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Edward Tidwell Missing Person Case

Last seen in Marion, Kentucky on Dec 14, 1981

Victim Details

Mar 16, 2011

Dec 20, 2023

Edward

Tidwell

75

31

71 inches

73 inches

160 lbs

165 lbs

White / Caucasian

Male

Dec 14, 1981

Marion

Kentucky

Crittenden County

No

9806

Kentucky State Police

Nortonville

Kentucky

Hopkins County

42442

1000 Western Kentucky Pkwy, Kentucky

2706763313

State

Law Enforcement

http://kentuckystatepolice.org/post-locations/post-2/

02-82-0045

1982-01-18

Kentucky State Police

Brown

Blue

Blue

07/09/2026


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In the winter of 1981, a 31-year-old man named Edward 'Eddy' Hale Tidwell vanished from his home in Marion, Kentucky, leaving behind a life that included a wife and two young daughters. On the evening of December 14th, he informed his wife that he was heading to the nearby town of Sturgis to meet a man about a potential job. The man was supposedly a foreman for a river industry business located in southern Illinois, though his identity was never confirmed. Edward, an unemployed riverbo ...
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Last Seen: Dec 14, 1981

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