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From the Beginning of the Archive
This section begins with the earliest case files added to the Independent Detective database. Visitors can continue loading more cases to explore the archive in the order it was built.
Nellie Margaret Tibbitts, age 26, vanished on October 1, 1959, from Watsonville, California, driving her distinctive green-and-white 1952 Plymouth. Her…
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Bruce Kremen was just 6 years old when he vanished near Buckhorn Flat in California’s Angeles National Forest on July…
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Patrick Ayn Sturbaum, 38, vanished on August 2, 1960, from Vacaville, California, after leaving a note for her husband about…
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Henrietta Geck Cruz Avila, 17, disappeared in August 1960 shortly after marrying Merle Avila. Reports of a collect call and…
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