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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.
Carol Frances Norton was 25 when she vanished from El Cerrito, California, on June 2, 1965. Nearly blind without her…
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James Dwyer Bordenkircher, a two-year-old, vanished from his family's cabin near Lake Tahoe on June 12, 1965. Despite extensive searches,…
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Jimmy Laverne Bushbaum, a convicted murderer, escaped from San Quentin State Prison on September 16, 1965, at age 29. Despite…
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Robert William Trapp, a 56-year-old man from Stockton, California, went missing after sending his last Christmas card on December 15,…
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