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Gary Carl Mosser

Case from Joplin, MO dated Jan 02, 1951

Victim Details

Gary Carl Mosser

Male

Joplin

MO

1951-01-02

5

Gary

Carl Mosser

07/10/2026

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In the winter of 1951, a chilling discovery was made in an abandoned mine shaft just west of downtown Joplin, Missouri, bringing a gruesome end to the search for the missing Mosser family. Among the victims was five-year-old Gary Carl Mosser, a young boy whose life was tragically cut short. The bodies of Gary, his parents Carl and Thelma Mosser, and his two siblings, seven-year-old Ronald and three-year-old Pamela Sue, were found floating in the watery depths of the 102-foot deep shaft.

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