I still hold out hope that Jimmy Hoffa is alive and well and working as a janitor somewhere.
He’s been found under the pitchers mound at Shea Stadium just recently.
“Audrey had married Ronald Backberg at around 15 years old and was facing domestic violence and mental torture.”
I wonder if the low life is still alive.
This story was discussed on FR fairly recently.
How sad that she didn’t want to see or know her kids, during all of this time.
So she just left her two children to bear the brunt of domestic violence and mental torture. Bad mother, to say the least.
Right out of the book and movie “the girl with the dragon tattoo”.
Missing for 60 years, found in their eighties? Sounds like Congress.
It’s a low life thing to do that to your parents. No respect.
I was only a few years out of the womb, back in ‘62, but I would guess women in her (Abused Spouse) situation had very few options to chose from back then. This doesn’t justify the abandonment of her children, but may explain it, somewhat.
This is way back when most lower to middle class women would consider it a career achievement to be a shift cashier at the Piggly Wiggly or learn Greg Shorthand, how to type over 50 words a minute and become a Secretary for a doctor or lawyer.
There were no support groups for teen mothers, even the married ones, unless the groups were Church organized.
Did she even have a Driver’s License? Having become a busy Mom at 15 or 16, maybe not.
Familiar with the case. Not HAPPY that she left the kids behind. But, she was a kid, herself at the time. Married at 15? Yikes.
Before I got married at 19 my Dad said, ‘You can MARRY him, but you’re going to have to finish RAISING him!’
Truer words were never spoken! Miss You, Dad! :)
seems an extremely selfish way to walk away from your kids and other family. even if the husband was harmful, she did much harm to kids and any of her own family members (parents etc).
What about reconciliation with her kids?
From the article:
“Audrey’s disappearance started on a day in 1962 when a babysitter reported giving her a lift to Madison, Wisconsin. From there, they boarded a Greyhound bus to Indianapolis, Indiana.”
I will never get used to this new grammar. Did only the missing woman take the bus and they’re using the new term “they” for one person, or did both get on the bus?
She left her children with an abusive husband? How desperate do you have to be to do that?
You can’t just start over the way you used to.
She was 20 years old and she ran off and abandoned her children to an abusive husband. I’m sorry there’s no excuse for that. She could’ve went to the police. She could’ve went to her family. She could’ve gone public. I wonder if her children are still alive and if so, what’s their take on all this?
There’s a story there.