December 11, 1957 Florida City, Florida "H. Daniels"

On December 11, 1957, skeletal remains were found in a homeless camp located 100 feet south of Lucy Street and 11th Avenue in Florida City, Florida. There was no form of identification at the scene, but there was a laundry slip with the name "H. Daniels". According to the scene, it's believed that he had died from wood-alcohol poisoning as there were sterno cans found. It's believed he died weeks prior to discovery.

John Doe was a black male between 40 to 50-years-old. He was 5'5" and had black hair. He was wearing Dark colored pants and a khaki shirt. There were other pieces of clothing at the scene. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Doe Network

November 22, 1957 Dublin, Virginia Baby John Does

 On November 22, 1957, the bodies of two infant boys were found in a box recently buried in an unmarked grave near a cemetery in Dublin, Virginia. It is not stated how the boys had died or when they died. It's possible that the two were twins.

The baby John Does were both African American Infants. The boys were 18 inches long and one was 5 lbs and the other was 4 lbs. 

SOURCES:

NamUs Boy 1

NamUs Boy 2

July 8, 1957 Houston, Texas EJC Doe

 On July 8, 1957, the body of a man was found in Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas. He was found face floating face down on the south bank and had been dead for around 3 days.

John Doe is a white male between 25 to 40 years old. He was 5'6' and 142 lbs. He had brown to black hair. He was wearing a green and brown striped long-sleeve shirt with a pocket on the left upper chest, khaki pants, a pair of white cotton socks, 9A brown shoes with a strap and buckle, a brown woven, cowboy-type belt buckle, and two combs in his pocket. He was wearing dentures that contained a serial number and the notation of "EJC 810-56". EJC is possibly a set of initials, while the numbers indicate the date of August 10, 1956

SOURCES:
NamUs
Doe Network

Find a Grave
Unidentified Wiki

May 19, 1957 Kinston, North Carolina

On May 19, 1957, a skull would be found in the lowlands area of the Neuse River just outside of Kinston, North Carolina. There is little information in this case. 

SOURCES: 

NamUs

Murder of Anne Theresa Noblett

On December 30, 1957, 17-year-old Anne Noblett went to dancing classes and rock and roll lessons at the Lourdes Hall in Harpenden, England.  It was just after 6 p.m. when she left to go home alone. She had gotten off of the bus at Cherry Tree Corner, Marshalls Heath, near Wheathampstead, and began her walk home. Another local girl passed by her as she was walking on the lane and this was the last time anyone saw her. She never made it to her home which was only a quarter of a mile away. 

No one had known what had happened to the teenager for a month. During that time there were inquires and searches for the girl. Her last bus ride was even reconstructed in order to help find the girl. Searches with hundreds of volunteers were done, but she still could not be found. It could have been that someone she knew offered to give a ride or someone abducted the girl.

On January 31, 1958, Anne's body would be found in dense woodland in Rose Grove Woods in Horn Hill by brothers and their dog. This area was seven miles away from her home. Her items were found nearby her body. It's believed that her body had been there for at most 2 weeks. 

It is believed that Anne was murdered within hours of her disappearance. Even though her body was clothed there was evidence that she had been redressed likely meaning she had been sexually assaulted. She was then strangled to death. Someone then deep froze her body as the temperatures were mild and there was no possibility of it happening naturally. They then carried her body to where it was found. 

Oddly enough if they had carried her only a few dozen more yards she would have been hidden better. The area she was laid on was considered a relatively open area of wood. There was also a disused cart tract near where her body was found that was inaccessible to cars and the closest tracks were half a mile away. Who ever carried her had to of been strong enough to carry her as there was no evidence of dragging.

Police searched all deep freezing machinery within a 30-mile radius of where her body was found. Farmhouses, buildings, outhouses, and factories were all searched.  There was no evidence of any of them had been used for her body. 

