Michael C. Dooling
" Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it's enemy action."
Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
CLUELESS IN NEW ENGLAND
Three young women, all last seen hitchhiking, all disappeared. Two of the disappearances are the oldest, open cold cases in their respective states.
Paula
Welden, a
resident of Stamford, Connecticut and student at Bennington College in
Vermont disappeared in 1946 after hitching a ride to walk a portion of the
Long Trail. Her disappearance
sparked the largest search in Vermont’s history.
She was never found.
Two
states away,
Connie Smith
of Wyoming left a Lakeville, Connecticut summer
camp in 1952 and was last seen with her thumb extended trying to catch a
ride to the village center. A
nationwide search resulted in hundreds of leads but not one solid clue as
to what happened to her.
But
there was another case involving a young woman . . . the details
of which lay buried in old newspaper articles from more than
seventy years ago. Her disappearance was eventually treated as a
lost-in-the-woods case by police, ignoring information from several
witnesses who saw her thumbing a ride.
Several
years before Paula Welden disappeared,
Katherine Hull
was visiting her grandmother in Lebanon
Springs, New York and decided to go for a walk.
She was seen by at least three people hitchhiking along Route 22
but was never again seen alive. Seven years
would pass before a group of hunters came face-to-face
with her skull, perched in the crotch of a tree, off a lonely road outside
of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
What happened to these three young women? Might the cases be related to one another? Who could have perpetrated crimes against these, and perhaps other, hitchhikers along New England’s border with New York State?
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Hardcover, 236 pp., contains 32 photographs, maps and satellite images
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