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Woman Missing for 60 Years Found Alive
Newsweek ^ | May 3, 2025 | Hollie Silverman

Posted on 05/04/2025 2:56:03 AM PDT by lowbridge

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To: T.B. Yoits
I missed that part of the story as the article posted here didn't mention that key fact. The People.com link says that she DID pick up her paycheck though.

On July 7, 1962, Backberg, who was married and had two children, left her family’s home and headed for the woolen mill, where she worked, to pick up her paycheck, the advocacy group said. She never returned home, prompting her husband Ronald to reach out to his wife's relatives to inquire about her whereabouts.

41 posted on 05/04/2025 8:52:50 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway
Good question.

Obviously I do not have the answer, but here are some possibilities:

Perhaps her sister lived at that address before she went missing? Or perhaps she had been with her sister since she went missing, because that is where she decided to go. She may have even been in contact with her family all along, and they all just kept up the ruse because the husband she left was actually that bad.

There is obviously a reason she did not want her story told, so we will most likely never learn the real story.

42 posted on 05/04/2025 8:56:32 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

Good point. The video showing the brother meeting with Audrey, makes the case that none of the family has seen her for 62 years as the embrace looks authentic, not as if there is a ruse going on with the media and police.


43 posted on 05/04/2025 9:04:44 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: FLT-bird

It’s hard to figure given the limited information, but it looks like she left her husband and kids for whatever reason I’m sure she claims abuse they always do and my guess also is that she had some contact with her own family over the years, but the cops never knew what happened to her and that’s what this is really all about
I do find it odd she left her children with an abuser. Just an observation

And why I choose to go to Indianapolis from rural Wisconsin unless you know someone there

That’s right I’m the detective of lost souls and I’ll guarantee there’s more of the story


44 posted on 05/04/2025 9:09:33 AM PDT by wardaddy (The Blob must be bled dry)
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To: Blue Highway
That was exactly why I found the conviction rate to be not what I expected to see at all, and it is also why I said; for what it's worth. 🙂👍

I do not put much faith in the answers returned by AI, because the answer is only as good as the data it has access to. I was also shocked by the supposed number of no body found cases that supposedly went to trial, especially since I asked for the number just in the U.S. 500 is kind of a too convenient round number which makes me suspicious at best. (86 * 5) would mean that 430 out of 500 were convicted.

Mainly because I had always heard that no body found cases were rarely brought to trial because the DA's were extremely reluctant to even try the case.

After all, all to often their careers are rated upon their conviction rate.

I was also suspicious of the claim that the very first case was brought in the late 1800's.

Lastly, because I didn't have much faith in the answer, I didn't even bother to click on the sources AI had used to return the answer that it did.

I find it good that 3 people at least were willing to speak out and question the results. Because my biggest concern regarding AI is people excepting the answer returned as being the gospel answer. For the answer needs to always be questioned. 🙂👍

45 posted on 05/04/2025 9:28:37 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong
the answer is only as good as the data it has access to

And how it is programmed

46 posted on 05/04/2025 9:43:54 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

And how it is programmed


By fellas with compassion and vision.


47 posted on 05/04/2025 9:52:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Chickensoup

Not so much, anymore. :(


48 posted on 05/04/2025 9:54:16 AM PDT by metesky ("Leave us go amongst them." - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton- Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Yep, that too. 🙂👍


49 posted on 05/04/2025 10:18:01 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Blue Highway
Well, I must admit that I did not watch the video.

If there is a ruse then it would be entirely within the family itself, no involvement with the media or the police.

There is some reason why they requested that what she had talked about with the police not be shared.

What exactly that may be, I have no clue or guesses as to what that may be beyond continued fear of her ex.

50 posted on 05/04/2025 10:27:17 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: SunkenCiv

Well, I am sure that happens more often than we may realize, Old water wells are another place where they have been found where determining foul play is far more difficult to conclude as the cause. An enclosed old septic tank kind of allows accidental falling in to be ruled out. 🙂👍


51 posted on 05/04/2025 10:32:42 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

Depends, if ya kill ‘em and then cut ‘em up and flush ‘em, they’ll get there without a lot of excavation.


52 posted on 05/04/2025 10:38:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Blue Highway

Too difficult to disappear today, and too easy to be tracked unluss you live in a cave somewhere.


53 posted on 05/04/2025 10:53:07 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: clee1

If you use cash and live off the grid, there’s not much difference today than in the past.


54 posted on 05/04/2025 11:12:29 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: SunkenCiv

Well, in my book that would be proof that it couldn’t have been an accidental death, because skeleton’s do not break up into small enough pieces that can be flushed down a toilet, can they? It might work to be unidentifiable in a city sewage system where the bone pieces might perhaps be rejected from entering into a sewage processing plant, but certainly not a closed septic system. In either case if the bones are found, accidental death could realistically be ruled out with confidence.🙂👍


55 posted on 05/04/2025 11:39:30 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: ansel12

Reminds me of this guy

Infamous Ohio bank robber who vanished 50 years ago ID’ed as dead man

https://nypost.com/2021/11/13/ohio-bank-robber-theodore-conrad-who-vanished-50-years-ago-ided-as-dead-man/

On his deathbed, her father told her a secret: He was a fugitive and had robbed a bank in Ohio

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/03/us/thomas-randele-ted-conrad-bank-robber-confession-cec/index.html


56 posted on 05/04/2025 12:19:15 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Blue Highway
Some questions the article doesn’t mention.

Well the second paragraph of the excerpt answers at least one of your questions:

Audrey Backeberg left her Reedsburg home in July 1962 when she was 20 years old, a press release from the Sauk County Sheriff's Office said.

And that pseudo-answers some others; the babysitter probably wasn't babysitting a 20—year-old, so that explains why she let her out of her sight. They were likely friends, so that half-explains why she went with her.
57 posted on 05/04/2025 12:50:53 PM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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To: lowbridge

When I would live on the road as a hitcher and drifter I had a personal rule of carrying nothing in my pockets, I carried no papers and no IDs or billfold, when I would start a journey I would make sure I had no money and would throw it away if there was any in my pockets, picking up money after the initial start I would keep, but not when I first would stick out my thumb on the Interstate to start the adventure.

It was incredible freedom, truly, “wherever you go, there you are”.


58 posted on 05/04/2025 12:54:53 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Blue Highway

True, but is that even practical for most today? I argue that it isn’t. Sadly.


59 posted on 05/04/2025 2:34:09 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: Blue Highway

Yes, my parents had 4 under four and they hired a neghbor teen to help with the kids and the laundry.


60 posted on 06/15/2025 3:36:06 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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