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

Defrosting Cold Cases

The Daily Telegraph January 7, 1958

Evening Sentinel January 7, 1958

The Guardian January 23, 1958

The Guardian February 3, 1958

The Birmingham Post and Birmingham Post July 14, 1958

Watford Observer January 30, 2002
The Comet December 21, 2017

BBC April 29, 2018

Disappearance of Charles Wayne Jones

On May 1, 1957, 25-35-years-old Charles Jones was last seen in Chowchilla, California. There is little information in this case. 

Charles is a white male and was 25-35-years-old. He was 5'8" to 6'0" and around 150-160lbs at the time. He has brown hair.

SOURCES:

NamUs

National Missing Person Directory 

February 9, 1957, in Woodhouse Acres, Ontario, Canada Baby Boy Doe

An Infant had died on February 9, 1957, in Woodhouse Acres, Ontario, Canada. He had been dead 3 days before being found and his cause of death is unstated or unknown. It is also unstated if they believed he was a newborn or not. There is little information in this case.

SOURCES:
Unidentified Wiki
Find a Grave

Jan. 22, 2007 Delray Beach, Florida Baby Doe

 On Jan. 22, 2007 the mummified remains of an infant were found in a suitcase in a storage shed in Delray Beach, Florida. It's believed that the infant died between 1956 to 1957. 

The baby was a white male with strawberry blonde hair. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

December 24, 1957 Miami, Florida John Doe

 On December 24, 1957, a boy went hunting in the woods in Miami, Florida. He would discover skeletal remains. 

John Doe is a white male and was around 60-years-old. He was 5'6". He was wearing a blue work shirt, blue coveralls, and a gold ring with 3 fake diamonds on his right finger.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Disappearance of Humphrey "Albert" Wilkinson

 

On Jan. 23, 1957, 30-year-old Humphrey "Albert" Wilkison was last seen at his workplace. He had failed to pick up his last paycheck and was reported missing on Jan. 29, 1957. At his home in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, it was determined his wallet and ID were left at his home and his dog and gun were missing from the home. At the time Albert was working as a carpenter at Martin Paper Co. in New Westminster and was also a part-time commercial fisherman.

On Jan 29. 1957 an employee of Woolworth in New Westminster believed that she saw Albert, and she stated that he went by Al.

Albert did not mention that he was planning to leave or go anywhere. He had no sought employment insurance but did tell personnel with employment insurance that he wished to seek employment in Cache Creek. He also had a dream that he wanted to tour the world, and it was thought possible he joined the military to do so. These lead to nothing Cache Creek failed to turn up a trace of Albert and he never joined the military. 

Investigators were also told that he may have gone to Northern BC to go fishing with a friend only known as "Old Man" whom he spoke of often. This lead nowhere as the friend couldn't be identified and it couldn't be determined where said friend lived. 

Albert had also been trying to convince a married woman to leave her husband. He had introduced the woman to his family as someone he had married. He had bought her a diamond solitaire ring and a plain wedding ring. They were not married though. She stated that she didn't know why he had left or gone missing, but he wouldn't hurt himself. 

It's unknown what had happened to Albert. His family spent a considerable amount of money in newspapers looking for him. None of the tips from these ended up being any good. 

Albert is a white male and was 30-years-old at the time. He's 5'5" to 5'6" and 140 lbs and described as having a medium build. He has blue-grey eyes and brown hair with sideburns. He was known to suffer from headaches, stomach aches, but it's unknown if he suffering from this at the time. In the past year, he was known to be drinking quite heavily in the last year. He was an avid cartoonist. 

When he was last seen he was wearing a dark green toque, a green jacket, a black wool jacket, black plaid shirt, and knee-high gumboots. He was known to wear expensive clothing. 

SOURCES:

Doe Network

RCMP

Disappearance of Cecilia and Leo Payash

 

On July 1, 1957, 47-year-old Cecilia Payash and her son 8-year-old Leo were walking down Red Lake Rd in Red Lake, Ontario along the railway line. The two were never seen again. 

