Posted on 08/05/2025 6:51:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
What “family” is left that is presumably still “seeking closure”?
But the "family" apparently didn't file a missing person report.
For just reading this article, it sounds like mom wanted to start over with no previous attachment
53 years later probably all uncles, aunts are either senile or dead. Maybe some cousins around. Now that they have the DNA, maybe they can find some living relatives, but still doubt full about any “closure”.
I’m guessing their ages meant not in schools yet and thus no truancy investigation or child health and welfare bureau visits to follow up? Was there a child protective services department of state governments back then? I could see if they were both school age and suddenly stopped attending school that that might trigger questions as to where they had gone and their well-being....
And conveniently was attached to a convicted killer.
Pure evil. They murdered the children, and they never had to answer for their crime. So sad for those little ones...
Watched a show on Hulu last night called “Naming the Dead” - it deals with cold cases that are decades old. The one featured was from the early 80s, the killer was caught but some of hi victims were never identified - they were all hitchhikers.
Using genetic genealogy, the victim was finally identified as a 17-year old black male - the family was contacted and they said they’d filed a missing person report at the time and contacted the police, but the case went cold and no one was interested in looking for their lost loved one.
The family was very grateful for the remains to be returned, had a memorial service and buried what was left of the skeleton with his mother.
Getting closure in 2025 seems more like a, see if we can get a whitey to blame. Like really who spends this $$$ so far out?
I wonder what the cause of death was for Vera Bryant.
I don’t know, but I hope it was painful.............
Closure of the case is huge.
This reflects so very well in law enforcement personnel
Closure is important for all who read sbout it.
“...they never had to answer for their crime.”
Not in THIS LIFE anyways, but God has His ways..............
If she was murdered by the boyfriend, perhaps it was painful.
Back in the mid-’70s, I spoke to an 90 year-old man who lived and had grown up in rural west Virginia. I asked him what the greatest change was he had witnessed in is lifetime. He told me that back when he was young, the police never investigated anything, while now, even if a stranger is found dead in a field, they will work on the case until they know who it was and what happened to him. Back in his day, they would just bury the body as best they could and move on. As an example, he told me that there was an Italian shop-keeper in his town who gave credit, but if someone fell too far behind, they would just disappear: no body, no evidence, no clues. Everyone knew what was going on, but no one, except the relatives, ever seemed to care.
I grew up in a more developed area just north of there. That area was almost “Deliverance” territory back then with the “Hillbilly Heaven” night club nearby on RT 1 that could have been the template for Porky’s. As teens, we stayed the heck away from Hillbilly Heaven. Must have happened at night because it would have been difficult for blacks to be in that area at all at that time, much less dumping kids’ bodies.
I am guessing that her entire life was painful as long as her boyfriend was alive.
My guess is that she lived in terror that she would end up the same as her boys.
If you look for someone to blame for the boys death you might blame the father or the boys that left them for someone else to raise.
The greatest danger to a child is mommy's boyfriend
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