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Laura Ann Aime:1974, American Fork Canyon, Utah

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        Laura Ann Aime was born in Provo, Utah on August 21st, 1957 to Shirlene Tolton Aime and James J. Aime.     She grew up in Fairview, Utah with one brother and four sisters.     Laura attended North Sanpete High School in 1974 and was looking forward to graduating in the following year.     Laura was staying with various friends in Fairview and Mt. Pleasant that year. She was finishing high school because her family had moved to Salem, Utah. Laura wanted to finish high school with all the classmates she had grown up with. She also wanted to stay near the church she’d attended all her life. Laura was a devoted Latter Day Saints member.    That Fall was strange in Utah. On October 27th, a teen girl’s nude body had been found strangled near Summit Park. She was identified as 18 year old Melissa Smith. She had been viciously raped and strangled. Her murder was unusual for Utah. ...
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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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