I’ve been studying this case for close to a year now and on my opinion, the victim recognition –centered approach may harm solving it. The thing is – if they had been noticed missing or reported at some point, they would already be known. I'm very new on this site and English is my third language, so excuse me for my clumsiness. If someone finds anything here useful in a poster or anything, please feel free to use it and fix it if you think that helps. I’m not saying the case is unsolvable, far from that. But the idea of looking for a missing family might be a problem. Here is my best guess about what we should be looking for instead since it probably is what people might recognize:
Hey, do you remember us?
We’re the Doe family and we might have been your neighbors in the late 70’s or early 80’s. Our real names are not known but you can call me Sandra. I’m the mother and I was propably 20-32 years old when you knew me. Probably we weren’t neighbors too long.
I lived with three children, ”Molly”, ”Bet” and ”Mary”, all of them younger than 11. ”Bet” may not be biologically related to us and maybe she joined our family later, but I would love to find her name just as much as I want to find the others. If you think you recognize us or know anything about us, please let people know.
We were a low-income family, not staying too long in one place. We lived in trailers, motels or other inexpensive rental places for sort whiles. The time you met us we propably lived with ”John”, the father of Molly, Mary and possibly Bet, or had recently separated from him. All of us are white or native american origin. Bet may have John’s daughter from another mother or related to him another way and she may have moved to our place later.
The time you met us, John was probably 20–40 –year old man, working short contracts as a construction worker or something similar, travelling throught the country for work. We followed him and due to our moving lifestyle, the children didn’t attend school much. I wasn’t in contact with my parents much and didn’t have too many friends and by the time we went missing, nobody noticed.
My relationship with John was never great. He was an impatient man and that has probably been present both in his working life and at home. Then maybe one day, if we were neighbors near Allentown in New Hampshire, we weren’t living with him anymore. Maybe you asked John about us or he told you that we moved back to my parents, or that I moved to another state with the kids. Shortly after that, John left again to seek job elsewhere. Maybe others asked about us too, and John said that I left him for another man, or that social services took the kids, or that I got work somewhere and moved with the kids and he’d follow. If John told you that, he lied.
We died between 1977 and 1985. John disposed our bodies in two metal barrels he may have taken from his workplace, and dumped us in a forest near Bear Brook Garden Trailer Park. If you think you know us or you think you have any useful information related to us, please share it.
Made me nervous for a minute there!
