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Lori Jane Kearsey

Case from Gloucester, MA dated Aug 04, 1983

Victim Details

Lori Jane Kearsey

Female

White / Caucasian

Gloucester

MA

1983

23

Lori

Jane Kearsey

07/22/2026

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In 1983, a 23-year-old woman from Gloucester, Massachusetts, Lori Jane Kearsey, vanished after dropping off her young daughter for the weekend. This departure marked the beginning of a nearly 40-year mystery that would stretch from New England to the canals of South Florida. Kearsey had recently divorced her daughter's father and had remarried, a union that connected her to a notorious Boston crime family just eight months before she went missing. She and her new husband had traveled to Florida, ...
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  • Body found in Florida in 1984 identified as Lori Kearsey of Gloucester
  • Body of Lori Jane Kearsey, mafia ties MA woman, found 40 yrs later
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