She was married to my uncle, so aunt ny marriage and the infant was my cousin (ten yrs older than me. They disappeared 9 yrs before I was born). Later, I married into her family not realizing the connection until later on when the police came back around asking the people who were alive back then. Most of my ex-inlaws will say he murdered her/them. What you said though ⬆️ they disappeared without a trace. Like someone picked them up or something. Not just no trace as in a note or a goodbye, no trace of anything to suggest a murder had taken place. I won’t say a crime didn’t take place beside kidnapping is a crime. It seems to me that it’s more likely she ran off with my cousin and never told my Uncle where they went.

How odd to marry into a family with that kind of trauma and being so close to it. I hope she just ran off with your cousin. It was easier to dissapear back then.

Well, I’m married into the other side of the trauma, but my side also has trauma. She was a cousin to what I married into. It’s my uncle on my side. It was 1975. It was definitely a lot easier to just disappear. Odds are not that outlandish as far as being kin to and then married into. This is a small town and a small county. It was weird the way it all came out though, because I had always heard my family‘s side of the story that I heard that family’s side of the story and then put together that it was the same story.