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Mary Jane Vangilder, who disappeared in 1945, was found to have married and moved to Arkansas. She died in 1990 and is buried as Mary Jane Sebren.
Feb 13, 2024 · Mary Jane Croft Vangilder went missing in 1945 after quitting her job in Shelby. Detective Adam Turner has been on case for more than five years. Brummage witnesses firsthand the positive impact ...
- Mark Caudill
- News Reporter
Feb 12, 2024 · In 1944, Mary Jane Vangilder moved from Fairmount, West Virginia to Huron County, Ohio, leaving her husband James and their five children behind. She took a civilian job at the Wilkins Air Force ...
Feb 13, 2024 · by Hayden Gray February 12, 2024. SHELBY — Adam Turner has brought a conclusion to the 1945 disappearance of Mary Jane Croft Vangilder after investigating for nearly six years. He said the Shelby Police Department received a message in October 2018 from Mindy Wilson, who reported her maternal grandmother (Vangilder) was missing and last seen ...
- Case Background on Missing Woman
- Shelby Police Detective Following Trail
- Murder Victim Exhumed in Wisconsin
- Results from Ohio Exhumation Still Pending
VanGilder was born Nov. 19, 1911, in Fairmont, West Virginia. She married husband James on Jan. 29, 1929. The couple had five children, but it appears James' abusive behavior forced her to move to Ohio sometime in 1943, according to investigators. "Her children do not believe that he was (physically) abusive," Wilson said. Mary Jane got a job as a ...
Turner found an article on Find a Grave, a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records, regarding a Jane Doe near Valparaiso, Indiana, from November 1945. "It was a skeleton that was found in the woods by a hunter," the detective said. "It still had clothing on it, but the skin had decayed." Turner rea...
A little over a week after getting back from Indiana, Turner was back on the road, this time heading to Wisconsin. In May, Turner noticed a new entry on a national database that reports missing and unidentified people. "A body was found in 1947 in Cassian, Wisconsin," he said. "A female was found in a shallow grave." Turner said that Jane Doe had b...
Turner searched "Jane Does" and researched "unknown remains found after 1945," then printed off a list and went through each name one by one. He found a newspaper story detailing an unidentified body found in Ohio's Preble County in 1968. The body was exhumed in late August of 2019. A femur was sent to a Canadian university that specializes in fore...
- Mark Caudill
- News Reporter
Dec 24, 2020 · Now, a new investigation aims to shed light on a missing person case dating back to 1945. Mary Jane Croft VanGilder lived in Plymouth and worked at the Wilkins Air Force Depot in nearby Shelby ...
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Nov 17, 2023 · For the last five years, Turner, a Shelby police detective, has been trying to find answers for the family of Mary Jane Croft Vangilder. She was last seen in 1945. She was last seen in 1945.
