So to answer a few of your questions that I can with certainty...the last day she was seen alive was February 3, 1979 and it was most certainly a Saturday. It was also the day before a huge snowstorm hit the east coast on February 4th. I verified the missing date with the PIC of Tina's case some years back. I can personally verify the snowstorm because I lived just outside of Felton when it hit and it was BAD!!! Because it was so many years ago, I verified through research that the storm I am thinking of hit our area on February 4th 1979. She was seen leaving her house by her sisters at around 9am. Either the sisters didnt know or the PIC of Tina's case couldnt tell me, but as far as I know, nobody knew her intended destination. She lived off of Main Street in Felton. That does not mean she lived on Main Street. There were dozens of houses that were on side roads off of Main Street. I had a few friends in 1980-81 that I played baseball with that lived over that way. Main Street was not necessarily busy, but I bet there was someone with eyes on her and just didnt think anything of it. As it is today it was in 1979 that there was a school there, that almost always had something going on, even on Saturdays and there was a pretty busy post office that my parents even used. I am not sure if there was a fire Department on Main Street back in 79, but there is now and if there wasn't in 79, I bet there was one very close. Main Street was less than a mile long back in 79 and prolly still is today. It is actually RT12 that crosses US13 to the west. It does connect directly with US13 which is where I would have to assume if she was abducted or picked up by a stranger it would have been there. There were a few corner stores on US13 near Felton , but not much else in 79. It was really rural. I am pretty sure there was a truck stop somewhere close by, but I can't place it out of memory (I will look it up in the next couple days).
Unfortunately I personally do not know why she ran away twice previously or even if she actually did because it is not in LE files, which prolly means that someone actually told LE that she ran away previously and they were credible. I also dont know anything about her personal life as she was 9-10 years older than me.
The now registered sex offender that has been discussed, was not registered or convicted of any child abuse crimes as of February 1979, but he was accused not much after that in the early 80s (which in my opinion means he just didnt get caught until then because he was an adult in 1979). Whether or not he was in the area is a question we are trying to get answered now. The accusation is that this sex offender had a neice who was good friends with Tina and that he was in Felton because his father had just passed away. This neice says that this sex offender allegedly sexually abused her and her sisters relentlessy and she thinks he is involved in Tina Faye Kemp's abduction.
These are all just allegations that we are in the process of trying to validate, but some of them have been validated. For instance...he was know to frequent and even live in Felton and surrounding areas for years before and after Tina's disappearance. Also he was charged with child abuse in the early 80s (I do not know if he was convicted) in the area of Felton, DE. Then finally he was convicted of a sex crime against a child in the early 00s in Kent County DE which is the county that Felton is in. I am hoping that I can validate some of these accusations, so that this guys can either be definitively ruled out or be added to the suspect list...maybe even officialy if we get really lucky.
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