Re: Missing person from 1980
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Questions to ask
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Date: January 01, 2016 01:26AM
1. Someone would need to find out if the husband ever had her declared legally dead via an attorney, which he can do after so many (depends on state laws?) years of her being absent and unseen. In some states it has to be 6-7 years of a person going missing, they have to advertise in the paper for legal reasons, etc. After the time period is up and there is no communication from the missing or people knowing them, the estate can be probated over to the next of kin.
2. The kids have to know something about this, even at that young age when there is strife and constant battling in a family, it gets remembered as it traumatizes the kids. They would remember if another woman moved in. Self-serving power-addicted greed inflicted people leave a mark of dark remembrance on those that have to kive with them. They should be able to remember if there was some sort of interpersonal strife going on with their parents up to the time of the disappearance.
3. Bank records--Did she turn over her fortune to the husband to squander as he pleased, or did she keep sole custody of it while they were married, and dole it out to him as needed? If so, when was his name added to the accounts--how long before she disappeared, or was it after, and how long?
3. Insurance records--Did he use any of his or her money to take out large insurance life insurance policies on her before she disappeared?
4. How does a busy self-focused lawyer find the time to double as a helicopter mom? Somebody had to have raised those kids; the kids would remember who. Or did this guy ever work professionally as an attorney somewhere at all--would he have bothered to get a job if her fortune was that large that they could spend it freely on building and buying expensive real estate?
5. If she owned all that real estate in Maryland and had trouble with tenants, could some of the tenants have done her in, allowing the husband to take advantage of a situation he secretly wished for?
6. They need to go after these records to set up a timeline of what she was involved in. Banks, law offices, and insurance companies often hold the answers when humans won't talk.