The Unsolved Mystery of Marjorie West’s Disappearance

Coming Up Empty-Handed

As the rain began to fall at one o’clock in the morning, the search efforts began to slow down but were quickly picked up the next morning. Some of the men in the 500-man search party waded through the nearby stream to look for evidence of a drowning.

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Illustrative photograph. Photo by J Duxbury / Daily Mail / Shutterstock

Other volunteers stood 25 yards apart in a mile-line, ultimately combing through four square miles. Police also interviewed anyone with a car across an area that spanned 300 square miles. Unfortunately, everyone came up empty-handed. By Tuesday, the police brought several bloodhounds from New York, hoping they could sniff out Marjorie’s scent.

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