sift through and look for any remains."

Paisley said locating the well was no easy feat.

"It was covered up. It was underground. It took a lot of work. The natural eye would not be able to see this well. It was gone. I feel that we are in the right spot. We've not yet arrive but I anticipate a good outcome. Very optimistic that we will not have to have anymore Barbara Frame awareness events." said Paisley.

"It just doesn't feel real," said Frame's daughter Kathy Hubert. "It's been so long. It doesn't feel real that it could be almost over."

Paisley said none of this would be possible without the help of her volunteers. She also says this location seems to be very promising. If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Barbara Frame contact (740)252-6958.
 
Our #OhioBCI forensic artist has created a new age-progression image of a woman who has been missing from #Zanesville since 1985. It has been more than thirty years since Barbara Frame was last seen, but she hasn't been forgotten. We encourage anyone with information on what happened to her to come forward. bit.ly/2JksizU
 
“Just because the body’s recovered doesn’t mean our teams over with that case, it just means we have to find a way to give the voice to the voiceless, so that someone in the community will come forward, anyone can give a tip on any of the cases including the recent one of Timmy Norris, which is where Jordan Rivera’s body was found,” said Lena Wilson, Founder and Team Leader of Golden Hearts A Voice 4 The Voiceless.

Today the organization held a Walk 4 Justice where they planned to walk in Zanesville and let the names of those who still have not had justice be heard.

“Jordan Rivera is my nephew, he passed away on the 3rd of August, his body wasn’t found until the 5th of August, in a shed, on Culbertson Road, so we’re still out here trying to get answers for him,” said Ricky Rivera, the Event Coordinator for the Walk 4 Justice today.

“She [Barbara Frame] disappeared January the 30th, 1985, that was 38 years ago, and we haven’t seen or heard anything since, we do suspect foul play, and we would like to find her body, and get Justice,” said Kathy Huber, the daughter of local missing woman Barbara Frame.
 
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Barbara, circa 1985
  • Missing Since 01/30/1985
  • Missing From Zanesville, Ohio
  • Classification Endangered Missing
  • Sex Female
  • Race White
  • Date of Birth 07/24/1946 (77)
  • Age 38 years old
  • Height and Weight 5'5 - 5'8, 125 - 140 pounds

  • Clothing/Jewelry Description A shirt, a coat, long pants and sneakers. Carrying a purse.

  • Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, green eyes. Barbara has a linear scar on her lower abdomen. Her hair was cut short at the time of her disappearance. Her maiden name is Gibson and her previous married name is Huber.

Details of Disappearance​

Barbara was last seen at her apartment in the 1000 block of Alice Street in Zanesville, Ohio on January 30, 1985. After she came home from work, her ex-husband, Jeff Frame, came over and said she had go see her divorce attorney immediately and sign papers. (Their divorce had been finalized just six weeks earlier.)

Barbara told her three children she would go to the meeting, buy groceries, visit her mother in the hospital and then talk to her landlord about some damage to their apartment. Then she would come home and cook dinner. She left home at 5:00 p.m. She never returned, and it turned out she did not really have an appointment at her attorney's office. She has never been heard from again.

The day after her disappearance, her car was found abandoned in the back of the parking lot on Linden Avenue. This was across the street from United Technologies, the company where she worked, but the car wasn't parked where she would have normally parked it. Prior to her disappearance, she had gone five years at work without a single absence.

According to Barbara and Jeff's daughter, Jeff was physically abusive towards Barbara and had threatened her life more than once. He lived within eyesight of her new apartment, and even after their divorce was final he would come over every day and try to convince her to return to him; their daughter described his behavior as stalking. After Barbara's disappearance, Jeff stopped coming to her home and instead began harassing her family members.

He took two polygraph tests about Barbara's disappearance, but the results for both were inconclusive. Someone later reported that Jeff had come to him to ask for drugs that would interfere with the polygraph results. After Barbara went missing, Jeff was in trouble with the law numerous times and spent time in prison.

Barbara's loved ones don't believe she would have left without warning, and they described her as a devoted mother who took good care of her children and wouldn't have abandoned them. Her mother was dying of cancer at the time of her disappearance. Her case remains unsolved.

Investigating Agency​

  • Zanesville Police Department
  • 740-455-0785
  • 740-455-0700

Source Information​

Updated 6 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated September 29, 2021; distinguishing characteristics updated.
 

 

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