Cecilia is First Nations and was 47-years old at the time. She was 4'11 and described as having a thin build. She had black hair and brown eyes. She has a hooked nose. At the time Cecilia was carrying $30. 

Leo is First Nations and was 8-years-old at the time. He was 4' and was described as having a thin build. He has black hair and brown eyes. At the time he had a bad eye infection in his left eye and it was nearly swollen shut from it. 

SOURCES:

Unidentified Wiki (Cecilia)

CBC (Cecilia)

CBC (Leo)

Unidentified Wiki (Leo)

Canadas Missing

Ontario's Missing Adults

Murder of William Arliss "Curly" Shelton

32-year-old William "Curly" Shelton was a T.V. star in Evansville, Indiana. He was a regular on "Hillside Hoedown" a popular Saturday night country music variety show that aired on  WEHT-TV in northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana, and Eastern Illinois. He was a guitarist and vocalist.

On December 4, 1957, Curly was found lying face down in the front seat of his convertible behind the behind VFW Club on  U.S. 41A and 3 miles South of Henderson, Kentucky. He had been beaten to death. There was no weapons used on him and it seemed his killer used their fists and stomped on him. He had a fractured skull and a broken leg. He was seemed to have been beaten outside of his vehicle and then thrown into the vehicle after the beating.

He was kind of a playboy and was involved with several women. Some of who were married or in a relationship. He was also a heavy drinker and in deep debt, but police said robbery doesn't seem to have been the motive. It could be possible one of the women he was involved with's boyfriend or husband killed him. This case has never been solved.


SOURCES:
Kentucky State Police
WKYT
News 14
Messenger-Inquirer
The Messenger 

Disappearance Moira McCall Anderson

On Feb. 23, 1957, 11-year-old Moira Anderson left her grandmothers Coatbridge, Scotland home to go one an errand for her grandmother. She was supposed to go and buy a birthday card and butter for her mother's birthday. This was unfortunately during one of the worst snowstorms that the area knew.

She was last seen around 5:15 p.m. on the bus by a couple. Police believed that the girl was abducted while traveling home on the bus and murdered. Her body was never found.

Two years later Janet, Moira's sister, was out on her lunch break from school. A man working under his hood asked her to hold his dipstick. While holding it the man groped her and she ran from him, but not before taking note of his registration plate. She reported it to the school and they called the cops. This caused the school to ask students to pair up if they leave.

Nothing was done of this incident, but it was later found out the man was Alexander Gartshore. At the time Alexander Gartshore was out on bail for raping his young babysitter. He was also the bus driver of the bus Moira was last seen on. 

When his daughter, Saundra Brown, was older she wrote a book Where There is Evil about suspecting him of killing young Moira. At one point he when she was bringing up his shortcomings as a father he told her that his father thought he killed Moira. That his father tried to convince him to go to the police to admit where Moira's body was. He said he didn't know the girl, but was the last person to talk to her. It wasn't a confession, but his own father was convinced he had done something to the girl. His own daughter even believed so. 

He died in 2006. He was a suspect before his death but wasn't prosecuted due to a lack of evidence. But in total it isn't really known what had happened that snowy night. 

Moira is a white female and was 22 at the time. He's 5'3" and 113 lbs. She was wearing a fawn-colored kilted Burberry coat, a blue winter scarf, a blue jumper, a lemon-colored cardigan, a thick tweed skirt, fawn socks, brown shoes and a navy-blue woolen pixie hat with red bands. 

SOURCES:

Doe Network

BBC

The Scottish Sun

Old Glasglows Murders

July 8, 1957 Orange County, California Baby Doe

On July 8, 1957, the body of a white male infant was found in the Pacific Ocean 100 yards from a pier in Balboa Orange County, California. He was 1'8" and 7 lbs.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Disappearance of Elsie Mae Roane

16-year-old Elsie Mae Roane was last seen around 11 p.m. on May 20, 1957, by a police officer. She was walking down the road with two suitcases in West Point, Virginia. At the time she was living with her adoptive father on Fith Street.

