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Paula Payne:1977, Dayton, Ohio

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      Paula Jean Payne was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 2nd, 1957. She was the daughter of Kathryn Elizabeth Thomas Payne and Herbert Payne. She and her sister Ana Abigail Payne grew up in Dayton, Ohio.    Paula graduated from Dayton’s Colonel White High School in 1975. She then went on to Earlham College.    In 1977, she was 20 years old and was working as an instructor at Dayton’s Natural History Museum. That must have been a dream job for her. As a college student, to land a job where you aren’t waiting tables is a big accomplishment.        She worked in the “Living Museum” which was a wooded area where tour groups of children would be led to spots in outdoor classrooms for short presentations on various natural history topics. That’s a great idea. That’s an excellent field trip activity or summer camp activity. It’s especially good if the class involved as many of the kids as possible. When kids a...
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Michael Petree:1980, Indianapolis, IN

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        When a society is in decline, the vulnerable suffer first.    Michael Sean Petree was almost a 4th of July baby.  He was born on the 3rd of July in 1964. He was the youngest of his siblings. He had a paper route off and on in the late 1970’s.  He mowed lawns in his neighborhood as well.    On June 7th, 1980, he mysteriously disappeared. He was found on June 16th, 1980 by a farmer and his dog along Cynthianne Road.  Michael was nude and face down in a water filled ditch near Strawtown.    Strawtown is a little rural community North of Indianapolis and east of Cicero and the Morse Reservoir. If you’re in Indianapolis you can take Fall Creek/Binford/ IN 37/I-69  straight to Strawtown.    His body went unidentified at first. Sadly, several families of missing young men were looking for their children. His body was in a state of decomposition that made things like eye color d...
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Beverly Rose Potts:1951, Cleveland, Ohio

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       Beverly Rose Potts was born on April 15th 1941. Her parents were Elizabeth Treuer Potts and Robert Potts.  Beverly’s parents had been born in 1899. They lived at 11304 Linnet  Avenue on Cleveland’s west side. Robert Potts worked at The Allen Theater as a stage hand. Beverly had an older sister named Anita Lois Potts born in 1929.    Beverly was ten in the Summer of 1951. Anita was already a graduate of Notre Dame and was working as a secretary at the National Cash Register Company in Cleveland.    Beverly had spent several weeks of the summer with her cousins in Hudson, Ohio. That’s a little town south of Cleveland. She went swimming often there and even took lessons. She and her great aunt went blackberry picking. She played with her cousins and neighbors there. Her family took the last photos of her there that summer. She returned home to Cleveland in late August.    August 24th, 1951 was a Friday....
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