The Search Begins
Distraught, Shirley phoned the police to tell them that his daughter had gone missing. When investigators first arrived at the scene, they believed that Marjorie could have fallen into one of the 80-year-old wells that had been dug during the oil boom. But when police searched the wells and the nearby woods that Sunday afternoon, they didn’t find Marjorie.
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Soon, news began to spread about the little girl’s disappearance, and before the Wests knew it, 200 men joined in the search, including the Citizen Conservation Corps and the Moose and Elks lodges. Even as darkness began to fall, the men kept searching. Oilmen brought their headlamps and all available flashlights in the city were pressed into service.