It took her father a few days to realize she was missing. Their schedules sometimes allowed them to miss each other as he worked nights and arrived home when she was at school. He reported her missing three days after she was last seen.

At the time she was a sophomore and was an above-average student at West Point High School. She was described as shy kind and intelligent. She is considered an endangered runaway. In 2015 Authorities announced they have a suspect in the case who was the same age as Elsie and they've interviewed him several times.

Elsie is a white female and was 16 at the time. She's 5'8" to 5'9" and 115 lbs at the time. She has brown hair that was short at the time and blue eyes. She was possibly pregnant at the time. She also wears glasses.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Charley Project 
Track Missing 
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7201907/elsie_mae_roane/

Disappearance of Amelia Jo "Molly" Zelko

On September 25, 1957 47-year-old Amelia Jo Zelko who also went by Molly left her Newspaper's office on Cass St. in Joliet Illinois just before 11:30. A bartender claimed she stopped in for a drink and used the payphone on her way home. She then parked in front of her second-floored apartment on 413 Buell Ave.

Someone claimed to have seen some men bury a woman near where Zelko lived. Zelko's shoes were found and her friends stated that it meant she was in danger. She would kick off her shoes and run if she felt in danger. Police thought there may have been a ransom, but no note arrived.

Amelia was a newspaperwoman for the weekly paper in Joilet. She would blast mobsters, political corruption on the front page. She was also a big advocator against gambling. It's unknown if her work at the newspaper was the reason for her disappearance, but she did male a few enemies doing so.

She was reported legally dead in 1964.

Amelia was a white female and 47 years old at the time. She was 5'4" and 5'6" and around 120 lbs. She has dark brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a hat and a diamond ring and a bracelet they were worth $5,000 at the time.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Doe Network

February 15, 1957 Watsonville, California Jane Doe

 On Feb. 15, 1957, the head of a woman was found in a shallow grave under a railroad trestle in the Pajaro River Levee in Southern Santa Cruz County, California. The head was inside of a grocery bag, but her body was not found. According to one news article another large grocery bag was found in the area that had some red discolorations. Similar discolorations were found on the cheek of the head. It's believed she died in 1956.

Head belonged to an African American woman between the ages of 28 to 52-year-old. She had a gold upper tooth.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Unidentified Wiki

News-Pilot Feb. 16, 1957

The Fresno Bee Feb 16, 1957

Disappearance of Mary Margaret Begay

Sometime in August of 1957 20-year-old Mary Margaret Begay was last seen at the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. She worked at the park and had left her home in Leupp, Arizona to work there. On the day she disappeared Mary and three friends left their employee housing and went to the Grand Canyon Inn to have some drinks. She got into a vehicle with two unidentified Hopi Indian Men. She was never seen again.

When she didn't return to work she was fired and they boxed up her belongings. Her family didn't realize she was missing till they went to visit and she was gone. They reported her to the Navajo Nation Authorities and the Coconino County Sheriffs office didn't find out till a year later. 

One of her friends believed she had simply run away and didn't want her family to know where she was. It's thought this was unlikely because she was in touch with her family regularly while she was working at the park. 

Mary is a Native American female. She was 5'2" to 5'5" and 100 to 120 lbs. She has black hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a white sweater and pedal pusher pants.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Charley Project

May 9, 1964 North Parsonsfield, Maine John Doe

On May 9, 1964 people digging for bottles on Leavitt Plantation Road in North Parsonsfield, Maine found bones. The bones belonged to an adult male and had been buried in a shallow grave. Not all remains were recovered. Cause of Death isn't stated, but it's believed he'd died between 1956 to 1958. His race is uncertain, but it was estimated he was between 40 and 50 years of age. He was 5'8". There was a fabric that represented a patterned upholstery found nearby and dark blue to black, heavy, course material resembling cotton and probably from a coat.

SOURCES:
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/15957